828 
CUNONIA capensis. 
Cape Cunonia. 
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DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CUNONIACEZ. Br. app. Flind. p. 548. 
Genera Saxifragis aftima. Juss. gen. 309. 
CUNONIA. L. Cal. 5-partitus. Petala 5. Stamina 10. | Germen 
superum ; styli 2; stigmata 2. Capsula ovata acuminata 2-locularis poly- 
sperma.— Arbores; folia opposita, opposite et impari pinnata, petiolis arti- 
culatis. Flores racemosi, axillares, pedicellis passim fasciculatis 1-floris: 
FS foliis et racemis superioribus interjecta, magna, plana, petiolata. 
uss. l. c. 
C. capensis. Linn. sp. pl. 569. Thunb. prodr. 81. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 634. 
Pers. syn. 1. 486. Link enum. ber. 1.411. Lodd. bot. cab, t. 826. 
Oosterdykia floribus spicatis pentapetalis, foliis oblongis subincanis serratis. 
Burm. afr. 259. t. 96. 
Arbuscula, arbuti alatis foliis, africana. Pluk. alm. 45. t. 191. f. 4. 
Caulis nodosa versus apicem foliosa, foliolo petiolato ovali-oblongo ter- 
minata. Folia magna, opposita, petiolata, pinnata cum impare, alata ; 
pinnis 5 v. 7, lanceolatis, dentatis, glaberrimis. Racemi gemini, termina- 
les, foliolo supradicto interjecto, multiflori, floribus parvis, pedicellatis, fas- 
ciculatis. Sepala 5, ovalia, corolla multo breviora. Petala 5, ovali-oblonga, 
patentia. Stamina 10, filamentis petalis longioribus, antheris rotundis. 
Ovarium superum, conicum, stylis duobus staminum longitudine, stigmatibus 
obtusis. Capsula oblonga, acuta, bilocularis, polysperma. Lam. ex gall. 
vers. 
This plant is omitted in the last edition of Hortus Kew- 
ensis. 
We find the following account of it in Burchell’s Tra- 
vels in Africa, 1. 142: 
* 'This is a handsome tree, with fine shining green foli- 
* age, contrasted by numerous, dense, elongated bunches 
* of small milk-white flowers, and twigs of a red colour; 
* having the habit rather of a tropical than of a Cape 
“plant. Its colonial name is Rood Elze (Red Alder), al- 
* though the tree has not, in any point of view, the least 
* resemblance to the Alder of Europe; but the waggon- 
* makers say there is some similarity in their wood. I am 
* inclined, however, to believe, that the name was given 
* rather in consequence of their growing in similar situa- 
* tions," 
