118 
Bat, Vol. I, pt. ii, JOS. Stiff marosa Jangomas, Lour. Uaumea Jangomas^ 
S prong. Spina spinarum, Rumph. Arab Cap. 43, p. 38, xix, t. 1, 2. 
In all the provinces. Distrib. British India, China, Often cul- 
tivated. 
5. HYDNOCARPua, Gsertner. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, serrate or entire ; trauR verso venules nu- 
merous ; stipules deciduous. Flowers solitary, or in irregular axillary 
few-flowered racemes or fascicles, monoecious or dioecious. Sepals 5, 
equal or unequal, imbricate in bud. Petals 5, with a scale opposite 
each. Fl. tj ; Stamens 5 — 8 ; anthers reniform, connective broad. Ovary 
0 or rudimentary. Fl. ? ; Stamens as in the cT but without pollen, or 
reduced to staminodes. Orary 1 — celled : stigmas 3— 6, sessile nr subses- 
sile, spreading, dilated, lobed ; ovules many, on 3 — 6 parietal placentas. 
Berry globose, many-seeded, rind hard. Seeds many, imbedded in pulp ; 
testa crastaceous, striate ; albumen oily ; cotyledons very broad, flat. 
Distrib. Species about 12, tropical Asiatic. 
1. Hydnocarpos castanea, Hf.andTh. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 197. A glab- 
rous tree 50 to 60 feet high. Branches and young shorts brown. Leaves 
coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to oblong, gradually narrowed to the shortly 
acuminate apex ; the base unequal, rounded at one side, contracted at tho 
other ; both surfaces shining and pale brown when diy ; nerves 4 — 9 
pairs, sub-erect, thin but prominent as are the reticulations ; length 7 
to 14 in., breadth 2 5 to 4*5 in. ; petiole thickened at both ends and bent 
at the apes, 75 to 1 in. long. Flowers in axillary clusters of 2-0, malo 
and female alike and about equal in number, both on tawny-pubescent 
pedicels 1 "25 in long. Sepals obovato, imbricate, shorter than the petals, 
the exposed parts tomentose. Petals "Gin. long, linear-oblong, the scales 
linear-obtuse, short. Stamens with thick subulate filaments ; anthers 
ovate-cordate; rudimentary ovary small, hispid. Female flowers like 
the male, the stamens barren. Ovary ovoid, acuminate, tomentose : 
stigmas sessile ; ovnlcs numerous. Fruit on a pedicel 1*25 to 1" 54) in. 
long, globular, 1 in. to 1*5 in. diam., minutely rugose, densely covered 
with Bhort fulvous tomentum ; stigma persistent, hemispheric. Seeds 
large, angular. Kurz F. Flora B. Burmab, I, 77. 
Malacca ; Perak j common. Distrib. Burmab. 
2. Hydnocarptjs nana., King n. sp. A shrub or small tree ; tho 
branches and young shoots glabrous or (var. pubescens) pubescent. Leaves 
subcoriaceona, from ovate-lanceolate to oblong- lanceolato, inequilateral, 
subfalcate, shortly acuminate, remotely and minutely mucronate-serrulate, 
narrowed and unequal at the base, shining and glabrous except the 
midrib and nerves which, on both surfaces, are usually more or less 
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