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coloured, geminate, on bifid pedicels from the stout angular rhachis 
of an elongated axillary or lateral raceme reaching 20—30 cm. in 
length ; pedicels at right angles to the rhachis, 4—6 mm. long, the 
two branches slightly shorter; bract and bracteoles minute, acute, 
caducous; perianth very thick, coriaceous, in bud linear-clavate, 
2—2°5 cm. long, the limb of the lobes elliptic, the lobes spirally 
recurved in flower ; hypogynous scales connate, truncated, toothed, 
1 mm. long. Stamens 4; anthers oblong, 2-celled, 3 mm. long; 
filaments very short; connective produced in an ovate apiculus. 
Ovary glabrous; style nearly as long as the perianth lobes ; stigma 
clavate, suleate. Fruit depressed-ovoid, shortly pointed, 2 cm. long, 
2°5 cm. in diam., smooth ; pedicel little thickened, 2 mm. in diam. 
Seed subglobose, testa membranous, cotyledons hemispheric. 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XIV. 438; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 983; Hook. 
f. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 190. Rhopala moluccana, Jack in McClell. Calc. 
Journ. 208, Mal. Misc. I. ii. 10; Hook. Bot. Misc. II. 65; Wall. Cat. 
1041 non Br. nec Roxb. 
PENANG: Cultivated, Jack (Wallick 1041!). PERak: at Goping, 
Scortechini 1977!; in various places in forest up to 250 m. alt., 
King’s Collector 4641!, 5438!, 8442!, 8687!. SmLancor: 15th mile 
Pahang track, Ridley 8499!; at Kwala Lumpur, Goodenough 10472 !. 
SincaporEe: Ridley 3625 !, 4695 !, 4696!, 6257!, ete; at Changi 
Reserve, Goodenough 141! 
3. Heticta Kineiana, Prain in Kew Bull. 342 (1912). A tree, 
reaching a height of 15—20 m. and 30—45 cm. in diam. of stem, all 
parts quite glabrous ; branches spreading ; branchlets stout, smooth, 
dark grey to nearly black, uppermost sharply angled. Leaves cori- 
aceous ; obovate or elliptic-obovate, rounded or shortly obtusely some- 
times emarginately acuminate at apex, cuneately attenuate at base ; 
upper surface light green, dark olive-green when dry, lower purplish 
brown when dry, both surfaces dull; margins entire, recurved ; 15 —25 
em. long, 6—11 cm. broad; midrib stout, raised on both surfaces ; 
main nerves 10—12 pairs, the lowest 1—2 pairs very oblique from close 
to the base, the rest more widely curving and joining in gradually 
diminishing loops ; transverse nervules prominent, irregular, angu- 
larly branching and enclosing an angular areolate reticulation ; 
petiole none or very short, the margins of the blade extending to the 
enlarged base. Racemes stout, stiff, singly from the axils of the 
leaves or of fallen leaves, up to 30 cm. long; pedicels stout, 4—5 mm. 
long, bearing two flowers on branches 45—6 mm. long; bract and 
