108 Or. King — Materials fur a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, 



panicles ; bracts persistent, caducous, or 0. Sepals ovate or lanceolate, 

 imbricate, 8 being external and 2 internal. Stamens 15 or 20, or 30 ; 

 antbers ovate or oblong, rarely linear ; connective subulate-cuspidate, 

 rarely inappendiculate ; valves obtuse, rarely cuspidate, equal, or the 

 outer slightly larger. Ovary 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; style subulate, 

 stigma entire or 3-toothed. Fruit Avith leathery, rarely with -woody, 

 pericarp, 1-celled, 1-seeded, closely surrounded by the bases of the 

 persistent, usually accrescent, sepals, the 3 outer, or more rarely, all, 

 and sometimes none, of which are developed into 7- to 10- veined reti- 

 culate membranous linear-oblong wings. Cotyledons fleshy, unequal, 

 usually enclosing the superior radicle. Distrib — Tropical Asia and 

 chiefly the Malayan Archipelago : species about 60. 



Sect. I. Ec.-Shorea. Fruit little more than *5 in. long, its pericarp 

 leathery : three of the persistent sepals developed into membra- 

 nous wings many times longer than the fruit. 

 Anthers without apical appendages. 



Lower surface of adult leaves minutely stel- 



late-tomentose, not scaberulous 

 Lower surface of adult leaves glabrescent, 



the axils of the nerves scaly 

 Lower surface of adult leaves quite glabrous, 

 of 3'oung leaves glaucous 

 Anthers mostly inappendiculate, a few with a 

 minute apical appendage from the connective. 

 Stamens 30 

 Anthers with very short apical appendages from 

 tbe connective ; flowers sessile. 



Leaves 2"5 to 4 in. long, tbe lower surfaces mi- 

 nutely pubescent : flower "25 in. long ; fruit 

 ovoid-globose, its largest wings 2'5 in. long 5. S. parvifolia. 

 Leaves 3 to 4'5 in. long, glabrous beneath : 

 flower "3 in. long : fruit turbinate, its 

 largest wings 3*5 in. long 

 Leaves 4 to 6 in. long, glabrescent or glabr- 

 ous beneath ; fruit narrowly ovoid, its 

 longest wings 3'5 to 45 in. long. 

 Apical appendage from the connective much 

 longer than the anther. 



Leaves glabrous on both surfaces, the lower 

 not pale. 



Stamens 10 (?) ... ... 8. S. Maxwelliana. 



Stamens 20 ... ... 9. S. gratissima. 



1. S. leprosula. 



2. S. scutulata. 



3. 8. Curtisii. 



4. S. 



6. S. acuminata. 



7. S. macroptera. 



