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THALAMI FLORAE. 
the middle ; cells l-^-seed^d : seeds erect, arillated. — 
De Cand. 
Trees, with abruptly pinnated leaves, and the flowers fre- 
quently male from abortion. — Named, from Francisco Cupani, a 
Sicilian Monk, Author of several Botanical Treatises. 
1. * Cupania glabra. Glabrous Loblolly-wood. 
Leaves 3-4-jugate, leaflets ovate obtuse crenated 
glabrous acuminate at the base. 
Cupania arborea, foliis oblongis crenato-serratis distiche et 
alternatim sitis, racemis laxis propendentibus, Broivne, 178 — 
C. glabra, Swartz, FI. hid. Occ. 659. 
HAB. Mountains of Jamaica (and Hispaniola, Swartz. 
FL. Spring. 
A shrubby tree, with the stem about 10 feet in height. 
Leaves pinnated : leaflets alternate, shortly petiolulated. Ra- 
cemes axillary and terminal, compound ; divisions alternate, 
patulous ; flowers numerous, crow r ded, very shortly pedicelled, 
minute, white, polygamous. Hermaphrodite flowers not so 
numerous as the male. Calycine sepals 5, internally pubescent. 
Petals very shortly clawed, obtuse, hooded, ciliated. Disk 8- 
toothed. Filaments, in the male flowers, longer than the co- 
rolla. Ovary subtrigonal : style 3-fid : stigmata erect. Cap- 
sule shortly stipitate, subrotund, obtusely 3-gonal, 3-celled, 
subventricose, very glabrous : seeds solitary, arillated for more 
than half their length. — Swartz. 
Browne states that this is a common tree in the lower hills. 
It is singular that I have not yet met with it. 
2. Cupania apetala. Apetalous Loblolly-wood. 
Apetalous, leaves 5-7 paired, leaflets sub-opposite 
oblong acute at the base rounded and subemarginate 
at the apex entire shining and glabrous above sub- 
puberulous beneath. 
HAB. Scott’s pass, Hopewell Plantation ; road from Mount 
Henry to Ross’s Valley, and that from Halberstadt to Calloway 
House, Port- Royal Mountains. 
FL. June. 
A tree, with the stem erect, 15-20 feet in height; branches 
erect, brownish, angulose and compressed towards their extre- 
mities. Leaves opposite, pinnated, 5-7 paired : leaflets 3 
inches long, sub-opposite, shortly petioluled, oblong, subacumi- 
nate with the apex obtuse and sub-emarginate, wedge-shaped 
at the base, entire, glabrous and shining above, minutely pu- 
berulous especially in the angles of the nerves beneath, nerved, 
