No. 826. 
CUNONIA CAPENSIS. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
lately introduced. It was named after 
J. C. Cuno, of Amsterdam, who published 
a description of his own garden in 1750, in 
Dutch verse. 
The plant, which flowered with us in the 
autumn of 1823, was about two feet in 
height ; it is shrubby, and the blossoms are 
fragraut. Burmann’s Afric. fig. 96, is usu- 
má paginas spa his f. 95 
must be it also, but in a different state of 
growth. The Cz oblong pointed leaflet 
on the summit of the branch, which is 
called by Linnaeus a gland, is a pair of 
large stipules, closely pressed together, and 
glued to each other by a kind of white 
cement. These inclose the young leaves, 
and fall off when they are developed, leav- 
ing a permanent scar. The spikes may be 
called axillary rather than terminal, as the 
branch keeps on its growth, and by the 
time the seeds are ripened there are perhaps 
one or two more pairs of leaves above them. 
