396 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



thick plano-convex, curved or sometimes convolute. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate pinnate or simple {Pappcea *) ; folioles entire, dentate 

 or serrate ; the lowest sometimes smaller {Pometidf suborbicular 

 stipuliform ; flowers in axillary and terminal subsimple or more or 

 less ramified compound-cymiferous racemes.^ {Trop. reg. of Old 

 World.*) 



8. Podonephelium H. Bn. — Flowers polygamous-dioecious 

 (nearly of Nephelium) ; calyx short cupular, shortly 5-dentate or 

 sometimes subentire. Petals 0. Stamens 5-8 (in female flower or 

 few fertUe or antherless) exserted below rudiment of gynseceum, 

 interior to cupular crenulate cUiate disk ; filaments finally exserted ; 

 anthers oblong introrse versatile, 2-rimose. Germen inserted at summit 

 of thick cylindrical or subclavate erect podogynium, 3-lobed ; cells 

 1 -ovulate ; style short, afterwards 3 -fid ; branches linear revolute, 

 inwardly stigmatiferous to apex. Fruit 3-coccous, placed at 

 summit of podogynium ; sterile cocci usually 2 ; fertile 1 (or more 

 rarely 2, 3) subglobose, depressed at apex, longitudinally obtusely 

 sulcate drupaceous; flesh scanty subcoriaceous ; putamen thin; testa 

 of ascendent subglobose seed, clothed with fleshy (arilloid) indumen- 

 tum adhering at nearly every part except at 3-angular spathe round 

 chalaza ; cotyledons of thick exalbuminous embryo plano-convex 

 fleshy superposed ; radicle short arched conoid incumbent descendent. 

 — A small tree ; leaves alternate abruptly pinnate ; folioles alternate 

 from base very unequally falciform penniveined reticulate small 

 veined ; flowers in racemose composite cymiferous clusters axillary 

 to upper leaves ; pedicels articulate.^ {^New Caledonia^ Lifu.^) 



9. Xerospermum BL.^-^Flowers polygamous-dioecious regidar, 

 4-merous ; sepals decussately imbricated ; exterior smaller. Petals 4, 

 alternate, short or very shortly subspathulate, rather vUlose at margin, 

 esquamate. Stamens 8, short, interior to annular disk ; filaments 



' EoKL. et Zeth. Eimm. 53. — Endl. Qen. n. 241 {Sapindus). — Tnw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 57j 408 



5635.— HooK.7(!o«.t.352.— B.H. 6«(.407,n.51. {Pometia). —M.1Q.. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 553, 



2 FoKST. Prodr. v. 74 (pait.) ; GTiar. Qen. 658 (Pometia), 569 {Spanoghea) ; Suppl. i. 508. 

 109, t. 55.— B. H. Gm. 407, n. 52.— Irina Bl. — Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 464.— Walp. Sep. i- 

 Sijdr. 230.— Cambess. Mem. Mus. xviii. 24. — 420 ; t. 364 ; Ann. ii. 220 ; vii. 630, 631 

 Endl. Gen. ii. 5607. — FccremanthmTs^.SooJe, {Spanoghea, Pappaa). 



Kev) Journ. -vii. 272, t. 9. 5 A genus aUied to Sapindus, and hence to 



3 A genus allied to Euphoria by seed and Nephelium, principally distinct by cocci of fruit 

 fruit, differing principally in nature of calyx. being stipate with elongated podogynium. 



* Spec, ad 20. DC. Prodr. i. 611 {Euphoria). « Spec. 1. P. stipitatim H. Bn. in Adansonia, 



—"Wight, Icon. t. 43.— Blanco, Fl. de Filip. xi. iiS.—Cupania stipitata Panch. herb. ! 

 287 {Euphoria).— 'ELt.-B.i!. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. ^ Rmnphia, iii. 99.— B. H. Qen. 405, n. 46. 



