686 xLiv. SAPiNDACE^. (W. P. Hicm.) [Xerospemum. 



14. XEROSFERMUnX, Blutne. 



A tree. Leaves alternate', exstipulate, abruptly pinnate ; leaflets opposite, 

 entire. Racemes axillary and terminal. Flowers regular, polygamo- 

 dioecioua. Sepals 4-5, imbricated in 2 rows. Petals 4r-f>, equal, spathulate, 

 shorter or but little longer than the sepals, hairy at the margin, without 

 scales. iStamem 8-7, included, inserted within the annular glabrous disk ; 

 filaments filiform, pubescent ; anthers small, glabrous. Ovary sessile, didy- 

 mous, muricated, 2-celled ; ovules solitary, ascending. Style short, thick ; 

 stigma thick, hairy. FruU 1-2-lobed ; parts ellipsoidal, diverging, muri- 

 cated with pyramidal tubercles, iiidehiscent, glabrous inside. Seeds exaril- 

 late ; testa coriaceous outside, fieshy, pilose, simulating an aril ; embryo 

 curved; cotyledons very large, thickly fleshy, superposed. — Disteib. A 

 mouotypic genus. 



1. X. Noronhianum, Blwme Rumph. m. 100 ; leaflets 2-5 rarely 

 only 1 elliptic lanceolate or oblong more or less acuminate glabrous closely 

 reticulated base obtuse or cuneate, racemes short simple or branched sub- 

 fascicled. Euphoria Noronliiana, Bhume Bijdr. 234 {as to the fruit). E. 

 xerocarpa, Bhume Bijdr. 234 Nephelium Noronhianum, Camb. in Mem. 

 Mus. Par. xviii. 30. N. xerocarpum, Camb. I.e. Sapindus glabratus. Wall. 

 Cat. 8095. Euphoria (sp.). Wail. Cat. 8054:.— Wall. Cat. 8083, 8084. 



SiLHET, WaUich; Khasia Mt3. and Tenassebim, Griffiih. Malacca, Sincapobb aiid 

 Penahg, Griffith, &c. — Distrib. Java. 



A tree, 30-45 or more feet high, with terete puberulent shoots. Leaves 7-13 in. ; 

 leaflets 34-9 by 1-3 J in. ; petiolules J-§ in. Itacemes 1-4: in. ^Flowers ^ in., greemsii 

 ov yellow. Fruit 1 in. or more long, yellow. — The Khasia and Silhet specimens differ 

 from the type by lanceolate and more acuminate leaSets. 



15. NEFHEIiXUM, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnate or rarely simple ; 

 leaflets entire or rarely dentate more or less glaucous beneath (the lowest 

 pair in one species simulating stipules). Injiorescence terminal and axillary. 

 Flowers regular, polygamous. Calyx 4-8-lobed usually cup-shaped, sub- 

 yalvate or somewhat imbricated in bud. Petals small, without scales, as 

 many as or fewer in number than the calyx-lobes, or wanting. Stamens 

 5-10, inserted within the fleshy glabrous or pubescent disk ; filaments 

 usually pubescent. Ovary pubescent, 2-3-lobed, usually verrucose ; lobes 

 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Style 2-3-lobed, erect. Fruit 1-3-coccous, indehiscent, 

 globose or oblong, echinate tubercled or smooth. Seeds globose, included 

 in a pulpy aril. — Disteib. A genus' not separable from Euphoria {.fuss.), and 

 with it containing about 30 species, confined to India the Indian Archi- 

 pelago S. China and Australia; in the last country about 10 species occur. 



Sect. I. Xeawes usually paripinnate; leaflets none stipuliform. 

 * Petals wanting. Calyx dentate or half-cleft. 



1. N. mutabile, Blwme Rumph. iii. 104 ; leaflets 4^8 opposite or sub- 

 alternate oblong or oblong-elliptic obtusely acuminate entire thinly 

 coriaceous above glabrous shining beneath glaucous marked -with somewhat 

 arching lateral veins puberulent-glandular base obtusely narrowed or rarely 

 rounded, racemes simple or branched shortly pubescent, calyx cup-shaped 

 4-5-fid, petals 0, disk glabrous"; stamens 7-8. fruit echinate-muricate 

 with strong rigid setae. Euphoria Longana, Blume Bijdr. 233 {not of 



