292 SAPINDACER. [ Nephelinm, 
Leaves apiculate; flowers about 3 lin. in diamet ; . T. pomifera. 
Leaves almost caudate; flowers hardly 2 lin. in aanites . «+ Z. Nepalensis. 
. pomifera, DC. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 698. —Towk-sha-ma. —An 
evergreen tree (30—40 + 12—20 + 2—3), all parts glabrous; bark 
rather smooth, about 2 lin. thick, grey, minutely corky lenticellate ; ; 
cut dryish, pale-coloured; leaves pinnate, glabrous and glossy ; leaflets 
5-7 in. long, in 2-3 pairs with a long-petioluled odd one, oblong to 
elliptically oblong, shortly petioluled, acute at the base, apiculate, 
serrate, coriaceous ; flowers small, greenish white, shortly pedicelled, 
formi trichotomous glabrous panicles in the axils of the w 
leaves and shorter than them ; sepals and petals rotundate, agar : 
about 14 lin. long; fruits globose, especially while young 0 
stylose-3-pointed, fleshy, green, smooth, the size of a large eneey? 
: Haxs.—Frequent in the tropical forests of ee and still more so in those of 
Mechta also Chittagong.—Fl. Febr.—Fr. C.S.—s.—SS.—=Metam. SiS. 
REMARKs.—Wood very pale brown or ae ether heavy, fibrous, but 
easaraset tolerably soft, soon attacked by xylophages. 
2. T. Nepalensis, Wall. ; ams Sylv. Madr. t. re —Douk-ya- 
ma.—An evergreen tree (20— +8—15+2—8), all parts quite 
glabrous ; Sagi pinnate, quite glabrous and glossy above ; leaflets 
eee large trichotomous panic ‘les in the axils of the upper leaves 
and as long or sometimes longer than them; petals and sepals 
oblong, blunt, ciliolate, hardly a line long; fruits small, scarcely 
fleshy, usually 3-seeded, stylose-3-pointed. 
Has.—Frequent in the hill forests, especially the drier ones and the pine 
sing Martaban, at 3,000 to 7,200 ft. elevation —FI. March.—s—S8= 
Metam 
NEPHELIUM, L. 
te. 
e or as card as calyx-lobes, small, furnished with a 2 det reals 
witha the anus disk. Ovary 2 2-8-lobed and ee with a soli- 
tary ovule in each cell. Fruit usually deeply 2- 3-lobed or by 
abortion reduced to a single lobe, the lobes indehiscent or bh = 
valved or rupturing. Seeds more or less completely enveloped by 
the arillus. Cotyledons thick.—Trees, with pinnate leaves. Flowers 
small, in axillary or se panicles. 
Pd Petals none. Calyzx-too 
abla head covered with oy soft, subulate or angular 
‘Globes: laf glancou whitish beneath ; of fruit 
ay ee oats conically angular, truncate, a . w ad eee 
