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NOTES ON DIPTEEOCARPS. 



Figure 46, a seedling of Dryobalanops 

 aromatica with it firat few leaves, £ nat. size. 



Hopea, section Dryobalaxoides. 



Figure 47 is the fruit of the Hopea common on Peuang island, 

 which will be called here Hopea micrantlw, Hook, f . ; and figure 

 48 is its embryo seen with the radicle away from the observer. 

 Figure 49 is of the wiry seedling which arises from it, and figures 

 50, 51, 52 and 53 are of its two cotyledons from both sides. 



Figure 47, a fruit of Hopea mic- 

 rantha, nat. size ; and figure 48, its 

 embryo seen with the radicle away 

 from the observer. 



Figure 49, the wiry seedling of 

 Hopea micrantha ; figure 50 the out- 

 ter cotyledon from the outside, figure 

 51, from the inside ; figure 52, the 

 placentar cotyledon from the side in 

 contact withtheouter cotyledon; fig. 

 53, from the placentar side ; \ nat. 

 size. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



