686 xnv. SAPINDACE^:. (W. P. Hiern.) [Xerospermum, 



14. XEROSPERBIUai, Blume. 



A tree. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, abruptly pinnate ; leaflets opposite, 

 entire. Racemes axillary and terminal. Flowers regular, polygamo- 

 dioecious. Sepals 4-5, imbricated in 2 rows. Petals 4-5, equal, spathulate, 

 snorter or but little longer than the sepals, hairy at the margin, without 

 scales. Stamens 8-7, included, inserted within the annular glabrous disk ; 

 filaments filiform, pubescent ; anthers small, glabrous. Ovary sessile, didy- 

 mous, muricated, 2-celled ; ovules solitary, ascending. Style short, thick ; 

 stigma thick, hairy. Fruit l-2-loi>ed ; parts ellipsoidal, diverging, muri- 

 cated with pyramidal tubercles, indehiscent, glabrous inside. Seeds exaril- 

 late ; testa coriaceous outside, fleshy, pilose, simulating an aril; embryo 

 curved; cotyledons very large, thickly fleshy, superposed. DISTRIB. A 

 mouotypic genus. 



1. X. Noronhianum, Winne /,'//;///. iii. 100; leaflets 2-5 rarely 

 only i elliptic lanceolate or oblong more or less acuminate glabrous closely 

 reticulated base obtuse or cuneate, ra<vmes short simple or branched sub- 

 fascicled. Euphoria Noronhiana, />///>//' 7>V/'//-. 234 (as to tin 1 fruit). E. 

 xerocarpa, lilmnt-. ]'>ij<li; 234. Nephelium Noronhianum, Canto, in .\/<'//>. 

 Mus. Par. xviii. 30. N. xeroearpum, Camb. i.e. Sapindus glabratus, Wall. 

 Cat. 8095. Euphoria (sp.), Wall. Cat. 8054. Wall. ( 'at. HKS3, 8084. 



SIUIKT, \ViiUidt; KMASIA Mrs. and TKNAS.-SKKIM, Grljjlth. MALACCA, SINGAPORE and 

 TKN \.N.i. Uririitli, &<'.- -Di.-TKii-.. -lava. 



A tree, 30-45 or more feet high, with tereto puberulont shoots. Leaves 7-13 in. ; 

 leaflets 34-9 by 1-3| in. ; petiolules &-f in. J,'<n-< //,rx 1 4 in. l-'lmners fa i n -> grccnisli 

 or \dh.\v. l-'niit 1 in. or inon- lon.^, vrllo\v.--T]n- Klia;-i;t and bilhet spociuiciis diii'cr 

 from the type by lanceolate and inure acuminate leaflets. 



15. NEFHEXiXUM, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. 7,i<m-x alternate, exstipulate, pinnate or rarely simple ; 

 leaflets entire or rarely dentate more or less glaucous beneath (the lowest 

 pair in one species simulating stipules). /////"/< .w na terminal and axillary. 

 Flowers regular, polygamous. Cah/.i- 4 s-lobed usually cup-shaped, sub- 

 valvate or somewhat imbricated in bud. J'> ////* small, without scales, as 

 many as or fewer in number than the calyx-lobes, or wanting. tit<iimn* 

 5-10, inserted within the fleshy glabrous or pubescent disk ; filaments 

 usually pubescent. Ovary pubescent, 2-3-lobed, usually verrucose ; lobes 

 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Style 2-3-lobed, erect. Fruit 1-3-coccous, indehiscent. 

 globose or oblong, echinate tubercled or smooth. ,s',,,/.s globose, included 

 in a pulpy aril. DISTRIB. A genus not separable from Euphoria (,///..), and 

 with it containing about 30 species, confined to India the Indian Archi- 

 pelago S. China and Australia; in the last country about 10 species occur. 



SECT. I. Leaves usually paripinnate; leaflets none stipulifonn. 

 * Petals wanting. Calyx dentate or half-cleft. 



1. N. mutabile, Blume Humph, iii. 104 ; leaflets 4-8 opposite or sub- 

 alternate oblong or oblong-elliptic obtusely acuminate entire thinly 

 coriaceous above glabrous shining beneath glaucous marked with somewhat 

 arching lateral veins puberulent-glandular base obtusely narrowed or rarely 

 rounded, racemes simple or branched shortly pubescent, calyx cup-shaped 

 4-5-fid, petals 0, disk glabrous, stamens 7-8, fruit echinate-muricate 

 with strong rigid setae. Euphoria Longana, Blume Bljdr. 233 (not of 



