Nephelium, Alectryon. 983 



Accedit species adhuc non descripta: 

 Nephelium uncinatum Radlkofer in Merrill, PI. Elmerianae borneenses (1929) 175 



(sine descript.). 



In Borneo: »Nos. (Eimer) 21277, 21330, 21560, 21708, 21774, near Tawao. A tree 



in dense forests, its trunk up to 45 cm in diameter.« 



62. Alectryon Gaertn. 



Alectryon Gärtn. Fruct. I. (1788) 216 t. 46; Poir. in Lam. Enc. Suppl. I. (1810) 

 288; DC. Prodr. I. (1824) 617, excl. sp.; Gamb. in Mem. d'Hist. nat. XVIII. (1829) 37; 

 Don, Gen. Syst. I. (1831) 656 et 675; A. Cunningham (sphalm. Aledryon) in Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. III. (1839) 318; Meissner, Gen. (1836-1843) 53 (38 et 346); Endl. Gen. (1836- 

 1840) 1073 n. 5627 et Suppl. IV. Pars III. (1847) 79; Hook. f. Fl. N.-Zeland. I. (1853) 

 37; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. I. 1. (1862) 410 n. 65; Baill. Hist. pl. V. (1874) 354 f. 365, 

 p. 404; Radlk. in Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. XX. (1890) 174, 254, 289 et in Engl. u. 

 Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. III. 5. (1895) 332 f. 170 (ex Baill.), Nachtr. III, Ergänz.- 

 Heft II, Lief. 3. (1907) 205; Th. Kirk, Student's Fl. "New-Zealand (1899) 95; Koord. 

 et Valet. Bijdr. Booms. IX. in Meded. Plantent. LXI. (1903) 202; Maiden and Betche, 

 Cens. N. S. Wales PI. (1916) 127; Merrill, Enum. Philipp. Fl. pl. II. (1923) 506; W. D. 

 Francis, Austral. Rain Forest Trees (1929) 224 (6 species). — Evonymodes Soland. mss. 

 et ic. in coli. Banks. — Alectrium Steud. Nomencl. (ed. 1, 1821) 26. — Spanoghea 

 Blume, Rumph. III. (1847) 172; Walp. Ann. II. (1851-1852) 219; Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. 

 I. 2. (1859) 569; Ferd. Müller, PI. Gol. Victor. I. (1860—1862) Addit. 227; Benth. et 

 Hook. f. Gen. I. 1. (1862) 406; Boerlage, Handleid. Fl. Nederl. Ind. I. (1890) 277. - 

 Nephelium part. Baill. 1. c. 395, quoad syn. Spanoghea. — Mahoe Hillebr. Fl. Hawai. 

 Isl. (1888) 86. — Sapindus sp., Cupania sp., Cupaniopsis sp., Jagera sp., Nephelium 

 sp., Hamamelidea?, Terebinthacea aut. var., cf. lit. spec. 



Flores spurie polygami, <$ et $ ($ mentientes) saepius in eadem inflorescentia, 

 reguläres, parvi. Calyx acetabuliformis, repando- 4 — 6-dentatus vel profundius partitus, 

 lobis valvatis vel subimbricatis. Petala vel 4 — 5, calycem aequantia, late triangularia, 

 angulis basalibus auriculato-inflexis, inde bisquamulata, squamulis albido-pubescentibus 

 supra disci marginem inflexis, brevissime unguiculata. Discus completus, anguste 

 annularis, margine interiore (superiore) staminum insertione foveolatus et ^ in lobos 

 fissus, glaber vel puberulus. Stamina 6 — 8 — 10, ad disci marginem interiorem inserta, 

 denique ^ exserta; filamenta brevius filiformia, puberula; antherae filamenta saepiüs 

 aequantes oblongae vel subclavatae, subintrorsae, basi profundius excisae, in excisura 

 dorso affixae, siccae scrobiculato-rugosae, glabrae, subfuscae vel atro-purpureae, in 

 flore nuperrime aperto quasi sessiles ad modum infundibuli circa pistillum dispositae, 

 rimis lateralibus apicem non attingentibus dehiscentes, dein quodammodo dilatatae, 

 obovato-reetangulares ; pollinis granula subglobosa vel trigono-placentiformia, 3-sul- 

 cata, 3-porosa. Germen (floris <$ rudimentarium) in disci centro 1 — 2 — 3-loculare, 

 loculis a lateribus (dein interdum a dorso) compressis, semi-obeordatis vel obverse 

 semi-deltoideis, pilis setulosis adpressis adspersis vel dense canescenti-tomentellis; 

 Stylus filiformis, brevis, apice in Stigmata paullo latiora dorsalia (intus papulosa) tot 

 quotloculi desinens (praesertim in Sect. III. et IV.), vel sublobatus tantum (in Sect. V.), 

 vel subulatus integer superne sulcis stigmatosis ex apice decurrentibus notatus et 

 interdum spiraliter tortus (in Sect. VI.); gemmulae in loculis solitariae, ereetae, cam- 

 pylotropae, apotropae, micropyle basilari, funiculo crasso (tuberculum axis exhibente) 

 suffultae. Fructus 1 — 2 — 3-coccus, coccis nunc apice liberis (fruetu inde ^ obeordato 

 vel semiobeordato) globosis vel lateraliter compressis interdum margine superiore vel 

 dorso quoque carinatis vel summo dorso in cristam medianam oblique patentem 

 crassiuscule corticosam produetis, nunc — in Sect. VI. — apice quoque connatis 

 (tumque fruetu ^ turbinato vel subgloboso vel breviter conico), subtransversim 

 (resp. seeundum planum a parte infra medium exteriore oblique ascendens) circumscisse 



