162 THALAMIFL01UE. 



the middle ; cells 1-2-seeded : seeds erect, arillated. 

 De Cand. 



Trees, with abruptly pinnated leaves, and the flowers fre- 

 quently male from abortion. Named, from Francisco Cupani, a 

 Sicilian Monk, Author of several Botanical Treatises. 



1. * Cupania glabra. Glabrous Loblolly-wood. 



Leaves 3-4-jugate, leaflets ovate obtuse crenated 

 glabrous acuminate at the base. 



Cupania arborea, foliis oblongis crenato-serratis distiche et 

 alternatim sitis, racemis laxis propendentibus, Browne, 178 

 C. glabra, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 659. 



HAB. Mountains of Jamaica and Hispaniola, Swartz. 



FL. Spring. 



A shrubby tree, with the stem about 10 feet in height. 

 Leaves pinnated : leaflets alternate, shortly petiolulated. Ra- 

 cemes axillary and terminal, compound ; divisions alternate, 

 patulous ; flowers numerous, crowded, very shortly pedicelled, 

 minute, white, polygamous. Hermaphrodite flowers not so 

 numerous as the male. Calycine sepals 5, internally pubescent. 

 Petals very shortly clawed, obtuse, hooded, ciliated. Disk 8- 

 toothed. Filaments, in the male flowers, longer than the co- 

 rolla. Ovary subtrigonal : style 3-fid : stigmata erect. Cap- 

 sule shortly stipitate, subrotund, obtusely 3-gonal, 3-celled, 

 subventricose, very glabrous : seeds solitary, arillated for more 

 than half their length. Swartz. 



Browne states that this is a common tree in the lower hills. 

 It is singular that I have not yet met with it. 



2. Cupania apetala. Apetalous LoUolly-wood. 



Apetalous, leaves 5-7 paired, leaflets sub-opposite 

 oblong acute at the base rounded and subemarginate 

 at the apex entire shining and glabrous above sub- 

 puberulous beneath. 



HAB. Scott's pass, Hopewell Plantation ; road from Mount 

 Henry to Ross's Valley, and that from Halberstadt to Galloway 

 House, Port-Royal Mountains. 



FL. June. 



A tree, with the stem erect, 15-20 feet in height ; branches 

 erect, brownish, angulose and compressed towards their extre- 

 mities. Leaves opposite, pinnated, 5-7 paired : leaflets 3 

 inches long, sub-opposite, shortly petioluled, oblong, subacumi- 

 nate with the apex obtuse and sub-emarginate, wedge-shaped 

 at the base, entire, glabrous and shining above, minutely pu- 

 berulous especially in the angles of the nerves beneath, nerved, 



