192 cxviA HERNANDiACE^ (sprague). [Ilej'nandia, 



A sea-coast tree, found also in the Mascarene Islands, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula 

 and Archipelago, N. Australia, Polynesia, and the Luchu and Boniu Islands. The 

 fruits are distributed by ocean currents. In certain parts of its area it also occur* 

 inland. 



2. H. beninensis, Welw. ex Ficalho^ PL Vtels, 247 {name only) ; 

 Eenriqiies in BoL '"^oc. Brot. x. 155. A tree, 40 ft. high. Branchlets 

 stout, minutely puberulous. Leaves ovate, sometimes subpeltate, sub- 

 truncate or rounded at the base, rounded at the apex, 3-6 in. long, 

 2-3| in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, digitately 5-nerved at the insertion 

 of the petiole, remaining nerves 4-G on each side of the midrib ; petiole 

 ll_3i in. long. Corymbs 3J-10 in. long including the peduncle, which 

 is 2-0 in. long. Perianth-segments of male flower about 3 lin. long. 

 Stamens monadelphous for J lin. below ; anthers 1 lin. long ; free part 

 of filament 1 lin. long, sparingly pilose. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL 

 Welw. i. 915. 



Upper Guipea. Island of St. Thomas : Monte CafPe, at 1800 ft., Welwitsch^ 

 1240! Ko(;a (plantation) Kio do Ouro, at 1000 ft., Moller ; and without precise 

 locality, Mann, 1084 ! 



A specimen from Fernando Po, Mann, 1418, may possibly belong to 7T. beninensis^ 

 though the venation of the leaves is a little different. Comimrison is difficult, how- 

 ever, as only the lower leaves nnd fruits are represented on the Fernando Po 

 specimen, whilst the St. Thomas specimens have upper leaves and flowers only. 

 The Fernando Po tree has a cupivle twice as long as the fruit, and in this and 

 other respects is very like H. sonora, Linn., a species hitl)erto known only from the 

 West Indies. As the male flowers of the St. Thomas specimens agree with those of 

 H. sonora, I sus])ect that the whole of the West African material is referable to that 

 species. Precise information is desirable as to the conditions under which the West 

 African plants occur, and as to whether there is any possibility of their having been 

 introduced. 



3. ILLIGERA, Blume ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 689. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 10-partite ; tube very short; 

 lobes in two valvate whorls, spreading. Stamens 5, opposite the outer 

 perianth -lobes ; anthers dehiscing introrsely, valves opening outwards. 

 Staminodes in two whorls, the outer consisting of 5 pairs of glands 

 opposite the stamens, the inner of 5 solitary glands alternate with the 

 stamens. Ovary quadrangular ; style straight or slightly curved ; 

 stigma much dilated, reniform, undulate, sometimes curved into the 

 shape of a funnel. Fruit with 2-4 longitudinal wings. Cotyledons 

 plano-convex, shortly petioled, bilobed. — Shrubs, climbing by means of 

 twisting petioles. Leaves digitate, long-petioled ; leaflets 3 or 5, stalked. 

 Cymes axillary or forming a terminal panicle, bracteate. 



Species 14, 13 Asiatic and 1 African. 



1. I. pentaphylla, Welv:. in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvii. 2C. A 

 shrub, climbing to a great height. Branches pendulous, sometimes 

 15-20 ft. long; stems green or black-purplish or reddish, striate^ 

 glabrescent. Leaves of 5 or 3 leaflets ; petioles 1|-4| in. long. 



