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cnneate, plano-convex, ridged, the apes often irregularly toothed and 
with 2 or o cvlimliic pits. Si a mens 20 to 32, the authors dot-ply cordate. 
Female Jloivers like the males, but the sepals often only 3, the petals 
6, and the stamens 16 or 17 ; ovary elongate-ovoid, sulcate, divided 
above into 4 oblong, divergent, roflexed lobes, each bearing a stigmatic 
surface internally ; 1-celled with 4 multi-ovulate pariotal placentas. 
Fruit large, globular or ovoid, with hard fibrous or woody rind, and 
several large seeds embedded iu a scanty pulp. Seeds with thick hard 
testa, copious albumen, and straight central embryo ; the cotyledons 
largo, cordate, foliaceous, 3-nerved. Species probably about 8 : all 
Malayan. 
Note, — This genus was founded by Hasckarl (Retzia, i. 127) on the 
plant named 11 tjtln<>r>irj>itA heterophil lias by Ulume (Kumphia, iv, 22, t. 
178 B., fig. 1, and Mus. Bot. i, 16). Until now that plant has been 
the only known species. But the following have been discovered by 
Messrs. Kunstler and Wray iu Perak. And from the similarity in 
externals to JJytlnoanyus, and from I fie imperfect nature of t he Herba- 
rium materials of the latter, it appears to me extremely probable that 
Beveral things now referred to Hydnocarpus really belong to Tarakto- 
genos. In the Calcutta Herbarium, there are imperfect materials of 
of, at least, 8 undescribed species which belong either to one or other of 
those two genera. 
1. Taraktooenos Scortechinii, King, n. sp. A large glabrous 
tree ; young branches with dark-coloured bark. Leaves coriaceous, shining, 
inequilateral, oblong-lanceolate, oblong or elliptic, with a short abrupt ra- 
ther blunt acumen and slightly waved edges ; the base slightly narrowed 
and unequal, 3-nerved,; lite upper .surface smooth, the lowtu- i\uigh from 
the prominent reticulations and 4 to 5 pairs of ascending nerves ; length 
3*5 to 7 in,, breadth 1*5 to 2 75 in. ; petiole '5 to "75 in. Cymes tricho- 
tomous, 1 in. in diam., on pedicels as long as the petioles, solitary, axillary, 
few-branched, uniparous. Male flowers "5 to "6 in. in diam. ; pedicels "25 
to *35 in. Fetals densely sericeous externally ; the basal scales less than 
half their length. Stamens 20 to 24, filaments hirsute, anthers sagittate. 
Female flowers and fruit unknown. 
Perak ; Scortechiui, No. 833 ; Wray, 1 169. 
Var. gracilipes, King; petioles longer ( 75 to 1 in.) and more slen- 
der; leaves smaller, 2*5 to 4 in. long, by 1"25 to 1*5 in. broad. 
Perak ; Bujoug-Malacca ; Scortechiui, No. 1894. 
2, Taraktogenos Kdnstleri, King, n. sp. A sub-glabrous tree 40 to 
(30 feet high. Young branches fulvous- puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, un- 
equal-sided, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, shortly acuminate; the base nar- 
rowed and unequal, 3-nerved ■ both surfaces shining, the lowor rough from 
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