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458 xxxiii. SAPiNDACEiE. iOuj)ania 



with a tliia arillus. — Arytera semiglanca, F. MuelL in Trans. Vict. Inst. ui. 

 35. 



Queensland. Morcton Bay, W. Hill, F. Mueller. 



N- S. "Vl^ales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Paramatta, Woolls ; Bliie 

 Mountains, Miss Atkhison ; S. of the colony, rare, A, CuuningJiarn ; Kiama, Harvey, 



3. C. punctulata, I\ MuelL Fragm. iii. 12. A tall shrub, quite gla- 

 brous. Leaflets usually 4 to 7, on a long slender common petiole, very ob- 

 liquely ovntc-lanccolate, acuminate, 3 to 4 in.* long, quite entire, thinly coria- 

 ceous, smooth and shining, minutely pellucid-dotted, narrowed into apetiolule 

 of "I in. or more, riowers not seen. Fruiting' panicles short, slender, clus- 

 tered in the axils or at the ends of the branches. Pedicels short. Sepals 

 often persistent or reflcxed, orbicular, about 1 line long, glabrous. Capsule 

 glabrons, 3-angled, llat at the top with the remains of the style forming a 

 point in the centre, about 4 lines broad, contracted into a short obconical 

 stipes, half opening in 3 coriaceous valves. Seeds not seen. 



Queensland, Cumberland Islands, Fitzalan. 



3. C. anacardioides^ A, Rich. Serf, Astrol. 33. if. 13. A slender 



tree, quite glabrous or with a minute hoariness on the inflorescence. Leaflets 

 6 to 10, usually 8, from broadly ovate or obovate to elliptical-oblong, very 

 obtuse, 2i to 4 in. long, rounded at the base and shortly pctiolulate, quite 

 entire, coriaceous. Flowers rather large for the genus, in pedunculate cymes 

 along the branches of loose panicles. Sepals orbicular, the inner ones 3 lines 

 broad, slightly ciliate. Petals small, orbicular, with 2 very sliort obovate 

 hirsute scales at the base. Stamens 10; filaments short, hirsute ; anthers 

 oblong. Ovary villous. Capsule glabrous, coriaceous, acutely and divari- 

 cately 3-lobcd, G to 8 lines broad, very shortly attenuate at the base. 



BT. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton hiij, Fraser^ A. CtmningJmm, F. Mueller ; 

 Biirdekin river, F, Mueller, 



N. S. ^Vales. Port Jackson, iZ. Brown and others; Hastings river, Fraser^ Beckler ; 

 Clarence river^ Wilcox. 



4. C- serrata, F, Muelh Fragm. iii. 43. A tree, but flowerijig when 

 still shrubby, the young branches rusty with a close tornentum. Leaflets 

 usually 6 to 10, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 3 to 6 in. 

 long, sharply and coarsely seiTate, rounded at the base and nearly sessile, 

 •jgid but not thick, shining above, very prominently pinnately veined and re- 

 ticulate underneath. Panicles in the upper axils^ httle branched or almost 

 reduced to dense racemes of 2 or 3 in., softly tomentosc or pubescent. 

 ■ Flowers rather large, on very short pedicels. Sepals orbicular, the innemiost 

 fully 2 lines long. Petals much shorter, broad with a short 2-cleft scale at 

 the base. Anthers 8, oblong, on very short filaments. Ovary in the males 

 rudimentary, villous. Female fiowers and fruit not seen. 



Queensland. Pine river, Moreton Bay, W. HllL 



5. C. tomentella, F. IlaelL Herb, Possibly a variety of C. scrnita, of 



which it has the flowers. Branches, petioles, and inflorescence softly tomen- 

 tose, abnost villous. Leaflets 5 to 8, oblong or obovatc-oblong, obtuse, 2 tc 

 3 in. long, minutely and remotely denticulate or nearlv entire, on petiolulc- 



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