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lobed, usually cnpular, sub-valvato in bud. P-etals small, villous, rarely 

 with 2 scales, often absent. Stamens 6 to 8, inserted within the flesliy 

 glabrous or pubescent disc ; filaments usually pubescent. Ovary pubes- 

 cent, often verrucose or setose, 1-2- or rarely 3-lobed, the lobes with 1 

 cell and 1 ovule. Friiit 1- rarely 2-coccous, indehiscent, oblong or glo- 

 bose, echinate, tubercled or smooth. Seed ellipsoid or globose, covered 

 by a pulpy arilius ; cotyledons fleshy, not folded. — Distrib. About 

 twenty species chiefly Malayan. 



Besides the ten species described below, there are in the Calcutta Herbarinm 

 specimens of six other species which I am unable to identify with any published 

 species but which, for want either of flowers or of fruit, I am unable to describe. 



Leaflets quite glabrous on both surfaces. 

 Fruit rugulose but not at all spiny. 



Leaflets elliptic, fruit gibbous at the base 1. N. glahrum. 

 Leaflets oblong or ovate-lanceolate, fruit 

 not gibbous at the base ... .,. 2. N. Longana. 



Fruit with short glabrous spines ... 3. N. ruhescens. 



Fruit with long sub-compressed puberulous 

 flexuose stout setae 

 Leaflets glabrous on the upper surface, sub- 

 glaucous and minutely puberulous on the lower 

 surface, never rusty ; fruit covered with stout 

 woody spines. . 

 Petals 5... 

 Petals 0. 



Leaflets with 9 to 13 pairs of main nerves 6. N. cJiryseum. 

 Leaflets with 16 to 24 pairs of main nerves 7. N, hamulatum. 

 Leaflets glabrous on the upper surface, the 

 lower surface more or less rusty-puberulous or 

 pubescent. 



Petals ; fruit densely covered with flexuose 



compressed soft spines ... .., 8. N, ophiodes. 



Petals 6. 



Leaflets oblong, rarely obovate-oblong ; 

 fruit densely covered with flexuose com- 

 pressed soft spines 



Leaflets elliptic, fruit slightly tubercled or 

 almost smooth 

 Doubtful species ... 



1. Nephelitjm glabrum, Noronha in Batav. Genootsch. Nerh. V, 

 80. A tree 60 to 80 feet high ; young branches glabrous. Leaves 7 to 

 11 in. long : leaflets 4 to 6, coriaceous, elliptic, acute or very shortly and 



4. N. lappaceiim. 



5. N. costatum. 



9. 



N. eriopetalum. 



10. 



N. malaiense. 



11. 



N. sufferugineum. 



