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outside. Stamens ten. The fruit not described by 

 Brandis is elongate nearly cylindric with a short point 

 half an inch long ] inch through and covered with a fine 



silky wool ; the wings are 5, the three outer ones <M incites 

 long narrowed at the base and gradually dilated upwards 

 to the rounded tip where they are j inch wide, the 3 inner 

 ones are shorter and narrower 2 inches long, all covered 

 with thin wool. 



I have only seen a single tree of this line Diptero- 

 carp. It grows in the grounds of Regie Tanglin on the 

 side of the Garden road. It is distributed under the 

 numbers 6079, 6686. 

 Sh. rigida, Brandis leones. Plantarum Tab. 2^)2. 



This is a lofty tree, with rough dark bark on the 

 branches which are covered with lenticels and when 

 young with a kind of scarf also. The shoots are enclosed 

 in bright pink bracts which make the young plants showy. 

 The leaves are large rather stiff 6 inches long or more. 

 quite smooth above, beneath the nerves are much raised, 

 and it is dotted all over with little woolly warts from 

 which on the midrib spring single rather stiff hairs. The 

 flowers are white in clusters on short branches of a loose 

 panicle about 6 inches long, are themselves j inch long. 

 with a silky calyx and oblong petals very silky outside 

 and glabrous within. It has 50 stamens with nearly cir- 

 cular anthers. The fruit is ovoid hardly half an inch 

 long the wings are bright red quite glabrous, linear ± 

 inches long and half an inch wide, (the inner ones 2 

 inches long and only half as wide), hardly dilated at all 

 for their whole length, finely marked with longitudinal 

 ribs and transverse bars. This fine tree grows in the 

 Garden Jungle (Xo. 6393) and I met with it too at 

 Perhentian Tinggi (Xo. 10053). It fruits abundantly 

 and conies up readily. 



Anisopteka. 



Only one species of Anisoptcra is recorded in the Mate- 

 rials. There are however three kinds known here A. Gurtisii, 



Jour. Straits Branch 



