28o XXIV. sterculiacevE. [Heritiera. 
wood is very hard and compact, but rarely tall enough for beams. 
Used for firewood. 
(2) H. elata Ridl. Journ. Roy. , 4 s. Soc. S. Br. 50, p. 112. 
Gigantic tree 100 ft. tall, 2 ft. through, with large buttresses 
and grey flaky bark. Leaves elliptic obtuse, base rounded or 
truncate, 4 in. long, 275 in. wide, coppery scaly beneath; nerves 5 
pairs, elevate above, inconspicuous beneath; petioles -25 to ’5 in. 
long. Panicles in axils of fallen leaves, 4 to 5 in. long, densely 
stellate-hairy. Flowers pink. Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-lobed, 
•5 in. long, stellate, hairy. Staminal column slender, much shorter ; 
anthers 5. Fruit on short woody peduncles, obovate, brown with 
a sub-triangular blunt wing 1*5 in, long ; wing '5 in. long. Seed 
oblong. Hab. Forests. Singapore, Botanic Gardens Jungle. 
7 . KLEINHOVIA, Linn. 
A medium to small tree. Leaves ovate, often cordate. Panicle 
lax, terminal. Bracts small. Sepals 5. much longer than the 
petals, linear-lanceolate, deciduous. Petals 5, unequal, upper 
ovate saccate, middle pair concave obliquely oblanceolate, lower 
flat with convolute edges. Stamens 20, in 5 fascicles of 3 each, 
5 solitary free, often reduced to filaments between the fascicles; 
filaments all joined below into a hairy cylindric tube; anthers 
4-celled. Ovary on a long gynophore, 5-lobed, 5-celled. Capsule 
turbinate-pyriform, membranous, inflated. Seeds 1 or 2 in each 
cell, tubercled. Species 1, Old World tropics. 
(1) K. Hospita Linn. Sp. PL 1365 ; Masters, in Hook. fit. F.B.I . 
i. 364; Pierre , FI. For. Cochinchine, t. 177; King, l.c. 80. 
A shrub or small tree 20 or more ft. tall. Leaves ovate-round 
acuminate 2*5 to 5 in. long; petioles 1*5 to 2-5 in. long. Panicle 
6 to 12 in. long. Flowers *4 in. long, pink. Hab. Banks of streams 
and open country, local, not common. Singapore (Wallich, 
Kunstler). Johor, Pulau Aor (Feilding). Malacca (Griffith). 
Perak, Kwala Dipang (Curtis); Kwala Kangsa ; Chenderiang 
(Kunstler). 
8 . HELICTERES, Linn. 
Shrubs, rarely trees, more or less stellate-pubescent. Leaves 
simple. Flowers pink or white, solitary or fascicled, axillary. 
Calyx tubular, 5-fid often irregular. Petals 5, clawed, unequal or 
equal, claws often auriculate. Staminal-column 5-lobed or toothed; 
anthers 2-celled; staminodes below the top of the column 5. Ovary 
on the gynophore at the top of the column, 5-lobed, 5-celled; 
styles subulate, thickened at tips; ovules many. Follicles woody, 
spirally twisted or straight. Seeds tubercled. Species about 30, 
tropics of both worlds. 
