Hymenocardia.] cxxxv. EvPHOoRBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 377 
irregularly 4—6-lobed or -partite. Stamens 4-6, filaments included, free or 
united below in a column; anthers large, at first reflexed, then horizontal, 
cells parallel. Pistillode small or equalling the filaments. Ferm. rr. Sepals 
narrow, free, caducous. Ovary 2-celled, flattened at right angles to the 
plane of the septum; styles long, subterete, entire, papillose all over; 
ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule flat, of 2 compressed very broad wing-like 
cocci, separating from a centralaxis; pericarp crustaceous ; endocarp mem- 
ranous. Seeds usually solitary in the cocci, flat, testa thin, albumen not 
Copious ; cotyledons very thin, broad, flat; radicle long.—Species 5, Tropical 
ndian, Malayan and African. 
H. punctata, Wall. Cat. 3549; shoots and leaves beneath pubescent 
and lepidote, leaves ovate or oblong obtuse or acute, male spikes lepidote. 
H. Wallichii, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Vat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 256; Muell. Arg. 
m DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 416 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 394. Samaropyxis elliptica, 
Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 465. 
TENASSERIM, and Burma, Wallich, &c. ? UPPER Assam; Mishmi, Grifith. 
A deciduous shrub or small tree; branches woody, terete. Leaves 1-3 in., coria- 
Ceous, elliptic, obtuse acute or acuminate, polished above, pubescent and densely 
glandular beneath, costa with 3-5 pairs of straight nerves; petiole }-} in. Male 
spikes ) in., 1-3 together, yellow, puberulous and clothed with large glands, flowers 
Very minute; bracts peltate, pedicelled. Ovary ellipsoid, compressed. Capsule very 
broadly obcordate, or transversely oblong, broader than long, $ in. diam., reticulately 
veined and with an intra-marginal vein ; epicarp thin, endocarp papery shining within. 
Seed rounded, quite flat.—The fruit is not winged, as described, the cavity corre- 
‘ponding with the superficies. The Mishmi ticket may be an error for Burma. 
27. GALEARIA, Zol. 4 Moritz. 
Glabrous or pubescent slender small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, 
Siortly petioled, quite entire, penninerved, base usually unequal-sided. 
lowers small or minute, in very long slender terminal racemes, dicecious ; 
racts minute or 0, rarely long and very slender; males fascicled, fem. 
Usually solitary. Disk 0, or obscure in the male. MALE Ft. Calyx 5-toothed 
r -partite. Petals 5, short, very concave, with inflexed margins and tips, 
Induplicate-valvate, keeled down the middle within. Stamens 10, filaments 
very short, the antipetalous shortest; anthers didymous, glabrous or hispid. 
istillode usually hirsute. Fw. FL. Calyz and petals of the male. Ovary 
2-3-celled ; styles short, slender, 2.partite ; ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit 
small, transversely oblong or very broadly obcuneate cuneate or subreni- 
orm, rarely large and globose, endocarp hard 1-2-celled. Seeds conform to 
e cells, compressed, testa membranous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, 
t.—Species 12 to 15, Malayan. ; 
, The Herbarium materials for this genus are very incomplete indeed. The pons 
ìs uniform throughout, or nearly so. The sections founded by Mueller on the petals 
ing hooded only at the apex and on these being hooded throughout their length 
are not tenable. `The pistillode is, I think, a very variable organ. G@. Maingayi 
fers much from the other species in the fruit, and may prove generically distinct. 
* Anther-cells glabrous; filaments and tip of connectives tomentose. 
l. G. Maingayi, Hook. f.; leaves oblong obtuse, racemes stout, 
Pedicels longer than [M male idars, calyx cupular 5-toothed, petals pube- 
Fulous margins and midrib within tomentose, fruit subglobose 1 in. diam. 
Matacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1412 and 1412/2). 
