304 XXV. DiPTEROCARPEiE. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) [Shorea. 



by the bases of the accrescent calyx-segments 3 or more rarely all of which 

 are developed into 10-veined linear wings. Ootyledons fleshy, unequal, 

 usually inclosing the superior radicle. Distbib. — Tropical Asia and Indian 

 Archipelago ; species about 40. 



Sect. I. Fentacme. A. DC. Anthers linear, valves cuspidate. 



1. S. slamensis, Miq. Ann. Mvs. Bot. i. 214; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 

 2, 631. Pentacme suavis, A. DC. I.e. 626. P. siamensis, Kurz in Journ. 

 Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1870; 2, 66. Hopea (Shorea?) suava, WaM. Gat. 959. 



Maetaban, WaUich; Tehasseeim, at Moulmein, Lohb; PEon, Kurz. — Distrib. 

 Siara. 



A shrub 10 ft., leafless during inflorescence ; brancWets with smooth greyish bark. 

 Leaves 5-6 by 3-4 in., oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, base truncate or 

 cordate, glabrous above and beneath, lateral nerves 15 pairs, scarcely prominent ; 

 petiole 1-1 J in. Panicles 6—9 in., axillary and terminal, lax, branches divaricate; 

 pedicels \ in. Flowers sweet-scented. Calyx-segments J in., ovate, acute, glabrous, 

 margins ciliolate. Petals -^ in., pale citron-colour. Stamens 15, filaments very short ; 

 anthers J in. long, lobes slightly unequal, connective with a subulate prolongation, ulti- 

 mately bent outwards. Style -f^ in., filiform. Capsule indehiscent, ovoid ; pedicel 

 dilated ; bases of fruiting calyx-segments ovate, thickened, glabrous ; wings 3 in., 

 liiiear-oblanceolate, obtuse, 7-nerved. — Of Hnpea suavis, Kurz, Andamans Keport, I 

 have only seen leaves. They do not belong to this species. 



Sect. II. Anthers oblong, valves obtuse, 

 * Stamens 12-15. 



2. S. stellata, Byer ; calyx-segments equally developed into wings or 

 2 slightly shorter. Parashorea steUata, Kurz in Jouni. Asiat. Soc. Benq. 

 1870, 2, 66. 



Maetaban, Brandii; Birma, Kurz. 



A large glabrous tree. Leaves 4 J by IJ in., ovate or lanceolate, acute or apioulate. 

 Flowers in panicles of cymose racemes, white. Capsule f in. long, obovoid, tawny- 

 tomentose ; wings 4J by f in., linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, tapering to a very ob- 

 scurely dilated base J in. long, strongly 7-nerved, puberulous. — The subequal aocrescence 

 of the sepals occurs also in S. robusta, and appears to me of no value as a generic 

 distinction. 



** Stamens 15. 



t Flowers pedicelled. 



3. S. floribunda, Kurz, ms; leaves rather narrowly-oblong shortly 

 acuminate, panicles terminal or lateral from the axils of fallen leaves,' 

 flowers rather crowded, calyx-segments narrowly deltoid-ovate glabrous 

 dark-coloured. S. robusta, A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 628 (not of QoBrtn.). Hooea 

 floribunda. Wall. Cat. 964. • / r 



Tehasseeim, at Tavoy, Gomez. 



Glabrous: branchlete with pale brown bark. Leaves about 3 J by 1-1 J in., hardly' 

 mature at the time of flowering, base rounded ; lateral nerves about 15-20 pairs ; petiole 

 i^ in. Pedicels \ in. Flowers rather larger than in S. Talura. Calyx-segments 

 glabrous, ciholate. Anthers with a veiy long seta.— Fruit uiiknown, but this and the 

 next species are evidently closely allied. It has nothing to do with 5. robusta, to which 

 A. De Candolle can have referred it only through some confusion of specimens'. 



4. S. Ta.laTa.,Roxb. Sort. Beng. 93; M. Ind. ii 618; leaves elliptic or 

 oblong to ovate- elliptic, panicles terminal or lateral from the axils of fallen 



