432 MateHals for a. Flora'of the Malayan Peninsula. 



length 3 to 6 in,, breadth 1'35 to 2 in., petiolules '35 in. Racemes 

 axillary, usually with a few short branchlets, bracteoles small, pedicels 

 as long as the ftower-buds. Flowers '2 in. in diam. Sepals 4, rotund, 

 nearly glabrous but with ciliate edges. Petals 4, shorter than the 

 sepnls, the limb rusfcy-villous. Disc fleshy, waved. Staviens 8, the 

 filaments pubescent towards the apex, the anthers glabrous. Fruit 

 usually reduced by abortion to only one lobe, sharply muricate, 1'25 in. 

 long and '75 in. in diam. Xerosperimini Norhonianum, Hiern (not of 

 Blume) in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 686 (in part) ; Kurz For. Flora 

 Burma, I, 295. Nephelium muricatum, Griffith MSS. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1004 ; Maiugay, Nos. 444 and 458 also 443 

 in part ; Derry. Perak : very common. King's Collector, Scortechini. 

 Singapore : Ridley.— Distrib. Burma. 



Though closely allied to X. Norhonianum Radlk. this has more 

 sharply muricated fruit. ...r\T.:.'- ^ 



2. Xbrospebmdm ^Wallichii, .King, n. sp. A tree 30 to 40 feet 

 high ; young branches glabrous, dark-coloured when dry." Leaves 12 

 to 18 in. long, equally pinnate ; leaflets two pairs, coriaceous, elliptic 

 or obovate-elliptic, shortly and bluntly cuspidate, much narrowed below 

 the middle to the base, both surfaces glabrous and transversely reti- 

 culate : main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, depressed on the upper prominent 

 on the lower surface, ascending ; length 4'5 to 8 in., breadth 225 to 

 4 in. ; petiolules '25 to '45 in., stout. Racemes axillary, 2' to 4 together, 

 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers '15 in. in diam. when open, pedicellate. Sepals 

 4, rotund, concave, glabrous but with minutely ciliate edges. Petals 

 4, smaller than the sepals, sub-rotund, with very short claws, densely 

 lanate. Stamens 8 ; filaments short &nd IsmSite, anthers short and glab- 

 rous. Disc annular, glabrous, fleshy. Ovary broad, compressed, 2- 

 lobed and 2-celleci, pubescent.. Fruit usually with 2 cocci but often with 

 only one, obliquely elliptic, slightly compressed, rarely sub-globular, 

 minutely ragulose, not muricate, when ripe 1*25 in. long and '75 in: 

 broad. Wall. Cat. Nos. 8083, 8084. 



Singapore and Penang : Wallich. Perak : Wray, ISTos. 3419, 3580: 

 King's Collector, Nos. 8725, 10611, and 10945. Pahang : Ridley, 

 No. 2570. 



Ridley's Pahang specimen has nearly globular fruit. But in other 

 respects it exactly resembles those from the other provinces. 



9. Nepheltdm, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnate, the leaflets 

 entire. Inflorescence terminal and axillaiy, paniculate or paniculatei- 

 racemose or i-aceniose. Flowers . regular, polygamous. ■ Calyx 4- to'6-' 



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