1890.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Teninsula. 121 



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

 cylindric, mamillate at the apex and contracted 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, 

 smooth, about 1 in. long. 



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



Distinguished from every hitherto described species of this genus 

 by its elongate cucumber-shaped fruit. The scales of the petals are 

 also much larger and broader than is usual in Hydnocarpus. 



6. Hydnocarpus Wrayi, King, n. sp. 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 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 the pubescent midrib and 8-9 pairs 

 of bold sub-erect nerves ; length 8 to 10 in,, breadth 35 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 5, slightly imbricate, 

 rotund, pubescent, larger than the petals. Petals 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, 

 cordate. Female flotvers unknown. Fruit narrowly ovoid, tapering at 

 both ends, often 3 in, long, and 1*75 in. in diam., minutely fulvou?- 

 velvetty; the apical raamilla "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 genus H'ydno- 

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

 Tarahtogenos : but in shape the anthers do not agree with those of that 

 genus. 



6. Taraktogbnos, Hassk. 

 Trees with entire alternate leaves and minute f ugaceous stipules. 

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

 few hermaphrodite, but the majority staminiferous only. Staminiferous 

 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, 



