Diplo,ilotth.] XL. SAPINDACEiG. 287 



1. D. Cunninghamii (after A. Cunninghani), Himl,'. f. hi Ihmth. and Hook. 

 Gen. PI. 395 ; Benth. FL Austr. i. J:54. Native Tamarind. Often a large tree with 

 a brownish smooth bark, the young branches, petioles and inflorescence densely 

 clothed with a soft rust-coloured tomentum. Leaves very large, sometimes 

 exceeding 2ft.; leaflets 8 to 12, opposite or irregularly alternate, oblong-elliptical to 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, usually 6 to 8in., but sometimes above 1ft. long, 

 glabrous above, pubescent underneath, with raised parallel pinnate veins. Flowers 

 numerous, on pedicels of 1 to 2 lines, clustered along the branches of the ample 

 panicle. Calyx about 1| line long, rusty-tomentose. Petals about as long as 

 the calyx, orbicular, thin, ciliate, the two inner scales not united, about as long 

 as the petal itself, but thicker and very hairy. Stamens exserted in some 

 specimens, shorter than the petals in others. Fruit about |in. diameter, of 2 or 3 

 roundish lobes, each containing a round seed enclosed in an amber-coloured juicy 

 arillus of an agreeable acid flavour, tomentose. — Cupania Cunninghamii, Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4470. 



Hab.: Southern Queensland in river or coastal scrubs, and on the Bunya and other mountain 

 ranges. 



Wood light-coloured except near the centre, close-grained, and very tough. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. 

 Woods No. 88. 



The arils used for jam-niaking. 



The leaflets of this tree in the Brisbane Eiver scrubs are at times much infested with the 

 blight fungi Uromyces diploglottidis, C. and Mass., and Phoma diploglottidis, C. and Mass. 



Var. Muelleri (Cupania diphyllostegia, P. v. M.) This differs from D. Cunninghamii in being 

 a larger tree with smaller leaves of a thinner texture, and the shoots and leaves having a less 

 dense covering of tomentum ; panicle smaller, the flowers with 5 or 6 petals. The arils which 

 enclose the seed of this, like those of the southern tree, make excellent jam. As a shade tree it 

 is weU worthy of being planted. Although belonging to the tropical scrubs, it thrives well in the 

 neighbourhood of Brisbane, keeping its distinctive characteristics. Hab.: Tropical scrubs. 



3. CASTANOSPORA, F. v. M. 



(Fruit resembling a Chestnut.) 



Flowers almost symmetrical. Calyx 5-partite, the parts almost valvate in the 

 bud. Petals 5, equal the calyx or scarce above it, rhomboid-ovate, on very short 

 claws, bearing 2 bearded scales on the face near the base. Disk deeply 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 8, inserted inside the disk. Filaments several times longer than the 

 anthers. Anthers minute, ovate- cordate. Style very short. Stigma minute, 

 terminal, 2-lobed. Ovary 2 (or sometimes 3) celled, cells 1 -ovulate. Capsule 

 indehiscent (according to F. v. Mueller), bursting in all the examples I have seen 

 in Queensland, smooth. Pericarp thick-erustaceous, or coriaceous. Septa very 

 thin or none. Seed solitary, basifixed. Arillus absent. Hilum large. Albumen 

 none. Cotyledons equal, erect, seceding, the outside much swelled but neither 

 plicate nor twisted. Eadicle very short, inferior. Evergreen trees of tropical 

 Queensland. Leaves alternate, simply pinnate. No stipules. Leaflets large, 

 entire. Flowers polygamous, in racemose panicles. Calyx minute. Seeds like 

 chestnuts.^F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 92. 



Capsule on a short stipes • 1- <7. Alphandi. 



Capsule on a long stipes i ...... 2. G. longistipitata. 



1. C. Alphandi (after M. Alphand), F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 92. A tree of 30 

 or 40ft., the branchlets and panicles with a thin covering of fuscous tomentum. 

 Leaves 4 to 10-foliolate. Leaflets 3 to 6in. long, f to 2in. broad, thin-coriaceous, 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, usually obtuse, acuminate, quite entire, the under 

 side indumentum very thin, fulvido-cinerascens, petiolules 5 or 6 lines long. 

 Racemose branches of panicle divergent, a few or several inches long. Pedicels 

 i to li line long. Bracts and bracteoles minute triangular. Calyx 5-toothed. 

 Petals 5, rhomboid-ovate, shortly clawed, f line long, the lower part bearing 2 



