_Parashorea. | DIPTEROCARPER. 117 
appressed pubescent. 
Has.-—Frequent in the hill Eng-forests of the Martaban hills and in Upper 
Tenasserim, up to 2,000 ft. elevation; also Chittagong. —Fr. Apr.-May.—l.— 
SS. = Lat. Metam. “ 
N. B.—There grow on the Andamans 2 or 3 other species of Dipterocarpus 
of which only the leaves are known. 
PARASHOREA, Kz. 
Calyx-tube very short, not enlarging. Stamens 12-15, the con- 
nective mucronulate. Ovary free, 3-celled ; style filiform. Calyx- 
tube in fruit not enlarged, the 5-lobes valvate and almost equally 
wing-like enlarged in frmt. Nut one-seeded, free, and not in the 
least enclosed by the spreading calyx-lobes.— Lofty trees, with shin- 
ing leaves. owers , whitish, racemose in dense panicles. 
and exposed, surrounded by the nearly equal 4-5 in. long spreading 
wing-like calyx-lobes; the latter linear or linear-lanceolate, blunt, 
