OF MT. KINABALU AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 131 
living, but dull brown in colour in the dried condition ; on the underside the 
surface is bluish glaucous, the reddish veins standing out conspicuously. 
The largest leaf is 1:9 dm. long, 8:2 cm. broad, the petiole being 1 em. long. 
The 3-4-flowered small peduneulate capitula are aggregated in the axils of 
the leaves; the peduncles, with the bracts of the involucre, are densely 
villous, the latter being unequal in size and 3-4 in number. The g flowers 
are white, pedicellate and 4 mm. long, the perianth-tube villous, both inside 
and outside, the segments unequal in number, usually 6 or more, glabrous 
and flecked. The stamens vary from 6-12 with villous filaments, 4-5 mm- 
long, the outer ones being biglandular at the base, while the internal are 
often smaller and may be obsolete. 
PROTEACEX. 
"HELICIA MAXWELLIANA, Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glaberrima, Folia alterna, sessilia, erasso-coriacea, obovato- 
oblonga, obtusiuscula, integerrima, basi cordata, costa media maxime 
incrassata, costis lateralibus 8-9, supra nitida, subtus opaca, reticulo optime 
perspieuo. Racemi sessiles, extra-axillares, quam folii breviores ; pedicelli 
solitarii vel 2-4 gemini, basi parvibracteati. Alabastra ellipsoideo-rotundata, 
basi dilatata. 
Hab. Kinabalu, Maraiparai spur, 5000-6000’. — Fl. Feb. 3137. 
The leaves of this species are unusually large, measuring 1:5-1:7 dm. in 
length and 775-9 em. across ; in the dried condition they are yellow-green 
in colour, the tertiary veins showing marked reticulation, less pronounced on 
the dull brown lower surface. The cylindrical racemes are cauline, 1:5 dm. 
in length, shorter than the leaves, the sweet-scented white flowers occurring 
singly or in groups of 2-4 up the rhachis. The pedicels are 5 mm. long, 
hirsute at the base and invested with minute villous and caducous bracts. 
The buds are 8 mm. long. The flowers show 4 hypogynous scales connate 
at the base and ovate in shape, surrounding a sessile and glabrous ovary. 
This plant occurred abundantly as a small tree of fastigiate habit, on the 
Maraiparai spur at 5500! in the dense forest scrub bordering the open part. 
Higher up at 60007 it forms a close association as a fringe to the mossy 
forest which clothes the sheltered slopes abutting on the precipices of the 
granite core. 
This species is very distinct from the other species of /7elicia in the sessile 
very thick, markedly oblong and obtuse leaves with cordate auriculate bases, 
and in the cauline inflorescence. 
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