1490 L. Radlkofer. — Sapindaceae. 



crowded rather small on slender pedicels. Bracts minute. Sepals glabrous suborbicular. 

 Petals shorter.<< 



In Peninsula malayana: »Singapore, Bukit Pangang (Ridley). — Distr. 

 Borneo.<< 



AUophylus Lopezii Merrill in Phil. Journ. Sc. XXVI. (1925) 469. — »Frutex 

 circiter 2 m altus, inflorescentiis partibusqiie junioribus exceptis glaber, ramis teretibus, 

 pallidis, laevibus, glabris, ramulis parcissime adpresse pubescentibus; foliis 1-folio- 

 latis, anguste oblongo-obovatis ad late oblongo-oblanceolatis, usque ad 25 cm longis, 

 breviter acuminatis, basi acutis ad obtusis, integris vel obscure et valde distanter 

 denticulatis, supra olivaceis, nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, axillis barbatis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 10, perspicuis; petiolo 2 — 2,5 cm longo; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, 

 3 — 5 cm longis, multifloris, racemiformibus, leviter pubescentibus; floribus mediocribus, 

 circiter 3,5 mm diametro, sepalis glabris, majoribus orbicularibus, 1,5 — 2 mm diametro, 

 minoribus oblongo-obovatis; petalis oblongo-obovatis, 1,4 mm longis, margine per- 

 spicue ciliatis; fructibus junioribus leviter adpresse pubescentibus. 



»The branches smooth, obscurely lenticellate, pale grayish, glabrous, the growing 

 tips sKghtly pubescent. Leaves firmly chartaceous, 18 to 25 cm long, 6,5 to 9 cm wide, 

 an occasional minute tooth at the end of the lateral nerves in the upper part, lateral 

 nerves very prominent on the lower surface, spreading, arched-anastomosing, distant; 

 petioles glabrous or nearly so. Inflorescences simple, the flowers fascicled at the nodes, 

 numerous, somewhat crowded, their pedicels 1 to 1,5 mm long. Petals 4, somewhat 

 expanded at their apices, truncate or slightly retuse. Filaments 1,5 to 2 mm long.« 



In Philippinarum insula »Busuanga, Langbuan, Bur. Sei. 41387 Lopez, 

 September 12, 1922. On forested slopes at low altitudes.<< 



>>A species closely allied to A. hrevipetiolatus Radlk., but readily distinguished, 

 among other characters, by its much longer petioles. << 



AUophylus sublaxus Gillespie, New Plauts Fiji II. (1931) 16 f. 18. — »Arbor parva 

 subglabra, ramulis gracilibus, partibus junioribus minute puberulis; foliis 3-foholatis, 

 20 cm longis, petiolo crasso, 5 — 8 cm longo; foliolis chartaceis, glabris, in axillis nervorum 

 lateralium barbatis, 9 — 13 cm longis, 3,2 — 5 cm latis, obovatis, integris vel ad marginem 

 remote et minute serrulatis.<< 



>>A small, subglabrous tree, with slender, smooth brown branchlets, the young 

 parts minutely puberulent. Leaves about 20 cm long; petioles stout, terete or obscurely 

 canahculate above, 5 — 8 cm long; leaflets 3; blades chartaceous, pale-green above, 

 brownish or yellowish beneath, glabrous except the tufts of white hairs in the axils 

 of the lateral nerves, 9 — 13 cm long, 3,2 — 5 cm broad, obovate, occasionally ovate, 

 entire or slightly notched along the margin, apex acute to obtusely acuminate, shallowly 

 retuse, base narrowed, acute, lateral nerves about 11 on each side of the midrib, pro- 

 minent beneath, reticulations prominent; petiolules about 4 mm long, the terminal 

 one as much as 12 mm long. Racemes axillary, about 8 cm long, ascending; peduncles 

 Short, the branches rather numerous, sublax, some equaling the main axis; pedicels 

 about 2 mm long, thinly bristly-haired; bracts acuminate. Flowers numerous, thickly 

 crowded along the branches, about 2,5 mm across in anthesis; calyx-lobes 4, strongly 

 concave, the margin crenulate, ciholate; petals 4, about 0,8 mm long, cuneate, the 

 apex crenate, narrowed at the base to a short claw, densely bearded along the lateral 

 margins, the scales not seen; fertile anthers apparently 2, about 2 mm long, exserted, 

 the filaments curved, not at all hairy; anthers oblong; disc small, hairy at the base; 

 pistil small. Fruits ovoid, about 14 mm long, slightly apiculate, the base shghtly 

 angled by about 10 raised lines extending upwardly from the short stipe; pericarp 

 bony, pale yellow within, seeds brown, subglobose; seed-coat thin, papery; embryo 

 large, dull-green, the cotyledons folded together.<< 



In insulis Fiji: John W. Gillespie n. 4202 {>>Viti Levu, Tholo North Province, 

 vicinity of Nandarivatu, altitude 900 meters, Dec. 1927<<). »Also represented by 



