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N. RUBRTTM, G, Don, IS Sapindus attennatus, Wall. 



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N. VERTiciLLATCM, G. Dou, is Sapindus Danura, Voigt. 



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m }^ tr^^s. Leaves alternate, pinnate, leaflets subopposite, entire or serrate 

 (the lowest pair usually stipuliform). Racemes simple or panicled, eIon;;ated 

 Slender. Flowers regular, polygamous, fascicle'd, small, shorter than their 

 pedicels. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-4-fid, valvate in bud. Petals 5-4, small, 

 usually without scales. Disk complete, annular, lobed. Stamens 4-8, 

 Usually 6-4 inserted within the disk, at length much exserted* anthers 

 smalL Ovary 2-3-coccou3 and -celled ; ovules solitary. Style elongated ; 

 stigma obtuse, emarginate. Fruit 1-2-coccous ; lobes subglobose or ellip- 

 soidal, indehiscent, smooth. Seeds exalbuminous. covered with a mucUa- 

 ginousarih — Disteib. Species few, confined to India, Ceylon, the Indian 

 Archipelago and the Pacific Islands. 



1. P. tomentosa, Kurz Andam. Rep, ed. 2, 34 ; leaflets 10-26 oblong 



glabrescent or veins and midrib pubescent or even tomentose usually 



acuminate base rounded or somewhat cordate lateral veins numerous 



clearly marked beneath, inflorescence pubescent or glabrescent, flowers 



M-merous. P, eximia, Bedd.^ Ft. Sylv. t. 157, Irina glabra, Blum^^. 



^ydr. 230. Eccremanthus eximius, Thwattes in Ilooh Kew Journ. vii 272, 



J* 9. Nephelium eximium, Thwaites Enum. bl. — RumpK Herb. Ainhoin. iii. 

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A tree ranging up to 60 ft. with terete glabrate branches. Leaved 1-3 ft- ; leaflets 

 ranging up to 1 4 by | ft., the lower leaflets smaller, the lowest pair very small J-lJ 

 ^•diam. ; lateral veins alternately ending in a tooth j pctiolules vciy short, Flower9 

 ^^ly small, 5-4-merou8, yellowish-green. Petals white, short, glabrous or hairy near 

 ^e apex inside, with or without an adnate hairy scale. Disk bright red or orange. 

 ^^amens 5-4 ; filaments pubescent at least below. Fruit deep red or brown wlien rijic, 

 glabrous, ellipsoidal or subglobose, 1-2 in. diam. Seeds oblong ; testa red ; aril white, 

 *^Paque.— Timber useful. For a figure and description of a monfltron» leaf of this plant, 

 "^ a paper by Dr. A. Braun on the subject. This perhaps ought to be united to P. 

 P^nnata, J. n^ ^. q^ Forster Char. Gen, 110, t. 55, a native of Fiji and other South 

 '^a Islands ; it difiers from the latter by rather more numerous less sessile less corJato 

 ^^not iiubncating leaflets. 

 , >AR. ftrmginea; young parts inflorescence rachis of leaves and midrib of leafltta 



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17. KAaPUI.I.IA, RoxK 



Erect trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnate; leaflets alternate, 

 ^ntu'e, acuminate, subglabrous. Flowers in racemes or panicles dioecious 



:amous, regular. Seriats 



Petals 4-5, 



Vgamous, regular. >0^^xW5 4-o, ereci, cquai, lui.^iicctiru.^ ^ ctu<,a ^-y, 

 wly obovate, exceeding the calyx, sometimes clawed, without either 

 4 or scales, but sometimel with inflected lobes at the base of th^^ 



ma. , , &ameus 5-8, elongated. 



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