436 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 996 ; Maingay, IS! o. 452. Singapore: Wallich, 

 Ridley, Nos. 5095, 6211. Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 6523, 6750. 



4. Nephelium lappaceum, Linn. Mant. I, 125. A tree 30 to 60 

 feet high: young branches rusty-pubescent. Leaves 4 to 10 in. long: 

 leaflets 4i to 6, elliptic, sub-obovate-elliptic or elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, 

 entire, the base cuneate : both surfaces glabrous and minutely reticulate ; 

 main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, ascending, prominent beneath ; length 25 to 

 6 in., breadth 125 to 3 in., petiolules '2 to "25 in. Panicles shorter than 

 the leaves, tomentose, terminal and axillary, with numerous racemose 

 branches. Flowers '1 in. in diam., in cymose fascicles on the branches. 

 Sepals 4 to 6, sub-valvate. Petals 0. Stamens 5 to 8, exserted, the 

 filaments pubescent. Ovary 2-3-lobed and 2-3-celled, pubescent and 

 echinate. Style stout, deeply 2-3-lobed ; the lohes divergent, recurved. 

 Fruit usually with 1 or 2 lobes, each elliptic and densely covered with 

 long sub-compressed recurved soft puberulous setae with broad bases, 

 yellowish-orange to dark purple when ripe, 1 in. long, and '75 in. in diam. 

 (exclading the setae) ; aril of the seed pale, fleshy, edible. Gaertn. Fruct. 

 II, 272, t. 140, f. 1 ; Blume Rumph. Ill, 103 : Lamk. 111. t. 764 ; Hassk. 

 PL Jav. Rar. 287; Miq. PL Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 554; Hiern in Hook. fil. 

 PL Br. Ind. I, 687. Euphoria Nephelium, DC. Prodr. I, 612 ; Bl. Bijdr. 

 235; Wall. Cat. 8053 (excl. part of B). Scytalia Bamhoutan, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 29 ; PL Ind. II, 271. Dimocarpus crinita, Lour. PL Cochinch. 234. 

 N. echinatum, Noronh. in Batav. Genootsh. Yerh. V, 80. 



In all the Provinces except the Nicobars and Andamans : often 

 cultivated for its fruit which is known as the Bam Boutan. 



5. Nephelium costatum, Hiern in Hook. fil. PL Br. Ind. I, 688. 

 A tree 50 to 60 feet high : young branches puberulous, slightly lenti- 

 cellate. Leaves 6 to 12 in. long, equally pinnate : leaflets 4 to 10, 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, the apex sub-acute or shortly 

 and bluntly acuminate, the base slightly narrowed but rounded, upper 

 surface glabrous, the lower minutely puberulous near the nerves but 

 becoming glabrescent, sub-glaucous ; main nerves 10 to 18 pairs, 

 spreading, prominent beneath : length 2'75 to 5*5 in., breadth 1*25 to 

 1*75 in., petiolules '25 in. Panicles usually 3 or 4 together, mostly 

 axillary, 4 to 6 in. long, puberulous, the branches short, racemose. 

 Flowers '2 in. in diam., pedicelled, in short cymules. Sepals 5, sub- 

 rotund, thick, minutely tomentose outside and pubescent inside. Petals 

 5, much smaller than the sepals, spathulate, villous. Disc large, flat, 

 glabrous. Stamens 8 to 12, exserted, the filaments hairy at the base, 

 the anthers glabrous. Ova^-y broadly ovate, 2-lobed, covered with 

 course villi ; style short, stout, simple. Fruit of two or usually of only 

 one sub-globular lobe densely covered with long stout curved puberu- 



