108 
panicles ; bracts persistent, cad aeons, or 0. Sepal* ovate or lanceolate, 
imbricate, 3 being external and 2 internal. Stamens 15 or 20, or 30 ; 
anthers ovate or oblong, rarely linear ; connective subulate-cnspidate, 
rarely inappendiculate ; valves obtase, rarely enspidate, equal, or the 
outer slightly larger. Ovary 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled • style subulate, 
stigma entire or 3-toothed. Fruit with leathery, rarely with woody, 
pericarp, 1 -celled, 1-seeded, closely surrounded by the bases of the 
persistent, usually accrescent, sepals, the 3 outer, or more rarely, all, 
and sometimes none, of which are developed into 7- to 10-veined reti- 
culate membranous linear-obloug wings. Cotyledons fleshy, unequal, 
usually enclosing the superior radicle. Disjtkijj— Tropical Asia and 
chiefly the Malayan Archipelago : species about 60. 
Sect. I. Ec.-Shorea. Fruit little more than *5 in. long, its pericarp 
leathery : three of the persistent sepals developed into membra- 
nous wings many times longer than the fruit. 
Anthers without apical appendages. 
Lower surface of adult leaves minutely stel- 
late- tomentose, not scaberulons 
Lower surface of adult leaves glabrescont, 
the axils of the nerves scaly 
Lower surface of adult leaves quite glabrous, 
of young leaves glaucous 
Anthers mostly inappendiculate, a few with a 
minute apical appendage from the connective. 
Stamens 30 
Anthers with very short apical appendages from 
the connective ; flowers sessile. 
Leaves 2*5 to 4 in. long, the lower surfaces mi- 
nutely pubescent : flower *25 in. long ; fruit 
ovoid-globose, its largest wings 2*5 in. long 5. S.farvt folia. 
Leaves 3 to 4*5 in. long, glabrous beneath : 
flower *3 in. long ; fruit turbinate, its 
largest wings 3*5 in long 
Leaves 4 to 6 in. long, glabrescent or glabr- 
ous beneath j fruit narrowly ovoid, its 
longest wings 3 5 to 4 5 in. long. 
Apical appendage from the connective much 
longer than the anther. 
Leaves glabrous on both surfaces, the lower 
not pale. 
Stamens 10 (?) 
Stamens 20 
■{.( M I 
1. S, leprosula. 
2. S. scutulata. 
3. S. Curtisii. 
4. S. sericea. 
6. S. acuminata. 
7. S. macroptera. 
8. S. Ma&trelUana. 
9. S. gratimma. 
