192 CXVIA HERNANDIACES (SPRAGUE). [ Hernandia. 
A sea-coast tree, found also in the Mascarene Islands, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula 
and Archipelago, N. Australia, Polynesia, and the Luchu and Bonin Islands. The 
fruits are distributed by ocean currents. In certain parts of its area it also occurs 
inland. 
2. H. beninensis, Welw. ex Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 247 (name only) ; 
Henriques in Bol, Soc. Brot. x. 155. A tree, 40 ft. high. Branchlets 
stout, minutely puberulous. Leaves ovate, sometimes subpeltate, sub- 
truncate or rounded at the base, rounded at the apex, 3-6 in. long, 
2-31 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, digitately 5-nerved at. the insertion 
of the petiole, remaining nerves 4—6 on each side of the midrib ; petiole 
14-3} in. long. Corymbs 34-10 in, long including the peduncle, which 
is 2-6 in. long. Perianth-segments of male flower about 3 lin. long. 
Stamens monadelphous for $ lin. below; anthers 1 lin. long; free part. 
of filament 1 lin. long, sparingly pilose.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 915. 
Upper Guinea. Islandof St. Thomas: Monte Caffé, at 1800 ft., Welwitsch, 
1240! Roga (plantation) Rio do Ouro, at 1000 ft., Woller ; and without precise 
locality, Mann, 1084! i 
A specimen from Fernando Po, Mann, 1418, may possibly belong to H. beninensis, 
though the venation of the leaves is a little different. Comparison is difficult, how- 
ever, as only the lower leaves and fruits are represented on the Fernando Po 
specimen, whilst the St. Thomas specimens have upper leaves and flowers only. 
The Fernando Po tree has a cupule twice as long as the fruit, and in this and 
other respects is very like H. sonora, Linn., a species hitherto known only from the 
West Indies. As the male flowers of the St. Thomas specimens agree with those of 
H. sonora, 1 suspect that the whole of the West African material is referable to that. 
species. Precise information is desirable as to the conditions under which the West 
African plants occur, and as to whether there is any possibility of their having been 
introduced. 
3. ILLIGERA, Blume; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 689. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 10-partite; tube very short; 
lobes in two valvate whorls, spreading. Stamens 5, opposite the outer 
perianth-lobes ; anthers dehiscing introrsely, valves opening outwards. 
Staminodes in two whorls, the outer consisting of 5 pairs of glands 
opposite the stamens, the inner of 5 solitary glands alternate with the 
stamens. Ovary quadrangular; style straight or slightly curved ; 
stigma much dilated, reniform, undulate, sometimes curved into the 
shape of a funnel. Fruit with 2-4 longitudinal wings. Cotyledons 
plano-convex, shortly petioled, bilobed.—Shrubs, climbing by means of 
twisting petioles. Leaves digitate, long-petioled ; leaflets 3 or 5, stalked. 
Cymes axillary or forming a terminal panicle, bracteate. 
Species 14, 13 Asiatic and 1 African. 
1. I. pentaphylla, Welw. in Trans: Linn. Soc. xxvii. 26. A 
shrub, climbing to a great height. Branches pendulous, sometimes 
15-20 ft. long; stems green or black-purplish or reddish, striate, 
glabrescent. Leaves of 5 or 3 leaflets; petioles 14-44 in. long, 
