XX. DIPTEROCARPACE.®. 
Shorea .] 
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long, 7 in. wide, inner ones linear 2 in. long. Hab. Perak, Thaiping 
Hills (Kunstler). 
(x7) S. gibbosa Brandis, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxi. 99. 
A big tree 100 ft. tall. Main branches dilated and flattened 
at the base; branchlets wrinkled. Leaves sub-membranous glabrous, 
ovate acuminate, base blunt ; nerves 7 or 8 pairs, slender; nervules 
and reticulations wide few, 3 to 4 in. long, 1*25 to 2 in. wide; petioles 
■5 in. long. Panicles lax, 2 to 3 in. long of 6 or 7 distant branches 
•5 in. long, scurfy. Flowers shortly pedicelled, cream white. 
Sepals ovate blunt, white-tomentose. Petals much longer, linear- 
oblong blunt, pubescent outside. Stamens 10, 5 inner ones with 
gibbous filaments, 5 outer ones not gibbous; awns filiform, three 
times as long as the anther. Ovary puberulous. Fruit cylindric- 
conic, apiculate, 75 in. long, much longer than the short sepal- 
cup, outer wings thin oblong-spathulate blunt, 6-nerved pubescent, 
2 - 5 in. long, '3 in. wide, inner ones 2 in. long; nerves inconspicuous, 
all yellowish green. Hab. Very rare. A single tree in Tanglin, 
Singapore, near the Gardens. 
The fruit closely resembles that of 5 . dryobalanoides Dyer, of Borneo, but 
the flowers and leaves are quite different. 
(x8) S. bracteolata Dyer, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 305; King, 
l.c. 117. 
A tree rising to 150 ft. tall and 13 to 20 ft. through. Branchlets 
minutely mealy puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 
shortly acuminate, base round or emarginate, above glabrous, 
beneath mealy-puberulous, becoming glabrous; nerves 12 to 16 
pairs prominent, 4 to 6 in. long, x*6 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles *45 
to '6 in. long. Panicles axillary, 2'5 to 6 in. long, glabrous, numer¬ 
ous. Flowers *65 in. long, pedicelled with 2 elliptic blunt 3-nerved 
deciduous bracts *35 in. long. Sepals lanceolate blunt tomentose. 
Petals ovate-lanceolate blunt, half mealy, cream white, rose pink 
at base, withering yellow, fragrant. Stamens 15 in 2 rows; anthers 
yellow, twice as long as the filaments; awns very long, subulate. 
Fruit ovoid beaked, *6 in. long, free from calyx, glabrous; outer 
wings oblong obtuse, narrowed slightly at base, thinly coriaceous, 
red; nerves 10, 3*5 in. long, ’6 in. wide, inner ones 2 in. long, '2 in. 
wide, linear. Hab. Forests. Malacca (Maingay); Selandor (Good- 
enough) ; Ayer Panas (Burkill). Pahang, Bentong, Bukit Gabing 
and Kwala Lipis (Foxworthy). Negri Sembilan, Tampin; Sena- 
wang (Burkill). Dindings. Penang, Waterfall (Curtis). Distrib. 
Sumatra. Native names : Chengah ; Chengoh ; Meranti Ketapak ; 
Meranti Pa’am; Langgang Pa’am; Langgang Batu; Pinang Baik ; 
Semah; Temah. 
(19) S. ciliata King, l.c. 118; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. (2), 
154, pi. 187A. 
A tree 40 to 50 ft. tall. Branchlets dark hoary pubescent. 
Leaves coriaceous lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base 
