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bifid at the apex, not reflexed when young. Fruit narrowly obovoid, 

 oylindric, mamillate at the apex and conti-acted at the base; minutely 

 rugose, smooth, dark brown when ripe and from 3 to 5 in. long ; carpo- 

 phore and pedicel about -5 in. each, or more. Seeds one or two, obovoid, 

 nmooth, about 1 in. long. 



Perak, up to elevations of 1,000 feet. Common. 



Distinguished from every hitherto described .species of this genus 

 by its elouiifate cticumber-shaped. fruit. The scales of the petals are 

 also much larger and broader than is u.»ual in Hydnocavpus. 



6. Hydnocarpus Wkayi, King, n. sp. A small sub-glabrous tree. 

 Young branches with pale brown, minutely lenticellate, puberulous bark. 

 Leaves snb-coHaceous, elliptic, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the 

 edge slightly recurved when dry ; the base rounded, sometimes narrow- 

 ed and unequal ; the reticulations on both surfaces very prominent ; upper 

 surface glabrous, shining, minutely pustulate when dry; the lower of a 

 pale brown when dry, glabrous except tlie pubescent midrib and 8-9 pairs 

 of bold sub-erect nerves; length 8 to 10 in., breadth 3'5 to 5 in.; petiole 

 less than 5 in., stout. Male flowers nearly 5 in. in diam., in very minute, 

 axillary, pedicelled, few-flowered cymes. Sepals 6, slightly imbricate, 

 rotund, pubescent, larger than the petals. Fetals 5, of the same shape 

 as the sepals but smaller, each with a fleshy roughly cuneate scale the 

 apex of which is irregularly toothed and ciliate. Stamens 15, the fila- 

 ments glabrous, much thickened at the base ; anthers broadly ovate- 

 coi'date. Female flowers unknown. Fruit narrowly ovoid, tapering at 

 both ends, often 3 in. long, and 1'75 in. in diam., minutely fulvous- 

 velvety; the apical mamilla '75 in. long, with its apex depressed and 

 crowned by the 3 fleshy bifid stigmas ; one-celled, several-seeded. Pedi- 

 cel short, stout. Seeds embedded in a little pulp, elongate, plano-convex, 

 "75 in long. 



Perak. King's Collector, No. 3800 ; Wray, No. 2608. 



This species has more stamens than are usual in the genns Bydno- 

 rarpns. In this respect it appears to form a connecting link with 

 Taraktogenos ; but in shape the anthei'S do not agree with those of that 

 genus. 



6. Taraktogenos, Hassle. 



Trees with entire alternate leaves and minute fugaceous stipules. 

 Flowers m more or less dense, short, axillary, few-flowered cymes; a 

 few hermaphrodite, but the majority staminiferous only. Staminiferous 

 flower ; sepals 4i, in decussate pairs, much imbricate, rotund, concave; 

 petals 8, in two rows, smaller than the sepals, imbricate, each with a 

 gland at its base ; glands less than half as large as the petals, fleshy, 



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