Gyrocarpus] XCII. HEENANDIACEJ] 54B 



generally 4, alternating with fleshy club-shaped staminodes, anthers opening 

 by 2 lateral valves. J Perianth of 4 unequal segments, stigma sessile. 

 Fr. ovoid, velvety, J in. long, terminated by two wing-like oblanceolate coria- 

 ceous perianth-segments 2-3 in. long. Cotyledons convolute, stalked in the 

 seed. 



Sea coast and on the hills some distance inland in both Peninsulas ; wood used for 

 making catamarans, toys and hoxes. PI. E. S. Throughout the tropics. 



Order XCIir. PROTEACEiE, Gen. PL iii. 166. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, L hard, mostly alternate, stipules 0. PL 

 bisexual, perianth inferior, consisting of 4 segments, in bud valvately cohering 

 into a cylindrical tube, gibbous at the base, with free recurved tips. Stamens 

 4, filaments short, inserted on the perianth-segments, anthers erect, 2-celled, 

 introrse. Ovary 1-celled, often oblique. Seeds few, cotyledons often unequal, 

 albumen 0. 



The medul]. rays as a rule are very broad and prominent, both on the transverse and 

 on the radial section ; the vessels are scattered in narrow hands of parenchymatic 

 tissue which run at right angles to the rays, alternating with hands of hard tissue 

 consisting of wood-fihres. 



Pr. a hard indehiscent nut 1, Helicia. 



Pr. a dehiscent follicle Grevillea (p. 544). 



L HELICIA, Lour. ; Pi. Brit. Ind. v. 189. 



Trees or shrubs, 1. entire or toothed, in some species pinnatifid. PL bracteo- 

 late, in pairs on short peduncles, arranged in axillary racemes Perianth 

 regular, segments at length revolute. Anthers oblong, 4 hypogynous scales, 

 free or confluent into a cup-shaped or annular disk. Ovary sessile, ovules 2, 

 style slender, stigma terminal. Pr. a hard globose nut, seed one. Species 26, 

 tropical Asia, Japan, Australia. 



A. Racemes glabrous. 



(a) L. petiolate. 



1. H. erratica, Hook f.— Syn. H. eochlnchinensis, Kurz P. PI. ii. 189. Yern. Dmtkyat 

 Jciji, Burm. Sikkinij 2-6,000 ft. Khasi hills. Hills of Upper Burma often associated 

 with Oaks and Chestnuts. Tena&serim. A small or middle-sized evergreen tree, quite 

 glabrous, 1. elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire or coarsely serrate, blade 4-9, 

 narrowed into petiole i~l in. long. PL slender | in. in racemes 6-9 in. long, fila- 

 ments yellow, style whitish. Pr, obliquely globose, 1-lJ in. diam. 2. H. nilagirica, 

 Bedd. Nilgiris. Similar to 1. 3. H. terminalis, Kurz. llachin hills, Upper Burma. 

 Tenasserim, 4,000 ft. Yunnan. L. entire, racemes narrow, fl. J In. long. 



(/>) L. sessile or nearly so. 



4. H. robmsta, Wall— Syn. Rliopala rohusta, Roxb. ; Wight To. 1. 191. Assam. Khasi 

 hills Martaban and Tenasserim 2-4,000 ft. Yern. Baiikyat^ Burm. Malay Peninsula 

 and Archip. A small tree, perfectly glabrous, branchlets stout, 1. on very short stout 

 petioles or sessile, oblong-lanceolate, coarsely serrate, 8-12 in, long, sec. n. 8-12 pair, 

 prominent beneath. E-acemes up to 12 in. long, f r. apiculate, 1 in. diam. 5. H. travan- 

 corica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 301 (called M. robusta). Tinnevelli and Travancore hills 

 4,000 ft., 1. coriaceous sessile, 6 in., racemes 3 in. long, fr. | in. diam. 



B. Rachis of the racemes rusty- tomentose. 



6. H. excelsa, Blume. — Syn. Bliopala excel &a, Boxb. ; Wight Ic. 1. 190. Vern. Daukj/at, 

 Burm. Khasi hills. Chittagong. Andamans. Martaban. Tenasserim. Upper 

 Burma, hills east of Bhamo 6,500 ft. Malay Penins. Cambodia. A moderate- 

 sized tree, 1. coriaceous, glabrous, usually oblanceolate, entire or deeply serrate, blade 

 4-10, narrowed into pet, -^-1^ in. long. Racemes about as long as 1., clothed with 

 deciduous rusty-tomentum, fl. J-J in. long, fr. smooth, nearly globose, J-| in. diam. 

 7. H. pyxrliobotrya, Kurz. Hills between Sitang and Sal ween rivers, 4,000 ft. Branchlets 

 stout, 1. oblanceolate, sharply serrate, blade l(f-12, narrowed into pet. 1 in. long, racemes 

 densely rusty villous 12 in. long, rachis stout, fl. l-lj in. long. 



