Materials for a Flora of the Malaynn Peninsula. 437 



lous blunt setae, diam. (when not quite ripe and to the ends of the setae) 

 •75 in. Radlkofer Sapind. Holl.-Ind. 76. 



Malacca, Maingay, No. 454. Perak : Scortechini, Nos. 30, 1992. 



6. Nephelium chryseum, Blurae Rumphia, III, 105. A tree 30 to 

 50 feet high : young brnnches puberulotts or glabrescent. Leaves 6 to 

 12 in. long ; their rachises slender, cinereous-puberulous : leaflets 4 to 

 8, sub-coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, shortly and often rather 

 bluntly acuminate ; the base much narrowed and sometimes oblique ; 

 upper surface glabrous and shining, the lower sub-glaucous and sparsely 

 puberulous; main nerves 9 to 13 pairs, spreading and curving : leno^th 

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

 solitary or several together, 3 to 4 in. long, with few raceme-like 

 branches ; the flowers shortly pedicelled and in small clusters, *15 in. 

 in diam. Calyx deeply cut into 5 or 6 broadly-oblong blunt teeth, 

 minutely tomentose. Petals 0. Stamens 7 or 8, exserted or not; the 

 anthers broadly ovate, sparsely pubescent ; the filaments short, pubes- 

 cent. Disc sub-glabrous, sulcate. Ovary compressed, reniform, bilobed, 

 rusty-pubescent ; the style stout, pubescent, longer than the ovary, bifid 

 at the apex, the lobes recurved. Fruit usually 1-lobed, sub-globose, 

 densely covered with conical compressed strisite woody spines, diam. 

 to the tips of the spines about 2 in. : seed with a large succulent aril. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 554. Euphoria chrysea, Korth, MSS. 



Perak : King's Collector, Scortechini. Selangor ; Ridley No. 407. 

 Singapore : Ridley, Nos. 6358, 6374. — Distrib. Borneo. 



7. Nephelium hamdlatum, Radlk. iib. Sapind. Holl.-Ind. 78. A 

 tree ; young branches rusty- puberulous. Leaves 10 to 15 in. long, their 

 rachises rusty-puberulous : leaflets 6 to 10, oblong, shortly acuminate, 

 rarely acute, the base cuneate ; upper surface minutely reticulate and 

 glabrous except the puberulous midrib ; the lower sub-glaucous, covered 

 with very minute pale pubescence, the 16 to 24 pairs of spreading nerves 

 rusty- pubescent and vei*y prominent ; length 2*5 to 4"5 in., breadth 1 to 

 1'75 in., petiolules "15 in. Panicles terminal or axillary, 4 to 6 in. long ; 

 the branches few, slender and raceme-like, densely tomentose. Flowers 

 •1 in. in diam., numerous, in small cymules, on pedicels a little longer 

 than themselves. Calyx tomentose outside, deeply divided info 4 broad 

 raf.her unequal blunt segments. Petals 0. Stamens 6 or 7, exserted, 

 the anthers broadly-ovate and sub-glabrous, the filaments long and 

 pubescent. Ovary 2-lobed, rusty-villous. Fruit with only a single 

 lobe developed, ovoid, densely covered with stout rusty-puberulons 

 woody spines with broad slightly compressed sub-glabrous bulbous bases, 

 nearly 15 in. long to the tips of the spines, and 1 in. or more in diam. 



Malacca: Maingiy, No. 450 ; Derry, Nos. 1094, 130 i, 1882. 



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