438 Matertah for a Tlorn of the Malayan Femvsnla. 



8. Nephkijum oPinoDEs, Radlk. Snpind. Holl.-Incl. 78. A tree 50 

 to 80 feet high : young branches rusfcy-pnberulons. heaves 12 to 18 in. 

 long, tlieir rachises .{-angled ; leaflets 6 to 10, very coriaceous, oblong, 

 rarely ellipfeic-oblong, very shortly and blnntly acuminate, the base 

 slightly narrowed and oblique ; upper surface glabi'ous, the lower 

 minutely scaly and rusty- puberulous ; main nerves 15 to 18 pairs, 

 spreading axvd curving upwards, slightly depressed on the upper bold and 

 prominent on the lower surface ; length (> to 8 in., breadth 2 to 25 in.,' 

 petiolules '2 to "25 in. Panicles axillary or terminal, sometimes pedun- 

 culate, 8 to 1 6 in. long, much branched, Vusty-tomentose. Flowers "15 in. 

 in diam., shortly pedicellod. Calyx tomentose, deeply divided into 5 or 

 6 bioadly triangular acute lobes. Petals 0. Disc glabi'ous. Stamens & 

 to 8, slightly if at all exserted : filaments subulate, pubescent ; anthers 

 short and puberulous. Ovary abortive on one side, broadly ovoid, densely 

 setose-iDubescent, 1-celled. Fruit with only one lobe developed, 

 oblong-ovoid, densely covered with long flexuose puberulous setae, 

 1*5 in. long and 1 in. in diam. N. enopetalum, Hiera in Hook. fil. FL 

 Br. Iml. I, 689 (in part). 



Malacca : Maingay, No. 453. Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 5481, 

 7140. 



9. Nephelium ERiOPETALUsr, Miq. in Fl. Ind, Biat. Sappl. 508. A 

 large tree : the young parts, the rachises of the leaves, the under surfaces 

 of tlie leaflets and the inflorescence minutely rusty- or f ulvous-tomentose 

 or pubescent. Leaves 12 to 24 in. long : leaflets 6 to 10, thickly coriaceous, 

 oblong, rarely obovate-oblong, sub-acute, slightly narrowed to the 

 rounded or cuneate base : upper surface glabrous and shining except 

 the tomentose midrib ; the lower brown, tomentose or pubescent, with 

 the 16 to 24 pairs of spreading main nerves and the tiansverse reti- 

 culations prominent; length 4 to 12 in., breadth. 1"65 to 4 in., petiolules 

 •25 to "35 in., tomentose, stout. Racemes in small clusters in the leaf- 

 axils, pendent, 4 to 10 in. long (longer in fruit) ; the flowers in glome- 

 ruli, shortly pedicelled, -25 in. in diam. Calyx with 5 deep triangular 

 Bub-acute spreading teeth, pubescent externally, glabrescent inteimally. 

 Petals 5 or fewer, oblong and blunt, or subspathulate, much narrower 

 than the calyx-teeth, pubescent. Disc lobulate, pubescent. Stamens 

 about 10, not exserted, anther oblong, filament short, both sparsely 

 pubescent. Ofary slightly compressed, 2-lobed, rusty-setose: styles 2, 

 longer than the livaiy, pubescent, divaricating, recurved. Fruit ovoid, 

 densely covei-ed with flexuose compi-essed puberulous soft spines, about 

 2 in. long (measur-ed to the ends of the spines) and about 1'5 in. in 

 diam. Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 689. 



Malacca : Maingny, No. 448. Singapore : Ridley, Nos. 4584, 6022. 

 Perak : Scortechini, No. 143 : Wray, No. 1300. — Distiub. Sumatra. 

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