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Seeds or of the smaller forms of D. viscosa, the wings not very Droac. 
o'® Smooth and shining.—Fl. Austr. l.c. 
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obovate. Flowers smaller than in ©. amara, and more distinctly, 
although very shortly, pedicellate. Calyx 1; to 2 lines long, narrow- 
companulate, the adnate base glabrous and suddenly contracted into a 
little stipes about the length of the imbricate, brown bracts, the free 
° t , 
art white-tomentose outside. Ovary almost entirely inferior, the 
disk. Capsule oblong, 14 to 2 lines long, almost included in the 
glabrous, elongated, adnate base of the calyx-tube, shortly free in the 
upper part. Cocci thinly crustaceous.—Fl, Austr. Le. 
Hab.: Queensland, F. v. M. 
Order SAPINDACEZ. 
Sus-orper SAPINDE. 
CUPANTA, Linn. 
C. fi gelliformis (n. sp.) (So named from the thong-like branches 
of panicle.) Aboriginal name at the Barron River, “ Maraguigi.” A 
shrub or small tree, the branches angular, dark-coloured except in a 
eS. state, when, like the young foliage, they are clothed by a 
erruginous or grey tomentum. Leaves, the petiole and rhachis 
together, measuring from 1 ft. to 16 in. in length, the leaflets scattered, 
13 or more, size very irregular, some attaining 6 in. in length, and a 
Width of 13 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, ites strongly- 
slender thong-like branches, som hich being about 2 ft. in 
Saag ers in distant sessile clusters, expande flower about 
hes in diameter. Sepals orbicular, m bricate, silky on the 
rae irregular as to size. Petals buff-coloured, broad cuneate, un- 
a tely lobed at the top, much shorter than the sepals, and ae 
sh base of each 2 incurved, hairy, scale-like appendages, muc 
ali ghtly than the petal. Stamens 8, included, filaments hairy, anthers 
ea y longer than the filaments, oblong, angular, hairy between the 
sic: angles. Ovary hairy, but probably abortive im the flowers 
mined. Capsules not as yet obtain 
Hab.: Scrub about the Barron River, E. Cowley. 
September, 1993. 
Suz-orpeEr DODONEZ. 
DO A, Linn. 
Balnts Serres CYCLOPTER. 
ata, Ff. v. M., in Linnea xx 
Fosely allied on the one hand to D. attenuata, and on the other to 
Tec, tarmicifolia, glabrous and viscid, the branchlets scarcely angular. 
i 1 to 2 in. ; 
D. lo 
Flowers few, in 
ly 
Poae or pinnatifid, with short, obtuse, callous lobes, coria- 
thin, broadly ee 
mes, the pedicelsrather slender. Sepals 
--Hab.: Queensland, F. 0, Hf. 
