Alectryon. 997 



prominenter reticulato-venosa, utrinque glabra vel subtus pilis brevibus laxe adspersa, 

 supra nitida, pallide viridia, subtus dense papulosa, inde glaucescenti-opaca, epidermide 

 (paginae superioris) mucigera; thyrsi axillares, breves ; flores breviter pedicellati ; calyx 

 breviter dentatus, laxe puberulus; petala nulla; discus glaber; stamina brevia; germen 

 obcordato-2 — 3-dymum, loculis 2—3 lateraliter compressis, adpresse tomentellum, 

 stylo subaequilongo puberulo apice 2 — 3-cruri; fructus subtruncato-2-coccus vel abortu 

 1-coccus, coccis tumide lenticularibus carinatis minutim tomentellis, intus non nisi 

 pilis perraris adspersis; semina subglobosa. 



Rami thyrsigeri 2 mm crassi. Folia petiolo 8 — 15 mm longo incluso 4 — 14 cm 

 longa; foliola cum petiolulis 1 — 3 mm longis 1,5 — 8 cm longa, 1 — 4 cm lata. Thyrsi 

 3—5 cm, pedicelli 2 mm longi. Fructus cocci 1 cm longi et lati, 7 — 8 mm crassi, peri- 

 carpio 1 mm crasso. 



Formas 2 discernere par est: 



F. 1. genuinus Radlk. : Supra descripta. 



F. 2- pseudostipularis Radlk.: Folia subsessilia, 3 — 4-juga; foliola elliptica, 

 utrinque acuta, inaequaliter acute multidentata, deorsum decrescentia, superiora 6 — 



7 cm longa, 3— 4 cm lata, infima perparva, vix 1 cm longa, 0,5 cm lata, ad petioli 

 basin inserta, stipulas aemulantia, omnia subtus laxius, i. e. praesertim circa stomata 

 papulosa, epidermide paginae superioris valde, inferioris partim mucigera (hicque 

 cellulis mucigeris plerumque epapillosis vel in papillam rudimentariam evolutis). 



In Australia orientali et septentrionali: Forma 1. in New South Wales: 

 G. Stuart! (Tenterfield, New England); Leichhardt (Tarampa Hill, ex Benth. 1. c); 

 Turner (Kookabrooka, New England, ex ipso 1. c). — Forma 2. in Queensland: 

 Warburg n. 19158! (Toowoomba Scrub; steril.; Hb. Berol.). 



19. A. Forsythii (Maiden et Betche) Radlk. in Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 

 Nachtr. III. (1907) 205 et in Fedde, Repert. XX. (1924) 27; Domin in Fedde, Repert. 

 XII. (1913) 389. — Nephelium Forsythii Maiden et Betche in Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales XXVI. (m. April 1901) 81; J. H.Maiden, Report Bot. Gard. etc. (1902) 11; 

 Maiden and Betche, Gens. N. S. Wales PI. (1916) 127. — Arbor mediocris vel plerumque 

 frutex, praeter innovationes adpresse chryseo-setulosas glaber; rami teretes, atro-fusci; 

 folia abrupte pinnata, 1-, rarius 2-juga; foliola opposita, ovalia, utrinque subacuta, 

 vel subobovata, brevissime acuminata, basi in petiolulos oblique attenuata, rigide 

 coriacea, inter nervös sat approximatos utrinque prominenter reticulato-venosa, glabra 

 nee nisi pilis minutis adpressis subtus laxe adspersa, supra nitida pailide viridia, subtus 

 grossiuscule papulosa, inde glaucescenti-opaca, epidermide mucigera; paniculae axillares 

 vel subterminales, pauciramosae, folia vix aequantes; flores pedicellati, 2 — 3 glomeru- 

 latim congesti; calyx acetabuliformis, 5-dentatus, purpureus, extus glaber, intus 

 minutim puberulus, antherarum pressione striatus; petala nulla; discus annularis, 

 puberulus; stamina plerumque 7, brevia, antherae oblongae subclavatae subapiculatae, 

 filamenta aequantes vel superantes, purpureae, glabrae; germen (floris <$) rudimen- 

 tarium, transverse ellipticum, compressum, 2-loculare, cano-tomentellum; fructus 

 transverse ellipticus, truncatus, alato-2- vel rarissime 3-lobus, styli reliquiis deltoideo- 

 apiculatus, vix brevissime stipitatus, extus et intus glaber, fusco-ruber, lobis (coccis) 

 lateraliter compressis, dein tumidulis, carinatis, carina superne saepius in angulum sive 

 cristam rudimentariam producta, pericarpio corticoso, endocarpio granulato nitido, 

 denique, ut videtur, irregulariter dirruptis; semina compressa, fusco-spadicea, splen- 

 dentia, arillo lobulato suffulta; embryo curvatus, radicula plica testae dorsali excepta. 



Arbor 25-pedalis, trunco 14 pollices crasso, vel plerumque frutex 10 — 15-pedalis. 

 Rami florigeri 3 — 4 mm crassi. Folia petiolo 1 — 3 cm longo adjeeto 6—11 cm longa; 

 foliola cum petiolulis 2 — 3 mm longis 5 — 8 cm longa, 2,5 — 4 cm lata. Paniculae 3— 



8 cm longae, quodammodo purpurascentes; pedicelli 2 — 5, fruetigeri 4 — 8 mm longi; 

 bracteae bracteolaeque minutae, dentiformes. Fructus lobi (cocci) 1 cm longi et lati, 

 denique 5 mm crassi, pericarpio 0,5 mm vix crassiore. 



