Anisoptera] 



XVII. DIPTEEOCARPACEiE 



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1. A. glabra, Kurz, F. PL i. 112. Vern. Thin 

 kadu, Burm. 



Evergreen, glabrous, except the pubescent inflor- 

 escence, wood hard, dark olive-green. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, elliptic-oblong. Fruiting calyx-tube much 

 constricted at the mouth, the 2 larger segments 

 oblanceolate, with 3 prominent longitudinal nerves, 

 joined at right angles by conspicuous transverse 

 veins. 



Pegu, Martaban, Cambodia and Coehinchina. Fl. April, 

 May. 2. A. oblonga, Dyer (Shorea nervosa, Kurz). Tenas- 

 aerim. Young shunts ami leaves on the nerves beneath 

 with scattered tirfts of minute stellate hairs. 



3. HOPEA, Roxb.; FL Brit. Lnd. i. 308. 



Stipules small or minute, early deciduous. Fl. 

 in unilateral spikes or racemes, arranged in 

 ample racemose panicles, calyx often glabrous, petals 

 always haiiy outside. Calyx segments imbricate, the 

 two outer growing out into thin membranous wings 

 as the fruit ripens. Stamens 15, of which 10 in 5 

 pairs are episepalous, in a few species 10, anther cells 

 equal, connective prolonged into a long awn. Stylo- 

 podium generally large. Seeds without albumen, 

 cotyledons thick, fleshy, concave, one enclosing the 

 other, both bifid to the base. Radicle and petioles of cotyledons embedded 

 in a groove between the lobes of the outer cotyledon, while the lignitied pla- 

 centa with the remains of dissepiments intrudes between the lobes nf the inner, 

 they are filled with starch and oil, the former generally prevailing. Species 

 46, one in New Guinea. 



Resin ducts in the pith 8-12 at t lie base of a leaf-bearing Lnternode. The 2 lateral 

 leaf traces run a short ilistanee mils' through the bark. 



Fie 29. — Anisoptera 

 glabra, Kurz. A. 



Sect. T. -Euhopea. Secondary nerves not more than 20 pair, not approxi- 

 mate. 



A. Calyx grey-tomentose. 



I. H. odorata, Roxb., Cor. PL t. 210. Vern. 'I'liiin/mi, l'.unn. 



Evergreen, wood yell"wish-l>r"Wii. close- and even-grained, very durable. 



Glabrous, except inflorescence. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, a ndary nerves 



12 pair. PL fragrant, in axillary grey-tomentose panicles, petals eiliate 

 ;it margin, am hers oblong. Ovary gradually narrowed into conical stylo- 

 pi ilium ami long cylindrical style. Ovary and stylopodium puberulous. 



Moist forests in the southern portion of the Eastern Peninsula, from Pegu and 

 Tenasserim to Coehinchina. Andamans. Also reported from Chittagong, V' 1 jn 

 garious, bu! scattered In mixed forests. PL March, April. Fruit May, June. 



2. H. parviflora, Beddome, FL Sylv. t. 7. The Tronwood of Malabar, 

 Vern. Bovumara^ Kan.: Nirkongu, Tinnevelli. 



Killers from I by petals mil eiliate, anthers small orbicular, nvary and 

 Btylopodium glabrous, stigma 3-fid, stylopodium ovoid, constricted at base. 



Moist forests of the Western Ghats, from South Kanara southwards. FL March. 



:s. H. obiongrifoila, Dyer. Mergui. Sei dary nerves 10 pair, between them o multitude 



of line veins, closely i •. - 1 i . ■ 1 1 1 .- 1 1 . ■ . ~ i \ I . > | .< >< I i 1 1 1 1 1 cylindrio. I. H. Helferi, Brandis I Vatica 

 Hi l/eri, I >yer). Mergui, 60 miles inland, branchlets tomentose. Leaves from n cordate 

 unequal-sided base, oblong. Fl. pedicelled in terminal panicles, ovary glabrous. 



