Hernandia. | CXXIX. PROTEACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 189 
cupular, j in. long, in fruit greatly enlarged and enclosing the drupe; perianth-tube 
adnate to the ovary, segments 8, narrow; glands 4, subglobose ; style villous, 
thickened upwards, deciduous with the perianth-lobes, stigma dilated irregularly 
lobed. Fruit enclosed in the involucel, except at the apex, together 1} in. diam. 
Seed hard.—I suspect that this may prove to be only a variety of the American 
H. Sonora, Linn. 
Whilst this sheet was passing through the press, Mr. C. Curtis has sent from 
enang flowering specimens of a plant with the habit and foliage of an Endiandra, 
but having 6 very short broad thick sessile anthers, opposite to each of which isa 
broad but rather longer villous staminode, which is closely appressed to the ovoid 
glabrous ovary. The broad thick square anther has two small extrorse circular pores 
closed by caducous valves.—It is no doubt a new and very singular genus, allied to 
Endiandra, which may bear the name of Hewapora Curtisii, in allusion to the 
pore-like cells of the three anthers. 
ORDER CXXIX. PROTEACEZE. 
Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate or scattered, rarely sub- 
Opposite or whorled, mostly hard, entire toothed or pinnatisect, exstipulate. 
Inflorescence various. Flowers 2-sexual. Perianth inferior, often irregular, 
Segments 4 at first valvately cohering in a cylindric tube gibbous at the 
ase, with free recurved tips. Stamens 4, shorter than and inserted on the 
ents; anthers erect, adnate to the filaments, 2-celled, introrse. 
Ypogynous glands or scales 4, free or connate, alternating with the stamens, 
80. Ovary 1-celled, often oblique; style terminal, tip thickened, stigma 
terminal or lateral. Ovules solitary or geminate or many 2-seriate. Fruit 
varous, Seed exalbuminous ; cotyledons compressed or fleshy, often unequal ; 
cle short inferior or lateral—Genera 50, species about 950, chiefly 
Australian and S. African, none N. American, European or N. Asiatic. 
1. HELICIA, Lour. 
Trees orshrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed. Flowers in terminal 
and axillary racemes, 2-sexual. Perianth regular, tube slender; limb narrow, 
Straight, segments at length revolute. Anthers oblong, connective produced. 
Ypog. scales free, or confluent in a cup-shaped or annular disk. Ovary 
sessile; style slender, stigma terminal; ovules 2, basal or lateral, ascending. 
ut hard, globose. Seeds subglobose, or 2 hemispheric.— Species 25, 
Tropical Asia and Australia. 
* Racemes glabrous. 
T Leaves narrowed at the base into a distinct petiole.. 
l. H. erratica, Hook. F.; quite glabrous, leaves 4-7 in. cuneate- 
obovate or -oblong to oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate acute or obtuse 
patire or coarsely serrate narrowed into a short petiole, racemes glabrous, 
ope: Scales more or less connate, ovary glabrous, fruit 1-13 in. diam. 
Fl quely globose or depressed umbonate. H. cochinchinensis, Kurz For. 
E u. 911, and Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 442 (the Assam plant only). 
robusta, Herb. Ind. Or. H. Jd. 
SIKKIM Him arava, alt. 2-6000 ft, J. D. H. KuAsIA Mas., common, MARTABAN, 
000 ft., Kurz, Parish. . 
A small tree, Leaves 2-4 in. broad, coriaceous, shining above, nerves 7-12 pair ; 
evoke Jin. long. Racemes 6-9 in. Perianth pale yellowish, slender, 1} in. long 
en unexpanded. Hypog. glands obtuse. Fruit usually very oblique, base abruptly 
H wed. Cotyledons turning a bright red when cut.—This is no doubt the Assam 
* COchinchinensis of Meissner, and Kurz's plant of that name ; it differs from Lourero's 
