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staminodes 5 or more. Placentas 3-6 ; stigmas as many, sessile or 
nearly so, dilated. Berry large, globular, with a hard rind, Testa 
crustaceous. Albumen oily-fleshy.—Trees, with simple, entire, or 
serrate leaves and small racemose flowers 
Sepals 4; petals and staminodes 9-5 each, the latter re or united . = Secor: dain 
aa 5; petals and staminodes 5 each 
H. heterophyllus, BI. Kad -towo-bsh: Lahn: 64a rgreen ‘Ges 
“40-8 0 + 12—20 + 8—5), the leaf-buds tawny puberulous ; bark 
greenish-grey, rusty-lenticellate, 14-2 lin. thick ; cut greenish ; leaves 
oblong or elliptically oblong, 7-8 in. long, on a rather slender 8-9 lin. 
long petiole, acute at base, abruptly and shortly’ acuminate, almost 
coriaceous, entire, glabrous; male flowers about 4-5 lin. in diameter, 
on slender 4 lin. long glabrous or slightly sag pedicels, form- 
ing short branched slightly puberulous racemes in the axils of the 
leaves; sepals 4, concave, broadly oblong, the 3 2 outer larger ones 
with whitish borders ; petals 9-5, oval, oe villous-ciliate, 
greenish-white ; Beales 9-5, free, or tinited at base into a 5.9-lobed 
petaloid cup ; stamens ec. 17, the filaments pilose ; ovary reduced to 
the pilose style, which is 2-lobed at apex ; Pcie as large as an 
orange, globular, on a very thick c. 2 lin. long peduncle, “the rind 
granular, tawny velvety ; seeds numerous, seieridaty oval, im- 
bedded in pulp. 
Has. Sys frequent in the tropical forests of ee ar so al the 
eastern and southern slopes of the Pegu Yomah; also Ten PL Apes 
Fr. Febr.-March.—s.—S8.=SiS., tam. 
REMARKS. Wad heavy, strong, close-grained, of short fibre, yellowish- 
white, turning light t brown. 
2. H. cast Hf. & Th. Ind. Fl. i. 197.—A middle-sized 
tree, perfectly glabrous ; leaves irate ira 8-14 in. long, rounded 
at the one of the un equal base-sides, on -l in. long petiole 
much thickened at end, acuminate, thisk-snrindepai shining ; female 
flowers apparently solitary, 2 in. in diameter, sweet-scented, on a 
# in. long axillary peduncle ; petals concave, blunt, quite glabrous ; 
sepals orbicular, densely rusty pubescent ; scales almost acute, eae 
narrower than the petals; staminodes 5, — ovary villous 
a h the size of an orange, globose, rugose, brown.—(After Hooker’ 3 
d.) 
Has.—Tenasserim, Mergui archipelago. 
RYPARIA, Bl. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx riage rupturing into 3-4 segments. 
Petals 4-5, at base furnished with a scale. Males: stamens4or5, 
the filaments united into a tubular column enclosing the ovary 
rudiment. Females : staminodes 4-5, subulate or pedicellate. eg 
