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the prominent nerves and reticulations; lateral nerves 3 to 5 pairs on the 

 nari'ower and 4 to 7 pairs on the wider side, sub-erect, prominent ; length 

 4"5 to 6 in., breadth I'S to 3 in. ; petiole '3 to "5 in., puberulous. Cymes 

 dense, many-flowered. Male floivers as in the last, the scales half as 

 long as the petals, their apices erose, glabrous. Stamens 32 ; the filnments 

 short, subulate, sericeous ; anthers elongate, deeply cordate. Female 

 flowers like the males, but sepals 3, petals 6, and stamens 17 only. Ovary 

 ovoid, glabrous, deeply sulcate, vvitli 4 radiating reflexed oblong stigmas, 

 1-celled, with 4 multi-ovulate parietal placentas. Fruit solitary, glo- 

 bular, smooth, 2"5 in. in diam.; the peiicarp thick, the outer layer fibrous, 

 the inner woody. Seeds embedded in scanty pulp, plano-convex, •75 in. 

 or more in length. 



Perak ; in dense forest at low elevations; King's Collector, Nos. 

 6042 and 8183 ; Wray, 3389. 



3. Taraktogenos tomentosa, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high* 

 Young branches fulvous-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, often inequilate- 

 ral, ovate-oblong, abruptly and very shortly acuminate, tlie base rounded 

 and slightly unequal ; the reticulations prominent on both surfaces, 

 upper surface smooth, shining; the lower fulvous-tomenlose; lateral 

 nerves. 6 to. 7 pairs, bold, sub-erect; length 5 to 7 in., bieadth 2*5 to 3 

 in. ; petiole "25 to "5 in., tomentose. Cymes woody, dense, short. 

 Fruit ovoid, smooth ; when ripe 3 in. long ; the pericarp nearly '5 in. thick, 

 the outer layer fibious, the inner thin and woody. 



Perak ; at an elevation of 500 feet ; King's Collector, No. 7/9.5. 



Flowers of this are unknown. It is readily distinguished from the 

 former two species by its tomentose leaves, but in other respects it 

 much resembles them. 



I subjoin a descripticm of the .Burmese species referred to Hydno- 

 carpus heterophyllus by Kurz. 



Taratogenos Kuuzii, King. A tree 40 to 50 feet high. Youngest 

 branches, leaves and inflorescence tawney-pubescent, otherwise glabious ; 

 older branches grey, minutely lenticellate. Leaves sub-corificeous, lanceo- 

 late or oblong-lanceolate, rarely elliptic, abruptly and very shortly and 

 bluntly apiculate ; the base narrowed aud equal-sided ; both surfaces 

 shining, the reticulations minute and distinct ; main nerves 6 to 7 pairs, 

 sub-erect ; length 7 to 10 in., breadth 2 to 35 in., petiole "75 to J in., thick- 

 ened at the npex. Cymes axillary or extra-axillary, from the smaller 

 branches, on thick peduncles, nearly as long as the petioles, with many 

 very short branches at their apices, many-flowered. Male flowers 3 in. 

 in diam., on pedicels less than '5 in. long. Sepals 4, imbricate, ovate, 

 rotund, blunt, concave, pubescent externally. Petals 8, broadly ovate, 

 blunt, with ciliate edges, each with a flat fleshy pubescent gland with 



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