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Sepals of f mi ting-calyx 
rotund, unequal (the inner 
two smaller), reftexed ... 8 Isoptera. 
Sepals of f raiting calyx much 
thickened and woody at the 
base. 
Calyx forming a cup at the 
base of the fruit, but not 
adhering to it : pericarp 
woody ... ... 9 Balanocarpus. 
Calyx adherent to the fruit : pericarp 
thickly leathery ... ... 10 Pachynocarpus. 
Sect. II. Ancistrocladeje. Ovary 1 -celled with 
a single ovule ; stigmas 3, distinct : Seeds 
with copious ruminate albumen. Exstipulate 
climbers. ... ... ... ... IX Ancistrocladus. 
1. DlPTEROCARPUS, Grertn. f. 
Lofty trees, stellately pnbescent or more or less clothed with 
fascicled hairs. Leaves coriaceous, entire or sinuate-crenatc; lateral nerves 
connected by marginal loops and transverse reticulations ; stipules large, 
valvate, enclosing the terminal bud, finally caducous and leaving an 
annular scar. Flowers large, white or reddish. Calyx-tube free. Petals 
usually pubescent externally, especially on the outer margin. Stamens 
co ; anthers linear, equivalved, acuminate. Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform ; 
ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit nut-like, 1-seeded, enclosed in the accres- 
cent calyx-tube, free ; accrescent calyx-lobes 2, erect. Seed adnate to 
the base of the pericarp ; cotyledons large, thick, unequal j radiclo 
inconspicuous. — DlSTBIB. Tropical E. Asia; species about 60. 
Ripe fruit splireroidal or ellipsoidal, neither angled nor winged. 
Young branches, petioles, under surfaces of the midribs, and 
nerves of the leaves covered with coarse stiff fasciculate hairs. 
Fruit glabrous ... ... ... 1. D. crinitns. 
„ stellate-pubescent ... ... 2, D. Scortechinii. 
Young branches deciduously pnbescent. 
Leaves with 12 or more pairs of nerves. 
Leaves oblong-elliptic, their nnder sur- 
faces sparsely stellate-pubescent ... 3. J). SHnneri. 
Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, their 
under surfaces puberulous or quite 
glabrous ... ... ... 4 D. turbinatus, 
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