i PTHEROXYLE® (Sond.) [ Ptceroaylon. 
sessile, 3-4-angled, 3-4-celled; ovules in pairs; style angular, central, 
3-4-cleft. Capsule membranous, 2-3-4-winged. Hndl. Gen. 5626. 
Shrubs or small trees, tropical or sub-tropical, very numerous in Australia. Leaves 
alternate, exstipulate, simple or impari-pinnate, often exuding gummy secretions. 
Flowers small, green, generally in racemes, axillary or terminal. Named in honour 
of Rambert Dodoens, commonly called Dodoncus, a famous physician and author of 
a Historia Plantarum. He died in 1585. 
1, D. viscosa (Linn. Mant. 238) ; Jeaves obovate-oblong, cuneate at 
base, viscid ; flowers racemose, or racemoso-paniculate ; fruits 2-3- 
winged, as long as the stalk or longer, DC. Prod. 1. p. 616. A. Gray, 
Gen. 182. Plum, ed. Burm. t. 247. f. 2. Sloane, Hist. Jam. 2. t. 162. f. 3- 
D, Natalensis, Sond. Linn. 23. p. 23. 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius, Williamson. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.). 
Branches terete, reddish ; branchlets sub-compressed. Leaves sessile, much atte- 
nuate at base, very entire or sub-crenulate, penni-nerved, acute, 3-34 inches long, 
10-12 lines wide. Racemes panicled, half as long as the leaves, with spreading, 
viscid branchlets. Flowers small, hermaphrodite. Calyx 1 line long. Fruit, not 
quite mature, 4~5 lines long and wide. The Natal specimens differ from American 
ones by more acute leaves, the old ones scarcely viscid and somewhat smaller fruits. 
2. D. Thunbergiana (E. & Z.! 419); leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceo- 
late, narrowed at base, repandly. sub-denticulate ; flowers racemose ; 
fruits 2-3-winged, as long as the pedicel or longer. D. angustifolia, 
Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 383. 
Var. £. linearis; branchlets more crowded ; leaves linear, acute or 
obtuse, mucronulate. D. Mundtiana, E. & Z.! 420. D. linearis, E. Mey.! 
Has. Mountain sides, at the Paarl, Piquetberg, Hex rivier, Thunberg, Krauss, 
Drege, 7532, Zeyher 152. Hassagaiskloof, Zeyher 2027. Tulbagh, and at Brack- 
fontein, Z.& Z. 8. Hills near Kochman’s Kloof, at Gauritz Rivier, Mundt. In 
Zwartruggens, near Uitenhage, and Graaf Reynet, EZ. dé Z./ Modderfontein, and 
near Leliefontein, Drege. Aug.—Nov. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.). 
A shrub, 5-10 feet high, much branched, glabrous, Leaves somewhat viscid, 14- 
24 inches long, 3-4 lines broad ; in 8. 1—2 lines broad, mid-ribbed below. Racemes 
} inch, simple or branched, dense ; peduncles lengthening in fruit, Flowers green, 
polygamous. Calyx obtuse, a line long. Stamens 8, rarely 7-6. Style trifid. Cap- 
sule 5-6 lines long and wide, resinous—-shining. A decoction of the root is used as & 
purgative in fever. Pappe, Fl. Cap. Med. Prod. p. 4. 
(GENERA wHosm AFFINITY 18 VERY UNCERTAIN.) 
poly za bu Y icephonss Sepals 4, short, obtuse. Petals 4, at 
ty siandular. Stamens 4, alternate with the petals ; fil. 
glabrous ; an 
; fixed below the middle, bifid at base. Ovary 
