Nephelium.\ XL. SAPINDACE^. 805 



breadth. Oalyx of 5 ovate lobes. Petals white, larger than the calyx lobes, angular 

 toothed, scales oiliate. Disklobed. Stamens 8; filaments hairy ; anthers glabrous. 

 Capsule glabrous, depressed, prominently stipitate, attaining to a diameter 

 of lin., of 3 rounded lobes, which are by abortion sometimes reduced to 1 or 2, 

 glabrous inside except for a small dense tuft of white hairs immediately below 

 where the ovules are attached. Seeds compressed, smooth, angular ; testa thin, 

 light-brown coloured, 8 or 4 lines broad, entirely concealed in a thick fleshy 

 arillus of an amber colour, very juicy and of sharp acid flavour. 



Hab.: Eudlo sorubs, Field Naturalists, Nov. 1891 (flowering specimens, J. H. Simmonds and 

 J. F. Bailey, May 1896). 



The nearest Australian ally to the above is probably N. leiocarpum. 



The sharp, acid, thick arillus closely resembles that in the fruit of Diploglottis, and might be 

 used in a similar manner. Doubtless an excellent and palatable jelly might be made from it. 



Outer wood grey, inner wood brown, close-grained, hard and heavy, but easily worked ; useful 

 for mallets and tool handles. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 100. 



10. IT. divaricatum (referring to the few straggling branches of panicles), 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 467 ; F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 98. A handsome tree of consider- 

 able height, the bark of the trunk smooth, grey or here and there reddish, the 

 young shoots and panicles slightly hoary with a minute tomentum, otherwise 

 glabrous. Leaflets 4 or rarely 2, oval-oblong, elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse or acuminate, 2 to 8 or rarely 4in. long, entire, narrowed into a petiolule 

 of 2 or 8 lines, thinly coriaceous. Panicles loose, with few divaricate branches, 

 the flower-cymes shortly pedunculate. Calyx very open, about f line long, 

 pubescent, divided to the middle into 5 or rarely 4 broad obtuse lobes. Petals 

 small, the inner scale short or in some females nearly as long as the lamina. 

 Filaments short ; anthers oblong, pubescent. Ovary tomentose. Fruit glabrous, 

 sessile or nearly so, with 1, 2, or 3 ovoid or nearly globular lobes, nearly ^in. 

 long, indehiscent or splitting longitudinally, more or less villous inside. Seed 

 ovate, 8 to 5 lines long, nearly enveloped in the arillus. — Arytera divaricata, F. v. 

 M. in Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 25. 



Hab.: Brisbane Elver, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham. W. Hill, F. v. Mueller; Pine Biver, 

 Fitzalan; and from thence to Eookingham Bay. 



11. rr. microphyllum (small leaved), Benth. Fl. Amtr. i. 468 (in part). 

 Glabrous or the young shoots minutely hoary. Leaflets 2 or rarely 1 only, ovate 

 or obovate, obtuse, ^ to l^in. long, entire, narrowed at the base but not 

 petiolulate, somewhat coriaceous, the primary veins numerous and fine, not 

 distant and raised as in other species. Fruiting panicles short and rather dense. 

 Inflorescence puberulent, almost reduced to racemes, solitary or in pairs, in the 

 axils of the leaves, very slender, 1 to 2in. long, with a few very short branchlets 

 near the base. Pedicels filiform, about 1 line long. Calyx small, 5-lobed, 

 scarcely ^ line long, hairy. Stamens erect, seldom more than 6, hairy, exceeding 

 1 line beyond the calyx. Fruit glabrous, almost sessile, with 1, 2, or rarely 3 

 ovoid lobes, about 5 lines long, splitting irregularly like those of N. divaricatum, 

 hirsute inside. 



Hab.: Wide Bay, Bidwill; Isis scrub, Mrs. Helms. 



12. N. distyle (two-styled), F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 99. A tree of considerable 

 size, glabrous except the inflorescence, and sometimes the young shoots. Bark 

 smooth. Leaflets 2, or sometimes reduced to 1 at the end of a short common 

 petiole, from obovate-oblong to elliptical or lanceolate, obtuse or shortly 

 acuminate, 2 to Sin. long, narrowed into a short petiolule, thinly coriaceous, 

 reticulate. Panicles small, pubescent, with minute appressed hairs, the female 

 often reduced to a simple raceme. Calyx small, broad, shortly 5-toothed. Petals 

 minute, orbicular, or sometimes narrow, with a hairy scale at the base. Filaments 

 rather short, particularly in the female flowers. Anthers oval-oblong, obtuse, 



