Penang, Curtis, 800, 1534. Perak ; King's Collector, Scortechini. 
No specimen that I have seen 1ms female flowers showing anything 
besides the ovary. Complete female flowers are much wanted. 
4. Hydnocaupds Scobtechinii, King n. sp. A tree, all parts except 
the sepals glabrous. Branchlets palo brown when dry, angular. Leaves 
sub-sessile, coriaceous, shining on both surfaces, slightly inequilateral, 
elliptic or elliptic-oblong, tapering to the acuminate apex, the edges slight- 
ly recurved when dry ; the base rounded, slightly unequal ; nerves 7-8 
pairs, thin, spreading ; the reticulations minnto and distinct on both 
surfaces : length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2'5 to 3'5 in., petiole about *2 in. 
Cymes small, monoecious, axillary or extra-axillary, on the young branches, 
about three times as long as the petioles, densely bracteolate, 2-3 branch- 
ed. Male flowers on pedicels *75 in. long. Sepals elliptic, blunt, their 
apices ineurved, puborulous. Petah smaller than the sepals but of the 
same shape ; the gland nearly as long, linear. Anthers narrow, elongate ; 
filaments short, conical. Ovary none. Female flowers like the males, 
but on short pedicels and the stamens barren ; ovary ovoid below, its 
upper half cylindric, ridged, pale-coloured, glabrous ; stigmas large 
fleshy, reflexed, shortly bifid. Fruit (young) ovoid, minutely rugose t 
glabrous. 
Diuding Islands ; Scortechini, Curtis. 
This species bears a general resemblance to JI. Curtisii. But it differs 
from that species in having broader leaves on shorter petioles, much 
broader and shorter petals, and a glabrous ovary, llipo fruit of this is 
unknown. 
5. Hvdkocakpus cocimuiTiNA, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high ; 
very young branches and leaves with minute ferruginous mealy tomen- 
tum ; otherwise glabrous, Leaves thinly coriaceous, slightly inequilateral 
and contracted at the base on ono side, elliptic-oblong, tapering to either 
end, the apex with a short rather blunt acumen, the edge very slightly 
recurved when dry ; both surfaces, bat especially the lower, shining and 
with the transverse veins and minute reticulations very distinct ; main 
nerves 5 to 6 pairs, sub-erect, thin j length 3"5 to 5 in., breadth 1*5 to 
2*25 in., petiole '25 in. Cymes diteceous, (the female flowers few) 
axillary, three times as long as the petioles, bracteolate, 3 to 6-branched. 
Male flowers on pedicels '35 in. long, about *3 in. in diam. Sepals broad- 
ly ovate, blunt, pubescent-tomentose externally. Petals ovate-rotand, 
glabrous, thin, each with a fleshy scale with white ciliate edges and 
nearly as large as itself. Anthers ovate-cordate, glabrous ; the filaments 
short, couical j Ovary rudimentary, sericeous. Female flowers like the 
males, but on slightly shorter pedicels and with smaller barren stamens. 
Ovary cycliudric, densely sericeous- tomcutose : stigmas elongate, fleshy, 
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