IIs DIPTEROCARPER: [ Shorea. 
ch narrowed ' and. almost stalk-like at. base, the 5 nerves parallel 
and: transversely net-veined. 
a in the tropical forests of Martaban; rather rare along the 
eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah, up to 1,500 ft. elevation.—Fl. March; Fr. 
Apr.-May.—s: 1.—SS. = Metam. SiS. 
Remarxs.—Sapwood light-brown. 
SHOREA, Roxb. 
tube very short. Stamens 35-100, the cells unequal and 
with their broad twisted bases closely embracing the nut, the 3 outer 
ones, shorter.—Trees, with entire leaves. Flowers usually rather 
small, racemose in panicles. 
* Inflorescence tomentose or velvety-pubescent. 
X Leaves. 8. -grown glabrous or 
nearly so. 
Shorter calyx-lobes in fruit acuminate ; stamens c. 20-25. . 8. obtusa. 
Shorter calyx-lobes in fruit blunt ; stamens about ; . - S. robusta. 
x &X Leaves very cori » app: silvery beneath. 
Incompletely known ; leaves apparently not deciduous . : . S. Helferi. 
* *& Inflorescence quite glabrous. ; - &. floribunda. 
- S. obtusa, Wall.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 306.— Thit-ya.—A tree 
(70—80 + 40—50 + 6—7), shedding leaves in HS., the young shoots 
covered by a fugaceous, greyish or whitish stellate tomentum ; 
bark irregularly cracked and fissured, blackish-grey, rough and 
brittle; leaves elliptical to elliptically oblong, 4-6 (on very old 
a 2-4) im. long, roun at base, on a3 in. long, glabrous 
tufts of stellate short hai 
- > 
Ts, 
‘in the nerve-axils: beneath; flowers yellowish, rather small, 
ealyx” enclosing a pubescent nut: of the size of a cherry-stone, 
oblong-lanceolate, slightly puberulous, greyish-velvety towards the 
dilated broad bases, the 3 outer longer ones about 2 in, long, some- 
te or bluntish, the 2: inner ones about + to ¢ shorter, linear- 
» acuminate. : | 
= Hs Chicnan ti ts ie Ge Eng-forests all over Burma from Ava, 
Frome, and Martaban down to ‘Tenasserim, up to 2,000 ft. elevation_-Fl. March , 
