:] xxT. DiPTEBOCARPE^. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 305 



leaves lax, calyx segments deltoid linear glabrous not dark colonred. 

 S. laccifera, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. 967; A. BU. Frodr. xvi. 2, 630. 8. Eox- 

 burghii, Don Gen. Syst. i. 813. S. robusta, Ruth. nov. sp. 221 (not of 

 Qcertn.). Vatica laccifera, W. <h A. Frodr. 84 ; Wight. Ic. 164. 



Westekh PEwrasBLA ; forests of Mysore and Malabar. 



Glabrous, except the pubescent buds ; branchlets with smooth pale brown bark. 

 Leaves 3i-4J by 2-2^ in., acute or retuse and mucronulate, base rounded or emar- 

 ginate, margins undulate, lateral nerves about 12-15 pairs ; petiole 4-1 in. Pedicels 

 \ in. Flowers 1 in. diam., pinkish white. Calyx-segments glabrou?, margins ciliolate. 

 Anthers with a long seta. Bases of fruiting calyx-segments | in. long, obovate ; 

 wings 3 by I in., elliptic-linear, obtuse, with about 10 slender parallel nerves. — Yields 

 a kind of lac. 



tt Flowers sessile or nearly so. 



5. S. leprosula, Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. Suppl. i. 4^7 ; leaves oblong very 

 shortly acuminate, panicles terminal or axillary, branches small unilateral 

 racemose, calyx-segments ovate pubescent. A. DC. Frodr. xvi. 2, 631. 



Malacca, Maingay. — Distkib. Sumatra. 



Young parts and under surface of the leaves densely tawny-puberulous. Leaves about 

 4-5 by 1|-2J in., shining above, lateral nerves about 14 pairs, prominent beneath; 

 petiole \ in. Panicle about 4 in. Flowers sessile. Anthers cuspidate. (Ooary 

 glabrous ; style filiform, stigma urceolate. Maingay.) {Fruit-wings spathulate obtuse. 

 Uiq^.) 



6. S. parvifolia, Dyer; leaves oblong-elliptic to ovate-acuminate, 

 panicles terminal lax, flovrers with deciduous bracts, calyx-segments ovate 

 pubescent. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Young parts hoary, pubernlons. Leaves 2-2 J by 1-14 ^^'t ^sse rounded, glabrescent 

 beneath, lateral nerves about 15 pairs ; petiole ^ in. Panicles about 5 in.. Flowers 

 sessile, 4 or 5 together ; bracts fully J in. long, bioadly elliptic, obtuse. (Petals J in. 

 long. Anthers apiculate. Ovary pilose ; style slender, shorter than the ovary, stigma 

 scarcely lobed. Maingay.) Fruit unknown. 



7. S. acuminata, Dyer ; leaves ovate to lanceolate strongly acuminate, 

 panides terminal lax, branches unilateral, bracts very fugacious, calyx- 

 segments ovate pubescent. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Young parts tawny-puberulous. Leaves 4r-5 by 2-24 in., base rounded or emar- 

 ginate, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, lateral nerves about 8 pairs, scarcely 

 prominent; petiole Jin. Panicles about 6 in. long, with tufts of enlarged bracts occa- 

 sionally terminating the branches. Flowers sessile. (Petals -f^ in. long. Anthers' 

 shortly appendioulate. Ovary minutely pilose, tapering into the short ffllform style, 

 stigma minutely lobed. Maingay.) Fruit unknown. 



8. S. bracteolata, Dyer; leaves more or less narrowly oblong-elliptic 

 shortly acuminate, panicles terminal lax, branches flexuose, flowers each 

 with'a pair of bracts, calyx-segments narrowly deltoid puberulous. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Young parts glabrescent. Leaves 34-5J by 14-2J in., base rounded, glabrous on both 

 surface^, lateral nerves 12-15 pairs, scarcely prominent ; petiole 4-i ™- Panicles 

 5-9 in. long. Flowers subseseile ; bracts \ in. long, elliptic-lanceolate. Calyx 

 ■ segments I in. long. . Stamens cuspidate. Stigma simple. jBases of fruiting calyx ^ 

 segments 4 in long, ovate with 3 gibbosities at the bottom; wings 34 by 4 in., linear 

 subacute, with 9 parallel nerves. ' ' 



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