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wise glabrous. Stamens obtnsely apiculate. Ovary depressed, minutely 
tomentose ; stigma capitate. Fruit (not quite ripe) globular, umbonatc, 
attached for half its length to the calyx. The two larger calyx-wings 
ob-lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, 5-nerved, flocculent-puberu- 
lous near the base when young, ultimately glabrous, 2 in, long and *5 in. 
■wide; the 3 smaller wings lanceolate, obtuse, *5 in. long, 
Langani: Curtis, Nob. 2797 and 2798. Kedah : Curtis, Nos. 2096 
and 2514. 
When dried, the leaves of this are of a dull gray colour — hence the 
specific name. Its fruit resembles that of the next species, but the 
leaves have fewer and less prominent nerves. 
6. Vatica Curtisii, King, n. sp, A tree about 40 feet high : young 
branches, petioles, inilorescense and calyx brownish scurf y-pnbescent, 
ultimately glabrous. Leaves ovate-oblong, sub-acute, the base rounded, 
both surfaces quite glabrous, reticulate ; main nerves 11 to 13 pairs, 
oblique, rather prominent beneath ; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1*3 to 
2 5 in., petiole "3 to 45 in. Eacemes axillary, few-flowered, 1 to 1"25 in. 
long. Flowers '35 in. long. Calyx-lobes unequal, the 2 longer narrowly 
oblong, obtuse ; the 3 shorter lanceolate-acuminate, Petals elliptic, 
slightly oblique, blunt, glabrous except the pubescent edge which is 
external in the bud. Ripe fruit globular, '3 in. in diam., adliereut 
to the calyx for half its length, the larger calyx-lobes oblong-obovate, 
usually obtuse, rarely sub-acute, 5-nerved, 1"75 to 2 in. long, and *7 in, 
broad ; the Bmaller wings about '4 in. long. 
Penang : Curtis, No. 1579. 
7. Vatica faginea, Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind., I., 301. A 
tree 80 to 100 feet high : young branches Blender, minutely cinereous 
stellate- tomentose as is the inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous, oblong 
or elliptic-oblong, finely reticnlate, glabrous; main nerves 9 to 11 pairs, 
spreading, curving, thin but prominent when dry ; length 4 to 5 in., 
breadth 1'5 to 2 in. Panicles 2 5 in. long ; flowers "5 in. long. Calyx- 
tube ribbed, minutely scurfy tomentose, the lobes unequal. Petals 
narrowly oblong, blunt, glabrous except the pubescent outside edge. 
Ovary hemispheric, minutely tomentose ; stigma capitate, lobed. liipe 
fruit globular, adherent for half its length to the calyx, about '25 in. 
in diam., the stylo persistent; the 2 larger calyx-wings narrowly 
oblong, or oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, obscurely 5-nerved, 2 to 2*5 in. 
long, aud '5 to '7 in. broad near the apex ; the three smaller wings un- 
equal, sub-spathulato, less than "5 in. long. Hopea faginea, Wall. Cat. 9631 
Shorea pinangiana, Wall., Cat, p. 157. Synaptea faginea, Pierre, For. 
Flore Coch. -Chine, t. 242. 
Penang i Wallich. Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 36S6 and 37G5. 
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