242 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
raceme reaching 20—30 em. in length, from the axils of fallen leaves 
of the previous year’s wood; pedicels at right angles to the rhachis, 
3—5 mm. long; bract and bracteoles very small, acute, caducous; 
perianth rather thick, in bud linear-clavate, 2—3 cm. long; hypogy- 
nous scales connate, truncate, dentate, 1 mm. long. Stamens 4; anthers 
oblong, 2-celled ; filaments very short, connective produced in a blunt 
apiculus. Ovary glabrous, style as long as the perianth, stigma 
ellipsoid-clavate. Fruit ovoid, 3—4 cm. long, 2—3:5 cm. in diam., 
narrowed at both ends, obscurely 6-angled, the thickened pedicel 3 
mm. in diam. Seeds 1—2, subglobose, testa thinly leathery ; coty- 
ledons hemispheric. Benn. in Horsf. Pl. Jav. Rar. 83; Meissn. in 
DC. Prodr. XIV. 439; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 985; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. V. 190; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. V. 313. Rhopala attenuata, Jack in 
McLell. Calc. Journ. IV. 352; and in Mal. Mise. I. 2. 10; Hook. Bot. 
Misc. II. 65; Wall. Cat. 1040; Walp. Ann. I. 592, V. 313. Rk. moluc- 
cana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 83; Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey and Wall. I. 364 and 
Fl. Ind. I. 361 non Br. nec Jack. R. racemosa, Roxb. M.S. in 
Herbb. Linn. Soc. Lond. and Kew. 
Penance: Jack (Wallich 1040!); at Tulloh Bahang, Curtis 1181!; 
at Waterfall, Curtis 2765!: Ridley 12683!. Perak: Scortechini 195!, 
196!, 795!; at Batu Togo, Tupai, Waterfall Hill, etc. Wray 21591, 
96711, 3144!, 3156!, 4052!; in various places from sea level to 600 
m. alt., King’s Collector 764!, 3383!, 4301!, 4594!, 5931!, 8496!, 
8795!. SeLaneor: at Kwala Lumpur, Curtis 2372!; at Dusum Tua, 
Ridley!. Panane: at Tahan river, Ridley!. JoHorE: at Mount 
Austin, Ridley 13008!.—Distris. Java (Koorders). 
2. HELICIA PETIOLARIS, Benn. in Horsf. Pl. Jav. Rar. 84 
(1838). A tree reaching 18—20 m. in height and 45—60 cm. 
in diam. of stem; branches spreading ; branchlets stout, smooth, 
grey, uppermost nearly black and angled; all parts glabrous. 
Leaves firmly coriaceous ; broadly obovate, obtuse or obtusely acute 
at apex, long-cuneate at base, rarely slightly lobed; upper surface 
shining, olive-green, lower also somewhat shining and purplish 
when dry; margins entire; 10—35 cm. long, 5—15 cm. broad ; 
midrib stout, raised on both surfaces; main nerves 7—9 pairs, 
somewhat impressed above, spreading, curving upwards to join in 
diminishing loops near the margin; secondary nerves and transverse 
nervules irregularly netted, all nerves and reticulation slightly raised 
on both surfaces ; petiole 2—3 cm. long, channelled above by the 
decurrent margins of the blade, the base enlarged. Plowers cream- 
