Hopea. } DIPTEROCARPER. 121 
when young, soon turning glabrous ; flowers small, fragrant, white, 
on very short pedicels, one-sided-racemose, forming axillary or 
most terminal greyish or whitish-tomentose panicles; calyx softly 
tomentose, the lobes blunt; petals 2-3 lin. long, oblong, faleate, 
puberulous ; fruits small, the 2 wing-like calyx-lobes 14 in. long, ob- 
long, blunt, somewhat narrowed at the puberulous base, 9-10-nerved, 
the 3 smaller ones only of the length of the glabrous pointed nut. 
Hazs.—Common in the tropical forests all over Burma from i i and 
Martaban ae to Tenasserim.—Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. a oer —s3s.= 
SiS. Meta 
a —Wood brown, heavy, and close-grained. w—o '=46, breaking 
weight—800 pd. Especially in use for canoes and boats; prized for cart-wheels. 
Boats constructed of Thingan are said to last for more than twenty years. —Yields 
a yellow resin, 
2. H. seaphula, Roxb. (Vatica scaphula, Dyer; Hf. Ind. Fl. 
i. 301).—A large tree; leaves elliptically oblong, on rather slender 
petioles, blunt, or almost bluntish, glabrous; flowers white, rather 
showy, racemose, form ing puberulous, axillary, and terminal panicles; 
petals oblong, Gia” crentlate, about 3 lin. long; stamens 15, 
5 of them free, the remaining 10 by pairs connate at base and alter. 
nating with the free ones; “connective mucronate ; ; style simple, 
shortly 3-lobed. 
Has.—Chittagong.—Fl. Jan. 
Sa —The trunk sh for making canoes. 
3. H. gra a, W: all. (Shorea gratissima, Dyer; H.f. Ind. 
Fl. i. 307).—A glabrous tree ; leaves broadly lanceolate, slenderly 
petioled, acute at base, shortly and i back acuminate, coriaceous, 
glossy above, the 15-16 nerves almost parallel, the midrib sharply 
prominent beneath; flowers small, on very short pedicels, in one- 
sided racemes, fesne axillary and terminal slightly puberulous 
panicles ; calyx velvety, the lobes lanceolate, bluntish ; petals 2 lin. 
— aay outside ; ; the connective terminated by a very long 
xuose bristle. 
oe eS 
4. H. oblongifolia, Dyer, in H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 309.—A tree, all 
parts glabrous ; leaves oblong, on an }$ in. long P petiole, obtuse at 
glabrous and 
y 
the base, about 7 in. long, shartd uminate, | 
rather opaque, the lateral nerves honk 10 0 pairs) 2) satel curved ; 
flowers on very short pedicels, racemose, forming solitary’ or paired 
panicles in the axils of the leaves pa shorter ee nae 3; calyx. 
lobes oe acute, glabrescent ; petals pubescent ; anthers ae 
et with an appendage 4 times cate length. (After Hooker’s 
Ind.) 
‘Has. —Southern Tessie. 
