Materials for a Fidra of the Malayan Peninsnla. 439 



10. Nrtoelium Malmknse, Griff. ISTotul. IV, 549. A tree; young 

 branches with ranch scurfy tawny minute pubescence and elongated 

 lenticels in vows. Leaves 10 to 14 in. long, tliuir raeldses angled and 

 covered with minute tawny scurfy tomentum ; leaflets 6 to 8, sub- 

 opposite, thinly coriaceous, usually elliptic, sometimes elliptic-oblong, 

 sliortly cuspidate, very slightly narrowed to the rounded slightly 

 oblique base ; upper surface glabrous, the lower with small hairs on the 

 nerves and prominent reticulaticms ; main nerves 15 to 18 pairs, spread- 

 ing ; length 35 to 5 in., breadth 2 to 25 in. ; petiolules "15 in., tomentose. 

 Panicles terminal, minutely rustj'-glandalar-tomentose, 6 to 9 in. long, 

 branches rather numerous. Floivers in fascicles on the raceme-like 

 branches, sliortly pedicelled, "25 in. in diam. Calyx pubescent, with 5 

 deep ovate-rotund obtuse lobes. Petals 5, about as long as the calyx- 

 lobes but narrower, obovate, villous inside. Stamens 8, short, scarcely 

 exserted ; ani/ier* glabrous, shorter than the filaments. Ovary 2-lobed, 

 rusty-setose, the style about as long as the ovary ; the stigma capitate, 

 2-lobed. Fruit (fide Hiern) slightly tubercled or almost smooth, 

 globose, "65 to '75 in. in diam. Sepd globulai-, its arillus fleshy. 



Malacca: Griffith, No. 999; Maingay, No. 455. 

 I have not seen the fruit of this, and the description above given is 

 copied from Hiern. 



Douht/ul species. 



11. Nephelium SUPFERRUGINRUM, Radlk. lib. Sapind. Holland.-Ind. 

 77. A tree : young branches minutely rusty-tomentose. Leaves 6 to 8 

 in. long, the rachises puberulous : leaflets 2 pairs, thinly coriaceous, 

 elliptic or obovate-elliptic, sub-acute, the base cuneate ; upper surface 

 glabroiis and minutely reticulate, the lower minutely densely adpressed- 

 pubci-ulous ; main nerves 9 to 11 paiis, ascending, rather straight, pro- 

 minent on the lower surface ; length 275 to 4 in., breadth 1-75 to 2-25 

 in., petiolules '2 in. Panicles about as long as or shorter than the leaves 

 crowded, axillai-y, rusty-pubescent, their brandies racemose. Floivers '2 

 in. in diam., shortly pedicelled. Calyx rusty-tomentose, deeply cut 

 into 5 broadly ovate sub-acute lobes. Petals 0. Disc glabrous. Sta- 

 mens about 8, the anthers ghibrous, the filaments subulate and hairy. 

 Ovary not lobed, sub-globular, rusty-pubescent, much shorter than the 

 simple snb-glabrous .style. 



Malacca: Griffitii, No. 1000. 



I have not seen fruit of this ; but Radlkofer describes it as follows : 

 — " fructus aculeis brevioribus o basi obconica filiformibus hamato- 

 curvatis glabris laxius muricntis." The fniit thus attributed to the 

 species is however not attached to the branches in Griffith's specimens 



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