Helicia .] 
CXI. PROTEACEiE. 
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glabrous. Flowers in pairs on an exceedingly short common pedicel so as to 
appear almost sessile on the rhachis. Perianth slender, glabrous, scarcely £in. 
long. Hypogynous glands broad and truncate so as apparently to form a ring or 
cup, but really free. Ovary villous. Fruit not seen. 
Hab.: Barron River, E. Cowley. 
7. H. HCeyana (after Rev. Nicholas Hey, of Mapoon), Bail. A beautiful 
slender tree, 15 to 20ft. high, quite glabrous. Leaves 4 to 7in. long, 1 to l^in. 
broad in the upper part, cuneate to lanceolate, sometimes obtuse or obtuse- 
acuminate, both sides glossy, lateral nerves numerous joining in an inter- 
marginal one near the edge, reticulate veins close, margins entire or here and 
•there a minute gland-like tooth, on very short petioles. Racemes lateral, includ- 
ing the short peduncle from 2k to 3Jin. long. Flowers in pairs, slender, 3 lines 
long, connate to the middle ; bracts minute, lanceolate, numerous on the 
peduncle, rather persistent. Perianth crimson, 10 lines long in the bud. Style- 
end pyramidal-conical (no expanded flowers on the specimens preserved). 
Hypogynous glands broad-truncate. No fruit seen. 
Hab.: Palm Camp, Bellenden Ker, Bail. (Bellenden Ker Exped., 1889). 
6. MACADAM I A, F. v. M. 
(After — . Macadam). 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth regular or slightly irregular. Anthers on 
short filaments, inserted a little below the laminte, the connective produced into 
a gland or very short appendage. Hypogynous glands equal, distinct or united 
in a ring or cup round the ovary. Ovary sessile, with a long straight style, 
ovoid or clavate at the end, with a small terminal stigma ; ovules 2 (in M. 
■temi folia). Fruit globular. Seeds either solitary and globular or 2 and 
.hemispherical ; testa membranous ; cotyledons thick and fleshy. — Trees or tall 
shrubs. Leaves sometimes verticillate, entire or serrate. Flowers pedicellate 
in pairs or scattered in terminal or axillary simple racemes or panicles, the 
pedicels not usually connate. Bracts more or less deciduous. 
The genus is endemic in Australia. 
Trees. Leaves verticillate or opposite, usually in whorls of 3 or 4 oblong or 
lanceolate, serrated or entire, 5 to 12in. long. Racemes pendulous, axillary, 
long as the leaves; flowers small, numerous. Pedicels free. ^Perianth 
about 3 lines long. Fruit globose 2-valved or bursting irregularly. Seeds 
globose if 1, hemispherical when 2 . 1. 31. ternifolia . 
Tree, glabrous. Leaves opposite or in whorls 3 to 6, broad-lanceolate, 4 to 
7in. long, margins entire. Peduncles several in a whorl of leaves at the 
ends ef the branchlets, slender, hoary and about 4 in. long, bearing 1 or 2 
whorls of pedunculate racemes crowded with hirsute flowers. Pedicels free. 
Fruit globose, 2in. diameter, 2-valved or bursting irregularly. Seeds 
globose if 1, hemispherical if 2 2. M. Whelani. 
Tree. Leaves lanceolate 3 to lOin. long. Racemes axillary or lateral, long as 
the leaves. Pedicels connate for about half their length. Fruit globose, 
2-valved, 1 to 2in. diameter. Seeds globose when 1, hemispherical when 2 3. 31. praalta. 
1. IYI. ternifolia (leaves in threes), F. r. 21. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Viet. ii. 72, 
•with a plate ; Bcnth. FI. Anstr. v. 406. A tall tree (typical form), with a very 
■dense foliage, glabrous, or the yofing branchlets and inflorescence minutely 
pubescent. Leaves sessile or nearly so, in whorls of 3 of 4, or some opposite, 
•oblong or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, serrate with fine or prickly teeth, or quite 
•entire, from a few inches to 1ft. long. Racemes as long as the leaves, with 
numerous short flowers, the pairs almost clustered or almost verticillate. Pedicels 
•at first very small and not above 2 lines when in fruit. Periath minutely pube- 
scent or glabrous, nearly 3 lines long. Hypogynous glands united in a ring. 
