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nephelium which dates from 1860. Miquel's genus Mildea (pablished 

 in 1867), appears also to be reducible to this. The still older genus of 

 Gornpositae bearing the name Paranephelius, Poepp. et. Eudl. dates from 

 18-i2 : but it has been found to be reducible to Liabum, Adans. 



1. Paranephelium nitidum, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 60 feet 

 high : young branches slender, terete, glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves 

 15 to 18 in. long, their rachises grooved : leaflets 5 to 9, coriaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, bluntly acuminate, entire, 

 much narrowed to the base ; both surfaces glabrous and shining ; main 

 nerves 14 to 16 pairs, curving, slightly prominent beneath ; length 4*5 

 to 6'5 in., breadth 1*5 to 1*75 in., petiolules '25 in. Panicles axillary, 

 3 or 4 in. long, few-branched, very lax ; the ultimat^e branchlets few- 

 flowered, cymulose. Flowers '2 in. in diam., the style long-projecting, 

 ovary rusty-pilose; stigmas 3, short, recurved. Fruit woody, 'depressed- 

 globular, the surface deeply and irregularly lobulate, shortly apiculate, 

 covered with brown scurf, 3-seeded ; depth "75 in., breadth 1 in. 

 (unripe). 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 7410, 7416. 



2. Paeanephelium MACiiOPHYLLUM, King n. sp. A tree 20 to 40 

 feet high : all parts except the inflorescence glabrous. Leaves 18 to 30 

 in. long, the rachises terete ; leaflets 5 to 9, sub-opposite, coriaceous, 

 oblong, shortly and abruptly cuspidate, the edges with few remote 

 serrations, cuneate at the base ; main nerves 18 to 28 pairs, spreading, 

 depressed on the upper and prominent on the lower surface ; length 6 to 

 15 in., breadth 2*5 to 4*5 in, ; petiolules '35 in., stout. Panicles pubes- 

 cent, axillary, erect, few-branched, about 12 in. long, the ultimate 

 branchlets cymose. Flowers '2 in. in diam. Stamens 8, inserted on the 

 edge of the cupular glabrous lobulate disc. Ovary sub-globular, rusty- 

 pilose. ^n«^ globular, woody, the whole surface covered with thick 

 spines, 3-celled, 1-3-seeded; diam. to end of spines 1 to 1*5 in. (unripe). 



Perak: Scortechini ; King's Collector, Nos. 3157, 3204, 6436, 7027 ; 

 Wray, No. 2675. 



17. DoDONJiA, Linn. 



Shrubs rarely trees. Leaves simple (in the only Malayan 

 species) alternate, exstipulate. Lifl.orescence lateral and terminal. 

 Flowers polygamous, inconspicuous, Sepals 5-2, imbricated or valvate. 

 Petals 0. Stamens 10-5, usually 8, inserted on the outer side of the disc ; 

 filaments short ; anthers linear oblong. Disc obsolete in the male flower, 

 small in the female. Ovary 3-6-sided and -celled; stTjle 3-6-sided, its apex 

 3-6-cleft. Ovules 2 together, collateral or- superposed. Capsule com- 

 pressed, membranous, septicidally 2-valYed ; valves winged at the 



