Tacul\ 2812. 



TRISTIROPSIS lilDLEYI, Uemsh 



♦Sapindaceae. Triljus Melicocceak. 



^T, Ridleyi, IlemsL (s/k noi\) ; a T. canarioide, Boer]., foliis multo 

 nanoribus (an semper ?), calyce deciduo et fructu oblougo breviter 

 stipitato differt 



_ Arhon excelsa, ramis foliisque cito glabrescentibus. I^olia bipiiinata, 

 pinnis 2 vel 3, 3-8-foliolatis ; foliola alterna, breviter petiolulata-j coriacea, 

 oblongo-lanceolata, 4-8 cm. loiiga, saepius leviter obliqtia, obtusa, 

 supra nitida. Florea ignoti. Paniculae fructigerae parvae, folia vix 

 excedentes. Frttchis obloiif^o-ovoideus, obscure costatus, acuininatus, 

 oreviter stipitatus, cum stipite circiter 3 cm. longus, lignosus, inde- 

 niscens, 4-locularis vel aboz*tu loculis paucioribus ; loculi mouospenni, 

 mtihs puberuli. Seinma erecta, exalburninosa ; cotjiedoiies carnosac, 

 nequales, radicula minima. 



Indian Ocean : Christmas Island, about 200 miles south of the west 

 end of Java ; Phosphate Hill, //. N. Eidley, 67. 



This almost certainly belongs to the same species as a specimen 

 collected in the island by Mr. J. J. Lister, F.R.S., in 1887, and 

 reeorded by me [Journ. Zinru Soc. vol xxv, p. 353) as probably 

 belonging to the Eurseraceae ; but Lister's plant has leaves arid 

 leaflets twice the size of those figured here, and it is therefore ad- 

 visable to await further material before giving the same name to all 

 the specimens. Lister's specimen was collected at Flying Fish Cove, 

 and is noted as being from a tree 100 feet high with a trunk thirteen 



feet in diameter. — AV. Botting Hemsley* 



Fig. 1, cross section of a four-celled fruit; 2, portion of hairy interior of cell of 

 "uit; 3 and 4, seed ; 5, cross section of seed; 6, eniLryo; 7, the same, from which 

 one cotyledon has been removed. Figures 1 and 3 natural size; the rest enlarged. 



