Nephelium.} XLIV. SAPINDACEJS. (W. P. Hiern.) 691 



N. RUBRUM, G. Don, is Sapindus attenuatus, Wall. 



N. SIMPLICIFOLIUM, Thwdites, is Sapindus Thwaitesii, Hiern. 



N. VAKIABILE, Wall, ex Voiyt Hort. Sub. Gale. 95, from Khasia, is unknown to me. 



N. VERTICILLATUM, G. Don, is Sapindus Danura, Voigt. 



N. XEROCARPUM, Camb., is Xerospermum Noronhianum, Blume. 



16. POMETIA, J. R. & G. Forst. 



Tall trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate, leaflets subopposite, entire or serrate 

 (the lowest pair usually stipuliform). Racemes simple or panicled, elongated 

 slender. Flowers regular, polygamous, fascicled, small, shorter than their 

 pedicels. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-4-fid, valvate in bud. Petals 5-4, small, 

 usually without scales. Disk complete, annular, lobed. Stamens 4-8, 

 usually 6-4 inserted within the disk, at length much exserted ; anthers 

 small. Ovary 2-3-coccous and -celled ; ovules solitary. Style elongated ; 

 stigma obtuse, emarginate. Fruit 1-2-coccous ; lobes subglobose or ellip- 

 soidal, inclehiscent, smooth. Seeds exalbuminous, covered with a mucila- 

 f'nous aril. DISTEIB. Species few, coiilined to India, Ceylon, the Indian 

 rchipelago and the Pacific Islands. 



1. P. tomentosa, Kurz Andam. Rep. ed. 2, 34 ; leaflets 10-26 oblong 

 glabrescent or veins and midrib pubescent or even tomentose usually 

 acuminate base rounded or somewhat cordate lateral veins numerous 

 clearly marked beneath, inflorescence pubescent or glabrescent, flow r ers 

 5-4-merous. P. eximia, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 157. Irina glabra, Blume 

 Bijdr. 230. Eccremanthus eximius, Thwaites in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 272, 

 t. 9. Nepheliuni eximium, Thwaites Enum. 57. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. iii. 

 31, t. 17. 



EASTERN PENINSULA; South Andaman's, Kurz; MALACCA, Haingay ; CEYLON, in 

 the Central province, Thwaites. 'DisTRiB. Malay Archipelago. 



A tree ranging up to 60 ft. with terete glabrate branches. Leaves 1-3 ft. ; leaflets 

 ranging up to 14 by f ft., the lower leaflets smaller, the lowest pair very small f-lj 

 in. diaru. ; lateral veins alternately ending in a tooth ; petiolules very short. Flowers 

 very small, 5-4-merous, yellowish-green. Petals white, short, glabrous or hairy near 

 the apex inside, with or without an adnate hairy scale. Disk bright red or orange. 

 /Stamens 5-4 ; filaments pubescent at least below. Fruit deep red or brown when ripe, 

 glabrous, ellipsoidal or subglobose, 1-2 in. diam. Seeds oblong ; testa red ; aril white, 

 opaque. Timber useful. For a figure and description of a monstrous leaf of this plant, 

 see a paper by Dr. A. Braun on tbe subject. This perhaps ought to be united to P. 

 pinnata, /. It. & G. Forster Char. Gen. 110, t. 55, a native of Fiji and other South 

 Sea -Islands; it differs from tbe latter by rather more numerous less sessile less cordate 

 and not imbricating leaflets. 



VAR. ferruginea ; young parts inflorescence raclns of leaves and midrib of leaflets 

 ferruginous- tomentose ; leaflets not exceeding 7 by 2 4 in. 



17. HARFULLIA, Roxb. 



Erect trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnate ; leaflets alternate, 

 entire, acuminate, subglabrous. Flowers in racemes or panicles dioecious 

 or polygamous, regular. Se2>als 4-5, erect, equal, imbricated. Petals 4-5, 

 narrowly obovate, exceeding the calyx, sometimes clawed, without either 

 glands or scales, but sometimes with inflected lobes at the base of the 

 lamina. Stamens 5-8, elongated, inserted within the obscure disk. 



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