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pubescent; nerves 5 to 8 pairs, spreading or sub-erect, thin but pro- 
minent beneath ; length 2'5 to 5 in., breadth *75 to 2 5 in., petiole "25 to 
"35 in. ; stipules persistent, linear- lanceolate, pubescent, about as long as 
the petioles. Male inflorescence small, supra-axillary, I to 4-branched, 
nniparous, tomentose, bracteoiate, cymes not much longer than the 
petioles: flowers *25 in.it; diam. Sepals 5, rotund, the 8 extornal slight- 
ly imbricate, pubescent j the 2 inner much imbricate, glubrescent. Pe! iU 
5, smaller than the sepals, fleshy, with long white silky hairs externally, 
and each internally with a small oblong scale. Filaments short, thick, 
sericeous, the connective reniform ; the anther cells small, remote from 
each other. Ovary 0. Female flowers solitary, supra-axillary, on glabrous 
pedicels "5 in. long. Sepals and petals as in the male : stamens without 
pollen: ovary ovoid, tomentose ; stigmas 3, large, flat, bitid, re Hexed. 
Fruit on a pedicel '5 in. long, solitary, axillary, depressed-globular, 
minutely rugose, and velvetty tawny- tomentose ; about 1 in, in diam., 
or less ; pericarp dry, thin. Seeds 3 or 4, plano-convex, 5 in. long. 
Penang, Curtis, 854: Perak; King's Collector, Scortechini, Wray. 
This varies considerably as to size of leaf and fruit and in the amount 
of pubescence. In some specimens of the male plant the leaves towards 
the apices of the branches are much reduced in size. The form which has 
larger more pubescent leaves may be separated as a variety, and 
farther acquaintance with it may prove that it is separable as a species. 
Var. pubescent. Young parts, branchlets, and lower surfaces of 
adult leaves pubescent. 
Perak, at Goping, King's Collector, No. 761. 
3. Hydnocarpus CufiTisir, King, n. sp. A glabrous shrub or small 
tree. Young branches slender, pale brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, 
shining on both surfacos, oblong-lanceolate, rarely ovate, slightly inequi- 
lateral, gradually narrowed to the acuminate apex ; the base unequally 
narrowed, rarely rounded; nerves 7 to 11 pairs, thin, spreading; reticula- 
tions obscure on the upper surface ; length G to 12 in., breadth 2'25 to 3 in. ; 
petiole less than "5 in., thick. Male jlowers in small, axillary, branch- 
ed, bracteoiate, uniparous cymes not much longer than the petioles, 
■75 in., in diam.; pedicels scurfy- tomentose, "75 in. long. Sepals re- 
flexed, ovate, blunt, imbricate, pale, minutely pubescent, shorter tlian 
the petals. Petals 5, narrowly oblong, blunt, concave at tho apex, "65 in. 
long, glabrous; tho gland nearly as long, linear. Anthers much 
longer than the filaments, cordate at the base. Ovary 0. Female Jlowers 
on shorter, grooved, pedicels ; ovary elongate-ovoid, tawny-tomentoso : 
the stigmas 3, fleshy, bifid, spreading. Fnrit on a stout pedicel 
nearly "5 in. long, globose with long apical papilla, minutely rugose and 
velvetty, vertically ridged ; the stigmas persistent ; nearly l - 5 in. long and 
I in. in diam. Seeds few, plano-convex, '4 in. long. 
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