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rufous-toraentose with a few scattered longer hairs. Leaves large, 

 coriaceous, oblong, blunt at each end, the edges undulate or obscurely 

 sinuate-crenate : upper surface glabrous, the midrib and nerves pale 

 -when dry : under surface densely covered with minute, pale, stellate 

 tomeutum : main nerves 16 to 20 pairs, prominent, spreading, straight, 

 the transverse veins rather distinct : length 9 to 14 in., breadth 5 to 8 

 in., petiole 2 to 3 in. ; stipules rufous-sericeous, the hairs fascicled. 

 Racemes 7- or 8-flowered. Flowers P75 in long. Calyx-tube 5-winged, 

 canescent, the short lobes very obtuse. Petals oblong or sub-spathulate, 

 stellate-canescent. Fruit about 1 in. long, sub-globular, with 5 thick 

 short wino-s in its upper half ; enlarged calyx-lobes linear, obtuse, 5 or 

 6 in. long and 1*25 to 1'75 in. broad, shining, boldly 3-nerved, reticulate. 

 Dyer in Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 103, t. 143. fig. 15. Parinarium dilleni- 

 fnliton, R. Br. Wall. Cat. No. 7520. Petrocarya dillenifolia, Steud. 

 Nbmencl. II, 309. 



.Singapore: Wallich. Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 197. 

 Pcnang : Curtis No. 1402. Perak : Wray, No. 4160. 



It was Sir Joseph Hooker who first pointed out that the Walli- 

 chian plant No. 7520, issued as Parinarium, belongs really to this 

 species. 



7. Diptkrocarpus fagineus, Vesque in Comptes-Rendus, tome 78, 

 p. 626 : Journ. Bot. for 1874, p. 149. A tree 40 to 80 feet high : young 

 brunches slender, at first minutely pulverulent tawny-pubescent, ulti- 

 mately glabresent or glabrous and dark-coloured, the buds cylindric. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic- ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, the edges 

 entire or sub-undulate-crenulate, the base cuneate, both surfaces puberu- 

 lous especially on the midrib and nerves ; main nerves 10 to 13 pairs, 

 straight, oblique, prominent on the sub-glaucous lower surface ; length 

 2"5 1» '■>-'> in., breadth L'3 to 1*75. Racemes slender, 1- to 4-flowered. 

 / r« about 1'25 in. long. Calyx-Utbe campanulate, not constricted 



at the mouth, 5-angled. Ripe fruit ellipsoid, tapering more at the base 

 than at the apex, 5-angled, glaucous, 1 in. long: accrescent calyx-lobes 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, contracted at the base, 3-nerved, 2*5 to 3 in. 

 long and about '75 in. broad. D. prismaticus, Dyer Journ. Bot. 1874. 

 pp. 104, 152. t. 144 fig. 17. Dipterocarpus, sp. Hook. fil. in Linn. Trans. 

 XXIII, 161. 



Perak : King's Collector No. 3527, Scortechini. Penang ; Curtis 

 No. 1401. 



I), fagineus, Vesque, has been collected hitherto only in Borneo 

 (Beccari No. 3008 and Motley No. 143,) and the leaves are described 

 by Dyer as being papyraceous in texture and having about 8 pairs of 

 lateral nerves. The leaves of the Perak tree which I now refer to this 



