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glabrous within. Petals dark-red within. Flowers said to have a rather 
sickeningly sweet odor. Petals prominently longitudinally veined. 
Filaments black between the oblong anthers. Appendage to the con- 
nective tapering and shorter than the anther. Ovary bluntly conical in 
outline, hairy. ISTo stylopodium. Style smooth; stigma small and ob- 
scurely lobed. 
One of the most important of our timber trees. The wood is very 
pretty, coarse-grained and moderately hard. It is sometimes exported 
under the name of “Philippine Mahogany.” This tree is most abundant 
in the northern part of the Island of Negros, where it occurs gregariously 
with almorij balacbacan and bagtican. It is, perhaps, the most important 
commercial wood of the Philippines at the present time. 
The leaves of this species show close resemblances to those of 8. lepidota 
Bl., of Sumatra, 8. selanica Bl., of Amboina, and 8. platycarpa Heim, of 
Sarawak. 
For. Bur. 7 281 Everett, collected in Negros Occidental in May 1907, is the type. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 6J/98 Elemme, For. Bur. 17170 Curran: 
Province of Isabela, For. Bur. 66 44 Elemme: Province^ of La Laguna, Nor. Bur. 
22311 Mariano: Province of Tayabas, Merrill 1152 Garcia: Province of Albay, 
For. Bur. 10620 Curran: Province of Sorsogon, For. Bur. 10601 Curran. Negkos, 
Province of Negros Occidental, For. Bur. 7281 Everett, May 1907, in flower (type), 
For. Bur. 5209, 5500 Everett, For. Bur. 5212, 7405 Danao, For. Bur. 7253 Everett, 
May 1907, in bud, For. Bur. 13583 Meyer & Foxworthy, For. Bur. 17467, 17469, 
17470, 17^80, 17482, 17491, 17497 Curran. Mindanao, Province of Surigao, For. 
Bur. 6672 Stone, For. Bur. 7566 Hutchinson: Subprovince of Agusan, For. Bur. 
7596, 7598, 7610 Hutchinson. 
Common names: red lauan, mangachapuy (V.). 
For description of habit of this species see Whitford in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 
10 2 (1911) 66, pis. 64, 65. 
8. Shorea squamata (Turcz.) Dyer ex Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 62; 
Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 92; Merr. in Phil. Journ. Sci. 2 
(1907) Bot. 285; Foxworthy in Phil. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 386; Phil. Journ. 
Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 519; Merritt in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 8 (1908) 16, 48; 
Whitford in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 715, Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 1 0 - 
(1911) 66, pi. 63. 
Hopea squamata Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Mosc. 31 1 (1858) 239; A. DC. Prodr. 
16 2 (1868) 635. 
Leaves coriaceous or chartaeeous, from a rounded base ovate-oblong or 
elliptic, upper side glabrous, under side rough with tufts of stellate hair; 
secondary nerves 14 to 18, curved, tertiary veins parallel ; blade 10 to 20 
cm long, petiole 2 cm long. Flowers bibracteolate in unilateral spikes, 
these distichous, in long axillary and terminal panicles, bracts oblong 
spathulate. Filaments of the 5 inner episepalous stamens with a thick 
rounded base, upon which the next 5 filaments are inserted ; appendage 
of connective slightly longer than anther. Stylopodium smaller than 
ovary ; style glabrous, twice the length of stylopodium ; stigma minute. 
Larger segments of fruiti'ng-calyx 15 to 17.5 cm long. 
