Hernandia, MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 577 
three-leaved, oval, pointed. Filaments shorter than the ca- 
lyx. Anthers two-lobed. Femate rirowers, Calyz six- 
leaved ; the exterior ones oblong, pointed, concave; the three 
interior ones linear, obtuse, Germ three-lobed. Style scarce- 
ly any. Stigma three-cleft, spreading, Capsule three-cell- 
ed, six-leaved, the axills without dots at the base. 
4. T. Chamelea. Wiild. iv. 326. 
Erect, slender, smooth. Leaves linear. 
Yhamaelea foliis linéaribus. Burm. Zeyl. t. 25. 
Codi avanacu. Rheed, Mal. ii, t, 34. 
A native of Coromandel, and Malabar, on shaded —_ 
land. 
HERNANDIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1411. 
Male calyx none. Corol six-petalled. Female calyx cup- 
shaped, entire. Coral from six to eight-petalled. Germ 
one-celled, one-seeded ; attachment superior, Nut superior, 
clothed with the inflated calyx, Seed globular. Embryo 
inverse, without perisperm. 
H. Ovigera. Gert. Sem. i, 193. t. 40. f. 3. 
Arboreous. Leaves peltate, cordate, shining, entire, Pa- 
nicles axillary. 
Arbor ovigera, Rumph, Amb, iii, t. 123. In this figure 
the fruit is something like, but the leaves and general habit 
very unlike, The same author’s Arbor Regis, H. Sonora, 
vol. ii. p. 257. t. 85. is good for the leaves of that 7 but 
nothing like-the frait, 
A native of the Moluccas, and from on ‘alesis into 
the Botanic garden in 1798, In twelve years the trees were 
‘from twenty to thirty feet high, with a straight, smooth trunk, 
and incurved branches. The young shoots of a phe hy 
ou alternate, petioled, peltate, cordate, hinetiamboth, 
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