Cupania.] XL. SAPINDACE^. 291 



Capsule about 4 or 5 lines broad, shortly stipitate, angular, rugose outside, densely hairy inside 

 with short rusty hairs. Seeds black, nearly enclosed in the arillus. Hab.: Main Eange and 

 several other localities in southern Queensland ; also Mt. Perry, J. Keys. Wood light-coloured, 

 close-grained, very tough. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 91a. 



4. C. flagelliformis (from the thong-like branches of panicle), Bail. Bot. 

 Bull. viii.TS. " Maraguigi," Barron River, Cowley. A shrub or small tree, the 

 branches angular, dark-coloured except in a young state, when, like the young 

 foliage, they are clothed by a ferruginous or grey tomentum. Leaves, the petiole 

 and rhachis together, measuring from 1ft. to 16in. in length, the leaflets scattered, 

 13 or more, size very irregular, some attaining 6in. in length and a width of If 

 in., the point often much elongated, the base shortly cuneate to a petiolule of 

 about ^in., margins dentate with large teeth, the primary nerves prominent and 

 parallel, with strongly-marked reticulations between, all more or less hairy on the 

 under side, upper surface of leaflet glabrous, and the reticulations not prominent. 

 Panicles velvety, near the ends of the branches, of few (3 to 5) slender thong-like 

 branches, some of which being about 2ft. in length ; flowers in distant sessile 

 clusters, expanded flower about 4 lines in diameter. Sepals orbicular, much 

 imbricate, silky on the back, irregular as to size. Petals buff-coloured, broad- 

 cuneate, undulately lobed at the top, much shorter than the sepals, and bearing 

 at the base of each 2 incurved, hairy, scale-like appendages, much shorter than 

 the petal. Stamens 8, included ; filaments hairy ; anthers slightly longer than 

 the filaments, oblong, angular, hairy between the blunt angles. Ovary hairy, 

 but probably abortive in the flowers examined. Capsules not yet obtained. 



Hab.: Scrub about the Barron Eiver, E. Cowley. 



5. C. Robertsonii (after Dr. J. Robertson), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 146, ix. 94. 

 A tree with a smooth bark attaining the height of about 40ft. Branchlets slightly 

 angular. Leaflets 4 to 11, very shortly petiolulate, lanceolate or ovate, green on 

 both sides, the upper shining, margins quite entire, attaining as much as Sin. in 

 length and Sin. in breadth. Rhachis angular. Panicle rather large, with race- 

 mose branches. Pedicels as long as the calyx. Sepals much imbricate, the larger 

 ones slightly over 1 line long. Petals ciliate, exappendiculate, about ^ line long, 

 rhomboid, sometime the face pubescent. Disk entire, glabrous. Filaments 1| 

 line long, hairy on the lower part. Anthers oval, almost ^ line long. Ovary 3- 

 angular, 3-celled, 3-ovulate. Style about 1 line long. Capsule obtuse-angular, 

 about lin. broad, rufescent outside, valves hard, coriaceous. Seeds about 5 lines 

 long, ovate-globose. Hilum broad-orbicular. 



Hab.: Eookingham Bay, J. Dallachy {F. v. M., I.e.) 



6. C. serrata (serrate), F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 43, ix. 94 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 

 458. A tree, but flowering when still shrubby, the young branches rusty with a 

 close tomentum. Leaflets usually 6 to 10, sometimes many more, ovate-lanceolate 

 or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 8 to 6in. long, sharply and coarsely serrate, 

 rounded at the base and nearly sessile, rigid but not thick, shining above, very 

 prominently pinnately veined and reticulate underneath. Panicles in the upper 

 axils, little branched or almost reduced to dense racemes of 2 to 3in., softly tomentose 

 or pubescent. Flowers rather large, on very short pedicels. Sepals orbicular, 

 the innermost fully 2 lines long. Petals much shorter, broad with a short 2- 

 cleft scale at the base. Anthers 8, oblong, on vei^ short filaments. Ovary in 

 the males rudimentary, villous. Style very short, if not wanting. Stigma 

 globose-ovate, capsule B-celled, when young globose, tomentose, silky tomentose 

 inside thick and deeply 3-valved. Seeds ovate or rarely globose, black and 

 glossy, about Jin. long, the arillus covering three-quarters of the seed. 



Hab.: Pine Eiver, Moreton Bay, W. Hill; Eookingham Bay, J. Dallachy. 



