404 CIV. PROTEACEJE. 
SUBORDER 2. FoLLICULARES.—Fruit dehiscent, follicular or 2- 
valved or rarely drupaceous and indehiscent. Flowers usually in pairs, 
with a single bract to each pair, or rarely the inflorescence anomalous. 
Ovules 2 or more, collateral in each pair. 
of imbricate bracts. 
13. HELICIA, Lour. 
lowers hermaphrodite. Perianth regular, the tube slender, the 
laminæ small, the segments all much revolute when separating. Anthers 
on short filaments inserted a little below the lamine, the connective 
produced into a short appendage. Hypogynous glands equal, distinct 
or united in a ring or cup round the ovary. Ovary sessile, with a long 
straight style, slightly thickened at the end with a terminal stigma ; 
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alternate, entire or toothed. 
or axillary simple racemes, the pedicels of each pair often more or less 
connate. Bracts very deciduous (or sometimes none ?). 
: nus is spread over tropical Asia extending northwards to Japan. Th Am 
lian species appear to be all endemic, although one of them closely resembles one of t 
most widely dispersed of the Asiatic ones. e young fruits I bave seen 2 pear to be 
fleshy externally, the few ripe ones are detached, woody and smooth, but the exocarp 
ciduous as in Macadamia ternifolia. 
Leaves mostly entire. Fl g 
Perianth 7 to 8 lines long. Hypogynous glands oblong or 
ware olah 
Pol sitter, abous y in. long. Hypogynous glands "broad, s Mary 
[Ss ple oq oi 4 lines long. Hypogynous ‘glands more 1 Eee 
COHEN ue T EI a 
a eo A EE 
: l. H. prealta, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 97. A moderate sized or somè- 
times lofty tree attaining 100 ft., glabrous excep 
which is often minutely tomentose. - Leaves lanceolate, usuall 
obtuse or acuminate, contracted into a petiole, quite entire ina speci- 
map seen, only 3 or 4 in. long in a few s ecimens, mostly 6 to 10 in. 
7 to 8 lines long. Hypogynous glands quite distinct and narrow. 
SRS ess ANEREN 
