Ramii,,.] XL. SAPlNDACEiE. 297 



5. R. stipitata (stipitate), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 461. A moderate-sized tree, 

 glabrous except a minute tomentum on the young branches and inflorescence. 

 Leaflets 3 to 6, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2 to Sin. long, narrowed into a petiolule 

 of 3 or 4 lines, coriaceous, very rigid, shining above, the primary veins very 

 prominent underneath. Panicles axillary and terminal, divaricately branched. 

 Flowers not seen. Fruiting pedicels 2 to 8 lines long. Calyx persistent, very 

 small, acutely 4 or 5-lobed. Capsule 3-angled, depressed at the top, |in. broad, 

 narrowed into a short but distinct stipes, valves thickly coriaceous, almost woody, 

 glabrous and reddish inside. Seeds shining, in a thin arillus. — Cupania stipata, 

 F. V. M. Fragm. ii. 75 and 176. 



Hab.: Near border of N.S.W., locality ? 



6. B>. punctulata (referring to the pellucid dots of leaf), F. v. M. Fragm. 

 ix. 91. A tall shrub, quite glabrous. Leaflets usually 4 to 7, on a long slender 

 common petiole, very obliquely ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 4in. long, quite 

 entire, thinly coriaceous, smooth and shining, minutely pellucid-dotted, narrowed 

 into a petiolule of fin. or more. Flowers not seen. Fruiting panicles short, 

 slender, clustered in the axils or at the ends of the branches. Pedicels short. 

 Sepals often persistent or reflexed, orbicular, about 1 line long, glabrous. Capsule 

 glabrous, 3-angled, flat at the top with the remains of the style forming a point 

 in the centre, about 4 lines broad, contracted into a short obconical stipes, half 

 opening in 8 coriaceous valves. Seeds not seen. — Cupania, F. v. M. Fragm. iii, 

 12, and Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 458. 



Hab.: Cumberland Islands, E. Fitmlan (F. v. M., I.e.) 



7. R. Nugentii (after L. J. Uugent), Bail. Bot. Bull. xiv. 9. 

 " Chambin," Barron Eiver, J. F. Bailey. A small tree, branchlets dark- 

 coloured and angular. Leaves with from 4 to 6 distant leaflets ; petioles 

 3 to 4in. long, angular and swollen where they join the stem ; rhachis 

 slightly longer than the petiole ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 5 to 9in. long, 2 to 3fin. 

 broad ; base cuneate ; apex abruptly acuminate ; texture membranous ; margins 

 entire ; petiolules short, swollen where they join the rhachis. Panicles in the 

 upper axils, slender on very short peduncles, 2 or 3 of the lower branches 4 or 

 5in. long, the others much shorter. Flowers pedicellate in scanty clusters. 

 Bracts minute, hairy. Pedicels about 2 lines long, slender. Calyx 5-lobed, the 

 lobes slightly hairy, and almost triangular, f line. Petals 5, tomentose, twice the 

 size of the calyx-lobes, very broad, truncate, emarginate or toothed at the end, 

 and tapering to the base, marked on the back with 3 lines, scale on face large, 

 very woolly, bearing near the end of the back prominent orange-coloured glands. 

 Stamens about 8 ; filaments hairy, twice as long as the petals ; anthers glabrous. 

 Ovary hairy, 3-angular. Capsule lin. diameter, on a thick stipes, 3-celled and 

 sharply keeled at the sutures ; pericarp thick, succiilent, yellow, glabrous ; seeds 1 

 in each cell ; testa chestnut-coloured, bearing at the base a yellow cordate 

 strophiole about 3J lines broad. 



Hab : Freshwater Creek, Cairns, E. Cowley and L. J. Nugent. 



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8. IC. exangulata (referring to the ribs), F. v. M. iv. 156, ix. 91. A tall 

 shrub or small tree, the branches, petioles and inflorescence clothed with a 

 ferruginous or fuscescent indumentum. Leaves 2 to 5-foliolate. Leaflets mostly 

 alternate, ovate, lanceolate-ovate or lanceolate, chartaceous, 2 to Sin. long, 1 to 

 3|in. broad, glabrous above, pale on the under side and pilose, nerves tomentose ; 

 petiolules 3 to 9 lines long. Panicles racemiform, from If to several inches long. 

 Bracts subulate-semilanceolate, about 1 line long. Calyx 5-parted, scarcely 1 

 line long. Lobes semi- lanceolate. Petals minute, barbate. Filaments exserted. 



