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pubescent ; nerves 5 to 8 pairs, spreading or sub-erect, thin but pro- 

 minent beneath ; length 25 to 5 in., breadth '75 to 2'5 in., petiole '25 to 

 "35 in.; stipules persistent, linear-lanceolate, pubescent, about as long as 

 the petioles. Male inflorescence small, supra-axillary, 1- to 4-branched, 

 uniparous, tomentose, bracteolate cymes not much longer than the 

 petioles ; flowers -25 in. in diam. Sepals 5, rotund, the 3 external slight- 

 ly imbricate, pubescent; tlie 2 inner much imbricate, glabrescent. Petals 

 5, smaller than the sepals, fleshy, with long white silky hairs externally, 

 and each internally with a small ol)long scale. Filaments short, thick, 

 sericeous, the connective reniform ; the anther cells small, remote from 

 each othei'. Ovary 0. /'VmaZe^oiye?-* solitary, supra-axillary, on glabrous 

 pedicels '5 in. long. Sepals and petals as in the male ; stamens without 

 pollen: ovary ovoid, tomentose; stigmas 3, large, flat, bifid, reflexed. 

 Fruit on a pedicel '5 iu. long, solitary, axillary, depressed-globular, 

 minutely rugose, and velvety tawny-tomeutose ; about 1 in. in diam., 

 or less ; pericarp dry, thin. Seeds 3 or 4, plano-convex, 5 in. long. 



Penang, Curtis, 854 ; Perak ; King's Collector, Scortechini, Wray. 

 This varies considerably as to size of leaf and fruit and in the amount 

 of pubescence. In some specimens of the male plant the leaves towards 

 the apices of the branches are mucli reduced in size. The form which has 

 larger more pubescent leaves may be separated as a variety, and 

 farther acquaintance with it may prove that it is separable as a species. 

 Var. pubescens. Young parts, branchlets, and lower surfaces of 

 adult leaves pubescent. 



Perak; at Goping, King's Collector, No. 761. 



3. Hydnocarfus CuRTisii, King, n. sp. A glabrous shrub or small 

 tree. Young branches slender, pale brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, 

 shining on both surfaces, oblong-lanceolate, rarely ovate, slightly inequi- 

 lateral, grfidiialiy narrowed to the acuminate apex ; the base unequally 

 narrowed, rarely rounded ; nerves 7 to Jl pairs, thin, spreading ; i^eticula- 

 tions obscure on the upper surface; length 6 to 12 in., breadth 2*25 to 3 in. ; 

 petiole less than "5 in., thick. Male flowers in small, axillary, branch- 

 ed, bracteolate, uniparous cymes not much longer than the petioles, 

 '75 in. in diam. ; pedicels scurfy-tomentose, "75 in. long. Sepals re- 

 flexed, ovate, blunt, imbricate, pale, minutely pubescent, shorter than 

 the petals. Petals 5, narrowly oblong, blunt, concave at the apex, "65 in. 

 long, glabrous ; the gland nearly as long, linear. Anthers much 

 longer than the fihiments, cordate atthe base. Ovary 0. Fetnale flo-tcers 

 on shorter, grooved pedicels ; ovary elongate-ovoid, tawny-tomentose ; 

 the stigmas 3, fleshy, bifid, spreading. Fruit on a stout pedicel 

 Jiearly '5 in. long, globose with long apical papilla, minutely rugose and 

 velvety, vertically ridged ; the stigmas persistent ; nearly 1"5 in. long and 

 1 in. in diam. Seeds few, plano-convex, '4 in. long, 



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