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Penang; Curtis, 800, 1534. Perak ; King's Collector, Scortechini. 

 ' No specimen that I ha,ve seen has female flowers showing anything 

 besides the ovary. Complete female flowers are much wanted. 



4. Htdnocarpus ScoRTECHiNn, King, n. sp. A tree^ all parts except 

 the sepals glabous. Brauchlets pale brown when dry, angular. Leaves 

 snb-sessile, coriaceous, shining on both surfaces, slightly inequilateral, 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong, tapering to the acuminate apex, the edges slight- 

 ly recurved when dry; the base rounded, slightly unequal ; nerves 7-8 

 pairs, thin, spreading ; the reticulations minute and distinct ou both 

 surfaces; length 5 to 7 in., brewdth 25 to 8*5 in., petiole about '2 in. 

 Cymes small, monoecious, axillary or extra-axillary, on the young branches, 

 about three times as long as the petioles, densely bracteolate, 2-3-branch- 

 ed. Male flowers on pedicels "75 in. long. Sepals elliptic, blunt, their 

 apices incurved, puberulous. Petals smaller than the sepals but of the 

 same shape ; the gland nearly as long, linear. Anthers narrow, elongate ; 

 filaments short, conical. Ovary none. Female flowers like the males, 

 but on short pedicels and the stitmens barren; ovary ovoid below, its 

 upper half cylindric, ridge<l, pale coloui-ed, glabrous; stigmas Iftrge, 

 fleshy, reflexed, shoitly bifid. Fruit (young) ovoid, minutely rugo.se, 

 glabrous. 



Binding Islands; Scortechini, Curtis. 



This species bears a general resemblance to H. Curtisii. But it differs 

 from that species in having broader leaves on shorter petioles, much 

 broader and shorter petals, and a glabrous ovary. Ripe fruit of this is 

 unknown. 



5. Hydnocarpus cucurbitina. King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high ; 

 Tery young branches and leaves with minute ferruginous mealy tomeu- 

 tum ; otherwise glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, slightly inequilateral 

 and contracted at the base on one side, elliptic-oblong, tapering to either 

 end, the apex vrith a short rather blunt acumen, the edge very slightly 

 recurved when dry ; both surfaces, but especially the lower, shining and 

 with the transverse veins and minute reticulations very distinct; main 

 nerves 5 to 6 pairs, sub-erecb, thin ; length 3"5 to 5 in., breadth 1'5 to 

 225 in., petiole •25 in. Cymes dioeceous, (the female flowers few) 

 axillary, three times as long as the petioles, bracteolate, 3- to 6-branched. 

 Male floioers on pedicels "35 in. long, about '3 in. in diam. Sepals broad- 

 ly ovate, blunt, pubescent-tomentose externally. Petals ovate-rotund, 

 glabrous, thin, each with a fleshy scale with white ciliate edges and 

 nearly as large as itself. Anthers ovate-cordate, ghibrous ; the filaments 

 short, conical; Ovary rudimentary, sericeous. Female fioivers like the 

 males, but on slightly siiorter pedicels and with smaller barren stamens. 

 Ovary cyclindric, densely sericeous-tomentose ; stigmas elongate, fleshy, 



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