1890.] G. King — Materials j 'or a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 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 Wrati, 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 3'5 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 flowers unknown. Fruit narrowly ovoid, tapering at 

 both ends, often 3 in. long, and P75 in. in diam., minutely fulvou?- 

 velvetty; the apical mamilla - 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 Hydno- 

 carpus. 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. 



6. Taraktogenos, Hassk. 

 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. 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, 



