PROTEACEAE 

 Helicia hainanensis Hayata. le. PI. Formos. 9: 87. 1920 "^^Uok-'l-CZ^ ■ ié ' iS'f. f9^X~ 



Indo-Chtna, Tonkin. Sontoy Province. Mount Bavi. Pételot 2619, July 2. 1940. 

 a tree 7-8 m. high, in open forests, ait. 700 m. Kwangsi. Kwangtung, and Hainan. 



Helicia brevipeliolata sp nov "^TZ^^ . Q-ti-Û. ^i '• ^^0 • /^*<-2. 



.Arbor glabra, circiter 12 m. alla, ramis teretibus, pallide viridibus, obscure 

 longitudinaliter striatis ramulis ultimis circiter 2 mm. diamètre; foliis 

 oblongo-obovatis, firmiter chartaceis, 17-25 cm. longis, 7-10 cm. latis, 

 acuminatis. in sicco utrinque subconcoloribus, pallide viridibus, apice acumi- 

 natis. deorsum plus minusve angustatis, basi abrupte rotundatis circiter 

 1-1.5 cm. latis, margine distanter subcalloso-serratis, dentibus ad 2 _mm. 

 longis, 1-3 cm. distantibus; nervis primariis utrinque 9-10, distantibus, 

 subtus elevatis, perspicuis, curvato-arcuatis, anastomosantibus, reticulis 

 primariis Iaxis, sub lente distinctis; petiolo circiter 5 mm. longo, 4 mm. 

 crasso, transverse subplicato-rugoso ; racemis in axillis superioribus, glaber- 

 rimis. breviter (2-2.5 cm.) pedunculatis, multifloris; floribus circiter 1.7 cm. 

 longis, pedicellis circiter 3 mm. longis, deorsum per paria connatis, bracteis 

 lanceolatis, acuminatis, vix 1 mm. longis, deciduis, bracteolis deciduis, quam 

 bracteis duplo brevioribus; ovario glabro, anguste ovoideo, stylo 1.5 mm. 

 longo: antheris lineari-oblongis, 3 mm. longis; disci glandulis liberis, 

 oblongo-ovatis, circiter 0.7 mm. longis, obtusis. 



IXDO-CniNA, Tonkin, Sontoy Province, Mount Bavi, Példo\ 262S, June 4, 1940, 

 altitude about 150 m. 



.\ species with free disk scales, falling in the group with Helicia tonkincn- 

 sis Lecomte but totally différent from that and the closely allied H. cochin- 

 chinensis Lour. in its much larger, prominently toothed leaves. The short 

 very stout pétioles are transversely subplicate-rugose. 



