310 XL, SAPINDACSiB. [Akania. 



2 lines long, the lobes rounded, with thin edges. Petals inserted near the base of 

 the calyx outside the disk ; cuneate-oblong, 4 to 6 lines long. Filaments capil- 

 lars, 2 hnes long. Anthers oblong. Style 3 lines long. — Cupania liicens, F. v. 

 M. Fragm, iii. 44. 



Hab.: Moreton Bay, Leiclihardt ; Pine River, W. Hill; Nerang Creek. 



Wood of a light colour, close grained, prettily marked ; warps much in drying, particularly if 

 young trees are cut down when full oiB&^.— Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods No. 106. 



14. BLEPHAROCARYA, F. v. M. 

 (Name referring to the nuts being ciliated.) 



Involucre hard-coriaceous, deeply divided into from 20 to 80 partly coherent or 

 connate lacinis. Flowers sparsely inserted in the base and on the laciniS of the 

 involucre, sessile. Sepals 4 to 5, lanceolate. Petals of the same number as the 

 sepals or less. Stamens 8, shortly exserted ; atithers cordate-ovate, dorsifixed ; 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Male flowers : Ovary rudimentary, pilose ; style 

 persistent, setaceous ; stigma simple, capitellate. Female flowers : Ovary 

 1-celled, 1-ovulate, surrounded by an undulated annular disk. Fruit indehiscent, 

 reniform, strongly compressed, densely ciliate. Pericarp very thin. Seed filUng 

 the cavity ; testa membranaceous ; albumen none. Cotyledons straight, reniform, 

 externally slightly convex. Eadicle situated at the end of the cotyledon and 

 somewhat shorter, , slightly curved and accumbent. — A tree. Leaves abruptly 

 pinnate, pinnae lanceolate, entire, chartaceous. Panicle with opposite branches. 

 Involucre valvately closed to form a globule like a humectatio. Flowers 

 dioecious, very small. Fruit nestling within the involucre, small and numerous. 

 — F. V. M. in Fragm. xi., and Trim. Journ. Bot. xvii. 



Nearly allied to Dobinea, an Indian genus. 



1. B. involucrigera (fruit nestling in a sort of involucre), F. v. M. Fragm. 

 xi. 15, 16, 137, and Bot. Journ. xvii. 116. " Chargir," Bally Gum,' of 

 Martintown Sawmills, J. F. Bailey. A tree of moderate size, with a 

 smooth grey back. Monoecious if not dioecious. Branches angular, often some- 

 what flattened, rusty-tomentose, and speckled with whitish-brown lentioels. 

 Leaves opposite, petioles rusty-pubescent and expanded at the base. Leaflets 

 from 5 to 9 pairs ; the rhachis semi-terete and shortly pubescent, opposite, 3 to Tin. 

 long and 1 to l^in. broad, more or less gradually contracted into an obtuse point, 

 or obtuse and somewhat emarginate ; petiolules about 3 or 5 lines. Peduncles 

 2 to Sin. long, bearing erect rather narrow panicles, rather longer than the 

 peduncles, the branches opposite, finely puberulent. The male flowers numerous 

 in small globose heads. Bracts deltoid-cordate 1 to IJ lines, sepals 4, rhomboid, 

 or lanceolate-ovate, pilose. Petals 4, imbricate in the bud, oval, sessile, mem- 

 branous, white, 1-nerved. Stamens 8, shortly exserted ; filaments capillare- 

 linear. Anthers pale-yellow, cordate-ovate, scarcely J line long. Pollen granular, 

 smooth. Ovary rudimentary without a style, pilose. _ Female peduncle and 

 panicles as in the male. Involucre tawny -velvety, with the ultimate branchlets 

 ternate, and when full grown -l-in. or less, rather thick. Involucre about lin., 

 campanulate or hemispherical, composed of broad, linear, gradually attenuated 

 bracts, wholly connate below but not forming a defined receptacle, and united to 

 a various extent above, internally smooth and glabrous, externally sulcate and 

 increased in size by adnate scales. The laeinise are connate in twos, threes, or 

 fours, but likely before the opening of the flowers the whole are connate, with 

 their united ends twisted together, but during fruiting they are ascending-patent. 

 Flowers rather numerous but scattered within the involucre, in which they occupy 

 the lower part of the lacinite above the bottom. Sepals f line long, persistent, 

 externally puberulent, rather imbricate in aestivation. Petals or inner whorl of 

 sepals rather less than the outer, more glabrous and acutely narrowed at the base. 



