500 XLii. SAPINDACE^. [Nephelium. 



Flowers 'i in. across white often unisexual in cymose fascicles. 

 Sepals 4 to 6. Petals o. Stamens 5 to 8 exsert. Ovary 2- to 3- 

 lobed echinate. Fruit i- or 2-lobed ellipsoid densely covered with 

 long soft spines yellow to bright red, i"5 in. long. '5 in. through, 

 Hah. Cultivated everywhere, and often occurring in forests as an 

 escape, or in abandoned cultivations. The Rambutan. 



(4) N. rubescens Hiern, I.e. i. 688. N. rufescens King, I.e. 



435- 



A tree 50 to 60 ft. tall, 8 to 10 in. through. Leaves 6 to 12 in. 

 long; leaflets 6 to 10 coriaceous narrow oblong acuminate, base 

 cuneate or round glabrous ; nerves 8 to 14 pairs faint, 3 to 5*5 in. 

 long, i"5 to i"65 in. wide; petiolules "15 to -25 in. long. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal puberulous. Flowers '2 in. across, white. 

 Calyx lobes 5, ovate acute pubescent. Petals 5, narrow lanceolate 

 hairy. Disc small. Stamens exsert 8; filaments pubescent. 

 Fruit with i or 2 lobes oblong with short conic tubercles red, i"25 in. 

 long, '5 in. through ; seed-pulp thin acid. Hah. Common in woods. 

 Singapore (Wallich) ; Chan Chu Kang. Johor, Batu Pahat, 

 Malacca (Maingay). Perak, Larut (Kunstler). 



(5) N. Herveyi Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soe. S. Br. 82, p. 180. 

 Tree. Leaves narrow lanceolate blunt acuminate, base shortly 



acute, coriaceous glabrous; nerves about 18 pairs, shining above, 

 sub-glaucous beneath, 3 to 3-5 in. long, 1*5 in. wide; petiolules 

 •18 in. long. Panicles 4 to 6 in. long densely tomentose. Calyx- 

 lobes appressed tomentose, ovate. Petals 3 to 5 very small narrow 

 glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Fruit i'25 in. long, red, covered 

 with short flat blunt spines widest at base '12 in. long. Hah. 

 Malacca, Alor Gajah (Griffith, Hervey, Maingay). Dindings, 

 Pangkor (Curtis). 



This closely resembles N. rubescens Hiern, and has been confused with 

 it. The leaves are narrower and more rigid, and the fruit is totally different, 

 bearing flat triangular blunt spines close together. 



(6) N. caudifoliiim Ridl. 



Leaves 5 in. long with 5 pairs of leaflets, quite glabrous ; petioles 

 2 in. long. Leaflets coriaceous, smooth, lanceolate, bluntly caudate 

 acuminate, base shortly cuneate, finely reticulate above; nerves 

 fine, very inconspicuous, 10 pairs, 3-5 in. long, i in. wide ; petio- 

 lules '12 in. long. Panicles 5 in. long (base 3 in. long, nude) ; 

 branches 1*25 in. long, pubescent. Flowers numerous crowded; 

 pedicels 'i in. long, pubescent. Sepals 5, lanceolate blunt, silky 

 on both sides. Petals 5, little longer, narrow linear-lanceolate, 

 silky villous. Stamens much longer; filaments villous. Ovary 

 bilobed, tubercular, hairy; style rather stout. Fruit (unripe) of 

 2 equal spreading lobes covered with short conic tubercles, glabrous. 

 Hah. Selangor, Kelambu Forest, Klang (Foxworthy). Native 

 name : Gigi Buntal. 



