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CUNONIA capensis. 
Cape Cunonia. 
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DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CUNONIACE®. Br. app. Flind. p. 548. 
Genera Saxifragis aflinia. Juss. gen. 309. 
CUNONIA. L. Cal. 5-partitus. Petala 5, Stamina 10. Germen 
superum ; styli 2; stigmata 2. Capsula ovata acuminata 2-locularis poly- 
sperma.—Arbores; folia opposita, opposite et impari pinnata, petiolis arti- 
culatis. Flores racemosi, axillares, pedicellis passim fasciculatis 1-floris. 
Stipula foltis et racemis superioribus interjecta, magna, plana, petiolata. 
Juss. |. c. Sa0tl " ey 
C. capensis. Linn. sp. pl. 569. Thunb. prodr. 81. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 634, 
Pers. syn. 1. 486. Link enum. ber. 1.411. Lodd. bot. cab. t. 826. 
Oosterdykia floribus spicatis pentapetalis, foliis oblongis subincanis serratis. 
_ Burm. afr. 259. t. 96. 
Arbuscula, arbuti alatis foliis, africana. Pluk. alm. 45. t. 191. fi: 4. 
Caulis nodosa versus apicem foliosa, foliolo petiolato ovali-oblongo ter- 
minata. Folia magna, opposita, petiolata, pinnata cum impare, alata ; 
pinnis 5 v. 7, lanceolatis, dentatis, glaberrimis. Racemi gemini, termina- 
les, foliolo supradicto interjecto, multiflori, floribus parvis, pedicellatis, fas- 
ciculatis, Sepala 5, ovalia, corolla multo breviora. Petalad, ovali-oblonga, 
patentia, Stamina 10, jilamentis petalis longioribus, antheris rotundis. 
Ovarium superum, conicum, stylis duobus staminum longitudine, stigmatibus 
obtusis. Capsula oblonga, acuta, bilocularis, polysperma. Lam, ex gall. 
vers. 
* «ae 
This plant is omitted in the last edition of Hortus Kew- 
ensis. 
We find the following account of it in Burchell’s Tra- 
vels in Africa, 1. 142: 
“ This is a handsome tree, with fine shining green foli- 
“age, contrasted by numerous, dense, elongated bunches 
“‘ of small milk-white flowers, and twigs of a red colour; 
‘having the habit rather of a tropical than of a Cape 
“plant. Its colonial name is Rood Elze (Red Alder), al- 
“though the tree has not, in any point of view, the least 
‘resemblance to the Alder of Europe; but the waggon- 
“‘ makers say there is some similarity in their wood. I am 
“‘ inclined, however, to believe, that. the name was given 
* rather in consequence of their growing in similar situa- 
« tions.” | 
