DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 131 
globular, minutely rusty, velvetty-pubescent, 15 in. in diam., containing several sub- 
ovoid angled seeds. | 
Kedah: Curtis No. 2671. Langkani: Curtis No. 2603. Distrib, Java (Preanger 
Province), Forbes No, 1159. 
I have seen no fully expanded male flowers of this and no female flowers. The species is, however, 
a very distinct one. 
Prate 151. Hydnocarpus ilicifolia, King. 1, branch witî male flowers in bud; 2, ripe fruit; 3, seed: of matura! 
size; 4, sepal; 5, petal with its scale; 6, stamens of a male bud seen from above: enlarged; 7, single stamen, front 
view: much enlarged. 
TARAKTOGENOs, Hassk. Nat. Ord. Bixinee. 
Trees with entire alternate leaves and minute fugaceous stipules. Flowers in more 
or less dense, short, axillary, few-flowered cymes; a few hermaphrodite, but the 
majority staminiferous only.  S/aminiferous flower; sepals 4, 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, 
cuneate, plano-convex, ridged, the apex often irregularly toothed and with 2 or 3 
cylindric pits. Stamens 20 to 32, the anthers deeply cordate. Female flowers like the 
males, but the sepals often only 3, the petals 6, and the stamens 16 or 17; ovary 
elongate-ovoid, sulcate, divided above into 4 oblong, divergent, reflexed lobes, each 
bearing a stigmatic surface internally; 1-celled with 4 multi-ovulate parietal placentas. 
Fruit large, globular or ovoid, with hard fibrous or woody rind, and several large seeds 
embedded in a scanty pulp. Seeds with thick hard testa, copious albumen, and straight 
central embryo; the cotyledons large, cordate, foliaceous, 3-nerved. Species probably 
about 8; all Malayan, 
Note.—This genus was founded by Hasskarl (Retzia, i. 127) on the plant named Hydnocarpus 
heterophyllus by Blume (Rumphia, iv, 22, t. 178B., fig. 1, and Mus. Bot. i, 16). Until now that plant 
has been the only known species. But the following have been discovered by Messrs. Kunstler and 
Wray in Perak. And from the similarity in externals to Hydnocarpus, as well as from the imperfect 
nature of the Herbarium materials of the latter, it appears to me extremely probable that several 
things now referred to Hydnocarpus really belong to Taraktogenos. In the Calcutta Herbarium, there 
are imperfect materials of, at least, 8 undescribed species which belong either to one or other of these 
two genera. 
PLATE 152. 
TARAKTOGENOS KUNSTLERI, King in Journ. Ав. Soc. Bengal, for 1890, .ام‎ 2, p. 192. 
A sub-glabrous tree 40 to 60 feet high. Young branches fulvous-puberulous. 
Leaves coriaceous, unequal-sided, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, shortly acuminate; the base 
narrowed and unequal, 3-nerved; both surfaces shining, the lower rough from the 
prominent nerves and reticulations; lateral nerves 3 to 5 pairs on the narrower and 4 to 
7 pairs on the wider side, sub-erect, prominent beneath; length 4°5 to 6 in., breadth 1:5 
to 3 іп; petiole “8 to 5 in., puberulous. (mes dense, many-flowered. Male flowers 
-5 to "6 in. in diam.; their pedicels *25 to “35 in.; petals densely sericeous externally, 
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Ахх. Roy. Вот. Gag. Catc., Vor. V. 
