Hernandia.~] cxxix. PROTEACEJG. (J. D. Hooker.) 189 



cupular, T \, in. long, in fruit greatly enlarged and enclosing the drupe ; perialith-^ube 

 adnate to the ovary, segments 8, narrow; glands 4, subglobose; style villous, 

 thickened upwards, deciduous with the perianth-lobes, stigma dilated irregularly 

 lobed. Fruit enclosed in the involucel, except at ,the apex, together 1| in. diam. 

 Seed hard. I suspect that this may prove to be only a variety of the American 

 If. Sonora, Linn. 



Whilst this sheet was passing through the press, Mr. C. Curtis has sent from 

 Penang flowering specimens of a plant with the habit and foliage of an Endiandra, 

 but having 6 very short broad thick sessile anthers, opposite to each of which is a 

 broad but rather longer villous staminode, which is closely appresed to the ovoid 

 glabrous ovary. Each broad thick square anther has two small extrorse circular pores 

 closed by caducous valves. It is no doubt a new and very singular genus, allied to 

 Endiandra, which may bear the name of Micropora Curtisii, in allusion to the 

 pore-like cells of the six anthers. 



OEDER CXXIX. PROTEACEJE. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate or scattered, rarely sub- 

 opposite or whorled, mostly hard, entire toothed or pinnatisect, exstipulate . 

 Inflorescence various. Flowers 2-sexual. Perianth inferior, often irregular, 

 segments 4 at first valvately cohering in a cylindric tube gibbous at the 

 base, with free recurved tips. Stamens 4, shorter than and inserted on the 

 segments ; anthers erect, adnate to the filaments, 2-celled, introrse. 

 jffypogynous glands or scales 4, free or connate, alternating with the stamens, 

 or 0. Ovary 1-celled, often oblique ; style terminal, tip thickened, stigma 

 terminal or lateral. Ovules solitary or geminate or many 2-seriate. Fruit 

 various. Seed exalbuminous ; cotyledons compressed or fleshy, often unequal ; 

 radicle short inferior or lateral. Genera 50, species about 950, chiefly 

 Australian and S. African, none N. American, European or N. Asiatic. 



1. HELICIA, Lour. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed. Flowers in terminal 

 and axillary racemes, 2-sexual. Perianth regular, tube slender ; limb narrow, 

 straight, segments at length revolute. Anthers oblong, connective produced. 

 Hypog. scales free, or confluent in a cup-shaped or annular disk. Ovary 

 sessile ; style slender, stigma terminal ; ovules 2, basal or lateral, ascending. 

 Nut hard, globose. Seeds subglobose, or 2 hemispheric. Species 25, 

 Tropical Asia and Australia. 



.* Eacemes glabrous. 



f Leaves narrowed at the base into a distinct petiole. 



1. H. erratica, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves 4-7 in. cuneate- 

 obovate or -oblong to oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate acute or obtuse 

 entire or coarsely serrate narrowed into a short petiole, racemes glabrous, 

 hypog. scales more or less connate, ovary glabrous, fruit ]-l| in. diam. 

 obliquely globose or depressed umbonate. H. cochinchinensis, Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 311, and Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 442 (the Assam plant only}. 

 H. robusta, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f.SfT. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2-6000 ft., J. D. H. KHASIA MTS., common. MAKTABAN, 

 alt. 5-7000 ft., Kurz, Parish. 



A small tree. Leaves 2-4. in. broad, coriaceous, shining above, nerves. 7-12 pair; 

 petiole -f in. long. Racemes 6-9 in. Perianth pale yellowish, slender, 1^ in. long 

 when unexpanded. Hypog. glands obtuse. Fruit usually very oblique, base abruptly 

 narrowed. Cotyledons turning a bright red when cut. This is no doubt the Assam 

 H. cochinchinensis of Meissner, and Kurz's plant of that name ; it differs from-Lourero's 



