86 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Andaman Islands : very common. Distrib. Brit. India, in Burma, 

 Silliet, Assam, iSikbim. 



10. Hetnea, Roxb. 



Trees or rarely shrubs. Leaves 6-11-foliolate ; leaflets opposite, 

 entire. Panicles terminal and axillary, corymbose, long-peduucled ; 

 Flowers rather small, hermaphrodite. Calyx short, 4-5-fid, the lobes 

 imbricate. Petals 4-5, oblong, suberect, sub-imbricate. Staminal tube 

 8- or 10-fid; lobes linear, bidentate at apex, beai'ing the anthers between 

 the linear teeth. Dish annular, fleshy. Ovary immersed in the disk, 

 2-3-celled, narrowing into the short style ; stigma 2-3-dentate, with a 

 thickened ring at the base ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit capsular, 

 1-celled, 2-valved, 1-seeded, glal^rous. Seed arillate, exalbuminous ; aril 

 thin, white ; cotyledons hemispherical. — Disteib. 1-3 species, limited 

 to Indo-Malaya. 



Heynea trijuga, Roxb., Hort. Beng. 33. A small tree 15 to 20 feet 

 high. Leaves 6 to 16 in. long; leaflets broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, 

 the lower sm-face glaucous, glabrous or pubescent; the 6 to 8 pairs of 

 curving spreading nerves slightly prominent; length 2'5 to 5*5 in., 

 breadth '8 to 275 in , petiolule '15 to "45 in., the terminal ones longer. 

 Panicles glabrous as long or nearly as lorg as the leaves, on long peduncles, 

 with numerou.s corymbose branches. Flotvers •15 in. long. Petals 

 much longer than the calyx, their midribs thick, their edges membran- 

 ous. Staminal tube wide. Ovary glabious. Fruit ovoid, beaked; the 

 pericarp somewhat fleshy, smooth, splitting by 2 rarely 3 valves. Roxb, 

 in Bot. Mag. t. 1738 ; Corom. Plants III, 260 ; Flor. Ind. II, 390 ; Grab. 

 Cat Bomb. PI. 31 ; Adr. Juss. in Mem. Mus. xix. t. 18, f. 17; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 38 ; Wall. Cat. 1258 ; Brandis For. Fl. 70. DC. Prod. I, 

 624; Monogr. Phaner. I, 713: Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 565. 

 H. affinis, Adr. Juss. I.e. 275; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. J34; W. & A. 

 Prodr. i. 121. Walsiora (Heynea) 'puhescens, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Beng. xli. ii. 297. Walsura trijuga Kurz For. Fl. Burm. I, 225. H. 

 connaroides, Wight ex Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutta 136. 



Pei-ak : common, and probably also in the other i^rovinces. — Distrib. 

 British India, Sumatra. 



Var. muUijuga. DC. Monogr. Phaner. I, 714. Leaflets 11, lanceo- 

 late. H. quivqupjuga,'Roxb.B.ort. Calc. 90; Fl. Ind. II, 391. Wall. 

 Cat. 1259. H. Siomatrana, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 60; DC. 

 Monogr. Phaner. I, 7J4. 



Penang: Wallich, No. 1259. Curtis, No. 676. 

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