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CUPANIA CuNNINGHAMI. 
Mr. Cunningham's Cupania. 
Nat. Ord. SapinpacE#®.—Ocranpria MonoGynta. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus equalis. Corolle petala 5, receptaculo inserta, 
calycis laciniis alterna, qualia, supra unguam squamula aucta, interdum nulla. 
Discus calycis fundum occupans regularis, integerrimus v. crenulatus. Stamina 
8, v.10, disco intus inserta; filamenta filiformia, libera, anthere introrse, bi- 
loculares, dorso inserts, mobiles, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium centrale, 
sessile, triloculare. Ovula in loculis solitaria, angulo centrali paullo supra basim 
inserta, adscendentia. Stylus simplex, apice trifidus, lobis intus stigmatosis. 
Capsula coriacea v. sublignosa, pyriformis, 2-3-gona, 2-3-locularis, loculicide 
2—3-valvis, valvis medio septiferis. | Semina in loculis solitaria, subglobosa, 
erecta, arillo cupuleeformi carnoso inclusa, ¢esta crustacea. Hinbryonis exalbuminosi, 
plus minus curvati, cofyledones crassissime, incumbentes, radicula brevis, umbilico 
proxima, infera.—Arbores v. Frutices erecti, inter tropicos totius orbis crescentes ; 
foliis alternis petiolatis, exstipulatis, abrupte pinnatis, foliolis oppositis v. alternis 
integerrimis v. serratis, interdum pellucido-punctatis, floribus polygamis in racemos 
axillares dispositis. Endl. 
Cupanta Canninghami ; ramis petiolis foliisque subtus paniculis calycibus fruc- 
tusque pubescenti-ferrugineis, foliis pari-pinnatis foliolis 8-10 oblongis bre- 
vissime petiolulatis, petalis 4 rotundatis unguiculatis pilosulis intus bi- 
squamosis, squamis hirtis spathulatis dorso glanduloso-cristatis. 
STADTMANNIA australis. 4J/. Cunn. MSS. 
The attention of most visitors to the great stove of the Royal 
Gardens is attracted to a lofty growing shrub or tree among the 
Palms, exceeding many of them in height, with large pinnated 
leaves, with the young branches especially clothed with fer- 
ruginous down, and labelled Stadfmannia australis of Allan 
Cunningham: it flowers in the spring, and is succeeded by 
large clusters of orange-coloured downy fruit, which split open 
while yet attached to the plant, and exhibit the bright orange 
pulpy arillus containing the seed. This is the plant of which we 
here represent as much as our ordinary-sized plate will allow. 
Tt is a native of New Holland, on the north-east coast near the 
tropics, and was discovered by Allan Cunningham, who speaks 
of it in his notes before me as “a tree 30-40 feet high, found 
in dark woods at Five Islands district, and on the banks of 
Hastings River, at Port Macquarrie and Brisbane in Moreton 
_ Bay.” I have specimens likewise, gathered at West Macquarrie 
by Mr. James Backhouse. Stad¢mannia of Lamarck has now 
merged into Cupania ; and other species being found in Australia 
I have named the species after its lamented discoverer. _ It is a 
noble plant with handsome foliage and fruit, but rather insigni- | 
ficant flowers, and of too lofty growth for ordinary cultivation. — 
Descr. A small ¢ree, chiefly branched at the top, branchlets 
_ OCTOBER Ist, 1849. L 2 
