26 Diagnostic Notes on New or 



A middle-sized tree. Leaflets thin-coriaceous, with pro- 

 minent spreading nerves and numerous anastomosing veinSj 

 2-4 inches long, often alternate, contracted into a short pe- 

 tiole. Calyx persistent, puberulous, 5 -parted in fruit, with 

 ovate-lanceolate segments \ line long. Carpels measuring 

 3-4 lines, coriaceous, smooth, breaking irregularly trans- 

 versely. Seeds 2^-3 lines in diameter, polished, with a 

 fleshy acidulous arillus, the red colour of which contrasting 

 beautifully with the black crustaceous testa. Endopleura 

 fulvid, membraneous. Cotyledons irregularly turned and 

 folded. Radicule pointing to the hilum. 



This genus, as mentioned before, might be referred to 

 Nephelium, and includes the Neph. tomentosum. 

 Spanoghea connata. 



(Nephelium eonnatiuii, F.M. coll.) 



Leaflets 2-4, oblong or lanceolate-ovate, blunt, entire ; be- 

 neath, as well as the branchlets, petioles, and panicles 

 covered with a grey very thin velvet ; flowers panicu- 

 late ; style quite exserted ; carpels 3-4, outside at last 

 glabrous, connate into a depressed capsule, with blunt 

 lateral lobes, downy inside ; seeds small, shining-black, 

 enclosed in a red, cupular arillus. 

 In wooded valleys near Moreton Bay. Hill and Mueller. 

 A tree 30 to 40 feet high. Leaflets thin-coriaceous 2-4 

 inches long, alternate or opposite, subsessile, above shining 

 and glabrous, beneath opaque, with spreading nerves and 

 netted veins. Fruit-bearing calyx short, with five del- 

 toid lobes. Fruit about three lines long, 4-5 lines broad. 

 Seeds measuring \\ line, depressed-globose. Arillus vi- 

 vidly red. 



Harpulia pendula. 



(Planchon in herbar. Kewens.) 



Leaflets 2-6, chartaceous, glabrous, lanceolate-ovate, 

 somewhat acuminate, entire ; calyx deciduous ; cells of 

 the capsules as long as broad, inside glabrous. 



In the forests near Moreton Bay. 



Harpulia Hillii. 



Branchlets and panicles covered with a thin rust-brown 

 velvet ; leaflets 2-12, coriaceous, glabrous, oval, blunt, 

 entire ; calyx persistent ; cells of the capsule broader 

 than long, inside tomentose, outside puberulous. 



In the virgin forests of Durando. W. Hill. 



