Sapindm.] XL. SAPINDAOEJ]. 801 



with 1 ovule in each cell. Style with 2 to 4 stigmatie lobes. Fruit fleshy or 

 coriaceous, divided into 2 to 4 globular or ovoid indehiscent lobes, not muricate. 

 Seeds without any arillus ; embryo straight or curved ; cotyledons thick. — Trees 

 or shrubs, rarely climbing. Leaves pinnate, rarely 1-foliolate. Flowers in 

 terminal or axillary panicles. 



The genus is widely dispersed over tropical regions, but less numerous in America than in 

 Asia. The Australian species is, so far as known, endemic ; but, like many others of the genus, 

 it must remain in some measure doubtful until the fruit has been seen. — Benth. 



1. S. (?) australis (Australian), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 464. Young branches, 

 petioles, and panicles pale or hoary with a very minute tomentum. Leaflets, in 

 our specimens, 4 or 6, broadly ovate, obtuse, 8 to Sin. long, entire, often oblique, 

 narrowed into a short petiolule, coriaceous, glabrous, much veined, of a pale, 

 almost glaucous colour. Panicle loose, longer than the leaves. Flowers shortly 

 pedicellate, in little loose cymes along the divaricate branches. Sepals in the 

 male flowers, the only ones seen, hoary tomentose, rather above 1 line long. 

 Petals nearly 2 lines long, oval-oblong, narrowed into a short claw, pubescent 

 outside, with a single short broad scale inside fringed with long hairs. Stamens 

 usually 8, as long as the petals. Filaments hairy. 



Hab.: Cape York, M'Gillivray. 



In the absence of female flowers and fruit, I have referred this plant to Sapindus, from its 

 general resemblance in habit and male flowers to S. emarginatus, Eoxb. — Benth. 



Baron Mueller, in 2nd Census of Austr. Plants, places this species as Atalaya ausrralis, giving 

 for the authority Eadlkofer in Sitzangasber der Akad zu Miinch 327, 1878 ; his writings, 

 however, throw no further light upon the subject, and I have not the work referred to. 



9. NEPHELIUM; Linn. 



(Ancient name of Burdock, supposed resemblance of fruit.) 



Flowers regular, polygamous. Calyx small, cup-shaped, with 4 or 5 rarely 

 6 teeth or lobes, valvate or slightly imbricate in the bud. Petals none, or as 

 many as calyx-lobes, small, with a 2-cleft scale or 2 scales inside. Disk annular. 

 Stamens 6 to 10, inserted within the disk ; filaments in the Australian species 

 short, in others elongated. Ovary 2 or 3-celled, usually lobed, with 1 ovule in 

 each cell. Style with 2 or 3 stigmatie lobes. Fruit usually deeply 2 or 3-lobed, 

 or rarely entire, 2 or 8-celled, or reduced to a single carpel, the lobes indehiscent 

 or 2-valved, or opening irregularly, muricate, or in the Australian species smooth. 

 Seeds usually wholly or partially enclosed in an arillus ; testa coriaceous ; coty- 

 ledons thick. — Trees, with the habit of . Cupania. Leaves abruptly pinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite or alternate, the primary parallel pinnate veins prominent under- 

 neath in all the Australian species except N. mierophyllum. Flowers small, in 

 axillary or terminal panicles. 



The genus extends over tropical Asia, especially the Archipelago. The Australian species 

 differ from the majority of the Asiatic ones in their smooth fruit and shorter filaments. The 

 flowers are nearly those of Batonia; but the fruit does not open in septiferous valves, even when, 

 as in N. connatum, it is scarcely lobed. It is also very nearly allied to Euphoria, differing chiefly 

 in the smaller gamosepalous calyx. The distinctions, however, between Cupania, Batonia, 

 Nephelium, Euphoria, and several others, are very slight. — Benth. 



Leaflets 2 to 6, 2 to 4in. long, oblong-elliptical, narrowed to short 

 petiolules, glabrous, somewhat glaucous, margins entire. Capsule 4 

 to S lines diameter, glabrous ; lobes divaricate, compressed . . . . 1. JV. semiglaucum. 



Leaflets 2 to 6, 2J to 4in. long, obovate to oblong, scarcely petiolulate, 

 entire or obscurely sinuate, glabrous, somewhat glaucous or minutely 

 tomentose underneath. , Capsule 3-furrowed or 3-lobed, hoary . _ . 2. N. connatum. 



Leaflets 2 to 6,' 4 to 7in. long, lanceolate ; petiolules rather long, grey on 

 the under side. Capsules of 1 to 3 globose lobes, about 3 lines 

 diameter, velvety ^- N. lemicinereum. 



