Podonephelium, Heterodendron. 1005 



In Nova Galedonia: Balansa n.1453! (Bords de la Nera, au dessus de Bourail, 

 m. Sept. 1869, fr. immat.; Hb. Paris.). 



Obs. Foliolis subtus papillosis accedit ad Podonephelium Homei R. et P. subaequilaterum R., 

 quorum foliola vero multo majora. 



4. P. concolor Radlk. Sap. Holl.-Ind. (1877) 50 (120). - (?) Cupania sp. Pancher 

 et Sebert in Sebert, Notice sur les bois de la Nouv. Caled. (1874) 232 n. 112, p. 270 

 c. indic. »coli. Fournier et Seb. n. 69, coli. Petit n. 69« (quas collectiones quidem non 

 vidi, sed descriptio sat quadrat, si loco »feuilles« legitur folioles quod nomine -»Cupania« 

 postulatur). — Arbor parva; rami graciliores, nodulosi; foliola mediocria, 10—12, 

 alterna vel subopposita, longiuscule petiolulata, vix inaequilatera, lanceolato-oblonga, 

 brevissime acuminata, acumine ipso obtusiusculo, margine undulata, chartacea, nervis 

 lateralibus tenuioribus subtus prominulis, utrinque glaberrima nee nisi glandulis raris 

 capitatis adspersa, laevia, nitidula, obscure viridia; paniculae breviores, graciliores, 

 attamen masculae multiramosae, folia dimidia aequantes vel paullo superantes, subfusco- 

 tomentellae, rhachi ramisque teretiusculis; flores generis; fruetus ignoti. 



Arbuscula 5 — 6 m alta. Rami 3 — 6 mm crassi. Folia petiolo 4 — 6 cm longo adjeeto 

 20 — 25 cm longa; foliola cum petiolulis 6 — 8 mm longis 6 — 9 cm longa, 1,8 — 2,2 cm 

 lata. Paniculae 10 — 12 cm longae. Alabastra diametro circ. 2 mm. 



In Nova Caledonia: Vieillard n. 234! (Bois de montagne, Balade, a. 1855 — 

 1860, fl. $ germ. aueto; Hb. Paris.), n. 780! (Nouv. -Caled., fl. $ germ. aueto; Hb. 

 Paris.), n. 2395! (Montagnes de Wagap, 1861 — 1867, fl. <J; Hb. Paris., Boiss., Drake, 

 et ex hoc comm. c. Hb. Monac). 



64. Heterodendron Desfont. 



Heterodendron Desfont. in Mera. Mus. d'Hist. nat. IV. (1818) 8 t. 3; Poir. in Lam. 

 111. Gen. Suppl. (1823) 630 ti 959; Kunth in Ann. Scienc. nat. II. (1824) 365 (inter 

 genera e Terebinthacearum ordine exeludenda; Sapindaceis affinius?); DG. Prodr. II. 

 (1825) 92 (inter Terebinthaceas); Keichenb. Consp. (1828) 201 (inter Dodonaeaceas); 

 Meissner, Gen. (1836-1843) 135 (99) (inter Surianeas)- Endl. Gen. (1836-1840) 1141 

 n. 5955 (inter Connaraceas dubias) et Suppl. IV. Pars III. (1850) 97; Webb in Hook. 

 London Journ. Bot. I. (1842) 255 — 256 (gen. sedis dubiae); Planch. in Ann. Scienc. 

 nat. 4. ser. II. (1854) 261 (ad Sapindac. revocand.); Ferd. Müller in Hook. Journ. 

 Bot. IX. (1857) 197; Walp. Ann. IV. (1857) 380; Ferd. Müller, PI. indig. Colon. Victor. 

 I. (1860-1862) 90; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. 1. 1. (1862) 407, 1000 char. emend. quoad 

 »fol. pinn.«; Benth. Fl. Austrat. I. (1863) 469; Baill. Hist. pl. V. (1874) 397; Radlk. 

 Sap. Holl.-Ind. (1877) 49 (119), in Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. XX. (1900) 255, 289 et 

 in Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfäm. III. 5. (1895) 333; Bailey, Syn. Queensl. Fl. 

 (1883) 80 et Queensl. Fl. I. (1899) 307; Moore, Fl. New South Wales (1893) 92; Maiden 

 and Betche, Cens. N. S. Wales PI. (1916) 127. — Nephelium sp., cf. lit. spec. 



Flores (Ulis Alectryonis similes) spurie polygami, reguläres, medioeres. Calyx late 

 cupularis, 6 — 7-denticulatus vel obsolete erosus, aestivatione aperta, denique interdum 

 fissus et circumcirciter solutus, extus tomentellus, intus glaber, coriaceus vel sub- 

 petaloideus. Petala 0. Discus parvus, completus, annularis, margine tenui integro, 

 insertione staminum leviter foveolatus, glaber. Stamina 6 — 15, plerumque 8 — 10, intra 

 discum circa pistillum vel pistilli rudimentum inserta, denique exserta; filamenta 

 brevia; antherae introrsae, elongatae, basi sagittato-excisae, glabrae; pollinis granula 

 trigono- vel suborbiculari-placentiformia, 3 — 4-porosa, laevia vel punctata. Germen 

 in disci centro 3(2 — 4)-loculare, 3(2 — 4)-lobum, sessile vel vix stipitatum, loculis semi- 

 obeordatis, lateraliter compressiusculis, densius vel laxius pilosis; Stylus inter loculos 

 brevis, pilosulus, obsolete 3(2 — 4)-lobus, lobis dorsalibus intus stigmatosis; gemmulae 

 in loculis solitariae, supra axis basin affixae, apotropae, campylotropae. Fruetus 

 2(1 — 4)-coccus, interdum substipitatus, coccis subglobosis vel in 1 specie [H. diversi- 

 folium) ovoideis lateraliter compressiusculis dorso carinatis, irregulariter (subtransver- 



