From the Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol LXII, Part II, No. 2, 
1893. 
tapering to the curved, truncate stignia, 2-ovuled. Ripe carpels unknown. 
Penang: on Government Hill at 1,200 feet; Curtis, No. 2260. 
A specie's with rather longer, thinner leaves than M. Herveyana, ami 
a different calyx. 
Mat trials for a Flora of th>- Malayan Vcuinnvhi. — Thj Cii-:om<K Kisc, M R., 
LL. D., F.R.S , C.I.E., Supdt. of the Rorjal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 
[Read Juno 7th], 
No. 5. 
Order XVI. DIPTEROCARPE^l. 
Resinous trees, rarely climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, 
quite entire, rarely sinuate-crenate, penni-nerved, the main nerves 
bold; stipules usually small and inconspicuous, sometimes larger 
and persistent, or fugitive, leaving un annular scar, (absent in 
Ancistrocladus). Flowers in few- or many-flowered, axillary and terminal 
racemes or panicles. Bracts usually minute or 0, rarely larger and 
persistent. Sepals free, or cohering into a tube surrounding but free 
from, or more or less adnate to, the base of the ovary and fruit. Petals 
contorted, connate at the base, or free. Stamens oo, 15, 10 or 5, hypogy- 
nous or snb-perigynous, free, connate, or adnate to the petals ; filaments 
snort, often dilated at the base; anthers 2-eolled, the outer valves 
sometimes larger, connective often aristate or with an obtuse append- 
age. Ovary slightly immersed in the torus, usually 3- rarely 2- or 
1-celled ; style subulate or fleshy, entire or with 3 minute stigmatic 
lobes; ovules anatropous, 2 in each cell, pendulous or laterally affixed 
(solitary and erect in Ancistrocladus). Fruit usually nut-likre, its peri- 
carp leathery or w T oody, 1- rarely 2-seedcd, surrounded by the variously 
accrescent calyx of which two or more sepals or lobes are usually developed 
into lineai- wings. Seed exalbuminous (albumen fleshy and ruminate in 
Ancistrocladus) ; cotyledons fleshy, equal or unequal, straight or more 
or less plaited and crumpled, sometimes lobed ; radicle directed towards 
the hilum, usually included between the cotyledons. — Distrib. Confined 
(except a few Tropical African species) to Tropical Eastern Asia; 
genera about 18, species about 250. 
Sect. I. Eu-Dii'TerocarpEvK. Ovaries 3-celled, each cell 2-ovuled: 
stigmas united, more or less 3- lobed : seeds usually exalbuminous 
the outer segments of the fruiting calyx usually enlarged : trees 
or erect shrubs, mostly slipuhtte. 
Fruiting calyx with 2 or more of its segments 
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