290 XL. SAPINDACEiE. [Cupania. 



1. C. Wadsworthii (after R. Wadsworth), F. v. M. Syst. Cens. Amtr. PI. 

 1882. Usually a small slender tree, the branohlets bearing a thin appressed 

 pubescence. Leaves 1 or 2-jugate, glabrous, on rather short petioles. Leaflets 

 sessile, ehartaceous, broad-euneate, the truncate apex sometimes ending in 2 or 

 3 very broad short lobes, 1-| to Sin. long, f to l|-in. or more broad, both sides 

 deep-green and shining, lateral nerves distant. Ehachis not winged. Peduncles 

 axillary, slender, bearing narrow panicles' shorter than the leaves, bearing an 

 appressed pubescence. Bracts cymbro-semi-lanceolate, scarcely over 1 line long. 

 Pedicels short. Sepals persistent, 2 outer ones orbicular-ovate, slightly exceeding' 

 1 line long; 3 inner ones subrotund, petaloid, about 2 lines long, all broadly' 

 imbricate in the bud, and silky-pubescent outside. Petals 5, sessile, about 1 line 

 long, scales bearded. Stamens 8 or 9. The filaments pubescent in the lower 

 part. Anthers oblong or oval, glabrous, about 1 line long, yellow. Pollen grains 

 smooth, yellow, spherico 4-angular. Ovary central, rudimentary in the male 

 flowers. Disk narrow, glabrous. Capsule 2 or 3-lobed, about lin. broad, velvety 

 outside. Seeds about -J-in. long, broadly ovate, included in a thin orange- 

 coloured arillus. — Marpullia Wadsiuorth, F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 1, PI. xxvi., and 

 Fragm. ix. 89. 



Hab.: Eookhampton to Mount Elliott. 



Wood close-grained, tough, witli a somewhat pinkish tinge.- -Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 88a. 



2. C. Shirleyana (after J. Shirley, B.Sc), Bail. 8ny. Ql. Fl. 2nd Suppl. 15. 

 "Kooraloo," Bundaberg, Keys. A large shrub or small tree, the branchlets' 

 rusty-pubescent. Leaves 2 to 5in. long ; leaflets 7 to 15, the lowest the smallest, 

 often not more than 3 lines in diameter, very unequal-sided at the base, and 

 overlapping the stem like stipules, increasing in size upwards, the end ones 

 attaining the length of 2in., cuneate in outline, the upper part sharply toothed, 

 the end very obtuse or truncate, glossy above, more or less pubescent beneath ; 

 primary veins very oblique and prominent, as are also the smaller reticulations. 

 Flowers small, nearly sessile, in slender racemes about as long as the leaves. 

 Sepals orbicular, silky, much imbricate. Petals ovate, glabrous, nearly 1 line 

 long, the inside scale divided into 2 hairy spathulate lobes as long as the petal ; 

 disk prominent. Stamens usually about 8, but very irregular as to number ; 

 scarcely exserted. Ovary hairy. Capsule -J to f-in. long, shortly stipitate, 

 pubescent outside and silky-hairy inside. Seeds dark-brown, somewhat pear- 

 shaped, and more than half enveloped in a reddish arillus. 



Hab.: Sankey's scrub, off the Logan Eoad, near Brisbane. 



Wood of a yellow colour, close-grained, and tough.— Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 89. 



3. C. anacardioides (Anacardium-like), A'., Rich. Sert. Asirol. 33, t. 13; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 458; F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 91. " Tuckeroo," Moreton Bay, 

 Watkins. A slender tree with a pale smooth bark, quite glabrous or with a minute 

 hoariness on the inflorescence. Leaflets 6 to 10, usually 8, from broadly ovate 

 or obovate to elliptical-oblong, very obtuse, 2^ to 4in. long, rounded at the base, 

 and shortly petiolulate, quite entire, coriaceous. Flowers rather large for 

 the genus, in pedunculate cymes along the branches of loose panicles. Sepals 

 orbicular, the inner ones 2 lines broad, slightly eiliate. Petals small, orbicular, 

 with 2 very short obovate hirsute scales at the base. Stamens 10 or sometimes 

 8 ; filaments short, hirsute ; anthers oblong. Ovary villous. Capsule glabrous, 

 coriaceous, acutely and divaricately 3-lobed, 6 to 8 lines broad, very shortly 

 attenuate at the base, tomentpse inside, arillus red, 



Hab.: Brisbane Biver, Moreton Bay, Fraser, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller ; Burdekin River, 

 F. V. Mueller ; Eookhampton, A. Thozet. 



Wood of a light-pinkish colour, close-grained, and tough ; might serve for making handles for 

 tools. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 91. 



Var. parvifolia. A small tree, minutely hoary. Leaflets 3 to 6, opposite or subopposite, IJ to 

 2Jin. long, J to lin. broad, oblong with sometimes a cuneate base, the apex emarginate ; petiolules 

 about 2 or 3 lines, margins entire. Panicles seldom more than 3 or 4in. long, and broad. 



