400 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
or crustaceous, sometimes dehiscent, with sinuously inflexed inner 
walls and 2—4 basal pits within. Seed basifixed, 2—4-lobed at base ; 
albumen 0; cotyledons equal, sinuous or subfoliaceous and con 
torted; radicle superior.—Distris. Genera 5, chiefly in North Tem- 
perate regions, a few species tropical. 
1. ENGELHARDTIA, Lesch. 
Trees, often of large size. Leaves pinnate, the leaflets entire or 
serrate often with the under surfaces covered with glandular scales. 
Flowers moncecious, in paniculate spikes or racemes, usually the 
lower branches 3, the terminal one ? , sometimes the ¢ lateral or 
axillary on the wood of the previous year, the 2 from the axi! of 
the new year’s shoots; 6 erect or pendulous, 2 pendulous; both ¢ 
and 9? supported by bracts, which in the @ are persistent and 
become expanded in fruit. Perianth in @ irregularly but usually 
4-lobed,in 2 usually 4-lobed and surmounting the ovary. Stamens 
4 subsessile on the perianth lobes. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, 
l-ovuled ; ovule erect, orthotropous; style short ; stigmas 2, short, 
sessile or long laciniate and inwardly stigmatose, often 2fid. Frust 
a small globose nut, adnate to the much enlarged, 3—6-lobed, 
scarious, net-veined bract, three lobes usually much elongate, the 
mid-lobe the longest; epicarp or perianth-tube thin, stiffly hirsute or 
covered with glandular scales; endocarp 2-valved. Seed 2—4-lobed 
at the base, the cotyledons rugosely folded and contorted.—DistR1B. 
Species 6 (if #. aceriflora and EH Colebrookiana are considered as 
varieties of H. spicata) in India, China and the Malay Peninsula 
aud Archipelago. 
Fruit covered with acicular hairs; perianth of o flowers 
irregular. 
Fruiting bract 4lobed, cupshaped at base, the 
inner lobe obtuse, short, crenate or emarginate, 
the 3 outer much enlarged; leaves large, up to ~ 
30 cm. Jong, usually membranous .. . lL. H. spicata. 
Fruiting bract 3-4lobed, cleft within to the Bade! 
the inner lobe short, acute, the 3 outer much 
enlarged; leaves up to 15 em. long, coriaceous.. 2. H. nudiflora. 
Fruit covered with glandular scales; perianth of ¢ 
flowers regular, 4-lobed; fruiting bract 3-lobed, cleft 
within to the base.’ the inner lobe absent, the outer 
3much enlarged; leaves coriaceous, 20—30 cm. long. 3. H. Wallichiana. 
1. EnceLtwarptia spicata, Blume Bijdr. 528 (1826) and FI. 
Jay. Jugland, 8, tt. 1 and 5A (1828). A large subdeciduous tree, 
