Hernandia, monoecia thiandria. 577 



three-leaved, oval, pointed. Filaments shorter than the ca- 

 lyx. Anthers two-Iobed. Femalk flowers. Calyx six- 

 leaved ; ihe exterior ones oblong-, pointed, concave; the three 

 interior ones linear, obtnse. Germ three-lobed. Style scarce- 

 ly any. StUjma three-cleft, spreading-. C'«/3s«/e three-cell- 

 ed, six-leaved, the axills without dots at the base. 



4. T. Chamalea. W'llld. iv. 32(). 

 Erect, slender, smooth. Leaves linear. 

 Chamaelea foliis linearibiis. Bnrm. Zeyl. t. 25. 

 Codi avanacu. llheed. Mai. ii. t. 34. 

 A native of Coroniandel, and Malabar, on shaded pasture 

 laud. 



HERNANDIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1411. 

 Male calyx none. CoroZ six-petalled. Female calyx cup- 

 shaped, entire. Corol from six to eight-petal led. Germ 

 one-celled, one-seeded ; attachment snperior. JSTut superior, 

 clothed with the inflated calyx. Seed globular. Embryo 

 inverse, without perisperm. 



II. Ovif/era. Gcert. Sem. i. 193. t. 40./. 3. 



Arboreous. Leaves peltate, cordate, shining, entire. Pa- 

 nicles axillary. 



Arbor ovigera. Riunph. Amh. 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 species, but 

 nothing like the fruit. 



A native of the Moluccas, and from thence introduced 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 deep lucid 

 green. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, peltate, cordate, entire, smooth, 



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