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surface glahresccut or glabrous, chocola to- colon red when dry : main 
nerves 10 to 12 pairs, curved, spreading, prominent on the lower 
surface; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 135 to 1*75 in.; petiolo *4 to *5 
in., rugose. Panicles axillary or terminal, 4 to 7 in. long, lux, branch- 
ing, few-flowered, puberulous, sparsely scaly. Flowers about '5 in, 
long, sessile, solitary, not secund. Sepah distinct almost to the 
base, slightly unequal, broadly-ovate, acute, more or less yellowish- 
tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals narrowly oblong, slightly 
obliqno at the base, the apex blunt, glabrous except one-half of the outer 
surface which is sericeous, Stamens 15, in two rows; filaments broad 
except at the apex, those of the outer two rows by much the shorter : 
anthers short, ovate, the connective minutely awned. Ovary elongated- 
ovoid, sericeous in its upper half ; style short, stigma small. Ripe 
fruit *6 to "75 in. long, narrowly ovoid, pale puberulous, apiculaie : 
sepah all enlarged and reticulate, slightly concave at the base and 
embracing, but not adnafce to, the fruit; the three outer narrowly 
oblong, obtuse, tapering slightly to the auricled base, 7-nerved, 3*5 to 
4*5 in. long, and *8 to I in. broad ; the two inner variable, but 
shorter, narrower and fewer nerved. Shorea auriculata, Seortcchini 
MSS. in Herb., Calcutta. 
Malacca : Maingay. Singapore : Ridley. Penang : Curtis, No. 
1392. Perak : very common, King's Collector, Seortcchini. 
A species from Borneo which closely resembles this appears to me 
to differ specifically. Its leaves are longer with sparsor nerves, and its 
calyx-wings are longer. 
8. Suorea Maxweuliana, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : 
young branches dark-coloured, almost glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate (caudate-acuminate when young), the base 
unequal-sided, cuneate ; both surfaces quite glabrous, the upper shining, 
the lower chocolate-coloured when dry : main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, curved, 
spreading, thin and inconspicuous : length 3 to 4 in., breadth 13 to 15 
in., petiole 4 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, 2'5 to 3 in. long, 
stellate-puberulous, their lateral brunches very short and few-flowered. 
Flowers shortly pedicelled. Sepals unequal, oblong, blunt, with enlarg- 
ed concave bases, more or less pubescent, but glabrous in the concavity 
of the base inside. Petals oblong, concave and saccate at the base, 
tomoctose outside, glabrous inside. Stamens 10 (?), the filaments 
short, broad ; the anthers elongate, erect, pointed, the connective end- 
ing in an awn as long as the nut her. Ovary hemispheric ; the style 
long, slender ; stigma minute. Fruit (not mature) globular, minutely 
tomentose, closely invested by, but not adnate to, the concave bases of 
the sepals : sepals all enlarged, membranous, narrowly oblong, obtuse ; 
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