130 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Perak, up to elevations of 1,000 feet. Common. 
Distinguished from every hitherto described species of this genus by its elongate eucumber-shaped 
fruit. The scales of the petals are also much larger and broader than is usual in Hydnocarpus. 
Ртате 149. Hydnocarpus cucurbitina, King. 1, branch with male flowers ; 2, ripe fruit ; 3, seed: of natural size ; 
4, male flower dissected ; 5, rudimentary pistil of male flower; 6, anthers of male flower; 7, ovary and styles from 
female flower after fertilisation, one of the stigmas having fallen off, and the after two having became deflexed : 
enlarged. 
PLATE 150. 
HxpxocagPUs ҮҮ кат, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1890, pt. 2, p. 121. 
A small sub-glabrous tree. Young branches with pale brown, minutely lenticellate, 
puberulous bark. Leaves sub-coriaceous, elliptic, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the edge 
slightly recurved when dry; the base rounded, sometimes narrowed 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 the puberu- 
lous midrib and 8 to 9 pairs of bold sub-erect nerves; length 8 to 10 in., breadth 3°5 to 
4 in.; petiole less than "5 in., stout. Mule flowers nearly “5 іп, in diam., in very minute, 
axillary, pedicelled, few-flowered cymes. Sepals 5, slightly imbricate, rotund, pubescent, 
larger than the petals. Peials 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 filaments glabrous, much thickened at the base; anthers broadly ovate, 
cordate, Female flowers unknown. Fruit narrowly ovoid, tapering at both ends, often 
З in. long. and 175 in. in diam., minute'y fulvous-velvetty; the apical mamilla :75 in. 
long with its top depressed and crowned by the 3 fleshy bifid stigmas; one-celled, 
several-seeded. Pedicel 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 genus Hydnocarpus. In this respect it appears 
to form a connecting link with Taraktogenos: but in shape the anthers do not agree with those of that 
genus. 
Prate 150. Hydnocarpus Wrayi, King. 1, leaf-twig; 2, ripe fruit ; 3, section of ripe fruit; 4, seed: of natural 
size; 6, male flower; slightly enlarged ; 6 & 7, sepals; 8, petal with its seale; 9, stamens of male flower; ealarged; 10, 
two stamens: much enlarged. 
PLATE 151. 
HypnocarPus ILICIFOLIA, King, n. sp. 
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A small tree; the young branches pale, striate. Leaves coriaceous, oblong, acuminate, 
the edges remotely but sharply serrate, the base slightly cuneate; main nerves 7 pairs, 
curving, faint; Ше reticulations distinct; length 3:5 to 6 in., breadth 1:25 to 2°25 in, 
petiole 3 in. Male flowers in few-flowered axillary fascicles, not much longer than the 
petioles, the buds depressed-globular, the pedicels very short. Sepals 4, in decussate 
| pairs, very concave and much imbricate, rotund. Petu/s 4, sometimes 8, smaller than 
. the sepals, erose, the gland large and sub-quadrate. Siamens 20; the anthers ovate, 
. longer than the short, stout, pubescent filaments. Female flowers unknown. Fruit 
