1893.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan "Peninsula. 113 



ed, about 4 times as long as the Ibroad short anthers; apiculus of con- 

 nective very slender, about as long as the anther, deflexed. Ovary 

 elongate, puberulous ; style rather short ; stigma small. Ripe frtiit 

 ovoid-globose, "4 in. long, thinly adpressed pale tomentose. Sepals 

 all enlarged and membranous, concave at the base so as to embrace 

 the ripe fruit, but not adnate to it : the three outer narrowly oblong-, 

 obtuse at the apex, slightly narrowed to the base ; 7-nerved, 25 

 in. long ; the two inner from one-half to one-third shorter, nar- 

 rower and fewer nerved. Shorea disticha, Scortechini MSS. in Herb. 

 Calcutta. 



Malacca: (Kew Distrib.) No. 206. Penang : Curtis, No. 201. 

 Perak : Scortechini, No. 1965. Wray, No. 1282. 



6. Shorea acuminata, Dyer in Hook. fil. El. Br. Ind., I., 305. A 

 tree 100 to 150 feet high ; young branches minutely greyish tomentose, 

 ultimately dark-coloured and glabrescent. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to 

 lanceolate, acuminate, the base often unequal-sided, rounded or some- 

 times emarginate ; upper surface glabrous except the puberulous 

 midrib; the flower glabrous, with a few scattered stellate hairs: main, 

 nerves 7 to 9 pairs, spreading, slightly prominent beneath : length 

 3 to 4 - 5 in , breadth 1*75 to 2*5 in. ; petiole "3 to "4 in., tomentose. 

 Panicles axillary and terminal, crowded near the extremities of the 

 branches, 2 to 3 in. long, minutely stellate-pubescent, many-flowered. 

 Floivers "3 in. long, distichous, secund, about 5 on each lateral branch, 

 bracteolate. Sepals ovate, unequal, tomentose outside, glabrous inside. 

 Petals twice as long as the calyx, spreading, broadly ovate, puberulous 

 outside, glabrous inside. Stamens 15, in three rows, the inner row 

 shorter : filaments broad, much larger than the short, ovate, minutely 

 appendiculate anthers. Ovary ovoid, tapering, pubescent: style short, 

 stigma small. Ripe fruit turbinate, with 3 slightly vertical grooves, 

 apiculate, puberulous, - 5 in. in diam., attached by its base to the calyx : 

 sepals all enlarged, concave at the base so as completely to cover 

 the fruit, membranous and reticulate; the 3 outer narrowly oblong- 

 obtuse, contracted towards the base, 10- or 11-nerved, 35 in. long, 

 and 7 in. broad ; the two inner 1 to 1*5 in. long, under '25 in. broad, 3- 

 to 4-nerved. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 205 (?). Griffith, No. 1762. 

 Perak: King's Collector, No. 8009. 



7. Shorea macroptera, Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 308. A 

 tree 60 to 80 feet high : young branches with dark-brown bark, minu- 

 tely lenticellate and puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong (usually 

 narrowly), shortly acuminate, the base sub-cuneate or rounded : upper 

 surface glabrous, shining, the midrib and nerves puberulous : lower 



