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NepheUumJ] xxxviiL sapindace.e. 465 



maiy parallel pinnate veins prominent undemeatli in all the Australian species 

 except N, microj^lii/llum. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal panicles. 



The genus extends over tropical Asia, especially the Archipelago. The Australian species 



are all endemic, and differ from the majority of the Asiatic ones in their smooth fruit and 



shorter filaments. The flowers are nearly those of Raionia ; but the fruit does not open in . 



septifcrous valves, even ulien, as in N. contiaimn, it is scarcely lohed. It is also very nearly 



allied to Euphoria, differing chietly in the smaller garaoscpalons calyx. The distinctions, 



however, between Cu^ania, Ratonia, Nepheliamy 'Euphoria, and several others, are very 

 slight. 



Carpels quite connate, the capsule not depressed in the centre between 

 them. 

 Leailets slightly hoary or pubescent. Panicle much-branched, 



many-flowered. Petals 5. Capsule scarcely coriaceous . . . 1. iV. connatiim, 

 Latflets rigid, glabrous, mostly toothed. Panicles scarcely 



branched,- Petals none. Capsule very coriaceous . • . . 2. i\^. siibdenfatum. 

 Carpels globular, the capsule depressed in the centre and deeply 

 lobed. 



Fruit densely villous. Leaflets 4 or more, mostly toothed, *tomen- 



tose-villous underneath 8, iV. tomentosum* 



Fruit minutely hoary. Leaflets 2, entire, coriaceous, glaucous 



underneath ,..».,.,. 4. iV. coriaceum. 



Fruit thickly coriaceous, neai'ly glabrous outside, very hairy inside. 



Panicle very tomentose. Leaflets glabrous 5. N. foveolatunu 



Fruit thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Panicle nearly glabrous. Leaflets 



quite glabrous .'.,...• 6. iV. leiocarpum. 



Carpels ovoid, united only by their attenuated bases. 



Leaflets 4 or 6, with few, parallel, prominent veins (as in all the 

 preceding species). Panicles loose, many-flowTred. 

 Calyx divided to the base into imbricate segments .... 7- A^. Beckleri. 

 Calyx divided to the mid<lle into broad obtuse lobes . . * , 8. -ST. divuricutunu 



Leaflets 2, small, with numerous, scarcely prominent veins. Pa- 

 nicles short . . 9, iV. microphyUum, 



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1. N. connatuzn, I. Muell. Ilerh. A tree of 20 to 40 ft., tlie young 

 slioots and inflorescence minutely hoary-tomentose. Leaflets 2 to 6, from 

 obovate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 2| to 4 in. lotig, narrowed at the base, 

 out scarcely petiolulate, quite entire or very obscurely sinuate, tliiuly coria- 

 ceous, glabrous and shining above, soraewliat glaucous or minutely tomentose 

 niidenieatli. Flowers small and numerous, in pyramidal panicles rarely ex- 

 ceeding tlie leaves. Calyx 5-lobed, about 1 line diameter. Petals about 

 4 line long, the inner scale as long as the lamina. Filaments short ; anthers 

 exserted, oblong, pubescent. Ovary 3-celled ; style thickened at the base. 

 Fruit 3-furro\ved or 3-lobed, but not deeply so, mucronate, and_ not depressed 

 in the centre, somewhat inflated, scarcely coriaceous, hoaiy, indehiscent or 

 splitting irrcguhirly. Seeds small, shining, black, in a bright red cupular 

 arillus.— -,.9pa/^o^7it'fl connata, F. Mucll. in Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 26. 



Queensland. Keppel Bay, B. Brown ; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, J. Cvnmngham, 

 f- mil, F. Mueller; Port Denisou, FHzalan. This is certainly the Sapimlus cinerevs, A. 

 ^""n, referred to by A. Gray, in Bot. Amcr. Expl. Eiped. i. 258 ; but the plant from 

 Huater's River, more especially described by A. Gray, with coarsely serrate leaves and gla- 

 "rons bracts, is probably diifereat. 



2. N. subdentatom, F. Muell. (as a var. of N. connatum). A tall 

 slirub or small tret*, the young' shoots and inflorescence .slightly pubescent 



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