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rufous-toruentose as are the inflorescence and petioles. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong (rarely slightly ob-ovate), very shortly 

 acnminate or sub-acute, slightly narrowed to the rounded or sub- 

 cuueate base ; upper surface shining, sparsely stellate-tomentose, the 

 depressed midrib and nerves puberulous ; lower surface scaberulous, 

 more densely stellate-pubescent, especially on the bold midrib and 20 to 

 22 pairs of stout spreading main nerves ; length 3'5 to 6*5 in., breadth 

 15 to 275 in., petiole *6 to "8 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, 3 to 7 

 in. long, the ultimate branches bearing 4 or 5 distichous, secund, brac- 

 teate, sessile flowers ; bracts broadly ovate, puberulous outside. Sepals 

 ovate, the two inner smaller, all densely golden-sericeous outside, 

 glabrous inside. Petals like the sepals and of about the same length, 

 the inside and one-half of the outer glabrous, the other half adpress- 

 ed-sericeous. Stamens about 40, in several rows ; the filaments of the 

 outer shorter, all longer than the anthers ; anthers ovate, mostly in- 

 appendiculate, a few with a minute appendix. Ovary elongated, conic, 

 sericeous; the style short, glabrous ; stigma small. Fruit (immature) 

 narrowly ovoid, "5 in. long, embraced by, but not adnate to, the accres- 

 cent membranous calyx-wings: the outer 3 calyx-wings linear-oblong 

 obtuse, narrowed to the base, 3'5 in. long and '6 in. broad, 10-nerved ; 

 the 2 inner 2*5 in. long and much narrower and fewer-nerved, sparsely 

 pubescent. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew. Distrib.) No. 202. Penang : Curtis, 

 No. 431. Perak : King's Collector, No. 3511. 



This resembles S- lacunosa Scheff., but differs in not having persis- 

 tent stipules. Its vernacular name in Penang is Seraya. 



5. Shorea parvifolia, Dyer in Hook. fil. El. Br. Ind., I., 305. A tree 

 100 to 150 feet high ; young branches slender, pale tomentose at first, 

 ultimately glabrous, dark-coloured and lenticellate. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, the base sub- 

 cuneate or almost rounded ; upper surface glabrous (when young the 

 midrib tomentose or pubescent) ; under surface sparsely scaly-pubescent 

 when young, when adult minutely pubescent, the transverse veins thick ; 

 main nerves 9 to 12 pairs, oblique, rather straight, prominent beneath : 

 length 2'5 to 4 in., breadth 1 to 1*8 in. ; petiole "35 to '45 in., tomentose 

 when young. Panicles axillary and terminal, crowded near the ends 

 of the branches, 2 to 4 in. long, rather lax, spreading, many-flowered, 

 minutely tomentose, the branches distichous. Flowers *25 in. long, 

 secund, distichous, deciduously bracteate. Sepals slightly unequal, 

 ovate, acute, tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals twice as long 

 as the sepals, obliquely elliptic, obtuse, glabrous, except on one- 

 half outside which is silky. Stamens 15, or fewer : the filaments flatten- 



