110 DIPTEROCARPER. [ Ancistrocladus. 
— Stipules large or small, persistent or deciduous. Flowers 
ually in racemes or panicles. Bracts minute or none, rarely 
ae and persistent. 
An order of importance to the forester, containing the loftiest 
trees of the country. All the species abound in balsam samie resins in 
various forms, camphor as well as wood-oil. The timber of all is 
more or less valuable. 
* Ovary 1-celled, with a single erect ovule ; Sruit adnate to 
the calyx. -tube. Scandent shru . - Ancistrocladus, 
* &k = Sa 3- rarely 2-c elled, with 2 pendulous ovules in 
each cell.—Trees, rarely erect shrubs. 
© Ovary inferior or nearly so, or with a broad base adnate 
to the calyx-tube; nuts for } to - of =o length 
cal a - Anisoptera. 
closing this 
x xX Pe tube in fruit not or hardly enlarged, a 
exposed or surrounded b 
. Dipterocarpus. 
ae Cnc loben valvate in bud . . Parashorea. 
ole ee obes im imbrieate, and often also twisted 
in bu 
+ The Me ged bps baa in fruit larger than 
Corolla-lobes spreading ; gta aaa the connective —— 
pointed-penicillate . Shorea, 
Corolla-lobes closing into a he emispherical cup ; anther. cells bristl 
cleft, the connective subulate-pointed (thus anthers sS-seton) Pentacme, 
+ + The . met irs labels es in fruit m 
wos 
ry — ous “= . Hopea. 
a de eb al the ‘s alysis in t equally en- 
ee ed, but not longer ‘then the fruit 
self . Vatica, 
a Wall. 
0 
. 3. Nut adnate to the terete or 5-cornered c -tube, and all ‘the 
5 calyx-segments equally enlarged, or 8 of them longer. —Large 
woody climbers, with entire, much net-veined leaves. Stipules small, 
deciduous. Flowers in panicles or from hooked te tendrils. 
All the 5 aoe kd i fruiting calyx equal ica Do stellately- 
. Griffithii. 
Wings of fruiting cs calyx unequal, the longer ¢ ones 1-1} i in. long oad, Weiohi. 
= 1. A, Griffithii, Planch. ; cae Ind. Fl. i. iiiog el chaos 
 Scandent, evergr and almost 
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