198 REPORT ON THE PLANTS 
I refer also the following plant, a single specimen from Santarem, 
to Sapindus, on account of the similarity of its flowers to those of the 
last species, although in the absence of fruit the genus cannot be de- 
termined with certainty. There are, however, no American Cupamie 
known with flowers at all like it. 
2. Sapindus oblongus, sp.n.; glaber, foliolis trijugis oblongis vix acu- 
minatis utrinque viridibus nitidulis basi cuneatis, thyrsis simplicibus 
ramosisve folio subbrevioribus, cymulis peduneulatis, petalis calyce 
duplo longioribus squamam ligulatam subintegram paullo superan- 
tibus.— Arbor parva.  Pefioli communes 3-5-pollicares.  Foliola 
ultima 3 poll. longa, inferiora minora, consistentia chartacea v. fere 
laurina. ^ Zafforescentie in axillis supremis ,3—5-pollicares, laxæ, 
eymulis breviter pedunculatis paucifloris. Sepala interiora linea 
paullo longiora, exteriora breviora, ovato-orbiculata, concava, cras- 
siuseula, margine ciliolata, dorso puberula, Petala flavicantia, ob- 
longa, 3 lin. longa, glabra, patentia, squama erecta intus villosissima. 
Discus cupuliformis, crassus, ovarii basin cingens. Stamina pistillo 
adpressa et eo dimidio breviora: filamenta brevia ; anther lineares, 
glabræ. Ovarium pubescens, in stylum desinens petalis paullo bre- 
viorem simplicem, summo apice simpliciter stigmatosum. Ovula 
e basi loculorum erecta, solitaria. 
The plant described (vol. ii. p.212) as Talisia laxiflora has been 
again gathered in abundance with a few specimens in fruit, which show 
that it cannot in fact be separated generically from Cupania, to which 
should most probably be referred Aublet’s original Zalisia, The name 
of our species must therefore be changed to that of Cupania laxiflora, 
‘and the following particulars added to the description :—Capsula sessilis, 
depresso-globosa, obtuse subtriquetra, extus tomentella et siccitate 
corrugata, 6 lin. diametro, trilocularis, loculicide trivalvis, valvulis 
crasso-coriaceis intus dense villosis. Semina solitaria, erecta, ovoideo- 
compressa, nigra, nitida; arillus tenuis, semine dimidio brevior; testa 
crustacea ; cotyledones crasso-carnosæ; radicula brevissima. There 
are, besides, three other Cupanie; one appears to be the C. geminata, 
Poir., of which I subjoin a somewhat fuller description than that given 
in the Encyclopédie, and two new species :— 
1. Cupania geminata, Poir. Dict. Suppl. vol. ii. p.419.—Frutez bior- 
gyalis, ramulis subteretibus striatis rufo-tomentosis.  Petioli com- 
munes Í-l-pollieares. Foliola gemina, breviter petiolulata, obovata, 
