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placing in a diifercnt genus to Stadmania^ the frnit is formed of one 

 to three berries also opening longitudinally, but they are loaded with 

 tubercles or prickles and the seed is only incompletely surrounded 

 by the aril. The Spanogheas^ Asiatic species, can no longer be 

 separated generically from Nephelium. The fruit, more or less deeply 

 lobate, is indehiscent or opens cross ways or obliquely at maturity. 

 The aril only partially envelopes the seed, and the embryo is bent. 

 Pomctia also constitutes accord- 

 ing to us a section of tlie same X.phclhnn {Papp<ea) capcse. 



genus. The flowers have from 

 fovu' to eight stamens and a fruit 

 whose seed, surrounded by a mu- 

 cous aril, contains a condupli- 

 cate embryo. Like all the species ^'="- '''■ ^-'i '^- ^ L'ction°ofired. 

 of Neplielium wbich have been 



enumerated, these trees from India and the isles of the Pacific Ocean 

 have compound-pinnate leaves, whose inferior folioles are but little de- 

 veloped, orbicular, stipuliform. In the Fappccas^ on the contrary, 

 plants from the Cape of Good Hope, whose flowers are also those 

 of Nephelitim, and which we also include in that genus, the leaves 

 are simple, and tbe seeds loosely surrounded by an aril (fig. 359, 

 360) have a conduplicate or convoluted embryo. Zerospermum^ a 

 tree from the Indian Archipelago, may be defined as a Neplielium 

 with tetramerous flowers, thick and developed stigma, and fruits 

 whose tubercular berries contain an exarillate seed. In DehihoUia, 

 consisting of trees, often hairy, from tropical "Western Africa, the 

 flowers, constructed like those of Euphoria, with large imbricate 

 sepals; have expanded petals, lined inwardly by scale or 

 buncb of hairs, and usually from twelve to twenty-five stamens. 

 The 1-3- lobate fruit, the seed and the aril are those of Nephelium. 

 Podoneplielium, a tree from Oceania, is an apctalous Nep>helium whose 

 carpels arc borne at the summit of a long and thick gynophore. 

 The Ileterodcndrons, Australian shrubs, have also the flowers of 

 Nephelium, apctalous, with G-lo stamens and a 2— i-locular ovary, a 

 diy fruit, lobate, and arillate seeds, containing an embryo with 

 flexuous cotyledons. But their aspect is that of an Olive ; they 

 have simple or pinnate leaves, coriaceous, linear, or oblong, and 

 flowers arranged in solitary or double clusters. In the Capuras, 



