no 
Anthers of inner row inappcndiculate, those 
of the other two rows appendiculate ... 21. S. Thiseltoni. 
1 . Shore*, leprosula, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. I., 487. A tree 
100 to 150 feet high : young branches rather slender, lenticellate, 
minutely and decidnously pale stellate-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, 
elliptic to oblong-, acute or sub-acute, the base rounded ; upper surface 
glabrous, harsh from the prominent minute reticulations, the midrib 
and nerves sometimes pubcrulous ; lower surface minutely fuscous- 
tomentose, with numerous densely stellate hairs on the midrib nerves and 
veins ; main nerves 10 to 13 pairs, straight, oblique, prominent beneath ; 
length 3 to 6 in., breadth V25to 3*25 in., petiole "35 to 75 in. Panicles 
axillary and terminal, 1*5 to 4 in. long, rachis and branches stellate- 
tomentose, the short flower-bearing branchlets sericeous. Flowers in two 
rows, sccund, 3 in. long, sessile. Sepals ovate, minutely velvety out- 
side. Petals three times as long as the sepals, sericeous outside, oblong- 
spathulate. Stamens about 15; the filaments dilated, much longer than 
the short ovate inappendiculate anthers. Ovary ovoid, minutely to- 
mentose, tapering upwards into the long Blender style ; stigma minute. 
Hipp fruit narrowly ovoid, apiculate, minutely tomentose, 6 in. long. 
Calyx-iviuga all enlarged and membranous, concave at the baHe so as to 
embrace the ripe fruit, but not adnate to it; the three outer narrowly 
oblong, sub-acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, 7-nerved, reti- 
culate, 3 in. long and about "7 in. broad ; the two inner smaller, about 
1 in. long, ovate, caudate-acuminate, not nerved. A. DC. Prod. XVI. 
2,631. Scheff. in Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXXI, 350 : Hook. fil. Fl. Dr. 
Ind., I,, 305. Burck in Ann Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, VI, 21 5. Skorea 
astrosticta, Scortechini MSS. 
Mnlacca: Maingay (Kew. Distrib.), No. 203. Perak, King's Collector, 
Nos. 7646, 7905, 8182 ; Scortechini, No 2063. Distrib. Sumatra. 
2. SHORE* scutulata, King, n. sp. A large tree ; young branches 
with dark lenticellate bark and minute white stellate pubescence. 
Leaves elliptic, shortly abruptly and bluntly acuminate ; the base 
broad, rounded, almost truncate : upper surface glabrous, minutely 
reticulate; the lower, and especially tho midrib, sparsely stellate- 
puberulous when young, glabrescent when old, the sides of the midrib, 
anil especially the pits in the axils of the nerves, with numerous 
minute brownish pale-edged scales ; length 3 to 3 5 in., breadth 1*5 to 
1'75 in., petiole 3 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, 3 to 4 in. long, 
the brunches short, encli bearing 2 or 3 bractcolate flowers ; bracts 
broadly ovate, concave, blunt, hoary-puberulous, deciduous. I'ioicers 
4> in. long, shortly pedicelled. Sefxils broadly lanceolate, obtuse, tomen- 
tose outside, glabrous inside. Petals oblong, obtuse, the base expanded 
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