Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 345 
f. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 191; Brandis Ind. Trees 543. H. macrophylla, 
Wall. Cat. 3661. A. javanica, Bl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. i. 217; 
Benn. l.c. 83, t. 18; Meissn. l.c. 440; Mig. l.c. 986; Koord. & Val. 
Bijdr. V. 306. H. castaneefolia, Meissn l.c. 441.  Helittophyllum 
javanicum, Blume Bijdr. 652. Rhopala robusta, Roxb. FI. Ind. ed. 
Carey & Wall. I. 366 and Fl. Ind. I. 363; Wight Ic. t. 191. 
R. glabrata, Wall. Cat. 1039. 
Maracoa: Griffith K. D. 4367!; Cuming 2338!; Maingay 
K. D. 1309!, 1311!; at Sungei Udang, Derry 523!. SELancor: 
at Kwala Lumpur, Ridley 10225!.—Jonore: at Bukit Tana Abang, 
Take & Kelsall 4010!. Distr: India (Assam and Khasia), 
Burma, Java, (forbes 377!, 670!, 2731! etc.), Sumatra (Forbes 
2212/1). 
5. HELICIA RUFESCENS, Prain in Kew Bull. 342 (1912). A 
largetree reaching a height of 18—24 m. and 60cm. or more in diam. 
of stem ; branches spreading ;. branchlets stout, dark ashy grey, the 
uppermost densely dark rufous-tomentose. Leaves subcoriaceous ; 
obovate or broadly oblanceolate, acute or very shortly acuminate 
at apex, long cuneate at base; upper surface dark green, dull 
olive-green when dry, glabrous except on the midrib and nerves 
when young, lower reddish brown, densely rufous—pubescent when 
‘young, gradually glabrescent when older ; margin entire; 15—30cm. 
long, 6—11 cm. broad; midrib prominent, raised on both surfaces, 
crispedly brown-puberulous above ; main nerves 16—20 pairs, close 
and parallel and straight in the lower, more distant and curved in the 
upper half and there joining in angular loops; transverse nervules 
irregular, angled and branched; reticulation irregular, prominent ; 
petiole 3—4 cm. long, thickened at base, densely rufous-tomentose. 
Racemés single or in pairs from the axils of the leaves or of fallen 
leaves, densely dark rufous—pubescent, 15—20 cm. long; pedicel 
short, 1 mm. long, bearing two flowers on branches 2 mm. long; bract 
and bracteoles ovate, minute; perianth in bud 10—12 mm. long, 
the lobes in flower very much spirally curved, glabrous within ; hypogy- 
nous scales free, obtuse, glabrous. Stamens with linear anthers 
2°5—3 mm. long, the connective apiculus blunt; filaments slender, 
1mm. long. Ovary densely rufous-villous; style slender, including 
the cylindric grooved stigma as long as perianth. Fruit yellowish— 
brown, subglobose, flattened on both sides, slightly ridged on the 
outer, apex and base acute, 3 cm. long, 2°5 cm. broad, 1:5 cm. thick, 
rufous-tomentose, gradually becoming glabrescent; pericarp 2—3 
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