HOPEA WIGHTIA.NA, (Nat. ord- Dipterocarpese.) 



i or Gen. Char, see under " H. jiarviflora," PI. vi. 



H.OPEA W^IGHTIANA. (Wall.) A large tree, youug branches and petioles furnished with a dense short pubescence, leaves 

 ovato-obloug, rounded at the base and attenuated towards the apex into a very obtuse point, glabrous on both, sides except the costa 

 above, primary veins distant 7-10 on each side of the costa, 6-9 inches long by 2-3 broad, petioles \-\ inch long, panicles glabrous axillary 

 generally 3 together, shorter than or about the length of the leaves, flowers pink about | an inch in length secund bracteolate at the 

 base of their very short pedicels, calyx glabrous, corol hairy on the outside, stamens 15 alternately single and double, anthers 

 terminated with a long bristle, fruit and calyx wings glabrous bright crimson colored, wings 2-2£ inches long by | an inch broad, 7-9 

 nerved. — Wall. L. N. 6295 ; — WA.\Prod. p. 85, and III. tab. 37 — (wrong as to the 10 stamens.) 



Vary. f3. glabra, young branches and petioles glabrous or sub-glabrous. Hopea glabra, WA. Prod. p. 85. 



This tree is very common in many of our western forests, an echinate excrescence, much like the young fruit of a Spanish chestnut, is 

 often produced, in the axils of the leaves ; it is probably the formation of some insect in the bud of the panicle, it is represented in the figure, 

 a somewhat similar formation occurs in Hopea parviftora, as I have gathered specimens of the longer leaved variety in Tinnevelly with regular 

 abortive panicles, several of -the branehlets of each terminating with hard, round, warty, fruit-like excrescences 4 lines in diameter. 



The timber is very valuable and very similar to that of Hopea parviftora. Variety /3 is the Kong of Tinnevelly, and is par excellence 

 the timber of that district. I have not seen this more glabrous variety in fruit, but the flowirs in no way differ from the ordinary form ; the latter 

 is most abundant in the S. Canara district, where it is called Kalbow and Hiral bogi ; it is a first-rale coppice firewood, and large tracts in thit 

 state are met with in the plains of that district never apparency flowering, but abundantly covered with the abortive fruit-like excrescence. 



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