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5. CUPANIA, Linn. 



(After F. F. Cupani.) 



Flowers regular, polygamous. Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate in the bud. Petals 

 either as many as sepals, small, with or without scales inside, or none. Disk 

 usually annular. Stamens usually 8 to 10, inserted inside the disk ; filaments 

 short, rarely as long as the calyx. Ovary 2 or 3-celled, rarely 4-celled, with 1 

 ovule in each cell. Capsule obovoid or rarely globular, coriaceous or hard, 2 or 

 3, rarely 4-oelled, often angled or lobed, opening loculieidally in as many valves 

 as cells. Seeds usually more or less covered by an arillus ; testa crustaceous or 

 coriaceous ; embryo curved ; cotyledons plano-convex. — Trees or rarely tall 

 shrubs. Leaves alternate, pinnate ; leaflets alternate or opposite, with or without 

 a terminal one. Flowers small, in small axillary or terminal panicles, sometimes 

 almost reduced to simple racemes. Petals rarely as long as the sepals. 



A large tropical genus, both ia the New and the Old World, the precise limits of which are 

 very difficult to fix, and are very differently viewed by different botanists. The Australian 

 species are all endemic, as far as hitherto known. — Benth. 



Leaflets 2 to 4, 2 to 3in. long, cuneate, broad at the apex, sessile, entire, 

 glabrous. Capsule 2 or 3-lobed, about lin. broad, velvety outside . . 1. C. Wadsworthii. 



Leaflets 4 to 15, from very small to 2|in. long, cuneate, the end and upper 

 margin sharply toothed, pubescent, sessile. Capsule J to fin. long, 

 pubescent outside, silky-hairy inside 2. C. Shirleyana. 



Leaflets 6 to 10, 2J to 5in. long, elliptic-oblong, entire, petiolulate, entire, 

 almost glabrous. Capsule sometimes exceeding 8 lines broad and acutely 

 3-lobed, tomentose outside 3. C. anacardioides. 



Leaflets 8 to 6, IJ to 2Jin. long, oblong with sometimes a cuneate base, 

 entire, petiolulate. Capsule 4 or 5 lines broad, angular . . . ... 3. Var. 



Leaflets 13 or more, irregular in size, to 6in. long, ovate-lanceolate, dentate, 

 petiolulate, hairy on the under side. Panicle branches long, thong-like, 

 1 to 2ft. long 4. C.flagelliformis. 



Leaflets 4 to 11, 2J to Sin. long, ovate-lanceolate, petiolulate, entire, 

 glabrous. Capsule lin. broad, rufescent outside 5. C7. BoberUonii. 



Leaflets 7 to 14, 3 to 6in. long, oblong-lanceolate, petiolulate, serrate, 

 glabrous except the nerves. Capsule when young globose, tomentose, 

 3-lobed, 6 to 8 lines broad 6. G. serrata. 



Leaflets about 20, oblong-lanceolate, 6in. long, bordered by large curved teeth 7. C. curvidentata. 



Leaflets 5 to 13, 3 to 6in. long, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, petiolulate, 

 repando-crenate with dimples in the axils of the principal nerves. 

 Capsule about fin., 3-angular-globose, woody, silky outside, woolly 

 inside 8. C. foveolata. 



Leaflets 8 to 10, IJ to Sin. long, obovate-obloug, petiolulate, crenate, rusty- 

 hairy underneath'. Capsule 3-angled, velvety-tomentose and rugose, 

 about Jin. broad 9. C. tomentella. 



Leaflets 13 to 21 or more, lanceolate, IJ to 4in. long, oblique, pubescent 

 underneath, petiolulate, the margins sharply serrate. Capsule globular, 

 densely hirsute, J to Jin. diameter 10. G.pMudorhus. 



{Name only recorded by F. v. Mueller in Viet. Nat. iii. 170, and placed in 

 2nd Syst. Census of Austr. Plants between G. pseridorhus and G. 

 xylocarpa as here given) 11. C pleurophylla. 



Leaflets 3 to 6, 2 to Sin. long, ovate, obovate, petiolulate, sometimes with 

 a few teeth or entire, pubescent underneath with tufts of hairs in 

 the axils of the principal nerves. Capsule . about *in. broad, nearly 

 globular, 3-angular, woody, minutely tomentose outside 12. C. xylocarpa. 



Leaflets 3 to 6, 2 to 6in. long, lanceolate, petiolulate, crenate or entire, 

 glabrous, foveolate in the axils of the principal nerves on the under side. 

 Capsule nearly globular, about Jin. broad, woody, glabrous, or nearly so 

 outside 13. C. nervosa. 



Leaflets 2 to 4, 3 to 6in. long, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, entire or 

 with a few teeth, glabrous on both sides. Ovary hirsute 14. C. BidwiUi, 



Leaflets 2 to 6, S to Sin. long, lanceolate-ovate, entire. Ovary glabrous. 

 The young fruit 3-angular 15. C. Mortoniana. 



Leaflets 2 to 10, 4 to nearlv 12in. long, lanceolate, entire, petiolulate. 

 Capsule about 10 lines, subglobose, red, corrugated and glabrous . . . 16. G. erythrocarpa. 



Leaflets 2 to 7, distant upon the rhachis, 3 to 6in. long, oblong or ovate- 

 lanceolate, petiolulate. Filaments with short, white, scale-like hairs . 17. C. sericoHgnis. 



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