1896.] G. King — Mattrials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 439 



]0. Nki'HRLIUM Malaiknse^ GHit'. Notul. IV, 549. A tiee ; youni^ 

 l)ranches with much scurfy tawny minute pubescence and eloni^atod 

 leiiticels in rows. Leaves 10 to 14 in. long, their rachises angled and 

 covered with minute tawny scurfy totnentum ; leaflets 6 to 8, sub- 

 opposite, thinly coriaceous, usually elliptic, sometimes elliptic-oblong, 

 shortly cuspidate, very slightly narrowed to tiie rounded slightly 

 oblique base; upper surface glabrous, the lower with small ha.irs on tho 

 nerves and prominent reticulations ; main nerves 15 to 18 pairs, spread- 

 ing ; length .3*5 to 5 in., breadth 2 to 2'5 in.- petiolules '15 in., tomentose. 

 Panicles terminal, minutely rusty-glandular^tomentose, 6 to 9 in, long, 

 branches rather numerous. Flowers in fascicles on the raceme-like 

 branches, shortly pedicelled, '25 in. in diam. Calyx pubescent, with f) 

 deep ovate-rotund obtuse lobes. Petals 5, about as long as the calyx.^ 

 lobes but narrower, obovate, villojis inside. Stamens 8, short, scarcely 

 exserted ; anthers glabrous, shorter than the filf)Mw.ents. Ovary 2-lpbe(J, 

 rusty-setose, the style about as long as the ovary ; the stigma capitate, 

 2-lobed. Fruit (Ude Hiern) slightly tubercled or almost smooth, 

 globose, '65 to "75 in. in diam. Seed globular, it3»arillus fleshy. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 999 ; Maingay, No. 455. 



J have not seen the f.riji|i of tljiis, and the description above given is? 

 copied from Hiern, 



Doubtful species, 



l). Nephelium suPFERUGiNEaM, Radlk. lib. Sapind. Holland. -Ind. 

 77. A tree: young branches minutely rusty-tomentose. Leaves 6 to 8 

 in. long, the rachises puberulous : leaflets 2 pairs, thinly coriaceous, 

 elliptic or obovate-elliptic, sub-acute, the base cuneate ; upper surface 

 glabrous and minutely reticulate, the lower minutely densely adpressed- 

 puberulous ; main nerves 9 to 11 pairs, ascending, rather straight, pior 

 minent on the lower surface ; length 2*75 to 4 in., breadth 1'75 to 2*25 

 in. J petiolules *2 in. Panicles about as long as or shorter than the leaves, 

 .crowded, axillary, rusty-pubescent, their branches racemose. Flowers '2 

 in. in diam., shortly pediceljed. Calyx rusty-tomentose, deeply cu.t 

 into 5 broadly ovate sub-acute lobes. Petals 0. Disc glabrous, Sta^ 

 mens about 8, the anthers glabrous, the fjlanients subulate and haizy. 

 Ovary not lobed, sub-globular, rusty-pubescent, muqh shorter thau th© 

 simple sub-glabrous style. 



Malacca: ariffitb, No. 1000. 



I have not seen fruit of this ; but Radlkofer describes it as follows; 

 — "fructus aculeis brevioribus e basi obconica filiformibus hamato- 

 <3urvatis glabris laxius muricatis," The fruit thus attributed to th© 

 i^pecies is however not attached to the blanches ia Griffith'ji ^pfyphumSf 



