NEPHELIUM. ; SAPINDACEÆ. : 113 
Trigonis, Molinea (Lam. ill. t. 305), Guioa (Cav. ic. 4. t. 373), Dimereza (La 
Bill. nov. Cal. t. 51), Diplopetalum, Gelonium (Gaertn. fr. t. 139), Tina, Ratonia, 
Mischocarpus, Blighia, and Stadmannia (Lam. ill. t. 312), appear to be all referable 
to the present genus ; nor is Schleichera pentapetala of Roxb. distinct. 
386. (1) C. canescens (Pers.:) petioles simple, somewhat terete or angled: 
leaflets 2 pair, obovate or oblong, more or less obtuse or emarginate, quite 
entire, glabrous: racemes simple or panicled, from the old leafless shoots : 
calyx-segments rounded: petals 4 (the fifth deficient), flat, obovate-oblong, 
unguis silky at the back: scale woolly in front, bifid, waved or crisped on 
the margin, with a cuneate crested appendage at its back below the cleft : 
disk crenulated, complete but on the one (the upper) side of the ovary : 
stamens 8, unilateral (on the opposite side from the disk): ovary ovate: 
style simple, elongated: stigma 3-toothed: capsule ovoid, triquetrous.— 
DC. prod. 1. p. 613; Spr. syst. 2. p. 221; Wight! cat. n. 389.—Molinsea ca- 
nescens, Rowb.! Cor. 1. t. 60; fl. Ind. 2. p. 243.—8apindus tetraphyllus, 
Vahl, symb. 3. p. 54; DC. prod. 1. p. 608 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 250. 
We can see no traces of the fifth petal, deseribed by both Vahl and Rox- 
burgh. We have united this plant to Cupania for the same reasons we gave 
while extending the character of Sapindus. 
V. NEPHELIUM. Linn.—Euphoria. Lam. ill. t. 306.—Secytalia. Gaertn. 
Sr. t. 42. 
Calyx 4-6-cleft or parted. Petals 4-6, glabrous or densely pilose or 
With a seale on the inside, sometimes wanting. Disk annular, occupying 
the bottom of the calyx. Stamens 6-10, inserted between the margin of 
the disk and the ovary. Ovary obcordate, usually didymous and 2-celled, 
sometimes 3-lobed and 3-celled; ovule one and erect in each cell. Style 
simple; stigma 2-lobed, or bifid, or 2-3 distinct. Fruit indehiscent, tubercled 
or muricated or smooth, usually 1-lobed from abortion. Seeds thick, covered 
by a fleshy arillus. Embryo straight.—Trees. Leaves exstipulate, abruptly 
Pinnate, rarely simple. Flowers in racemose panicles, or racemes. Fruit 
eatable. 
We can point out no character except the presence of an arillus to distinguish 
this genus from Sapindus. N. Litchi, 'ppaceum, and rimosum, W. & A. (Scytalia 
"mosa, Roxb.), have no petals. 
387. (1) N. Longanum (Camb.:) leaflets 2-4 pair, of a firm texture, quite 
; upper side shining ; under pale, somewhat glaucous, and apparently 
but not really pubescent, with strongly marked pinnate nerves: panicle lax, 
much branched, terminal : calyx deeply 5-partite: petals 5, narrow-oblong, 
Spreading, hairy, without a scale: stamens 6-8, hairy: ovary 2-3-lobed : 
stigmas 2-3, linear: berries usually solitary or in pairs, very rarely 3 together, 
» with a slightly scabrous or nearly smooth pericarp.—Dimocarpus 
ngan, Lour.—Euphoria Longana, Lam.; DC. prod. 1. p. 611; Spr. syst. 2. 
P. 222, —, ; leaflets oblong, obtuse.— Wight! cat. n. 364. a.—Scytalia 4 
9 fl. Ind. 2. p. 270.—5 ; leaflets oblong-lanceolate.— Wight cat. n. I k 
—1; leaflets narrow-oblong, acuminated, unequal at the — e 
n. 364. c—Nephelium Benghalense, G. Don in Mill. dict. 1. p. 670.—Sa- 
Wight. Benghalensis, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 941.—Dimocarpus undulatus, 
mss, 
In all the states, even when the leaflets are very narrow and elongated, the 
"Xtreme point is blint. Aporetica pinnata, DC., appears very closely allied, 
nor can we make out, by the descriptions yet given, any character to separate 
1t from the present species. 
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