294 : SAPINDACEE. [ Pometia. 
Has.—Chittagong, cultivated only.—Fl. Febr.-March. 
ReMaRKs.—Wood red-brown, rather heavy, close-grained, takes fine polish. 
N. B.—N., rubescens, Hiern., is said to occur in Tenasserim. 
8. N. Griffithianum, Kz.—An evergreen tree, the leaf-buds 
tawny velvety; leaves glabrous, unpaired-pinnate, on a 2-3 in. 
long glabrous somewhat glaucous petiole; leaflets in 3-4 pairs 
with an odd one, ovate-oblong to oblong, shortly petioluled, obtuse 
or nearly so at the unequal base, shortly acuminate, chartaceous, 
glaucous beneath, the net-veination conspicuous and prominent on 
both sides; flowers unknown ; fruits (according to Griff. racemose) 
by abortion 1-lobed, the lobe almost sessile, oblong, the size of a small 
ege, covered by soft angular-compressed conical nearly 3 an Im. 
long prickles, 1-seeded, the seed large, enclosed in a white sappy 
acid arillus 
Has,—aAvya, hills east of Bhamo,—Fr. May. 
4. Ny) na, Camb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 689: (Huphoria Longana, 
Lamk. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 156).—Kyet-mouk.—An evergreen tree, 
(30—50 + 15—25+44—5), all parts glabrous ; leaves abruptly pin- 
nate; leaflets in 3-4 pairs, almost opposite, on a short thick peti- 
‘olule, lanceolate, about 3-4 in. long, rather blunt, entire, coriaceous, 
glossy above, glaucous beneath; flowers small, yellowish white, 
very shortly pedicelled, forming a terminal slightly rusty-puberu- 
lous glabrescent panicle of the length of the leaves or longer; 
petals 5, lanceolate, hairy; stamens 6-8; filaments tomentose; 
style with 2 or 3 stigmatic lobes; fruit-lobes usually solitary, 
rarely 2-3, almost globose, the size of a cherry, covered with a 
brownish grey, roughish areolate, somewhat erustaceous epicarp, 1+ 
seeded, the seed large, entirely enclosed by the sappy, whitish, 
sweet, edible arillus, 
Has.—Rare in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah 
boung) ; also cultivated,—Fl. March._—s,—SS.=SiS. r 
Remakxs.—Wood brown, rather heavy, finely close-grained and apparenvy 
durable. Good for furniture and takes fine polish, Bie - 
POMETIA, Forst. 
