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



* StameriM 20- co . 



%. S. robusta, Gmrtn. f. Fruct. iii. 48, t. 186; leaves ovate-oblong 

 acuminate base cordate glabrous lateral nerves about 12 pairs, panicles 

 terminal or axillary lax, stamens 50. Moxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 615 ; Cor. PI. ui. 

 312 ; Wall. Cat. 965 ; A. DC. Prod/r. xvi. 2, 628 ; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 4. 

 Vatica robusta, Steud. Ncym. Ed. 2. 



Tkopicai. Himalaya, and along its base from Assam to the Sutlej. Eastern districts 

 of Cehtral India, Western Bengal hills. 



A very large tree, but often occurring in a stunted form. Leaves 6-10 by 4-6 in. ; 

 petiole |-1 in. ; stipules ^ in., falcate, pubescent. Panicles 5-9 in. long, clothed as 

 ■n-ell as the flowers -with pale velvety pubeac«nce, branches unilateral, racemose. 

 Flowers subsessile. Petals about 4 in. long, pale yellow, tapering upwards, 12-13- 

 nerved. Anthers with a bearded appendage. Ovary pubescent ; stigma 3-denticulate. 

 FruiUng-calyx wiih. ihe segments sometimes subequal, bases ^ in,, ovate, pubescent ; 

 wings 24 in., linear, obtuse, lO-nerved. — The Sal tree ; the wood is very generally used 

 in Bengal and it ranks next to teak ; the resin-dammer is extensively used as a sub- 

 stitute for pitch. 



10. S. obtusa, Wall. Cat. 966 ; leaves elliptic or obovate-oblong obtnse 

 base obtuse or emar^inate pubescent on the nerves and in their axils 

 beneath lateral nerves about 15 pairs, panicles terminal, stamens 20-25. 

 Blume Mm. Bot. ii. 32, t 8 ; A. DC Prodr. xvi. 2, 629. S. leucobotrya, 

 Mic[. Ann. Mus. Bd. i. 215. Vatica obtusa, Steud. Norn. Ed. 2. 



Martaban, WaUieh; Vsav, M' Cldland, &.C. ; Tenasseeim, at Moulmein, ^eZ/er. — 

 Djsteib. Siam. 



Leaves 4-6 by 1 J-3 in., often unsymmetrical, glabrescent above, subrepand ; petiole 

 4-f in. Panicles 2-4 in. long, clothed as well as the flowers with hoary pubescence, 

 racemose. Flowers subsessile. Petals J-^ in. long. Anthers with a bearded appen- 

 dage. Ovary pubescent. Panes of the segments of the fridting^calyx | in. long, rather 

 shorter than' the pubescent capsule, ovate-oblong, pubescent ; wings 24 by 4 in. linear- 

 oblanceolate, glabrescent, 9-nerved. 



11. S. serUsea,, Dyer ; leaves elliptic-oblong shortly acuminate scabrous 

 beneath lateral nerves about 20 pairs, panicles terminal, stamens 50, 

 anthers inappendiculate. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A very large dammer-producing tree {^Maingay) ; young parts, nerves.of the leaves 

 beneath and inflorescence covered with rusty meal intermixed with fascicles of short 

 hairs. Leaves 44-7 by l|-2f in., poliihed above, .lateral nerves very prominent be- 

 neath ; petiole 4-f in. Panicles about 6 in. long, ultimate branches racemose, uni- 

 lateral. Flou-ers sessile ; buds clothed with tawny silky hairs. Anthers with the lobes 

 subequal. Stigma 3-lobed. Fruiting-caiyx with immature accrescent segments, clothed 

 «n both surfaces with soft yellow down. 



12. S. Tumbu^^aia, Rosch. Eort. Beng. 42 ; Ft Ind. ii. 617 ; leaves 

 ovate or oblong-cordiform acuminate base truncate or emarginate glabrous 

 on both surfaces lateral nerves about 8 pairs, panicles terminal, stamens 

 a,bout 30. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 630 ; Beddmne Flor. Sylvat. Gen. 26. 

 S. penicillata, A. DC. I.e. S30. Vatica Tumbuggaia, W. & A. Prodr. 84 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 27. 



Western Peninsula ; forests of Cudapah and Palghaut in Mysore, Wight, &c. 



A gigantic dammer-producing tree. Lewoes 24-8 by 14-44 in. {Beddome) ; petiole 



1-2 in. Panicles 8 in. long, hoary or nearly glabrous. Flowers shorily pedicelled; 



buds densely hoary. Anthers with a hairy appendage. Stigma 3-lobulate. Capsvle f in. 



*long, ovoid, acuminate, pubescent above ; bases of fruiting calyx-segments 4 in. long, 



ovate, hoary ; wings 1J-1| by J in., spathulate, obtuse, S-lO-nerved. — There can be no 



