314 CIII. LAURINEJE. [ Hernandia, 
the enlarged fleshy or thickly cite. involucel. Seed globular; 
testa thick and hard, without album Embryo with thick fleshy 
deeply-lobed cotyledons. —Trees. Inda alternate, peltate or palmately 
erved. Flowers in loose panicles on lateral peduncles at the ends of 
e genus contains but few species, chiefly m vg extending over the tropical 
s e New as well as the Old World. Of the two Ansteatinn species one has 
a LoT range in the Old World, the other dag 
— peltate. — of the — flowers and fruits pti 
cate. Male flowers 3-merous, females 4-merous . 1. H. peltata. 
orla not peltate. tao con of e female flower and fruit deeply : 
2.valved. Male flowers 4-merous, females bmerous — . 2. H. biwalvis. 
1. H. peltata, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 263. A go tree, with 
a esp head, jap or the inflorescence very slightly hoary- 
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the «isum eal 8 i ca preme flowers with a cup-sh& 
entire truncate involucel a little below the ovary and 1} lines long at 
the time of flowering, but soon enlarged and growing over the ovary 
or perianth-tube. Perian th-tube from the first completely adnate to 
the fleshy ovary, segments 4 in each row, the outer ones ove 
long, the inner ones narrow. Glands 4, large and nearly globu 
villous, thickened Beran, with a dilated oblique irregularl lobed 
glabrous stigma, the wh tyle deciduous with the perianth zip 
ruit completely deii in Mies doge which has become et 
don 
mue into 4 or 5 thick ae thes: a mi^ vit. 209, 
Queensland. Frankland islands, M‘Gillivray; "uet island, Dallachy. T 
The species extends over the seacoasts of the South Pacific and Eastern Ann 
ouem to the Macro islands and northward to the Philippine islan 
2. H. bivalvis, Benth. Leaves on long petioles, ovate oF ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, rounded or ery cordate a at the base er 
peltate, 3- or rarely 5-nerve d, 4 to 6 in. long. Inflorescence 9 
nd Loo 
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