3IO Sapindacece. {Poinetia, 



acuminate, obtuse, very coarsely dentate-serrate, glabrous, 

 rather thick, pale beneath, drying pale yellowish-green ; fl. as 

 in N. Longana ; cal.-segm. acute ; pet. longer than cal., very 

 hairy, linear; fr. as in the last but more tuberculated. 



Dry or desert region ; very rare. Puttalam (Gardner, Ferguson) ; 

 Northern Province (Vincent). 

 Endemic. 



8. POMETZA, Forst. 



Trees ; 1. pinnate ; fl. polygamous, in large terminal 

 panicles ; cal. 5-fid, valvate ; pet. 5, very short, without a 

 scale; disk annular, fleshy; stam. 5, inserted within the disk; 

 ov. 2-lobed, 2-celled, with i erect ovule in each cell, stigma 

 bilobed ; fruit a solitary, indehiscent coccus ; seed enclosed 

 in a pulpy aril. — Sp. 5 ; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



P. eximia^ Hk.f. m T/ru: Emim. 408 (1864). Gal-mora, Bulu- 

 mora, S. 



Eccronanthiis exiiinus, Thw. in Kew Journ. 13ot. vii. 272. Nephelium 

 exi))iium, Thw. Enum 57. C. P. 11 53. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 691 {P. tomentosa). Kew Journ. Bot. vii. t. 9. Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 157. 



A very large tree, with a straight erect trunk and large 

 spreading head, bark yellowish or pinkish, smooth, thin, 

 flaking off in small pieces, young parts covered with short 

 fulvous hair; 1. very large, pinnate, rachis 10-15 in., densely 

 fulvous-hairy, Iflts. 6-10 pair, opp. or nearly so, on short, 

 thick, hairy stalks, lanceolate-oblong, rounded or subcordate 

 and unequal at base, acuminate, acute, shallowly and distantly 

 dentate-serrate, glabrous, except on midrib, above, hairy on 

 veins beneath, with the lat. veins parallel and prominent 

 beneath, unequal, the middle one the largest, the basal pair 

 very small, stipuliform, soon deciduous ; fl. small, very 

 numerous, on long slender ped., in little stalked, unilateral 

 cymes closely arranged on the slender, elongated branches of 

 a very large, much-branched, pubescent, pendulous, terminal 

 panicle ; cal.-segm. triangular, hairy ; pet. shorter than cal., 

 very small, not clawed, broader than long, truncate ; fil. Hn 

 male fl.j long, slightly hairy; ov. rather hairy; fr. of i coccus 

 (by abortion), i-i| in., oblong-ovoid, smooth, crimson, peri- 

 carp fleshy-leathery, rather thick ; seed covered with a soft 

 mucilaginous aril, testa brown. 



Upper zone of moist low country ; rather rare. Kadaganuwa ; Dcltota ; 

 Watagoda ; about Kandy, (S:c. ; Forests of Kuruwita Korale, abundant. 

 Fl. May, June ; yellowish-brown, pet. greenish. 



