Hligera.} CXVIA. HERNANDIACEE (SPRAGUE). 1938 
swollen at the base; leaflets ovate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 2-5 in. 
long, 1-24 in. broad, rounded or obtuse at the base, shortly obtusely 
acuminate at the apex, coriaceous, glabrous above, slightly puberu- 
lous below ; lateral nerves about 3 on each side of the midrib; partial 
petioles }—-? in. long. Cymes axillary, and panicled at the ends of the 
branches ; peduncle and pedicels tomentose or pubescent. Perianth- 
tube about 4 lin. long, villous inside ; outer lobes lanceolate-oblong, 
4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, green; inner lobes linear-subulate, 34 lin. long, 
% lin. broad, slightly villous at the base, greenish-yellow or pink. Fila- 
ments 14-13 lin. long, puberulous, villous near the base. Paired 
staminodes solid, horn-shaped, 4 lin. long, whitish ; solitary staminodes 
subsessile, peltate, }-4 lin. in diam., concave above. Ovary 1 lin. long, 
densely pubescent ; style 2 lin. long, puberulous. Fruit about 1} in. long ; 
spread of wings 24-3 in.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 355; Baker 
f.in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 152; Dunn, ibid. xxxviii. 295. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: on mountains at Aburi, Brown, 317! Came- 
roons: Yaunde, Zenker, 1426! Bipinde, Zenker, 3573 ! 
Nile Land. Uganda: Victoria Nyanza; Buvuma Island, Bagshawe, 601! 
619! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; among the mountains of Serra de 
Alto Queta and of Quilombo, Welwitsch, 1753 ! 
OrpdER CXVII. PROTEACE. (By J. G. Baker and 
, C, H. Wright.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or by abortion polygamous or dicecious, but 
a style always present in the male flowers and staminodes in the 
female, regular or slightly irregular. Perianth inferior ; tube cylin- 
dric or inflated at the base; limb globose, ovoid, or cylindric and 
scarcely wider than the tube, formed of 4 lobes valvately cohering at 
first, at length more or less separating and recurving. Stamens 4, 
opposite the perianth-lobes and inserted near their base, always shorter 
than the perianth; filaments short, rarely as long as the anthers. 
Hypogynous glands 4, alternate with the stamens, free or connate, in 
some genera absent. Ovary superior, sessile or stalked, 1-celled, often 
oblique ; style short or long, often variously thickened at the apex ; 
stigma small, terminal or sublateral; ovules solitary or geminate and 
collateral (rarely superposed) or numerous and in two series, amphi- 
tropous or nearly anatropous, micropyle always inferior and usually 
conspicuous. Fruit a nut or drupe, or a capsule or follicle with thick 
coriaceous valves. Seeds compressed or thick, exalbuminous; testa 
membranous or coriaceous, sometimes produced into a wing; cotyle- 
dons flat and equal, or thick fleshy and unequal; radicle short or 
retracted into a sinus at the base of the cotyledons.—Shrubs or trees, 
rarely perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or verti- 
cillate, quite entire, toothed or much divided, sometimes even on the 
same plant, usually coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers capitate, racemose 
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