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tiou of the fruit from Dr. Burek (I.e.). Miqiiel, who first described 
the plant as n probable Vatica, had seen nothing' but a leaf-twig. 
Specimens brought from Penile by the Calcutta collectors bear, instead 
of flowers, carious cones, 1*5 in. long, of distichous imbricate bracts, 
concerning which Griffith, in bis field note on his specimen No. 5018, 
wrote, — '•irregular growth caused by an insect; each of the scales 
of these cones bears on its dorsum at its base a number of eggs." 
GriiHth's No. oOli) appears tu belong to a closely allied, hut distinct, spe- 
cies ; as also does the indeterminate plant issued by Wnllich as No. G635 
of his catalogue, nnder the designation, M DiUemawa [?] nervosa** 
21. Shorea Thiseltohi, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : 
young branches rather stout, the bark dark-coloured and leuticellate, 
bat covered at first by a pale-grey, deciduous pellicle. Leaves coriaco- 
ons, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, rarely oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, 
obtuse, slightly narrowed to the rounded base ; both surfaces glabrous, 
the lower when very young sparsely lepidote, puberulous especially 
on the midrib and nerves, brown when dry : main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, 
ascending, slightly curved, bold and prominent on the under surface 
like the midrib ; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2*5 to 3*25 in.; petiole "6 
to *8 in., stout. Panicles axillary and terminal, 2 to 3 in. long, velvety, 
few-flowered, apparently ebracteolate. Flowers sessile, *6 or '7 in. 
long. Sepals ovate, snb-acute, unequal ; the 3 outer tomcntose outside, 
glabrous inside ; the 2 inner smaller, nearly glabrous, the edges 
ciliate. Petals much longer than the sepals, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
expanded at the base, glabrous, except one-half of the outer surface 
which is adprcssed-pubescent. Stamens 15, iu 3 rows, the filaments of 
all dilated, unequal : the anthers shortly ovate, those of the inner and 
longer row inappendiculate, those of the other two rows with a short 
apical appendage from the connective. Ovary narrowly conical, 
tomentose, tapering into the short glabrous style ; stigma minute. 
Ripe fruit narrowly ovoid, apiculate, minutely pale- tomentose, substriate, 
J "2 in. long, and '6 in. in diani., the pericarp thick and woody. Per- 
sistant sepals with much thickened concave woody bases, forming a 
cup embracing the lower half of the fruit, the apices of the outer three 
prolonged into membranous linear-oblong obtuse wings exceeding 
the fruit and sometimes 15 in. long; one of the inner sepals shortly 
winged, the other often broad, obtuse and not winged. 
Perak: common. King's Collector. 
In this plant the fruit is runch larger than in any of the other 
species of Shorea here described, and its pericarp is hard and thick. 
The bases of tho sepals ars greatly thickened and concave, and they 
form a cup which embraces closely, but does not adhere to, the lower 
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