Shoeea.] DIPTEBOCABPE^, 75^ 



acuminate, papery ; midrib with appressed pubescence ; petioles i in. 

 Flowers in leather I Crowded fascicles, peduncles 3-bracteolate, silky. 

 Sepals silky outside. Styles united. 



Dehra Bun, in sbady ravines. Distbib. : Sub-trop. Himalaya up to 

 ' 7,000 ft., from Garhwal to Mishmi : also in Java. 



XX.-DIPTEROCARPEJE. 



Trees, rarely climbing shrubs, usually resinous. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, penni veined, usually entire. Stipules persistent or caducous. 

 Flowers in axillary and terminal racemes or panicles. Ca/^x-tube 

 campanulate, free or adnate to the torus or ovary. Petals contorted, 

 connate at the base or free. Stamens usually many, inserted on the 

 torus, or adnate to the petals. Ovary slightly immersed in the 

 torus, usually 3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, rarely solitary. Fruit 

 capsular or nut-like and 1-seeded, tightly inclosed in the enlarged 

 calyx, of which 2 or more of its lobes are often developed into con- 

 spicuous win^s. Seeds usually without albumen. — The majority of 

 the species are conJined to Trop. E. Asia. 



SHOREA. Eoxb. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 303. 



Glabrous, mealy or pubescent resinous trees. Leaves entire or 

 subrepand, penniveined, with the intermediate reticulations often 

 inconspicuous. Stipules large, coriaceous, persistent, or minute and 

 fugacious. Flowers in axillary oi' terminal lax cymose panicles. 

 Bracts persistent, caducous or 0. Ca/yo-tube very short, adnate to 

 the receptacle; segments imbricate. Stamens 15 or 20 to 100; 

 anthers usually witb a subulate -cuspidate connective. Ovarii 3- 

 celled ; cells 2-ovuled ; style subulate ; stigma entire or 3-toothed. 

 Fruit coriaceous, in dehiscent, usually 1-seeded, closely surrounded 

 by the bases of the accrescent calyx-segments, 3 or all of which are 

 developed into large prominently-veined wings. Cotyledons fleshy, 

 unequal. — Natives of Tropical Asia and the Indian Ai-chipelago. 



S robusta, Gosrtn. f. Fruot. Hi, 43. t 186;* Boxh. FL Ind. Hi, 615 ; 

 Boyle 111. 105 ; p. B. I. i, 505 ; Brand. For. Fl. 26 ; Watt E. D. Vern. Sal 

 (The Sal tree). 



A large tree. Young branches, petioles, young leaves and inflorescnooe 

 hoary or pabescent. Leaves 6-10 in. long, broadly ovate from a rounded 

 or cordate base, more or less bluntly acuminate, entire, glabrous and 

 shining; lateral nerves about 12 pairs ; petiole i in. ; sti'gules ^ in., 

 falcate, pubescent, caducous. Flowers yellowish, shortly stalked, 



