1896.] G. King— MatttrUtls for a Flora of i/*a Malayan Fmdnmlu. 4S9 
10. NEPHELiDSf MALATEN8E, Grift". N'otul. IV, 549. Atreejyounff 
bmnc!ief? with mmoh scurfy tawny nimnte pubescence and elont^at^d 
lenticels in rows. Lfav^s 10 to 14 in. long, their mcbises angled and 
covered with naiimt© tawny seui-fj touoienbtim ; hajhts 6 to 8, sub- 
oppostte^ thinly eoriaceous^ asnally elliptic, sometimes elliptic-oblon£^, 
BhoHly cuspidate, veiy slightly narrowed to the ronnded slightly 
oblique baae; uppei* surface glabrous, the lower with small hairs on ihh 
nervefj and prominent retictdations ; main nerves 15 to 18 pairs, spread- 
ing Ipngth 3"5 to 5 in., breadth 2 to 2'5 in.; petiolules '15 in., tomentoae. 
Panicles terminal, minutely ruaty-glandular-tomentose, 6 to 9 in, long, 
branches rather numerous. Flotoers in fascicles on the raceme-like 
branches, shortly podit'elled, "25 in. in diara. Oalyx pubescont, with & 
deep ovate-rotund obtuse lobes; Petals 5, about as long as the calyx- 
lobes but narrower, obovate, villons insLde. Stamens 8, short, scarcely 
exserted ; anthers glabrous, shorter than tiro filamcutg. Ovary 2-lobed, 
maty-setose, the style about as long m the orary ; the stigma capitate, 
2-lobed. Frtiii {Me Hiern) slightly tnbercled or almost emooth, 
globose, *65 to -75 in. in diam. 8etd globular, its arillas fleshy. 
Malacca : Grif^thj No. 999 ; Maingay, No. 455. 
I have not seen the fruit of this, and the description aboTe given is 
copied from Hiern. 
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Dovhiftd species. 
11. N'bphrlidm siTPFEBDOrSEDM, Radlk. ub. Sapind. Holland.-Ind. 
77. A tree : young branebc.'? minutely rusty-tomentose* Leaves 6 to 8 
in, long, the rachiaos pubernlous : leajleis 2 pairs, thinly coriaceous, 
elliptic or obovate-eliiptic, aub-acute, the base cuneate ; upper sni-face 
glabrous and minutely i-eticulate, the lower minutely densely adprossed- 
puberulous ; main nerves 9 to 11 pairs, ascending, ratlier straigbt, pro- 
miuenb on the lower surface ; length *2*75 to 4 in., breadth 1*75 to 2"25 
in., petioliilc's '2 in. Panicles about as long as or shorter than the leaves, 
crowded, axillary, rusty-pubcsceufc, their branches racemose. Flowers '2 
in, in diam., shortly pedicelied. Calyx rosfcy-tomentose, deeply cut 
into 5 broadly ovate sub-acute lobes. Petals 0, Disc glabrous, Sta- 
7nens about 8, the antbeis glabrous, the filaments subnlate and haiiy. 
Omry not lobed, sub-globular, rusty-pnbesceflt, much shorter than tile 
simple sub-glabrous style. 
Malacca ; Griffith, No. 1000. 
I have not seen frnit of this ; bnt Radlkofer describes it as follows : 
— *'fructus aculeis brevioribus e basi ohconica filiformibas hamato- 
curvatis glabi-is laxins mnricafcia," The fruit thm attributed to the 
species is however not attached to the branches iu Griffith's «Bpecimena^ 
