344 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
bracteoles minute, acute, caducous ; perianth in bud 3:5—4 em. long, 
thick, the apex angular; hypogynous scales connate in a truncate 
slightly dentate cup 1—1‘5 mm. long. Stamens with elliptic anthers, 
the connective broad, its apiculus blunt, cells 3—3°5 mm. long ; 
filaments broad, 2 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style and 
clavate stigma as long as perianth. Fruit globose or ovoid, some- 
what pointed at both ends, ridged on one side, 3—4 cm. long, 
2-—3 cm. broad ; pericarp smooth, 2 mm. thick. Seed conform to 
the drupe ; testa membranous ; cotyledons 2—4, granular. 
PERAK: in open forest, from the low ground to the tops of 
hills 250—300 m. alt. near Larut, King’s Collector 3714!, 3881!, 
6217!; at lower camp, Gunong Batu Putih, 1200 m. alt., Wray 983!, 
1160! . 
4. Heticia roBusta, Wall. Cat. 2702 (1820). A small tree 
reaching 8 m. in height and 15 cm. in diam. of stem; branchlets 
smooth with greyish-brown bark; all parts quite glabrous except some- 
times the rhachis of the racemes which is slightly puberulous. Leaves 
subcoriaceous; obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse or obtusely acute 
or even acuminate at apex, cuneately narrowed in the lower 
half, finally rounded or subcordate; upper surface dull or shining, 
greenish when dry, lower dull dark brown ; margin coarsely serrate, 
the lower part often entire; 15—25 cm. long, 6—12 cm. broad; 
midrib stout, raised on both surfaces; main nerves 10—12 pairs, 
irregular, usually obliquely curved to the margin ; transverse nervules 
irregularly netted, prominent; petiole none or very short and much 
thickened. Racemes axillary, up to 30 cm. long, the rhachis moder- 
ately stout, angled; pedicels short, dividing near the base into two 
usually of different lengths, in all nearly 5 mm. long; bract and 
bracteoles minute, acute; perianth thin, in bud linear clavate, 
2—3 cm. long, the limb of the lobes elliptic, recurved, the lobes 
spirally recurved in flower; hypogynous scales more or less con- 
nate, truncate, denticulate, 1—1°5 mm. long. Stamens 4; anthers 
oblong, 3 mm. long; filaments very short ; connective produced in | 
a rounded apiculus. Ovary glabrous, style nearly as long as the 
perianth lobes; stigma clavate, sulcate. Fruit obliquely globose, 
apiculate, obscurely 4—6—ribbed, reaching 2°5—3 cm. in diam., 
smooth ; fruiting pedicel very short, 4mm. in diam. Seed globose, 
testa very thin, cotyledons hemispheric. Bl. in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 
2, i. 220; Benn. in Horsf. Pl. Jav. Rar. 83; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 
XIV. 440; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 986 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 311 ; Hook. 
