Helicia.| PROTEACER. 3il 
the blades small, the segments all much revolute when separating. 
Anthers on short filaments inserted a little below the blades, the 
connective produced into a short appendage. Hypogynous glands 
equal, distinct or united in a ring or cup round the ovary. ai 
with 2 ascending ovules laterally attached near the base, sessile, 
with a long straight style, slightly thickened at the end, the stigma 
terminal. Drupe nearly globular, the endocarp granular-fleshy. 
Seeds hemispherical or globular, the testa veined or wrinkled. 
Cotyledons thick and fleshy.—Trees or shrubs, with alternating, 
entire or toothed leaves. Flowers by pairs, in simple, axillary or 
terminal racemes, the pedicels often more or less connate. Bracts 
very deciduous. 
* Inflorescence axillary or lateral ; leaves more or less acu- 
* minate, apiculate or bluntish. 
O Racemes glabrous or nearly s 
0. 
Lea entire, acuminate at the base and almost decur- 
ves serrate, on thick 2-3 lin. long petioles; scales united in a sis. 
4-toothed cu * . . H. robusta. 
Ovary eau: scales not known : . HB. pyrrhobotrya. 
Ovary rusty-hirsute ; scales smooth, distinct . H. excelsa. 
Ovary oe scales puberulous, distinct . is . . A. salicifolia. 
* *& Inflorescence terminal, glabrous ; leaves entire, retuse . Hi. terminalis. 
1. H. Cochinchinensis, Lour.—An evergreen tree (40+ (?)+3 
—4) , all parts quite glabrous ; leaves from obovate-oblong to oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate and somewhat decurrent at the base, on a 
glabrous petiole 4-2 in. long, shortly and rather bluntish acuminate, 
4-5 in. long, thin-coriaceous, toothed-serrate, or occasionally more 
or less entire, glabrous ; flowers yellowish, 5-6 ln. long, glabrous, 
Y pairs, on short glabrous pedicels, forming longer or shorter 
glabrous racemes in the axils of the leaves or above the scars of 
the fallen ones; hypogynous scales 4, free or nearly so, smooth ; 
ovary smooth, about 4 to 1 in. in diameter, ovoid-globular, not or 
indistinctly narrowed at the base. 
Has.—Common in the drier hill forests of Martaban, at 5,000 to 7,000 ft. 
elevation.— Fl. March._—1.—SS.—=Metam. 
