Podonephelium. 1003 



reticulato-venosa, supra glaberrima, splendentia e viridi subfusca, subtus (P. Homei) 

 pilis minutis crispulis rufo-tomentella glandulisque capitatis stipitatis adspersa vel 

 praeter glandulas raras glabra, nunc Nepheliorum more coronulato-papillosa, inde 

 pallescenti-opaca, nunc (P. concolor) laevia nitidula, epidermide non mucigera, cellulis 

 secretoriis nullis. Paniculae axillares vel ad foliorum cicatrices enascentes, ramis 

 thyrsoideis sursum decrescentibus dense cymulas paucifloras vel (praesertim in pani- 

 culis §) ad flores singulos reductas gerentibus, rufescenti-ferrugineo-tomentosae, rhachi 

 ramisque angulatis sulcatis, bracteis bracteolisque conspicuis deltoideo-subulatis tomen- 

 tellis. Flores pedicellati, pedicellis brevissimis ima basi articulatis. 



Species 4, novo-caledonicae. 



Genus Alectryoni maxime affine vix nisi fructu stipitato distinctum. 



Conspectus specierum. 



A. Foliola subtus papulosa, inde opaca. 



a. Foliola majuscula, valde inaequilatera, e basi ovata 

 falcata, acuta, subtus rufo-tomentella, denique 



glabrata 1. P. Homei. 



b. Foliola mediocria, parum inaequilatera, ovato-lanceo- 



lata, obtusiuscula, utrinque glabra 2. P. subaequilaterum. 



c. Foliola parva, ex ovali rhomboidea, obtusa, glabra . 3. P. parvifolium. 



B. Foliola utrinque laevia, nitida, mediocria, subaequila- 



tera, ex ovali lanceolato-oblonga, glabra 4. P. concolor. 



1. P. Homei (Seem.) Radlk. Sap. Holl.-Ind. (1877) 50 (120), c. syn. Seem. et syn. 

 Baill.), in Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. IX. (1879) 540 n. 566 et in Engl. u. Prantl, 1. c. 

 334; A. Guillaumin, Rem. sur la synon. etc. in H. Lecomte, Notul. syst. I. (1911) 328 

 (c. syn. Seem., syn. Baill. et syn. Panch.), et Contrib. Fl. Nouv.-Caled. in Bull. Mus. 

 Nation. d'Hist. nat. XVII. (1911) 356 (coli. Le Rat n. 459 etc.), nee non (ex Ind. Kew. 

 Suppl. V.) in Ann. Mus. Gol. Marseille, ser. 2. IX. (1911) 122, c. syn. Cupania erioglos- 

 soides Panch. (cf. infra). — Ratonia Homei Seem. Fl. Vit. II. (1865) 47, in annot.! — 

 P. Deplanchei Baill. Adans. v XI. (1874) 245, coli. Depl. n. 58! 69! (sphalm. 60). - 

 Cupania stipitata Pancher et Sebert in Sebert, Notice sur les bois de la Nouv. Galed. 

 (1874) 232 n. 111, p. 270 c. indic. »coli. Fournier et Seb. n. 20«, »coli. Petit n. 20«, 

 »coli. Panch. (coli, lign.) n. LXXIV«; Panch. Hb. ed. Baill. in Hist. PI. V. (1874) 396 

 in annot. — P. stipitatum Baill. ibid. — Cupania erioglossoides Panch. Hb. (speeim. 

 coli. Vieillard n. 219! in Hb. Paris, ed. Guillaum. in Lee. Not. 1. c. et in Ann. Mus. 

 Gol. Marseille 1. c. (ex Ind. Kew. Suppl. V.). — Vulgo: Ne, t. Deplanche sub n. 58. — 

 Arbor parva; rami sat crassi, nodulosi; foliola majuscula, 10—15, alterna vel sub- 

 opposita, breviter petiolulata, valde inaequilatera (latere interiore latiore), e basi sub- 

 ovata falciformia, sensim acutata, acutissima vel apice ipso praesertim inferiorum 

 obtusiusculo, subcoriacea, nervis lateralibus validioribus subtus prominentibus, supra 

 glaberrima, splendentia, subtus pilis minutis crispulis rufo-tomentella, denique glabres- 

 centia, papilloso-glaucescentia, glandulis capitatis praesertim ad nervös subtus crebris; 

 paniculae petiolos aequantes vel subduplo superantes sat robustae, ramosae, ferrugineo- 

 vel rufo-tomentosae, rhachi ramisque angulatis sulcatis densifloris; flores et fruetus 

 generis; semen pisiforme. 



Arbor 8 — 10-metralis. Rami 7 — 8 mm crassi. Folia petiolo 5 — 10 cm longo adjeeto 

 16— 40 cm longa; foliola cum petiolulis 4— 5 mm longis 8 — 14 cm longa, 2,5 — 5,5 cm 

 lata. Paniculae 12 — 20 cm longae. Alabastra diametro circ. 2,5 mm. Fruetus diametro 

 circ. 1 cm, stipite circ. 3 mm longo. 



Formae 2 discernendae sunt, fructu tantum, ut videtur, distinetae: 



F. 1. genuinum Radlk.: Fruetus cocci laeves. 



