Imperfectly Known Australian Plants. 27 



A tree 60 feet high ; leaflets sometimes, when fully- 

 grown, 8 inches long and 2 broad, above more intensely 

 shining than beneath, obliquely tapering into a short petio- 

 lule, with spreading nerves and netted veins. Panicle 6 

 inches or less long, simple. Pedicels often shorter than half 

 an inch, with a basilar linear bracteole. Sepals imbricate in 

 aestivation, broad ovate, 2-2£ lines long, outside and inside 

 covered with a yellow-brown velvet. Petals 5, glabrous, 

 oblong (white, according to Mr. Hill), 3 lines long ; no scale 

 at their base. Stamens 5, with very short filaments. An- 

 thers sagittate, one line long. Hypogynous disc very short, 

 sinuate, with velvety margin. Style 1 line long, smooth, at 

 last twisted. Ovary velvety. Capsule heart or kidney-shaped, 

 carnulent, coriaceous, vitellinous, turgid, about one inch 

 broad, bursting along its vertex. 



Cupani Onervosa. 



Branchletsandpanicles glabrescent ; leaflets 2-7, lanceolate, 

 acute, repand-denticulate or entire, without dots, with 

 spreading prominent nerves, on both pages glabrous ; 

 flowers small, paniculate, apetalous ; calyx small, re- 

 pand-denticulate ; capsule woody, roundish-trigonal, in- 

 side tomentose. 



Along the Richmond River. C. Moore. About Moreton 

 Bay. Hill and Mueller. 



Leaflets 2-6 inches long, generally alternate, on short 

 stalks, above shining, beneath opaque. Capsule ^-1 inch 

 long. 



Closely allied to the following species, still distinct. 



Cupania ocylocarpa. 

 (All. Cunningham's Herb. ) 

 Branchlets and panicles almost velvety ; leaflets 2-5, 

 ovate, somewhat blunt, repando-denticulate or with re- 

 mote sharp teeth, without dots, above glabrous, beneath 

 at the base of the spreading prominent nerves bearded ; 

 flowers small, crowded in racemose panicles ; calyx 

 deeply five-cleft ; stigma sessile ; capsule woody, glo- 

 bose-trigonal, at last outward glabrous, inward velvety ; 

 seeds ovate, shining-black, three times longer than the 

 pale bilobed arillus. 



On various parts of the east coast of Australia. 



A middle-sized tree. Tomentum thin, brown - yellow. 



