Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 435 



in. in (liam. Seed solitary, enveloped in a fleshy pale sub-acid arillus. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4096; W. and A. Prodr. 113; arali. Bomb. PI. 29; Blume 

 Rumph. Ill, 108; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 35 ; Thwaites Enum. 58; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 550 ; Hieru in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, 688, (in 

 part) ; Tiimen Flora Ceylon, I, 309. N. Mora, Gardu. ex Thwaiies I. c. 

 N. Bengnlense, G. Don Gen. Syst. I, 570. Scytalia bengalensis, Roxb. 

 ex G. Don I. c. Sc. Longaii, Roxb. Horfc. Beng. 29 ; -Fl. Ind. II, 270. 

 Dimocarpus Longan, Lour. Fl. Cocbiiich. 233 ; Trans. Hort. Soc. II, t. 28. 

 Euphoria Longana, Larak. Diet. Ill, 574 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1729 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 fSylv. t. J 56 ; Wall. Cat. 8049. Sapiiidus bengalensis, Roxb. ex W. and 

 A., I. c. Dimof,arpus tmdiilatns, Wight ex W. and A., I. c. E. undulata^ 

 Hb. Heyne ex Wall. I. c, 8. monogyna, Hb. Heyiie I. c. D. ptipilla, Moon. 

 Cat. 31. N. pnpillum, Wight 111. I, 141. Etiplwria puyillum, Stead. 

 Norn. ed. 2, II, 192. 



In most of the Provinces, but probably cultivated. — Distrib. The 

 Tropics genei-ally. 



Var. liypoleuca. King. Fruit ovoid, 1 to 1*5 in long. N. hypoleucnm^ 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal for 1871, II, 50: for 1874, II, p. 183: 

 and for 1875, II, p. 187 ; For. Flora Burma, 1,293: Radlk. Sapind. 

 Holl.-Ind. 28. 



Malacca : Maingay, No. 440. — Distrib. Burma. 



Hiern reduces N. hypolencum without recognising it as even a 

 vai'iety. Radlkofer, on the other hand regards it as a distinct species. 

 But beyond its oval fruit, I do not see how it differs from typical N, 

 Longana, L., and I therefore treat it as a variety of the latter. 



3. Nephelidm rufescens,- Hieru in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 688. 

 A tree 50 to 60 feet high : young branches einereous-puberulous, soon 

 becoming glabrous. Leaves 6 to 12 in. long: leaflets 6 to 10, coriaceous, 

 narrowly oblong or lanceolate-oblong, shortly aiid bluntly acuminate, 

 entire, the base cuneate or rounded ; both surfaces quite glabrous and 

 finely reticulate ; main nerves 8 to 14 pairs, faint, spreading ; length " 

 2 to 5*5 in., breadth '75 to 1'65 iii., petiolules "15 to '25 in. Panicles 

 axillary or terminal; the branches racemo.se, puberulous. Floioers 

 rather ci'owded, pedicellate, '2 in. in diam. Calyx with 5 deep ovate 

 Segments with broad bases and acute apices, pubescent. Petals 5, uai'- 

 rowly lanceolate, hairy. Disc small, glabrous. Stamens about 8, exserted, 

 the anthers short and broad, the filaments pubescent. Ovary with 2 

 ovate lobes, villous, 2-celled ; style stout, shortly divaricate at the apex. 

 Fruit with usually only one narrowly-ellipsoid stoutly-echinate glabrous 

 lobe 1'25 in. long and '5 in. in diam. : the spines short and hollow, 

 compressed and glabrous. Radlk. Sapind. Holi.-Iud. 76. Euphoria 

 Xt>;«, Wall. Cat. 8048 G. and H. 



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