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ovate-lanceolate or oblong-laneeolato, bluntly caudate-acuminate ; tbo 
base slightly cuneate or sometimes broad, rounded and slightly unequal 
both surfaces glabrous except the pubescent midrib : main nerves 
numerous, not much more prominent than the secondary, and both 
indistinct ; length 2 to 4 in., breadth *8 to 175 in. ; petiole *2o to *4 in. 
minutely tomentose. Panicles axillary and terminal, numerous, short, 
spreading, 1 to 1'5 in. long, pubemlous or glabrous. Flowers "15 to 
'25 iu. long, shortly pedicellate. Sepals sub-equal, ovate-rotund, sub- 
acute or obtuse, pubemlous and resinous outside, glabrous inside. 
Petals twice as long as the sepals, broadly oblong-obtnse, silky outside 
except on one side, glabrous inside. Stamens about 12, the filaments 
dilated in the lower half, longer than the ovate anthers ; the connective 
produced into a single apical awn longer than the stamen. Ovary 
elongated, often constricted in the iniddlo, glabrous ; style very short, 
Bttgma minute. Ripe fruit ovoid, apiculate, S in. long, striate, closely 
embraced by tli9 3 inner sepals which about equal it in length; tho 
outer two sepals accrescent, oblunceolate, obtuse, tapering to the con- 
cave base, reticulate, 7-nerved, 1'75 to 2 in. long, and -2 to "25 in. broad. 
A. DC. Prod. XVI. 2, p. 634. Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 310. 
Burck in Ann. Bot. Jard. Buitenzorg, VI, 238. 
Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 210. Ponang: Curtis, Nos. 
167, 266, 1397. Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 3525, 8170. Distrib. 
Borneo : Bangka, Sumatra. 
Mr. Curtis notes on the Ponang specimens of this, that the bark of 
the tree is smooth and of a grey colour, whereas the back of its close ally 
H, intermedia is fissured like that of Sliarea parti flora. The species of Hupea 
with numerous indistinct nerves, (Sect. Bnjobalamyides) arc not easy to 
distinguish from each other in the Herbarium. H. Mengaruwan, Miq., a 
species published two years earlier than this {i. e., in 1860), comes very 
near this, and the two may possibly prove to be identical, in which 
case Miqnel's name must be adopted. Hopea cernua, Teysm. and Binn. 
was described by its authors from a plant originally obtained from 
Sumatra, but cultivated in the Buitenzorg Garden. It differs from U. 
Mengarawan and from R. micrantlia in having larger leaves with more 
prominent nerves. Its authors were doubtful as to its being really dis- 
tinct from II. Mengarawan, and I think these doubts were well founded. 
Under the species named H. Dryobalanoides by Miquel (1. c ) there are, 
Dr. Burck asserts, two plants. One of these collected at Soengie- 
pagoe in Sumatra, is, he says, simply H. Mengaraivan, Miq., and it is 
the fruit of this which Miquel describes under his H. Dryobalanoides. 
The other specimen from Priamau iu Sumatra is different, and it is to 
it that Dr. Burck (Ann. Bot. Jard. Buitouzorg VI., 241) desires to 
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