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bluntly acuminate, entire, the base cuneate : botb surfaces glabrous and 

 i*eticulate ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spreading and curving upwards ; 

 length 3 to 4"5 in., breadth 15 to 2*25 in., petiolules '4 to '6 in. Panicles 

 shorter than the leaves, formed of several slender pubernlous raceme-like 

 branches bearing the flowers in few-flowered cymules. Flowers less than 

 •1 in. in diam., dioecious. Male flower .- sepals 5, rotund, pubescent ; 

 petals ; stamens 6 or 7, the filaments pubescent, exserted ; tlie ovary 

 rudimentary. Female flower .• cahjx 5-toothed, pubescent ; stamens not 

 exserted, the filaments yerj short; ovary obovate- oblong, 1-celled (the 

 other cell aborted) rugalose, pubescent; the style from the base of one 

 side of it, recurved at tlie apex, not bifid. Fruit narrowly oblong or 

 clavate, slightly gibbous at the base, sub-glabrous, rugulose but not 

 echinate, 1 in. or more in length, and '6 or '7 in. broad. Reinw. in 

 Blame's Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor ; Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 290 ; Hiern in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 687. Euphoria glabra, Bl. Bijdr. 233. Nephelium 

 Maingayi, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 688. N. lappaceum, Linn, 

 var. glabrum, Bl. Radlk. fiber die Sapindac. Hollandisch-Indiens, 73, 74. 

 * Malacca: Griffith, Maingay, Derry, Nos. 60, 1171. Singapore: 

 Ridley, Nos. 6210, 6212, 6531, 6070. Perak : Scortechini; King's Col- 

 lector, Nos. 1058, 3789, 5346, 10621, 



This species difiers from N. lappaceum in so many respects that 

 I cannot at all agree in the view, even although it be held by so great 

 a master of the order as Professor Radlkofer, that it is a mere variety 

 of that species. The one-celled ovary, single style and stigma appear 

 to me to distinguish it at once, not to mention the absence of setae on 

 the ripe fruit and the more slender inflorescence and smaller flowers. 



2. Nephelium Longana, Camb. in Mem. Mus. Par. XVIJI, 30. A 

 tree 30 to 40 feet high : young shoots rusty puberulous. Leaves 4 to 18 

 in. long, equally or unequally pinnate, the rachis i-usty-puberulous when 

 young afterwards glabrous : leaflets coriaceous, oblong or ovate-lanceo- 

 late sometimes slightly oblique, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate : 

 both surfaces glabrous and reticulate, the lower glaucous ; main nerves 

 10 to 14 pairs, spreading, rather prominent beneath; length 2-5 to 7 in., 

 breadth 1 to 2 in., petiolules 3 to '5 in. Panicles terminal and axil- 

 lary, many-branched, puberulous ; branches raceme-like, with ultimate 

 lateral condensed cymules. Flowers pedicelled, about "15 in. in diam. 

 Calyx tomentose, deeply 5- to 6-lobed. Petals 5 or 6, linear-spathulate, 

 pubescent, nearly as long as the calyx-lobes. Stamens 6 to 10, included 

 in the female exserted in the male flowers, the filaments pilose towards 

 the base ; anthers short and glabrous. Ovary 2-3-lobed, tubercled. Fruit- 

 lobe usually solitary by abortion, globular or (in var. hypoleuca) ovoid, 

 the epicarp yellowish-red and muricate-areolate, when globose "5 to '75 



