.] cxxix. PROTEACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 191 



7. K. robusta, Wall. Cat. 2702 ; quite glabrous, leaves obovate-oblong 

 narrowed towards the rounded or obtuse base, obtuse or obtusely acuminate 

 coarsely serrate, hypog. scales more or less connate, fruit obliquely globose 

 apiculate abruptly narrowed into a short stipes. Bennet PI. Ear. Jav. 83 ; 

 Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 440; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 311. H. macrophylla, 

 Wall. Cat. 3661. H. castanesefolia, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 441. H. 

 javanica, Blume in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. i. 217 ; Bennet I. c. 83, t. 18 ; 

 Meissn.'l. c. 440. Helittophyllum javanicum, Blume Bijd. 652. Rhopala 

 robusta, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 363, and Ed. Carey # Wall. i. 366 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 191. E. glabrata, Wall. Cat. 1039. 



ASSAM and KHASIA MTS., Roxburgh, Wallich, Griffith. MAETABAN and TENAS- 

 SEEIM, on the hills, alt. 2-4000 ft. MALACCA, Griffith, Gumming, Maingay.VlB- 

 TEIB. Java, Sumatra. 



A small tree, branches robust. Leaves 8-12 in. by 3-5 in., very coriaceous, nerves 

 strong beneath, serrated to the base or not ; petiole or very short and stout. Ra- 

 cemes shorter or longer than the leaves, sometimes 1 foot long. Flowers J-l in. long 

 in bud. Fruit 1 in. diam., obscurely ribbed when dry. Meissner's H. castanecefolia 

 was founded on specimens wrongly ticketed as from the Philippines. Bennet distin- 

 guished H. javanica by the hypogynous scales being free, but as Kurz describes those 

 of robusta as all connate or "one or a few free," this character will not hold, and I 

 can find no other. 



8. K. travancorica, Beddome wss.; quite glabrous, leaves subsessile 

 obovate-oblong obtusely acuminate distantly serrate base obtuse, racemes 

 shorter than the leaves, fruit globose apiculate base rounded. H. robusta, 

 Beddome For. Fl. t. 301 (excl. syn.}. 



SOUTH DECCAN ; hills of Travancore and Tinnevelly, at about 4000 ft. elevation, 

 Beddome. 



This resembles H. robusta in the form of the leaf, which is however smaller and 

 more coriaceous ; it differs in the short racemes 3 in. long, and notably in the quite 

 globose perfectly smooth apiculate fruit, not at all stipitate but rounded at the base, 

 and only f in. diam. 



* Rachis of the raceme pubescent, tomentose or villous. 



9. K. excelsa, Blume in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. i. 219 ; shoots rusty- 

 tomentose, leaves oblanceolate or cuneately obovate obtusely acuminate 

 quite entire or coarsely serrate narrowed into the rather slender petiole 

 glabrous, racemes and flowers rusty- villous, ovary villous, fruit small, 

 smooth. Bennet Plant. Jav. Ear. 84; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 441; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 312. H. salicifolia. Presl Epimel. 247 ; Meissn. I. c. 

 439 ; Kurz I. c. Ehopala excelsa, JRoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 363, and Ed. Carey S[ 

 Wall. i. 365 ; Wall. Cat. 1038 ; Wight Ic. t. 190. 



SILHET, Roxburgh. KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft., J. J). JJ. # T. T. CHITTA- 

 GOXG and TENASSEEIM, Heifer, &c. DISTEIB. Cambogia. 



A large tree. Leaves 4-6 by l-2 1 in., coriaceous, yellow green when dry ; 

 petiole J-J in. Racemes axillary "and terminal, about equalling the leaves, more or 

 less villous. Flowers 2-5-riate, yellowish green, \% in. long in bud. Fruit (in Ma- 

 laccan specimens) obliquely ovoid, obtuse, smooth, % in. long when dry. Presl's 

 H. salicifolia from Heifer ( Kew Distrib. 4366) seems in no way different, except in the 

 connate scales. //. loranthoides, Presl, from the Philippines, is possibly the same 

 species. Malaccan specimens have nearly glabrescent flowers. 



10. K. pyrrhobotrya, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, ii. 303, 

 and For. Fl. ii. 312 ; shoots rusty-villous, leaves oblanceolate narrowed into 

 the very stout petiole acuminate "coarsely serrate, glabrous or with the mid- 

 rib beneath rusty-pubescent, racemes very long stout and flowers rusty- 

 villous, ovary glabrous. 



