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Order SAPINDACEZ. 
Sun-orper SAPINDE®. 
CUPANTA, Linn. 
C. sericolignis, (n.sp.) Silkwood. Tree glabrous, said to produce 
a good timber; branchlets angular. Leaves alternate, pinnate, leaf- 
lets from 2 to 7, usually about 5, irregular both as to number and 
ation upon the rhachis, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or 
luntly acuminate, the terminal one the largest, and attaining 6 in. 
l p e 
distant. Inflorescence (all male flowers on the specimens examined) 
lateral or axillary, often forming clusters of delicately slender racemes, 
about 1? in. long at the nodes on the branches below the leaves. 
Sepals 5, imbricate, orbicular, unequal in size. Petals 5, larger than 
the sepals, oblong, with a tuft of cilie on either side near the base, 
otherwise glabrous. Disk annular, dark, glabrous. Stamens 8, subu- 
ate, of about equal le ngth with that of the petals or rather shorter ; 
the whole length of the short filament densely clothed with white soft 
scale-like hairs. Fruit not yet obtained. 
_ Hab.: Mulgrave River, Bellenden-Ker Expedition; scrub about the Barron 
River, FE. Cowley, 
The specimens which I obtained on a creek off the Mulgrave River had rather 
longer racemose panicles, and the leaflets of the leaves were more sharply acuminate, 
with a paler underside, and were gathered off small-sized creek-side trees. 
Order ANACARDIACEA. 
Ovary depressed, 5 to 10 or 12 celled, ovule, one in each cell, pendulous 
Micropyle superior. Styles short, divergent; stigma spathulate, at 
d ; drupe slightly depressed, broadly turbinate, 
felled; cells securiform ; seeds compressed, oblong, and slightly out- 
ak sg em with oblong plano-convex cotyledous and 
ort rior radicle. A tree, the branchlets terete, with the foliage 
clustered at t 7 
"gler, diagnosis in De Candolle’s Monogr. Phanera. iv., 259. 
P. Sola - §. Solandvi 
36 mari, Engler, i.c.; Spondias acida, Soland; S. Solanav?, 
eat. Owenia tion, Py: S. pleiogyna, F.v.M. A tree of 
UM size; the branchlets and foliage from velvety pubescent to 
