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Cupania anacardioides, A.Rieh. 
A Cupania. 
(Natural Order SAPINDACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Cupania, Linn. 
Flowers. —Regular, polygamous. 
Sepals. —Four or 5, imbricate in the bud. 
Petals .—Either as many as sepals, small, with or without scales inside, or none. 
Disk. —Usually annular. 
Stamens. —Usually 8 to 10, inserted inside the disk ; filaments short, rarely as long as the calyx. 
Ovary. —Two- or 3-celled, rarely 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. 
Capsule. —Obovoid or rarely globular, coriaceous or hard, 2- or 3-, rarely 4-celled, often angled 
or lobed, opening loculicidally in as many valves as cells. 
Seeds. —Usually more or less covered by an arillus; testa crustaceous or coriaceous; embryo 
curved ; cotyledons plano-convex. 
Trees. —Or rarely tall shrubs. 
Leaves .—Alternate, pinnate ; leaflets alternate or opposite, with or without a terminal one. 
Flo ivers .—Small, in small axillary or terminal panicles, sometimes almost reduced to simple 
racemes. 
Petals. —Rarely as long as the sepals. 
Botanical description. —Species, C. anacardioides, A. Rich, Serf., Astrol., 33, 
t. 13. 
A slender tree .—Quite glabrous or with a minute hoariness on "the inflorescence. 
Leaflets .—Six to 10, usually 8, from broadly ovate or obovate to elliptical-oblong, very obtuse, 
24 in. to 4 in. long, rounded at the base and shortly petiolulate, quite entire, coriaceous. 
Flowers. —Rather large for the genus, in pedunculate cymes along the branches of loose panicles. 
Sepals .—Orbicular, the inner ones 2 lines broad, slightly ciliate. 
Petals. —Small, orbicular, with two very short obovate hirsute scales at the base. 
Stamens .—Ten ; filaments short, hirsute ; anthers oblong. 
Ovary .—Villous. 
Capsule. —Glabrous, coriaceous, acutely and divaricately 3-lobed, 6 to 8 lines broad, very shortly 
attenuate at the base. (B.F1. i, 458.) 
The type specimen was in fruit, and was communicated by Mr. Clias. Fraser, 
first Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, who obtained it at Moreton 
Bay (Brisbane). 
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