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XX. DIPTEROCARPACEJE. 
[Shorea. 
Flowers unknown. 
Leaves glabrous 4-5 in. long, oblong base 
broad, round, stiff, coriaceous; fruit globose (25) S. crassifolia 
Leaves thin, 2-5 in. to 4 in. long; fruit oblong, 
conic, silky ...... (26) S. laevis 
Leaves 2 in. long, stellate hairy beneath . . (27) S. globifera 
(1) S. leprosula Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Supp. i. 487; Ridl. Straits 
Agric. Bulletin, viii. 364, pi. iii; King, l.c. no. S. maranti Burck, 
Ann. Jard. Buitenz. vi. 217; King , l.c. 120. 
A tree 150 to 180 ft. tall, 2 ft. through with buttresses. Branch- 
lets’ minutely stellate-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous elliptic to 
oblong acute or sub-acute, base rounded, above glabrous, beneath 
tomentose with densely stellate hairs on the midrib and nerves; 
nerves 10 to 13 pairs prominent beneath, 3 to 6 in. long, 1*25 to 
3-25 in. wide; petioles '35 to 75 in. long. Panicles axillary and 
terminal, 1-5 to 4 in. long, stellate tomentose. Flower-branchlets 
silky. Flowers in two rows, secund sessile, cream yellow. Sepals 
ovate velvety. Petals '3 in. long, oblong-spathulate, silky outside. 
Stamens 15 ; filaments dilate longer than anthers, no awns. Fruit 
ovoid apiculate tomentose, 6 in. long; three outer wings narrow 
oblong sub-acute, narrowed to base, 7-nerved, reticulate yellow, 
3 in, long, 7 in. broad, 2 inner ovate caudate. Hab. Common in 
forests, Singapore, Pahang, Malacca, Perak, Selangor, Negri Sem- 
bilan. Distrib. Sumatra and Borneo. Native names: Serayah 
Batu; Meranti tembaga; Meranti bunga. Use : Timber used for 
furniture, boxes and planking, rather soft and red, and not very 
durable but much used. 
S. leprosula has a great variety of galls on it and the leaves have in the 
axils of the nerves beneath almost invariably linear-oblong elevations, which 
are the nests of mites (Domatia), Shorea maranti Burck, is based on young 
plants of this species. The most characteristic galls on this plant are a 
globose one covered with processes like a Castanopsis fruit, and a perfectly 
smooth cone-shaped brown one an inch long. 
{2) S. scutulata King, l.c. ixo. 
A large tree. Branchlets stellate, pubescent. Leaves elliptic, 
rather abruptly acuminate, base broad rounded or truncate, glabrous 
above, stellate hairy beneath, 3 to 3-5 in. long, 1*5 to 175 in. wide; 
petioles *3 in. long stellate-pubescent. Panicles axillary and 
terminal, 4-5 to 5 in. long with very short branchlets ‘25 in. long, 
stellate pubescent. Bracts ovate hoary *x in. long. Sepals broad 
lanceolate blunt tomentose. Petals oblong obtuse, half pubescent 
outside. Stamens 15, in 3 rows; filaments broad, inner ones 
longest, awns short, deciduous. Ovary glabrous with 5 pubescent 
ridges. Fruit ovoid apiculate tomentose, *6 in. long; outer wings 
linear obtuse, 2*5 in. long, 75 in. wide; nerves 7, transverse nervules 
distinct, inner wings ‘8 in. long, linear blunt. Hab. Penang, 
Government Hill at 1000 ft. altitude (Curtis). 
The leaves have the same scaly domatia on the backs in the nerve axils 
as in S. leprosula. 
