Hymenocardia.] cxxxv. EUPHOEBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 377 



irregularly 4-6-lobed or -partite. Stamens 4-6, filaments included, free or 

 united below in a column ; anthers large, at first reflexed, then horizontal, 

 cells parallel. Pistillode small or equalling the filaments. FEM. FL. Sepals 

 narrow, free, caducous. Ovary 2-celled, flattened at right angles to the 

 plane of the septum ; styles long, subterete, entire, papillose all over ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule flat, of 2 compressed very broad wing-like 

 cocci, separating from a central axis ; pericarp crustaceous ; endocarp mem- 

 branous. Seeds usually solitary in the cocci, flat, testa thin, albumen not 

 copious ; cotyledons very thin, broad, flat ; radicle long. Species 5, Tropical 

 Indian, Malayan and African. 



H. punctata, Wall. Cat. 3549 ; shoots and leaves beneath pubescent 

 and lepidote, leaves ovate or oblong obtuse or acute, male spikes lepidote. 

 H. Wallichii, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. (1851) 256 ; Muell. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 476 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 394. Samaropyxis elliptica, 

 Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 465. 



TENASSEKIM, and BURMA, Wallich, &c. ? UPPEB ASSAM ; Mishmi, Griffith. 



A deciduous shrub or small tree ; branches woody, terete. Leaves 1-3 in., coria- 

 ceous, elliptic, obtuse acute or acuminate, polished above, pubescent and densely 

 glandular beneath, costa with 3-5 pairs of straight nerves ; petiole in. Male 

 spikes % in., 13 together, yellow, puberulous and clothed with large glands, flowers 

 very minute ; bracts peltate, pedicelled. Ovary ellipsoid, compressed. Capsule very 

 broadly obcordate, or transversely oblong, broader than long, f in. diam., reticulately 

 veined and with an intra-marginal vein ; epicarpthin, endocarp papery shining within. 

 Seed rounded, quite flat. The fruit is not winged, as described, the cavity corre- 

 sponding with the superficies. The Mishmi ticket may be an error for Burma. 



27. GALE ARIA, Zoll. $ Moritz. 



Glabrous or pubescent slender small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 shortly petioled, quite entire, penninerved, base usually unequal- sided. 

 Flowers small or minute, in very long slender terminal racemes, dioecious ; 

 bracts minute or 0, rarely long and very slender; males fascicled, fern, 

 usually solitary. Disk 0, or obscure in the male. MALE PL. Calyx 5-toothed 

 or -partite. Petals 5, short, very concave, with inflexed margins and tips, 

 induplicate-valvate, keeled down the middle within. Stamens 10, filaments 

 very short, the antipetalous shortest ; anthers didymous, glabrous or hispid. 

 Pistillode usually hirsute. FEM. FL. Calyx and petals of the male. Ovary 

 2-3-celled ; styles short, slender, 2-partite ; ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit 

 small, transversely oblong or very broadly obcuneate cuneate or subreni- 

 form, rarely large and globose, endocarp hard 1-2-celled. Seeds conform, to 

 the cells, compressed, testa membranous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, 

 flat. Species 12 to 15, Malayan. 



The Herbarium materials for this genus are very incomplete indeed. The foliage 

 is uniform throughout, or nearly so. The sections founded by Mueller on the petals 

 being hooded only at the apex and on these being hooded throughout their length 

 are not tenable. The pistillode is, I think, a very variable organ. G. Maingayi 

 differs much from the other species in the fruit, and may prove generically distinct. 



* Anther-cells glabrous, filaments and tip of connectives tomeniose. 



1. Gr. Maingrayi, Hook. f. ; leaves oblong obtuse, racemes stout, 

 pedicels longer than the male flowers, calyx cupular 5-toothed, petals pube- 

 rulous margins and midrib within tomentose, fruit subglobose 1 in. diam. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Keiv Distrib. 1412 and 1412/2). 



