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late, long-narrowed, acute or rounded at the base, glabrescent : 

 nerves lateral, 15—20 on each side: peduncles axillary, few- 

 flowered, pedicels longer than the peduncle, equal to or longer 

 than the petiole: calyx subglobose, loosely tomentose: anthers 

 12,aroun.da flat disc: fruit oval or oblong, tawny-tomentose : aril 

 very thin, lobed at the apex. 

 Concan hills. 



(7) M. QiBBOSA. {SooTc. and Thorns.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 205.— Hook, and Thorns. 1. c. p. 158. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree : branchlets glabrous : leaves narrow- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, acute at the base, glabrous above, beneath 

 somewhat mealy, glabrescent : nerves lateral, 19 — 20 on each 

 side : fruit oblong, tomentose, oblique, occasionally gibbous : aril 

 thin, somewhat lacerated at the top only. 



Khasia hills. 



ORDER CXXXIII. PROTEACEiE. 



Flowers hermaphrodite : calyx 4-cleft, regular or irregular : 

 sepals 4, linear or spathulate, valvate in aestivation : stamens 

 4, opposite the segments of the calyx, inserted on them: 

 filaments filiform, usually very short, free : anthers affixed 

 by the back or base, 2-celled, linear oblong, ovate or cordate : 

 ovary sessile or stalked, 1-celled : ovule 1, or 2 collateral, 

 or several in 2 rows : style terminal, filiform, rarely very 

 short, persistent or deciduous, equalling the calyx, or often 

 long exserted, arched and recurved in the flower-bud : stigma 

 undivided : fruit often compressed, or ventricose or gibbous, 

 smooth or wrinkled, warty or echinate, sometimes inde- 

 hiscent, 1-celled, 1 — 2-seeded : seed without albumen, sessile, 

 ovoid or globose : embryo straight, with 2 cotyledons, some- 

 times more : radicle inferior. — Trees or shrubs. 



GENUS I. HELICIA. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst : 



Beriv. From Helix, a screw, alluding to the twisting of the 

 petals. 



Gew . Chae. Flowers regular, racemose : calyx clavate-cylindric, 

 straight, sepals 4, subspathulate, antheriferous below the apex. 



