Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 203 
Family CII]. HERNANDIACEA. 
Trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple or pinnate, 
entire, exstipulate. Flowers bisexual or monoecious or polygamous, 
regular, usually small, white or greenish. Perianth superior ; seg- 
ments free or shortly united below in two valvate 3—5-merous whorls 
or more rarely in one imbricate 4—8-merous whorl ; stamens 3—S in 
a single whorl; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing introrsely or laterally by 2 
valves ; staminodes more or less glandular, in 1 or 2 whorls outside 
the stamens or absent ; those of the outer whorl in pairs at the base 
of the stamens, those of the inner whorl alternate with them. Ovary 
inferior, l-celled; ovule solitary, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit dry, 
often ey ribbed, sometimes with 2—4 longitudinal wings 
(Iiligera) or with 2 terminal wings formed by accrescent perianth- 
segments (Gyrocarpus) or wingless and enclosed in an inflated cupule 
_ (Hernandia). Seed solitary, exalbuminous; embryo straight ; coty- 
ledons large, plano-convex, more or less lobed or flattened and spi- 
rally twisted. Distris. About 35 species, tropical. 
Leaves trifoliolate ; fruit with 2—4 broad lateral wings 1. Illigera. 
Leaves simple or peltate; fruit ovoid, not winged but 
enclosed in the inflated cupule 20 .. 2. Hernandia. 
Leaves broadly ovate, usually lobed; fruit with to 
long wings formed by enlarged perianth-lobes .. .. 3. Gyrocarpus. 
(1) Llligera and (3) Gyrocarpus have already been described 
under Combretacee, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI. IT (1897), pp. 342- 
345. The genus Iiligera has later been revised by 8. T. Dunn in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. XXXVIII, 290, and the following species 
admitted as belonging to the Malay Peninsula. 
1. J. trifoliata, Dunn=I. appendiculata, Kurz For. Fl. Burma 
I. 469 (non Blume) ; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI. II. 348. 
2. I. pulchra, Blume Bijdr. 1153=J. lucida, Teysm. & Binn. ; 
King, l.c, 344, 
2. Hernanopia, Linn. 
Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, ovate or peltate, entire, 3—7- 
ribbed. Flowers moncecious, 3-nately involucrate at the ends of the 
branches of a lax panicle ; each involucre with 3 flowers, the central 
one 2 with a cupular involucel at the base of its peduncle, enclosing 
the ovary ; the two lateral ones ¢, also shortly peduncled ; bracts of 
the involucre 4—5, subvalvate in bud. Pertanth-lobes subvalvate, 
those of the ¢ 3 to 6, those of the 2 4to0 8. Stamens as many as 
