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21. DODONSA, Linn. 



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Shrubs rarely arborescent. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Inflorescence 

 lateral and terminal Flotvers polygamous, inconspicuous. SepaU 5-2. 

 imbricated or valvate. Petcds wanting. Stamens 10-5, usually 8, inserted 

 <^ the outer side of the disk; filaments short- anthers linear-oblong. 

 Did: obsolete in the male flower, small in the female. Ovary 3-G-sided and 

 -celled ; style 3-6-sided, apex 3-6-cleft. Ovules 2 together, collateral or 

 superposed. Capsule 2-6-sided, membranous or coriaceous, septicidally 

 2-6-valved; valves winged at the back; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds lenticular 

 or subglobose, compressed, esalbuminous, exarillate, funicle thickened; 

 embryo spirally involute. — Distkib, A genus of some 40 species or more, 

 niostly endemic in Australia. 



Dodonsea (sp.) in Serb. Hohenack, n. 2355, is Aspidopterys canarensis, Dah. 



I. D. yiscosa, Linn, Mant, PI. alt. 228 ; leaves undivided oblanceolate ^ 

 Viscid-shining glabrous subapiculate base cuneate-attenuate subsessile 

 margin revolute entire or nearly so, cymes short, wings of each carpel 

 oblong-orbicular extending from the base to the style. Baker in Oliv. FL 

 Trap. A/r, i. 433; Benth. FL Austral, i. 475; Bra?id. For. FL 113 ; Boiss. 

 FL Orient i. 953. D. angustifolia, Lhin./. Sup})L FL 218 ; Boxb. FL Ind. ii. 

 256. D. dioica. Roocb. Hort. Beng. 28 ; Fl. hid. ii. 256. D. Burmaunkna, 

 DO. Prodr. i.' 616 ; Wight IlL i t. 52 ; W. dh A. Prodr. 114 ; Grah. Cat 

 Bomb. PL 30 ; Dalz. <& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 36 ; Thwaites Enum. 59. D. pallida, - 

 Mm, in Herb. Uolienack n. 1068. D. microcarpa, DC. Prodr. i. 617. D, ' 

 Wightiana, Blume Kamph. iii 189. D. pentandra, Griff. Notid. iv. 548. 

 g. heteruphyUa, Hortul. ex G. Don Gen. St/st. i. 674. Wall. Cat. 8081. 

 ftelea viscosa, Linn. Sp, PL ed. i. 118 ; Burm. FL Ind. 36. D. spathulata, 

 ^' in Bees Cyd. xii. n. 2. D. arabica, Hochst. & Steud. in Herb. Arab. 

 Schimp. n, 766.—Burm. FL ZeyL t. 23. Rumph. Herb. Aniboin. iv. t. 50. 



.Throughout India, from the Indus Eastwards and' Southwards to Cetlox and 

 Malacca. — Distrib. All warm countries. ' ' " 



* An evergreen shrub occasionally growing into a small tree. Shoots^ terete or some-^ 

 ^^hat angular. Leaves more or less viscid with a shining yellowish resin, very variable 

 ^ breadth, 1-5 by ^-14 in. Sepals oblong, ^Vi i»- '«"& about equalling the stamens. 

 Gopsuk compressed, glabrous, |-1 in. broad.— Several synonyms, not strictly Indian, 

 are omitted. 



2L* nXEXiXANTBirS, Tournef. 



Shrubby glabrous plants with a strong odour. Leaves alternate, stipulate, 

 Unequally pinnate; leaflets toothed, decurrent. Bacenies axillary and ter- 

 J^al. Flowers bracteate, hermaphrodite irregular, sometimes apctalous. 

 ^Wy^ laterally compressed, 5-partite, base with a saccate gibbosity; lobes 

 iinequal, imbricated. Petals excentric, declinate, subperigynous, narrow, 



o clawed ; the fifth petal very small or wantirig. Stamens 4, didynamous, 



^fclinate, inserted within the disk. Disk unilateral, honeyed. Ovary 



icr AAfA^c^A A^r*c^^c^A cfvlti filifiirm 4-f.nnt,hpd deenlv at aDCX I ovules 2-4 



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