432 Q. King — Materials for a Mom of the Malnyan Pemnmlat [No. 3, 
length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1*35 to 2 in., potiolules *35 in. Racemes 
axillary, Esually with a few short braiichlets, bracfceoles small, pedicels 
as long m the flower-bnds. Flowers '2 in. in diam. Sepah 4» rotund, 
nearly glabrong but with ciliate edges. Fetah 4, shorter tliaii the 
aepjils, the limb rusty- villoas. Uisc fleshy, waved, StaTtiens 8, the 
filametits pubescent towards the apesc, the anthers glabrous. Fi^dt 
usually reduced by abortion to only one lobe, sharply rauricate, 1-25 m. 
long and *75 in. in diam. Xf^ospermum Norhoniantiui^ Hiern (not of 
Blume) in Hook, fih Fl. Br. IncL I, 686 (in part) ; Kurz For. Flora 
Burma, I, 295. Nephelium mnricatum, Griffith MSS. 
Malacoa: Griffith, No. 1Q04; Maingay, Nos, 444 a ud 458 also 4^43 
in part ; Derry. Perak : very common, King's Collectorj Scortechini. 
Singapore : Uidley, — DiSTftiB. Burma, 
Though closely allied to X. Norhomanum Badlk. this has more 
sharply miiricated fruit. 
2, Xerosperm[7M Wallichii, King, n, sp. A tree 30 to 40 feet 
high ; young brauches glabrous, daik-coloured when dry. Leaves 12 
to 18 in. long, equally pinnate ; leaflets two pairs, conaceous, eltiptio 
or obovate-ellipfcic, shortly and blautly cuspidate, much naii-owod below 
ihe middle to the base, both suifacefi glabrous and ti-ansvereely reti- 
culate I main nerves 5 to 7 paits, depressed on the upper prominent 
on the lower surfacOj ascending ; length 4*5 to 8 in., breadth 2-25 to 
4 in. ; petiolules '25 to *45 in., stout. Racetites axillary, 2 to 4 together, 
I to 2 in. long. Flowers "lb in. in diam. when open, pedicellate. Sepals 
4, rotund, concave, glabrous but with minutely ciliate edges. Fetals 
4, smaller than the sepals, snb-rotund, witli very short claws, densely 
lanate. Stamens 8 j JUainBtits short aud lanate, anthers sliort and glab- 
rous. Disc annular, glabrous, fleshy. Ovaty broad, compiNSssed, 2- 
lobed and 2-celled, pubescent. Fruit usually with 2 oocci but often with 
only one, obliquely elliptic, slightly compressed, rarely sub-globular, 
minutely rugnlose, not muritsite, when ripe I "25 in, long and '75 in. 
broad. Wall. Cat. Nos. 808^, 8084, 
Singapore and Penang: Wallich. Perak ; Wray, Noa. 3419, 3580: 
King's Collector, Noa- 8725, 10611, and 10945. Pabang : Eidley, 
No. 2570. 
ilidl^y's Pahang specimen has nearly globular fruit. But in other 
respects it exactly resembles those fram the other provinces. 
9, Nephexhjm, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Jjeatm alternate, exstipulate, pinnate, the leaflets 
entire. Injhresceiice terminal and axillary, panicnlate or paniculate- 
racemose or racemose. Flowers i-ogulax-, polygamous. Oaiyx 4- to 6- 
