438 Cx. King" — Materials for a 'Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [ST< 



8. Nephelium ophiodes, Racllk. Sapiud. Holl.-Ind. 78. A tree 50 

 to 80 feet high : young branches rusty puberulous. Leaves J2 to 18 in. 

 long, their rachises 3-angled ; leaflets 6 to 10, very coriaceous, oblong, 

 rarely elliptic-oblong, very shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base 

 slightly narrowed and oblique ; upper surface glabrous, the lower 

 minutely scaly and rusty-puberulous ; main nerves 15 to 18 pairs, 

 spreading and curving upwards, slightly depressed on the upper bold and 

 prominent on the lower surface ; length 6 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 2*5 in., 

 petiolules - 2 to '25 in. Panicles axillary or terminal, sometimes pedun- 

 culate, 8 to 16 in. long, much branched, rusty-tomentose. Flowers '15 in. 

 in diam., shortly pedicelled. Calyx tomentose, deeply divided into 5 or 

 6 broadly triangular acute lobes. Petals 0. Disc glabrous. Stamens 6 

 to 8, slightly if at all exserted : filaments subulate, pubescent ; anthers 

 short and puberulous. Ovary abortive on one side, broadly ovoid, densely 

 getose-pubescent, 1-celled. Fruit with only one lobe developed, 

 oblon^-ovoid, densely covered with long flexuose puberulous setae, 

 1*5 in. long and 1 in. in diam. N. eriapetalitm, Hiern m Hook. til. FL 

 Br. Ind. I, 689 (in part). 



Malacca: Maiugay, No. 453. Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 5481, 

 7140. 



9. Nephelium ekiopetalum, Miq. in Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 508. A 

 large tree : the young parts, the rachises of the leaves, the under surfaces 

 of the leaflets and the inflorescence minutely rusty- or fulvous-tomentose 

 or pubescent. Leaves 12 to 24 in. long : leaflets 6 to 10, thickly coriaceous, 

 oblong, rarely obovate-oblong, sub-acute, slightly narrowed to the 

 rounded or cuneate base : upper surface glabrous and shining- except 

 the tomentose midrib ; the lower brown, tomentose or pubescent, with 

 the 16 to 24 pairs of spreading main nerves and the transverse reti- 

 eulations prominent ; length 4 to 12 in., breadth 1*65 to 4 in., petiolules 

 •25 to '35 in., tomentose, stout. Racemes in small clusters in the leaf- 

 axils, pendent, 4 to 10 in. long (longer in fruit) ; the flowers in glome- 

 ruli, shortly pedicelled, "25 in. in diam. Calyx with 5 deep triangular 

 sub-acute spreading teeth, pubescent externally, glabrescent internally. 

 Petals 5 or fewer, oblong and blunt, or subspathulate, much narrower 

 than the calyx-teeth, pubescent. Disc lobulate, pubescent. Stamens 

 about 10, not exserted, anther oblong, filament short, both sparsely 

 pubescent. Ovary slightly compressed, 2-lobed, rusty-setose : styles 2, 

 logger than the ovary, pubescent, divaricating, recurved. Fruit ovoid, 

 densely covered with flexuose compressed puberulous soft spines, about 

 2 in. long (measured to the ends of the spines) and about 1'5 in. in 

 diam. Hiern in Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 689. 



Malacca : Maiugay, No. 448. Singapore : Ridley, Nos. 4584, 6022. 

 Perak: Scortechini, No. 143 : Wray, No. 1300.— Disiuib. Sumatra. 



