190 cxxix. PROTEACE.E. (j. D. Hooker.) [Helida. 



H. cochinckinensis (which this author describes as having a small ovate drupe with a 

 longitudinal furrow) iu the very large broad fruit, and in being a mountain plant. 

 1 suspect that the " Pundua Me." (Khasia Mts.) specimens of H . attenuata of Wall. 

 Cat. 1040/2 are this, but without fruit it is impossible to say. 



2. H. attenuata, SI time in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. i. 216 ; quite gla- 

 brous, leaves 3-6 in. elliptic-oblong acute at both ends narrowed into a 

 short petiole entire or obscurely serrate, racemes quite glabrous, hypog. 

 scales connate, ovary glabrous, fruit 2 in. long ovoid narrowed at both 

 ends obtusely 6-angled. Sennet Pi. Har. Jav. 83; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 

 xiv. 439. Ehopala attenuata, Jack Mai. Misc. i. No. 2. 10; Wall. Cat. 

 1040. E. raoemosa, Roxb. mss. 



PENAN&, Jack. ? KHASIA MTS., De Silva. 



This is not distinguishable from H. erratica except by the fruit. 



3. H. nilagirica, Beddome in Madr. Journ. Lit. and Sc. 1864, with 

 figure, and For. Man. 1878 ; quite glabrous, leaves broadly ovate elliptic 



or lanceolate acute base narrowed into the petiole coarsely acutely toothed 

 submembranous, racemes shorter than the leaves, fruit spherical in. diam. 



NILGHIEI HILLS ; on Western slopes, alt. 3-4000 ft., Beddome. 



This again closely resemblea H. erratica and attenuata, but differs in the fruit, 

 which from Beddome's observations is spherical and very small. It is remarkable that 

 no specimens of this exist in the collections of Wight or any other of the numerous 

 collectors in the Nilghiris but Beddome's, and I- have seen none. 



4. H. ceylanica, G-ardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 453 ; quite 

 glabrous, leaves 3-4 in. obovate-o^long obtuse or tip rounded quite entire 

 narrowed into a petiole, racemes and ovaries quite glabrous, hypog. scales 

 distinct tips subacute, fruit ovoid narrowed at both ends about 1 in. long. 

 Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 438 (zeylanica) ; Thwaites Enum. 250 ; JBeddome 

 For. Man. 178. 



CETLOIST ; in the Central Province, alt. 2-4000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites. 



A middling-sized tree. Leaves -1^-2 in. broad ; petiole ^ in. Panicle with- a 

 purple rachis. Perianth pale yellow, unopened 1 in. long. Fruit (not seen by me) 

 the size of a hazel-nut, black-purple. This again is very near H. attenuata. 



5. H. petiolaris, Sennet Plant. Bar. Jav. 84 ; quite glabrous, leaves 

 5-7 in. broadly oblong or broadly cuneately obovate obtuse or subacute quite 

 entire, base suddenly narrowed and decurrent on the long petiole. Meissn. 

 in DC. Prodr. xiv. 438. Ehopala moluccana, Jack Mai. Misc. i. No. 2. 10 

 (not of Brown} ; Wall. Cat. 1041. 



SIXGAPOEE, Wallich. (Cult, in Penang, Jade.} 



Leaves 5-6 by 3-3^ in., firmly coriaceous; nerves spreading; petiole 1-^in. 

 Racemes longer than the leaves. Flowers 1 in. long. Very distinct from any of the 

 preceding species. 



6. H. terminalis, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 312 ; glabrous or nearly so, 

 leaves obversely oblong retuse with a rnucro, base acuminate and tapering 

 into a long slender petiole entire or somewhat waved, raceme at the end of 

 the branchlets slender glabrous much longer than the leaves.' 



AVA ; on the Kakhyen Hills, Kurz. 



I have seen no specimens of this, which from Kurz's description must be near 

 ff. petiolaris, and differs from its congener in the terminal raceme ; the leaves are 

 3-5 in. long, the petiole -J in., and the flowers about \ in. 



ft Leaves sessil or sul sessile lase oltuse or retuse. 



