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bifid at the apex, not reflexed when young. Fruit narrowly obovoid, 
cylindric, mainillate 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 iu. 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. Htdnocarpcs Wbayi, King, n. sp. A small sub-glabrous tree, 
Young branches with pale brown, minutely lenticellate, pubernlous bark. 
Leaves sub- coriaceous, elliptic, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the 
edge slightly recurved when dry; the base rounded, sometimes narrow- 
ed aud unequal ; the reticulations on both surfaces very prominent ; upper 
surface glabrous, sbining, 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 iu. ; petiole 
less than 5 in., stout. Male jlowers nearly 5 in, in- diam., in very miuutc, 
axillary, pedicelled, few-flowered cymes. Sepals 5, slightly imbricate, 
rotund, pubescent, larger than tbe 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. Staniam 15, the fila- 
ments glabrous, much thickened at tbe base ; anthers broadly ovate, 
cordate. Female flowers unknown. Fruit narrowly ovoid, tapering at 
both ends, often 3 in. long, aud 1'75 in. in diam., minutely fulvoin- 
velvetty; the apical mamilla '75 in. long with its apox 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. 2G08. 
This species has more stanions 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 
gen as. 
6. Taraktocrnos, 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 sfcaminiferous only. Stamintferous 
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 potals, lloshy, 
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