436 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Veninsula. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 996 ; Maingay, No. 452. Singapore: Wallich, 

 Ridley, Nos. 5095, 6211. Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 6523, 6750. 



4. Nephelium LAPL'ACiiUM, Linn. Mant. 1, 125. A tree 30 to 60 

 feet high : young branches rusty-pubescent. Leaves 4 to 10 in. long : 

 leaflets 4 to 6, elliptic, sub-obovate-elliptic or elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, 

 entire, the base cuneate : both surfaces glabrous and minutely reticulate ; 

 main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, ascending, prominent beneath ; length 2-6 to 

 6 in., breadth 1-25 to 3 in., petiolules '2 to '25 in. Panicles shorter than 

 the leaves, tomentose, terminal and axillary, with numerous racemose 

 branches. Flowers '1 in. in diam., in cymose fascicles on the branches. 

 Sepals 4 to 6, sub-valvate. Petals 0. Stamens 5 to 8, exserted, the 

 filaments pubescent. Ovary 2-3-lobed and 2-3-celled, pubescent and 

 ecbinate. Style stout, deeply 2-3-lobed ; the lohes divergent, recurved. 

 Frtnt usually with 1 or 2 lobes, each elliptic and densely covered with 

 long sub-compressed incurved soft puberulous setae with broad bases, 

 yellowisb-orange to dark purple when ripe, I in. long, and '75 in. in diam. 

 (excluding the setae) ; aril of the seed pale, fleshy, edible. Gsertn, Fruct. 

 II, 272, t. 140, f. 1 ; Blume Rumph. Ill, 103: Lamk. 111. t. 764; Hassk. 

 PI. Jav. Rar. 287; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1, pt. 2, p. 554; Hiern in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. I, 687. Euphoria Nephelium, DC. Prodr. 1, 612 ; Bl. Bijdr. 

 235; Wall. Cat. 805.3 (excl. part of B). Scijtalia Ramhoutan, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng»29 ; Fl. Ind. 11,271. Dinwcarpus crinita, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 234. 

 ^. echinatuniy Noronh. in Batav. Genootsh. Verb. V, 80. 



In all the Provinces except the- Nicobars and Andamans : often 

 cultivated for its fruit which is known as the Ram Boittan. 



5. NepAelidm costatum, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 688. 

 A tree 50 to 60 feet high : young branches puberulous, slightly lenti- 

 cellate. Leaves 6 to 12 in. long, equally pinnate : leaflets 4 to 10, 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, the apex sub-acute or shortly 

 and bluntly acuminate, the bas;e slightly narrowed but rounded, upper 

 surface glabrous, the lower minutely puberulous near the nerves but 

 becoming glabrescent, sub-glaucous; main nerves 10 to 18 pairs, 

 spreading, prominent beneath : length 2'75 to 5*5 in., breadth 1'25 to 

 1*75 in., petiolules '25 in. Panicles usually 3 or 4 together, mostty 

 axillary, 4 to 6 in. long, puberulous, the branches short, racemose. 

 Floivers -2 in. in diam., pedicelled, in short cymules. Sepals 5, sub- 

 rotund, thick, minutely tomentose outside and pubescent inside. Petals 

 5, much smaller than the sepals, spathulate, villous. Disc large, flat, 

 glabrous. Stamens 8 to 12, exserted, the filaments haiiy at the base, 

 the anthers glabrous. Ovary broadly ovate, 2-lobed, covered with 

 coarse villi ; style short, stout, simple. Fruit of two or usually of only 

 one sub-globular lobe densely covex"ed with long stout curved puberu- 

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