204 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
and opposite to the outer perianth-lobes, the filaments with 1—2 
glands or sometimes none at the base; anthers 2-celled, extrorsely or 
marginally dehiscent with longitudinal valves attached to the con- 
nective ; staminodes in Q flowers usually 4. Ovary inferior, fleshy ; 
style included in the tube, clavate at tip ; stigma dilated, toothed or 
lobed. Fruit a drupe, enclosed in the enlarged inflated involucel 
having a terminal circular orifice ; pericarp ribbed or smooth, with a 
terminal umbilicus. Seed conform to the fruit, exalbuminous.; testa 
thick, crustaceous, open at the apex opposite the radicle ; cotyledons 
fleshy, hemispheric, lobed, ruminate; radicle short, superior.— 
Distrip. Species 8—12, in tropical regions of both worlds. 
HERNANDIA PELTATA, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 263 (1864). 
A tree; branchlets stout, smooth, marked with the scars of fallen 
leaves. Leaves rather coriaceous; broadly ovate, peltate, acute or 
obtuse at apex, rounded truncate or subcordate at base ; margin entire, 
recurved ; ribs 5—7 from the insertion of the petiole, usually 1—2 
em. above the base, all raised on the lower surface, nerves from the 
midrib about 5 pairs, about as many also from the innermost pair 
of ribs ; reticulation prominent beneath ; 10—20 cm. long, 7—15 cm. 
broad ; petiole stout, terete, about 7 cm. long. Panicles 10—15 cm. 
long, corymbose, hoary-puberulous; bracts in pairs, ovate-spathulate, 
3—5 mm. long; involucral bracts 5—7 mm. long, oblong, obtuse ; 
pedicels short; s flower with 6, 2 flower with 8 perianth-lobes 
about 5 mm. long; involucel of ¢ flower cup-shaped, truncate- 
Stamens 3 each with 2 clavate glands at the bases of the filaments ; 
staminodes of 2 flower subglobose. Fruié an oblong 8—10-ribbed 
drupe 2 cm. long with a terminal rounded boss 5 mm. long, enclosed 
in the enlarged inflated lanceolate involucel which is open at top in 
a circular orifice ; pericarp leathery, smooth without. Seed globose, 
1—5 cm. in diam; testa crustaceous, emarginate at apex; cotyle- 
dons fleshy, palmately lobed, ruminate. Kurz For. FI. 11, 309 ; Bedd. 
Fl. Sylv. Madr. t. 300; Benth. Fl. Austral. V. 314; Hook. f. in Fl. 
Br. Ind. V. 188; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 456; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. 
VII, 108; Brandis Ind. Trees, 542. H. sonora, Linn. Sp. Pl. I. 981 
in part; Bl. Bijdr. 550; Wight Ic. t. 1855; Wall. Cat. 7811; Miq. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 887. : | 
Dinpincs : at Pangkore Laut at sea level, Wray 4252!; Curtis 
3446!. SmncaPorE: Wallich 7811 D.!.—Distriz. Ceylon, Andamans, 
Malay Archipelago, N. Australia, Pacific Islands, E. Africa, Mada- 
gascar. 
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