306 XL. SAPINDACEiE. [Nephelium. 



pubescent. Ovary broadly oboordate, strigose-pubeseent. Styles divided to the 

 base, revolute. Capsule renate-obcordate, about ^in. broad, attenuated into a 

 somewhat short stipes, flattish, 2-celled, twice as broad as high by the dimidiate 

 lobes, glabrous outside, lanuginous-tomentose inside ; pericarp crustaceous. Seeds 

 ovate, 3 or 4 lines long, the arillus almost enclosing them. Hilum not very 

 large. Cotyledons very unequal, oblique, superposed. Radicle lateral, short. 

 Ratonia distylis, F. v. M. in Fl. Austr. i. 462, from further examination removed 

 by Baron Mueller to Nephelmm. 



Hab.: Brisbane Biver, and Bunya Mountains in the south to Port Denison in the north. 



13. M". callarrie (aboriginal name of tree at the Upper Barron River), Bail. 

 Ql. Agri. Journ. v. A graceful erect tree about 50ft. high, in all parts except 

 the upper side of leaflets thinly covered with a light-coloured pulverulence. 

 Leaves pinnate ; leaflets petiolulate, oblong-lanceolate, alternate, 5 to 13, thin, 

 coriaceous, 5 to 9in. long, 1^- to 2in. broad, primary nerves yery close, but taint, 

 not more prominent than the close reticulation, which is plain on either side, 

 upper side green, glabrous, under side almost white, margins entire, wavy, 

 Panicles in the upper axils, erect, 6 to 9in. long, with few spreading racemose 

 branches, the flowers small in cymes or clusters of about S on short branchlets, 

 almost sessile ; calyx silky-hairy, about 2 lines diameter ; lobes 5, broad. Petals 

 5, rudimentary, obtuse, tapering each way from the centre. Stamens 8, slightly 

 exserted ; filaments hairy, broadening towards the base, very narrow under the 

 anther ; ovary silky, tapering from base to the 2 recurved stigmatic lobes. The 

 position in the genus doubtful until fruit is obtained. 



Hab.: Mulgrave Biver, Bellenden Ker Expedition, 1889 ; Upper Barron Biver, J. F. Bailey, 

 June, 1899. 



10. EUPHORIA, Juss. 



(From euphoros, fertile.) 



Flowers regular, polygamous. Sepals 5, distinct, imbricate or valvate in the 

 bud. Petals none or as many as sepals, with or without a scale inside. Disk 

 annular. Stamens 6 to 10, inserted within the disk ; filaments short. Ovary 2 

 or 3-celled, usually lobed, with 1 ovule in each cell ; style deeply 2 or 8-lobed, or 

 divided to the base into distinct styles. Fruit deeply 2 or 3-lobed, or reduced to 

 a single carpel, the lobes usually indehiscent, tuberculate. Seeds enclosed in a 

 pulpy arillus ; testa' coriaceous ; cotyledons thick. — Trees, with the young shoots 

 usually pubescent. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets, as in Nephelium, with the primary 

 pinnate veins raised underneath. Flowers small, in terminal panicles. 



The genus extends over tropical Asia, especially the Archipelago, with one Australian endemic 

 species. It is very nearly allied to Nephelium, differing chiefly in the distinct sepals (in which 

 respect N. Beckleri comes very near to Euphoria), and from the Australian Nephelia in the 

 tuberculate fruit. — Benth. 



1. E. Iieichhardtii (after L. Leichhardt), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 468. Young 

 branches, petioles, and inflorescence rusty-tomentose. Leaflets about 6, from 

 obovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, 2 to Bin. long, entire, 

 rather thin, glabrous or nearly so above, tomentose or pubescent underneath, 

 narrowed into a short petiolule. Panicles terminal, sessile, rather large, the 

 flowers in little dense cymes along its branches. Sepals about 1 line long, 

 tomentose,. imbricate. Petals rather shorter, without any scale, but hairy inside, 

 glabrous outside in the typical form. Filaments longer than the calyx ; anthers 



