Cunonia
(named after John Christian Cuno, of Amsterdam, who described his own garden in verse, in 1750). TRIBE Cunonieae of ORD. Saxifrageae. A greenhouse tree. Flowers disposed in axillary racemes; calyx five-parted; petals five, oblong; stamens ten. Fruit a two-celled capsule. Leaves impari-pinnate; leaflets serrated, coriaceous; stipules large, caducous, interpetiolar. It is of easy culture in sandy loam and peat. Half-ripened cuttings will root, if inserted in sandy soil, and placed under glass, in a very gentle heat. C. capensis (Cape Colony). fl. white; racemes spicate, opposite; pedicels numerous, in fascicles. August. l., leaflets five to seven, lanceolate. h. 10ft. to 50ft. Cape of Good Hope, 1816. A large shrub or middle-sized tree, glabrous in all its parts. (L. B. C. 826.)