Mnkllia.] iliv. sapindaceje (baker). 433 



mens 8, equalling the petals in the male flowers, the filaments filiform, 

 grey-downy. Capsule oblong-turbinate, crustaceous, £ in. long. 

 Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith ! 



12. DODON.EA, Linn, j Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 410. 



Flowers unisexual or polygamo-dioecious. Sepals 2-5, imbricate or val- 

 wte. Petals 0. Disk obsolete in the male flowers, small in the female 

 ones. Stamens 5-8, centrical, the filaments very short, the anthers linear- 

 oblong, obtusely tetragonous. Ovary sessile, with 3-6 angles and 3-6 cells. 

 £ 3-6 * an g le( l> 3-6-fid at the apex. Ovules 2 in the cells, collateral or one 

 above another, ascending or the upper one pendulous. Capsule membranous 

 or coriaceous, 2-6-angled, the cells 1-2-seeded, the angles obtuse or acute or 

 Ringed on the back, septicidally 2-6-valved, the valves frequently winged on 

 m back, the septiferous column remaining attached after the part that bears 

 be seeds falls. Seeds lenticular or subglobose, exarillate, the hilum some- 

 Hues excavated, the funiculus thickened, the testa crustaceous or coriaceous. 

 unbryo spirally twisted.— Trees or shrubs. 



A considerable genus, with its headquarters in Australia. 



)• D. viscosa, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 616. A shrub or small tree, the 



wtiraate branches slender, often subtriquetrous, not at all hairy, more or less 



viscid. Leaves simple, oblanceolate, 2-4 in. long, £-1 in. broad, the apex 



'tint or subacute, the lower part narrowed very gradually to the base, the 



? e e "tire ; texture membranous or slightly coriaceous, colour dark green, 



^jrfaces not at all hairy but usually more or less viscid, the veins not raised. 



lowers in 6-20-flowered terminal panicles, the ultimate pedicels slender, gla- 



rou S) i-| i on g Sepals glabrous, ligulate-oblong, 1 line long. Capsule -f-f 



• Qeep, with 3 broad, glabrous, membranous wings cordate at both ends. — 



g Kohautiana, Schlecht. in Linnfea, xviii. 36. D. arabica, Hochst. and 



5te «d. in Schimp. PI. Abyss, n. 314 ; Webb, Frag. PI. ^thiop. 55. 



JJPper Guinea. Senegamhia, Sieber ! Heudelot! 



«ile Land. Coast of Nubia, Schweinfurth ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Parlcyns ! 

 ^ and Petit ! 



*°xamb. Diatr. Zambesi-land, Br. Kirk ! 

 mfTT TW< fa' Schutn. et Thonn. PL Guin. 194, is probably this species, but the leaves are 

 Pent 1 " ° Vate and re P and - Universally distributed through tropical and south teui- 



^Twezaninow (Mosc. Bull. 36, 517) describes a Thouinia? dicarpa from Sierra Leone, 

 ^'ch he assigns alternate simple leaves, dicarpellary, winged fruit, and solitary 1 -flowered 

 ncle8 « which we cannot at all identify. 



!3. BERSAMA, Presen. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 412. 



FWers hermaphrodite or polygamo-dioecious. Sepals 5, free or 2 more 

 , les « connate, imbricated. Petals 5, unequal, imbricated, unguiculate, the 

 Wes t the smallest, the claws silky or the apex glandulose. Disk unilateral, 

 *OL. i. 3 r 2 F 



