Nephelium.] SAPINDACEAE. 251 



THRAULOCOCCUS ERECTUS, Radlk. Sapindus erectus, Hiern 

 in F. B. I. i. 683. Ntplidium erectum, Thvv. ; Bedd. Fl. Ixxiv. 

 W. Ghats, in Wynaad and the Anamalais at 2,000 to 3,000 ft. 

 (Barber). 



A large erect shrub with leaves up to 18 in. long, 3-5 pairs 

 of oblong-lanceolate chartaceous glabrous leaflets up to 

 9 in. long and drupes 1 in. long, usually in pairs. 



9. Aphania, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, paripinnate, exstipulate ; 

 leaflets 1-6 pairs, sometimes unifoliolate, subopposite. Flowers 

 in racemes or panicles. Sepals 4-5, petaloid, widely imbricate. 

 Petals 4-6, small, with infolded basal auricles or a basal scale. 

 Disk regular, slightly lobed. Stamens 5-8, rarely 3, inserted 

 within the disk. Ovary 1-3- usually 2-celled ; style slender, 

 bifid ; ovules solitary. Fruit fleshy, deeply divided into 2, rarely 

 3 divergent lobes united only at the base ; endocarp thin, cartila- 

 ginous or crustaceous. Seed exarillate ; cotyledons thick. 



APHANIA BIFOLIOLATA, Radlk. Supimhis bifuliolatus, Hiern; 

 F. B. I. i. 684. Nepheliitm bifoliatum, Bedd. Ic. t. 289. 

 Kolaimalai Hills in Trichiiiopoly (Beddome).' 

 A branching tree reaching 30 ft. in height with one pair of 

 lanceolate leaflets and masses of white blossom. 



10. Nephelium, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, paripinnate, exstipulate ; 

 leaflets entire, subopposite, Floivers small, regular, polygamous, 

 numerous, in terminal and axillary racemes or panicles. Calyx 

 4-6-lobed, usually cupular ; lobes short, valvate or slightly 

 imbricate in bud. Petals 4-6, often 0, small, villous, rarely with 

 scales. Disk annular, fleshy, in the calyx- tube. Stamens 6-8, 

 inserted within the disk ; filaments slender. Ovary pubescent, 

 often verrucose, 2-o-lobed and -celled ; style simple. 2-3-lobed ; 

 ovules solitary. Fruit of 1-3 indehiscent globose or ovoid cocci, 

 smooth tubercled or echinate. Seeds ellipsoid or globose, covered 

 by a fleshy arillus ; cotyledons thick, fleshy, usually obliquely 

 superposed. 



Petals present; leaves up to 18 in. long with 4-10 pairs of leaflets ; 

 leaflets oblong-lanceolate to almost linear lanceolate, up to 12 in. 



