STAPHYLEACEAE 821 
DODONAEA [Plum.] L. Erect shrubs or trees, with usually viscid 
mu Leaf-blades broadened upward. Flowers green, yellow, or purplish. 
Capsule winged.—About 50 species, pi and subtropical.—Spr. or all year. 
—VARNISH-LEAVES. 
Leaf-blades spatulate to elliptic: fruit 10-30 mm. wide. 
Leaf-bla ace narrowly spatulate: fruit less than 2 cm. wide: seed 2-2.5 mm. in 
diam 1. D. P T 
Leaf-bl blades icu IE nA o PUR fruit over 2 cm. 
wide: seed n dia 2. D. viscosa. 
Leaf-blades cuneate to botte Cue EE fruit 5-7 mm. wide. 3. D. microcarya. 
1. D. jamaicensis DC. Shrub 1-4 m. tall: leaves 3—11 cm. long; blades nar- 
rowly spatulate, gradually narrowed to on base: sepals elliptic or oval, 2.5-3 
m ong 
m : : anthers about as 
as the sepals: fruits 10-16 mm. long, deeply 
notched pex: seed orbicular-lenticu- 
f meter.—Pinel Apes 
e 2.5-3 m 
long: anthers rather shorter than the pond 
fruit 23-30 mm. long, deeply urs dele pe 
apex: seed orbieular- reniform 3- 
diameter a s and hammocks, D "Pla 
(V. I. , C. A., S. A.)—Sum 
3. D. microcarya Sm all. Shrub or small tree: leaves 2- - em. long; blades 
cuneate to iod cuneate: de smaller than in the two preceding a 
fruit 5-7 mm. wide, emarginate at the apex: seed subglobose, nearly 2 mm. in 
diameter. Ends lower Florida Keys.—Fall. 
Famity 9. STAPHYLEACEAE i pastas FAMILY 
Shrubs or t 
Flowers perfect or “polygamous, racemose or n UE drooping. Cal lyx 
of 5 sepals. Corolla of 5 equal petals. Androecium of stamens. 
Gynoecium of 2 or 3 gears! or wholly united carpels. mit an inflated 
capsule.—Five genera and 22 species, Wd. distributed. 
1. STAPHYLEA L. Shrubs or small trees. Leaf-blades pinnate, often 
3-foliolate. Racemes cluster-like, drooping. 
Sepals and petals nearly erect. Capsule blad- 
dery, 2- or 3-lobed.—About 6 species, of the 
north temperate zone. 
1. S8. L. Shrub or small tree: 
leaflets 3s blades oval or eit varying to 
5-10 lon 
ovate or obovat 1 ng, serrate: 
raceme lo Ig -10 mm. 
long: petals spatulate, surpassing the sepals, 
e d eream stripe apsu 
long, the lobes apiculate.— (BLAD UT)— 
ich woods and stream-banks, various prov- 
ion n d Plain, G la., 
Oo N 
Que.—Spr.—Near the 
M Bid: of its range it may attain a trunk-diameter of six inches. 
