1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 435 



in. in diam. Seed solitary, enveloped in a fleshy pale sub-acid arillus. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4096 ; W. and A. Prodr. 113 ; Grah. Bomb. PI. 29 ; Blame 

 Rumph. Ill, 108; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 35 ; Thvvaites Enum. 58; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 556 ; Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 688, (in 

 part) ; Trimen Flora Ceylon, I, 309. N. Mora, Gardn. ex Thwaites I. c. 

 N. Bengalense, G. Don Gen. Syst. I, 570. Scytalia bengalensis, Roxb. 

 ex G. Don Z. c. 8c. Longan, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 29 ; FL Ind. II, 270. 

 Dimocarpus Longan, Lour. Fl. Cochincb. 233 ; Trans. Hort. Soc. II, t. 28. 

 Euphoria Longana, Lamk. Diet. Ill, 574 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1729 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 1 56 ; "Wall. Cat. 8049. Sapindus bengalensis, Roxb. ex W. and 

 A., I. c. Dimocarpus undulatus, Wight ex W. and A., Z. c. E. undulata, 

 Hb. Heyne ex Wall. Z. c. 8. monogyna, Hb. Heyne Z. c. D. pupilla, Moon 

 Cat. 31. N. pupillum, Wight 111. I, 141. Euphoria pupillum, Steud. 

 Norn. ed. 2, II, 192. 



In most of the Provinces, but probably cultivated. — Distrib. The 

 Tropics generally. 



Var. hypoleuca, King. Fruit ovoid, 1 to 1:5 in long. N. hypoleucum, 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal for 1871, II, 50 : for 1874, II, p. 183 : 

 and for 1875, II, p. 187 ; For. Flora Burma, I, 293 : Radlk. Sapind. 

 Holl.-Ind. 28. 



Malacca : MaiDgay, No. 440. — Distrib. Burma. 



Hiern reduces N. hypoleucum without recognising it as even a 

 variety. Radlkofer, on the other hand regards it as a distinct species. 

 But beyond its oval fruit, I do not see how it differs from typical N. 

 Longana, L., and I therefore treat it as a variety of the latter. 



3. Nephelium rufescens, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 688. 

 A tree 50 to 60 feet high : young branches cinereous-puberulous, soon 

 becoming glabrous. Leaves 6 to 12 in. long : leaflets 6 to 10, coriaceous, 

 narrowly oblong or lanceolate-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, 

 entire, the base cuneate or rounded ; both surfaces quite glabrous and 

 finely reticulate ; main nerves 8 to 14 pairs, faint, spreading ; length 

 2 to 5*5 in., breadth - 75 to 1*65 in., petiolules '15 to *25 in. Panicles 

 axillary or terminal ; the branches racemose, puberulous. Flotoers 

 rather crowded, pedicellate, "2 in. in diam. Calyx with 5 deep ovate 

 segments with broad bases and acute apices, pubescent. Petals 5, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, hairy. Disc small, glabrous.- Stamens about 8, exserted, 

 the anthers short and broad, the filaments pubescent. Ovary with 2 

 ovate lobes, villous, 2-celled ; style stout, shortly divaricate at the apex. 

 Fruit with usually only one narrowly-ellipsoid stoutly-echiuate glabrous 

 lobe 1*25 in. long and *5 in. in diam. : the spines short and hollow, 

 compressed and glabrous. Radlk. Sapind. Holl.-Ind. 76. Euphoria 

 Litchi, Wall. Cat. 8048 G. and H. 



