270 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
cious or dicecious, the ¢ in fascicles of cymes or capitula from the 
axils of the leaves, the 2 or ¢ solitary or in small clusters. Perianth- 
tube of 3 0, of 2 adnate to the ovary, globose, ovoid or oblong; lobes 
5—6, valvate. Stamens 5—6, inserted at the base or middle of the 
lobes and opposite to them, in 2 none or reduced to staminodes, in 
g as in ¢@; filaments short, thick; anthers introrse, didymous, 
dehiscing by a transverse slit. Disk concave or convex, epigynous. 
Ovary inferior, 1-celled; ovules 2—4, suspended from the apex of a 
free central placenta; stigma subsessile, discoid or lobed. Drupe 
ovoid, obovoid or subglobose; exocarp fleshy; endocarp hard, often 
bony, protruded within in 5—10 vertical sinuous hard plates into fis- 
sures in the stellately-lobed seed. Seed with long funicle and much- 
lobed albumen; embryo central; cotyledons linear or oblong, usually 
shorter than the superior radicle.—Distris. About 20 or more 
species, Indian, Malayan and Chinese. 
Drupe large, reaching 13 mm. long, 9 mm. broad; 
leaves coriaceous, broadly obovate or orbicular, 
pedately 5-ribbed ; racemes up to 2 cm. long -. ) 1 SS Ripneye: 
Drupe medium-sized, 8—10 mm. long, 6—8 mm. broad. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic or obovate, 3- or 
pedately 5-ribbed; racemes up to 7—12 mm. long; 
drupe 5-furrowed 55 2. H. VARIANS. 
Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, obovate or obianeooines! 
sometimes orbicular, 3-ribbed; racemes 5—7 mm. 
long; drupe smooth ES 3. H. WRAYI. 
Leaves coriaceous, ovate, obtuse at apex, 9- Abba: 
racemes 20 mm. long; drupe obscurely furrowed 
Drupe small. 
Drupe globose, 5 mm. in diam., obscurely 5-fur- 
rowed; leaves coriaceous, obovate to orbicular, 3- 
or pedately 5-ribbed ; racemes 6 mm. long .. 5. H, LoBBIANa. 
Drupe globose, 3 mm. in diam. 
Drupe 4—6-furrowed; leaves subcoriaceous, el- 
liptic or obovate, usually small, 3—5—7-ribbed 
but not channelled; flowers from a tubercle, 
nearly sessile : ae .. 6. H. BUxIFOLIA, 
Drupe obscurely fea: leaves coriaceous, 
obovate, obtuse and emarginate, 3- or pedately 
5-ribbed, the ribs in channels ; fowersin fascicles 
of short racemes a 55 .. 7. H. mMonticoza. 
1. HeEnNsLowia Riptey1, Gamble in Kew Bull. 201 (1912). A 
climbing parasitic (?) shrub; branchlets stout, nearly black when dry. 
Leaves coriaceous; broadly obovate or orbicular, rounded and some- 
times slightly emarginate at apex, abruptly narrowed at base into 
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