iiatonia.] XL. SAPINDACE^. 299 



Calyx-lobes ovate-semilanoeolate, about 1 line long. Petals orbicular with very 

 short claws, scarcely 1 line long. Scales barbate-ciliate. Filaments tomentellous, 

 2 lines long. Anthers glabrous, almost ovate, ^ line long, emarginate at both 

 ends. Style nearly 8 lines long, tomentellous, subulate. Disk annuliform, 

 turgid. Capsule woody, glabrescent, acutely 3 or 4-angled, about ^in. broad, 

 the valves almost semi-orbicular, compressed, and sharply angled on the back, 

 reddish outside, at length expanding horizontally. Seeds ellipsoid-ovate, about 

 8 lines long, black or dark-brown. Arillus thin, yellow. 

 Hab.: Eookingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M., l.o.) 



13. R. Cordierii (after the brothers Cordier), F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 93. A 

 tree of about 30ft. high, the petioles and peduncles angular and with the branch- 

 lets tomentellous. Leaves 4 to 10-foliolate, the rhachis acutely angular. Leaflets 

 somewhat thick, chartaceous, lanceolate-ovate and imperfectly repand crenulate, 

 about 5in. long and 2in. broad, both sides almost glabrous and shining, the 

 lateral nerves broadly spreading, the petiolules short or very short. Panicle 

 rather large, with spike or racemose branches. Flowers in clusters. Pedicels 

 very short, elongating slightly under the fruit. Calyx minute ; lobes deltoid. 

 Petals ovate-orbicular, scarcely clawed and scarcely 1 line long ; scales barbate. 

 Stamens 8. Filaments 1 to 2 lines long, glabrous at the top, lanuginous at the 

 base. Anthers ovate, obtuse. Disk annular, glabrous, repandulous. Capsule 

 hard, acutely trigonous, very shortly stipitate, scarcely fin. long, glabrous 

 outside, the inside margin of the valves densely tomentose. Seeds ellipsoid- 

 ovate. 



Hab.: Eookingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M., l.o.) 



14. B>. tenax (tough), Benth. Fl. Awtr. i. 461. A moderate-sized tree, quite 

 glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaflets usually 8, but varying from 2 to 8, 

 from obovate to oblong-elliptical or lanceolate, obtuse. If to 2 or rarely 5in. long, 

 much narrowed at the base but scarcely petiolulate, thinly coriaceous, shining 

 above, pale or sometimes slightly glaucous underneath, with foveoles in the axils 

 of the nerves. Panicles small, little branched. Calyx a little above 1 line 

 broad, 5-lobed. Petals small, broad, the scale inside very hairy. Stamens 

 about 8, the exserted filaments woolly-hairy. Anthers ovate-globose, a little 

 didymous, sometimes barbellate. Ovary stipitate, 2 or rarely 8-celled. Style 

 rather short, with spreading stigmatie lobes. Capsule usually flattened, 2-celled, 

 about fin. broad, contracted into a very short stipes ; valves thick, densely villous 

 inside. Seeds apparently only half enveloped in the arillus, but much injured in 

 the specimens examined. — Cupania tenax, A. Cunn. Herb. 



Hab.: Brisbane Biver, A. Cunningham, W. Hill, F. v. Mueller; Port Curtis, C. Moore; 

 Eookingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M.) 



Wood light in oolour, dark towards the centre, very tough and close grained. — Bailey's Cat. 

 Ql. Woods No. 96. 



7. ATALAYA, Blume. 



(Indian name.) 



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

 exceeding the sepals, with an inner scale or tuft of hairs. . Disk annular. 

 Stamens 8, inserted inside the disk. Ovary 3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. 

 Style short, undivided. Fruit separating into 3 distinct carpels or samarse, 1- 

 celled, 1-seeded, and indehiscent at the base, terminating in a long wing. Seeds 

 without any arillus, testa coriaceous ; cotyledons thick, unequal. — Trees or 

 shrubs. Leaves pinnate or rarely simple. Flowers usually larger than in 

 Cupania and Ratonia, in axillary or terminal panicles. 



The genus is endemio in Australia, with the exception of one species, which extends to Timpr. 

 The flowers are nearly those of Sapindus, with the fruit of Thmdnia and Acer. — Benth. 



