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restrict the name H. Dryobalanoides, Miq. There is in the Calcutta 

 Herbarium an authentic specimen of the very gathering of the Soengie- 

 pagoe plant on which Miquel worked, and I should refer it to H. 

 micrantha Hook. fil. 



Petalandra micrantha, Harssk. has been reduced by the authors of 

 the Genera Plantarum (Vol. I. p. 193) to Hopea. It is however a different 

 plant from this, and belongs to Miquel's section Pu-hopea, which is 

 characterised by the nerves being prominent. By Dr. Burck, Petalandra 

 is reduced to Doona. 



4. Hopea intermedia, King n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : 

 young branches rather dark-coloured, minutely lenticellate, puberulous. 

 Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, the basecuneate, 

 both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves numerous, faint ; length 2 - 5 to 

 3 in., breadth 1 to T35 in. ; petiole *35 to "6 in. slender, puberulous but 

 finally glabrous. Panicles as in PL. Mengarawan, the flowers pedicellate. 

 S'pals sub-equal ; the two outer ovate, acuminate ; the three inner 

 broader and more obtuse, all resinous outside, glabrous and smooth in- 

 side. Petals twice as long as the sepals, narrowly oblong, obtuse, falcate, 

 densely sericeous externally, glabrous within. Stamens 12 ; the fila- 

 ments dilated, shorter than the anthers ; the anthers short, crowned by 

 a straight awn from the connective longer than the stamen. Ovary 

 hour-glass shaped ; style short, stigma small. Pipe fruit ovoid, apicu- 

 late, '2 in. long, pale, striate ; the two outer sepals accrescent, narrowly 

 oblong-obtuse, narrowed to the base, reticulate, obscurely 5- to 7-nerved, 

 1*25 to 1'5 in. long and "25 in. broad; the inner three sepals not accres- 

 cent, not longer than the fruit, and closely embracing it. 



Penang: Curtis, No. 425 and 1398. Perak : King's Collector, 

 No. 3709. 



This species is no doubt near to PI. micrantha, Hook, fil., but, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Curtis, it is distinguishable from that, while growing, by its 

 bark, this tree having a fissured bark like that of Shorea parvifolia, Dyer, 

 while the bark of PL. micrantha is smooth and grey. The petals of 

 this are also more sericeous than those of PL. micrantha, the filaments 

 are shorter than the anthers (not longer, as in PI. micrantha), the leaves 

 are more glabrous, the petioles longer and more slender and more 

 glabrous, and the fruit and accrescent sepals are smaller than in PL. 

 micrantha. I have therefore ventured, after much hesitation, to name 

 this as a species, and from its relationship to II. micrantha and PL. Menya- 

 raumn, I have called it PL. intermedia. Its vernacular name in Penang 

 is Janhang. It has been suggested that this plant should be refer- 

 red to PL. Dryobalanoides, Miq. — a course which I would have adopted 

 with great pleasure had it been clear what II. Dryobalanoides really is. 



