346 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
mm. thick. Seed conform to the fruit, testa membranous; cotyledons 
fleshy, channelled across the middle. 
PERAK: in open forests about Larut and Thaiping, on hills 
from 150—450 m. alt., King’s Collector 4213!, 4939!, 5096!, 8504!; 
at Waterfall Hill and Tapai, Wray 2083 !, 3084! . 
6. Hericta veLuTiINA, Prain in Kew Bull. 343 (1912). A tree 
reaching a height of 15—20 cm. and 25—33 ecm. in diam. of stem ; 
branchlets stout, grey, striate, the uppermost minutely grey-puberu- 
lous. Leaves chartaceous; broadly oblanceolate, rather abruptly 
acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; upper surface bright green, 
olive green and shining when dry, glabrous, lower also somewhat 
shining, plumbeous, glabrous except a slight pubescence along the 
midrib; margin entire, recurved when dry; 10—20 cm. long, 4—7 
em. broad; midrib moderately stout, prominent on both surfaces ; 
main nerves 14—16 pairs, impressed above, raised beneath, straight 
and parallel, interarching near the margin; secondary nerves and 
transverse nervules irregular, branched, enclosing an angular 
reticulation ; petiole 1—1:5 cm. long, thickened at base, the upper 
part bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Racemes 
single or in pairs from the axils of fallen leaves on the past year’s 
wood chiefly, up to 7 cm. long (bud—specimens only), densely 
rufous velvety ; flowers densely congested, in pairs on very short 
pedicels or sessile, ascending ; bract linear, 7—8 mm. long, bracte- 
oles linear, 4—5 mm. long ; perianth in bud shortly and thickly clavate, 
5 mm. long, glabrous within ; hypogynous scales minute, free, trun- 
cate, glabrous. Stamens with oblong nearly sessile anthers, the 
connective-apiculus short, thick. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style 
thick, stigma clavate. Fruit not known. 
PERAK: in open forest at Gunong Bubu, Larut, 600—750 m. 
alt., King’s Collector 7316! 
7. HELICIA EXCELSA, BI. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. i. 219 (1834). 
A large tree reaching 18—24 m. in height and 40—50 em. in diam. of 
stem ; bark grey, scabrous; branches spreading ; branchlets rather 
slender, grey, the uppermost and innovations densely dark rusty- 
tomentose. Leaves coriaceous; obovate or oblanceolate, obtusely 
rather abruptly acuminate at apex, long cuneate at base; margins 
entire or rarely the upper part coarsely serrate; both surfaces 
glabrous, yellowish-green when dry, the upper shining ; 10—15 em. 
