648 CXX1I, KLUPHORBIACEA& (HUTCHINSON). | Antidesma, 
pilose, persistent, about 4 lin. long; petiole about } in. long, thick. 
Male flowers not known. Female spikes dense, thick, about 24 in. 
long. Calyx 4-partite almost to the base, densely pilose. Ovary pilose; 
stigma terminal. Fruits oblong-elliptic, glabrous, coarsely scrobiculate. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: between Mbanti and Tibati, Zedermann, 2311. 
22. HYMENOCARDIA, Wall.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 
iii. 285. 
Flowers dicecious, apetalous. Disk 0. Male flowers: Calyx-segments 
or lobes 4-5, rarely 6, imbricate. Stamens usually 5, opposite the calyx- 
segments ; filaments rarely exceeding the calyx, connate at the base intoa 
very short column or free ; anthers large, at first reflexed, usually adorned 
with a conspicuous yellow or golden-coloured gland on the back, cells 
distinct, parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary as long 
as the filaments, bifid or entire. Female flowers : Sepals distinct, narrow, 
caducous. Ovary 2-celled, compressed in the opposite plane to that of 
the septum ; styles 2, free from the base, long, subterete or flattened 
in the same plane as the ovary, undivided, papillose or glabrous; 
ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule flat, of 2 compressed very broadly 
winged cocci, separating from a central axis; pericarp crustaceous, 
reticulate; endocarp membranous. Seeds usually solitary 1 each 
coceus, compressed ; testa thin; albumen not copious; cotyledons thin, 
broad and flat; radicle long.—Trees or tall shrubs. Leaves alternate, 
petiolate, membranous or coriaceous, entire, penninerved. [Male 1- 
florescence a catkin-like spike, female shortly racemose. 
Species 8, one in India, the others all from Tropical Africa. 
Wings of the cocci continued to and connate at the base 
of the fruit and decurrent on the axis, resembling 
those of Ulmus. 
Leaves about 14 in. Jong, 6-8 lin. broad; styles glabrous ; 
fruits 4—? in. in diam. ; : : : . 1. E. ulmoides. 
Leaves 23-4 in. long, 3-2 in. broad ; styles tomentose on ‘ 
the inner face; fruits 14-13 in. long, 1-1} in. broad . 2. H. grandis. 
Wings spreading from the upper part of the cocci or hori- 
zontally, not continued to the base. 
Axis of the fruit projecting from the middle of an obscure 
sinus ; wings spreading horizontally. 
Fruits pibiots See : : : : . 3, H. Heudelotn- 
Fruits pubescent e 3 ; ‘. . . 4. H. Chevaliers. 
Axis of the fruit not projecting from the middle of the 
ae : ne eae : ee 
ings of the cocci almost touching a e top, forming 
avery narrow sinus. s : : : : : . 6. H. igrate. 
Wings of the cocci divergent, forming a broad sinus at 
the top. li 
Mature fruits somewhat densely pubescent. . 6. H. molis. 
Mature fruits glabrous . . : . . . 7 ea 
1. Hl. ulmoides, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1181. 4 ga 
~tree with the habit of Ulmus,; branchlets slender, glabrous OF 
