Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pemnsula. 



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1. N. glahrum. 



2. 

 3. 



iV^. Tiovqana. 

 N. rubescensm 



lobed, asuallj cupular, sub-valvato in bud. Petals srn^ll, villous, rarely 

 with '2 scales, often absent. Stamens 6 to 8, insei'ted within the fleshy 

 glabrous or pubescent disc ; /iZamen^s "us ually pubescent. Ovary pubes- 

 cent, often verrucose or setose, 1-2- or rarely 3-lobed, the lobes with 1 

 cell and 1 ovule. Fruit 1- rarely 2-coccous, indehiscent, oblong or glo- 

 bose, echinatb, tubercled or smooth. Seed ellipsoid or globose, covered 

 by a pulpy arillus ; cotyledons fleshy, not folded.^ — Distrib. About 

 twenty species chiefly Malayan. 



Besides the ten species described below, there are in the Calcutta Herbarium 

 Specimens of six other species which I am nnable to identify with any published 

 species but which, for want either of flowers or, of fruit, I am unable to describe. 



Leaflets quite glabi-ous on both surfaces. 

 Fruit rugulose but not at all spiny. 



Leaflets elliptic, fruit gibbous at the base 

 Leaflets oblong or ovate-lanceolate, fruit 

 not gibbous at the base 

 Truit with short glabrous spines 

 Fruit with long sub-compressed puberulous 

 flexuose stout setae • 

 Leaflets glabrous on the upper surface, sub- 

 glaucOus and minutely puberulous on the lower 

 surface, never rusty ; fruit covered with stout 

 woody spines. 



Petals 5... ... ... 



Petals 0. 



Leaflets with 9 to 13 paii'S of main nerves 



Leaflets with 16 to 24 pairs of mala nerves 



■ Leaflets glabrous on the upper surface, the 



' lower surface moi e or less i"Usty-puberulous or 



pubescent. 



Petals ; fruit densely covered with flexuose 

 compressed soft spines ... 



Petals 5. 



Leaflets oblong, rarely obovate-oblong ; 

 fruit densely covered with fl.exuose com- 

 pressed soft spines ... ... 



Leaflets elliptic, fruit slightly tubercled or 

 almost smooth 

 Doubtful species 



1. Nephelium glabrdm, Noronha in Batav. Genootsch. Nerh. V, 

 80. A tree 60 to 80 feet high ; young branches glabrous. Leaves 7 to 

 11 in. long : leaflets At to 6, coriaceous, elliptic, ncute ol' very shortly afld" 



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4. N. lappaceiim. 



5. N. costatum. 



6. 



7. 



N. cJiryseum. 

 N. hamulatum. 



8. JV. opJiiodes. 



