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PLATE 148. 
Hypnocarpus Curtis, King in Journ. As. бос, Bengal, for 1890, pt. 62, р. 119. 
A glabrous shrub or small tree. Young branches slender, pale brown when dry. 
Leaves coriaceous, shining on both surfaces, oblong-lanceolate, rarely ovate, slightly in- 
equilateral, gradually narrowed to the acuminate apex ; the base unequally narrowed, 
rarely rounded; nerves 9 to 11 pairs, thin, spreading; reticulations obscure on the upper 
surface; length 5 to 12 in., breadth 2°25 to 3 in. ; petiole less than “5 in. thick. Male 
flowers in small, axillary, branched, bracteolate, uniparous cymes, ۰75 to 1 in. in diam.; 
pedicels scurfy-tomentose, ‘75 in. long. бора reflexed, ovate, blunt, imbricate, pale, 
minutely pubescent, shorter than the petals. 700: 5, narrowly oblong, blunt, concave 
at the apex, “65 in. long, glabrous; the gland nearly as long, linear, ciliate at the 
apex. Anthers 5, longer than the filaments, broadly ovate, cordate at the base, Ovary 0 
or rudimentary. Female flowers on shorter, grooved, pedicels; ovary elongate-ovoid, 
tawny-tomentose ; the stigmas 3, fleshy, bifid, spreading. Fruit on a stout pedicel 
nearly “5 in. long, globose, with long apical papilla, minutely rugose and velvetty, 
vertically ridged, the stigmas persistent; nearly 1:5 in. long and 1 in. in diam. 
Seeds few, plano-convex, 4 in. long. 
Penang, Curtis, 800, 1534. Perak; King's Collector, Scortechini. 
No specimen that I have seen has female flowers showing anything besides the ovary. Complete 
iemale flowers are much wanted. 
PrarE 148. Hydnocarpus Curtisii, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, ripe fruit; 3, seed: of natural size ; 4, flower dissected ; 
5, anthers, front and back view: enlarged. 
PLATE 149. 
HypNocARPUS CUCURBITINA, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1590, pt, 2, p. 120. 
A tree 60 to 80 feet high; very young branches and leaves with minute ferrugi- 
nous mealy tomentum; otherwise glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, slightly inequilateral 
and contracted at the base on one side, eliptic-oblong, tapering to either end, the 
apex with a short rather blunt acumen, the edge very slightly recurved when dry ; 
both surfaces, but especially the lower, shining and with the tranverse veins and minute 
 reticulations very distinct; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, sub-erect, thin ; length 35 to 
5 in, breadth 1:5 to 2725 in., petiole *25 іп, (mes diceceous (the female flowers few , 
axillary, three times as long as tho petioles, bracteolate, 3- to 6-branched. Male flowers 
about 8 in. in diam. on pedicels 4 in. long. Sepals broadly ovate, blunt, pubescent- 
tomentose externally. Petals ovate-rotund, glabrous, thin, each with a fleshy scale with 
white ciliate edges and nearly as long as itself, but not so broad. Anthers ovate- ` 
cordate, glabrous ; the filaments short, conical; Ovary rudimentary, sericeous, Female 
flowers liko the males, but on slightly shorter pedicels and with smaller barren stamens, 
Ovary cyclindrie, densely sericeous-tomentose; stigmas elongate, fleshy, bifid at the apex, 
not reflexed when young. Fruit narrowly obovoid, cylindric, mamillate at the apex 
and contracted at the base; minutely tomentose. smooth, dark-brown when ripe and 
from 3 to 5 in. long; carpophore and pedicel about “5 in. each, or more. Seeds one 
or two, obovoid, smooth, about 1 in. long. 
