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DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES 01* 

 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



By J. H. Maidex and E. Betche. 



SAPINDACE^. 

 DoDON^A Camfieldi, n.sp. 



A much branched dioecious shrub from about 1 to nearly 2 feet 

 high, glabrous and slightly viscid. Leaves broad-linear, entire, 

 with slightly recurved and somewhat undulate margins, acute, 

 attaining about 1 inch in length, sessile with a broad rounded base 

 and decurrent on the branches in 3 narrow wings. Flowers in 

 short panicles terminal on short branchlets, the staminate flowers 

 on slender pedicels, those of the pistillate flowers somewhat 

 stouter. Sepals frequently reduced to 4 in number, nearly as 

 long as the anthers. Style about ^ inch long, very deciduous as 

 well as the sepals. Capsule with broad wings extending from the 

 base to the top. Seeds not shining, with broad compressed 

 margins. 



Waterfall Creek, Nowra, N.S.W., (W. Biiuerlen, November, 

 1888) ; about midway between Como and Sutherland, near 

 Sydney, (J. H. Camfield, May, 1897). 



This remarkable species belongs to the Section " Cyclopterpe '"' 

 of Bentham's Flora Australiensis, but it is not closely allied to any 

 of the described species. The broad sessile bases of the leaves 

 appear to be unique in the genus, and the leaves are further 

 remarkable through the lai-ge groups of resin-secreting glands 

 which give them a dotted appearance. In growth it resembles a 

 good deal one of the smaller- leaved forms of Grevillea sjjliaceJato, 

 which is one of the plants with which it is associated. 



Though recently ascertained to have been first found nine years 

 ago by Mr. Bauerlen, whose name is already well represented in 



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