340 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
sometimes imbricate, persistent and hardened in fruit, forming a cone; 
bracteoles 0O—2. Perianth inferior, segments 4, at first valvately 
connate in a tube with gibbous base at length more or less separating 
with free recurved tips. Stamens 4, inserted on or opposite to the 
perianth-segments ; anthers erect, the connective continuous with 
the filaments; cells 2, introrse, dehiscence longitudinal. Disk 
consisting of 4 hypogynous scales, free or connate, alternating with 
the filaments, sometimes 0. Ovary superior, sessile or stipitate, 
1-celled, often oblique; style terminal, the tip thickened; stigma 
terminal or lateral; ovules solitary or in pairs or many, biseriate. 
Fruit a nut or drupe, indehiscent or ultimately opening on the 
inner edge or at the tip, or a follicle or capsule with often thickly 
coriaceous valves. Seeds solitary or in pairs or few; testa mem- 
branous or coriaceous, sometimes winged; albumen 0; cotyledons 
compressed or fleshy, often unequal; radicle short, inferior or 
lateral. DistRis. Genera about 50, species very many, chiefly 
Australian or South African, a few only in tropical Asia, Africa and 
America, none in Europe, N. Asia or N. America. 
1. Henicta, Lour. 
Trees or largeshrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, toothed or rarely 
pinnatisect. Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, herma- 
phrodite, regular, pedicelled, usually in pairs; bracts small, caducous; 
bracteoles minute. Perianth—tube slender, limb narrow, ovate or 
oblong, straight, segments revolute whenin flower. Stamens 4, anthers 
oblong, connective produced in an apiculus. Hypogynous scales free 
or connate in a cup-shaped disk. Ovary sessile; style slender ; stigma 
terminal; ovules 2, basal or lateral, attached below the middle. 
Fruita subglobose hard nut. Seeds 1—2, subglobose or hemispheric ; 
testa rugose or veined; cotyledons fleshy. Duisrris. Tropical Asia 
and Australia. 
Racemes glabrous; hypogynous scales connate or com- 
pletely forming a cup; bracts and bracteoles minute. 
Leaves petioled. 
Petiole up to 1 em. long; leaves subcoriaceous, 
entire or distantly serrated in the upper half; 
perianth moderately slender, thick .. L. A. attenuata. 
Petiole 2—3 cm. long; leaves firmly coriaceous, 
entire; perianth stout, very thick .. 2. H. petiolaris. 
Leaves sessile or nearly so, the margins of the pina 
decurrent quite to the base. 
