jVepkeiiuin.'] SapindacecB. 309 



Leaflets entire i. N. Longana. 



Leaflets dentate-serrate 2. N. Gardneri. 



I. N. Ziong-ana,^ Canib. in Mem. Mus. Par. xviii. 30 (1829). 

 Mora, Rasamora, 5. Nurai, T. 



More., Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 487. Diniocarpus pupilla., Moon Cat. 31. 

 Nephelium piipillum, Wight, 111. i. 141. Thw. Enum. 58. Etiphoria 

 Lotts^ana, Lam., Thw. Enum. 408. C. P. 1152. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 688. Gaertn. Fruct. t. 180, f. 5. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 156. 



A large tree, with much-branched head, bark smooth, 

 yellowish-grey, flaking off in small pieces, young parts with 

 fine rufous stellate pubescence ; 1. pinnate, rachis 4-6 in., 

 cylindrical, rough, with fine stellate puberulence, Iflts. on very 

 short tumid stalks, 7-1 1, oblong-lanceolate, acute and unequal 

 at base, shortly acuminate, sub-obtuse, entire, rather undulate, 

 glabrous, dark green and shining above, pale dull green, often 

 puberulous and minutely reticulate beneath, drying brown ; 

 fl. on pubescent ped., in clusters on branches of large, lax, 

 pyramidal, pubescent, terminal panicles ; cal. densely pubes- 

 cent, lobes obtuse; pet. about as long as cal., linear-spathulate; 

 fil. and disk hairy ; ov. didymous, very hairy, style long, 

 stigmas 2, recurved ; fr. supported on persistent cal., of 2, 

 or usually i by abortion, divaricate carp., |-| in., globular- 

 ovoid, faintly tuberculated, with stellate hair on the tubercles 

 when young afterwards glabrous, pericarp thin, brittle ; seed 

 completely covered with thin pulpy aril, black, shining. 



Var. /3. pallida, Trim. 



Lflts. fewer, 3-7, broader, quite glabrous beneath, drying 

 a pale yellowish-green (not brown); fl. larger; cal.-segm. very 

 obtuse, less hairy; pet. very hairy; fr. not seen. 



Low country in dry and moist regions to 2000 ft.; common. Var. /3. 

 on UambuUa Hill. Fl. April-July ; pale yellow. 



Also in S. India, E. Bengal, Burma, and S. China. 



Wood moderately hard and heavy, pale brownish-red. The aril of 

 the seed is edible and very sweet, but is inferior to that of the Litchi or 

 the Rambutan. It a good deal resembles that of Walsura Piscidia, 

 The tree is not cultivated in Ceylon. 



2. If. Gardneri, Thw. E?tuin. 58 (1858). Nurai, T. 

 Euphoria Gard?ieri, Thw. Enum. 408. C. P. 1154. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 690. Bedd. Ic. t. 285 {Euphoria). 



A tree, with pale bark, young parts pubescent; 1. pinnate, 

 rachis 2^-3^ in., glabrous, lflts, usually 6, opp. or sub-opp., 

 shortly stalked, lanceolate, acute and oblique at base, slightly 



* ' Long-yen ' is the name of the fruit in China. 



