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XLII. SAPINDACEA5. 
[Nephelium. 
Flowers ‘i in. across white often unisexual in cymose fascicles. 
Sepals 4 to 6. Petals o. Stamens 5 to 8 exsert. Ovary 2- to 3- 
lobed echinate. Fruit 1- or 2-lobed ellipsoid densely covered with 
lone; soft spines yellow to bright red, 1*5 in. long. '5 in - throug , 
Hab. Cultivated everywhere, and often occurring in forests as an 
escape, or in abandoned cultivations. The Rambutan. 
{4) N. rubescens Hiern, lx. i. 688. N. rufescens King, l.c. 
435 A tree 50 to 60 ft. tall, 8 to 10 in. through. Leaves 6 to 12 in. 
long- leaflets 6 to io coriaceous narrow oblong acuminate, base 
cuneate or round glabrous; nerves 8 to 14 pairs faint, 3 to 5’5 i n * 
long i*5 to 1*65 in. wide; petiolules *15 to *25 in. long. Panicles 
axillary and terminal puberulous. Flowers *2 in. across, white. 
Calyx lobes 5, ovate acute pubescent. Petals 5, narrow lanceolate 
hairy Disc small. Stamens exsert 8; filaments pubescent. 
Fruit with 1 or 2 lobes oblong with short conic tubercles red, 1-25 m. 
long, *5 in. through; seed-pulp thin acid. Hab. Common in woods. 
Singapore (Walhch); Chan Chu Kang. Johor, Batu Pahat. 
Malacca (Maingay). Perak, Larut (Kunstler). 
(5) N. Herveyi Ridl. Journ. Roy. /Is. Soc. S. Br. 82, p. i°o. 
Tree. Leaves narrow lanceolate blunt acuminate, base shoitly 
acute, coriaceous glabrous; nerves about 18 pairs, shining above, 
sub-glaucous beneath, 3 to 3-5 in. long, 1-5 in. wide; petiolules 
•18 in. long. Panicles 4 to 6 in. long densely tomentose. Calyx- 
lobes appressed tomentose, ovate. Petals 3 to 5 very small narrow 
glabrous Stamens glabrous. Fruit 1*25 in. long, red, covered 
with short flat blunt spines widest at base *12 in. long. Mao. 
Malacca, Alor Gajah (Griffith, Hervey, Maingay). Bindings, 
Pangkor (Curtis). 
This closely resembles N. rubescens Hiern and has been confused with 
it. The leaves are narrower and more rigid, and the fruit is totally different, 
bearing flat triangular blunt spines close together. 
(6) N, eaudifolium Ridl. , , ,. . 
Leaves 5 in. long with 5 pairs of leaflets, quite glabrous, petioles 
2 in. long. Leaflets coriaceous, smooth, lanceolate, bluntly caudate 
acuminate, base shortly cuneate, finely reticulate above; ner ^ s 
fine very inconspicuous, 10 pairs, 3*5 in. long, 1 in. wide; petio- 
lules *12 in. long. Panicles 5 in. long (base 3 in. long, nude), 
branches 1-25 in. long, pubescent. Flowers numerous crowded, 
pedicels *i in. long, pubescent. Sepals 5, lanceolate blunt, silky 
on both sides. Petals 5 , little longer, narrow hnear-lanceolate 
silky villous. Stamens much longer; filaments villous. Uvary 
bilobed, tubercular, hairy; style rather stout Fruit (unnpe) o 
2 equal spreading lobes covered with short conic tubercles glabrous. 
Hal Selangor, Kelambu Forest, Klang (Foxworthy). Native 
name : Gigi Buntal. 
