SAPINDACF-.'E. 1G5 



the flowers in Spring. The flowers diffuse their fragrance to 

 a considerable distance, and attract swarms of bees and hum- 

 ming birds. Tlie fruit is very much esteemed, especially by 

 the natives of the country. The nuts, in the Caraccas, are 

 roasted and used as a substitute for Chesnuts. 



X. DoDONiEA. 



Flowers in general (from abortion) polygamous or 

 dioecious. Calyx 4-partite, deciduous. Petals O. 

 Stamens 8, with very short filaments, and oblong or 

 linear anthers. Style filiform, distinct from the wings 

 of the capsule, sub-3-fid at the. apex. Capsule 2-3 

 valved, 2-3 celled, 2-3 winged. — De Cand. 



Shrubs, with leaves oblong, and frequently viscose. — Named, 

 after Rambert Dodoens, Professor of Medicine, Author of 

 Fragum Historia, 1532, and Pemptades, 1583. 



1. Dodonaea Jamaicensis. Common Dodoncea. 



Leaves lanceolate or lineari-lanceolate attenuated at 

 the base rounded and apiculated at the apex sub- 

 viscose, flowers shortly racemose. 



Aceri f. Paliuro Jiffinis, angusto oblongo ligustri folio, flore 

 tetrapetalo herbaceo, Slocme, II. 27. t. 162. f. 3? — Triopteris 

 erecta fruticosa, Broiime, 191. t. 18. f. 1. — D. angustifolia. 

 Swartz,Ohs. 150. — D. .Jamaicensis, De Cand. Prod. I. 616. 



HAB. Common in the mountains, and moist marshy savan- 

 nahs. 



FL. February. 



A shrub, 6-10 feet in height : branches slender, of a ferru- 

 ginous colour, compressed towards their extremities, angulated, 

 sub-viscose. Leaves alternate, very shortly petiolated, narrow 

 lanceolate or lineari-lanceolate, attenuated towards the base, 

 obtuse with a bluntish apicula at the apex, entire with the 

 margin slightly revolute, glabrous, shining above, sub-viscose, 

 stiffish, usually 4 inches long, and | of an inch broad. Racemes 

 terminal, compound, short, of several obscure greenish-yellow 

 flowers: pedicels filiform. $ FL Calycine sepals 4, sometimes 

 unequal, oblong, obtuse. Filaments 8, very short : anthers 

 large in proportion, oblong, incurved. The rudiments of the 

 pistil in the centre. $ FL usually on the same individual. Calyx 

 as in the male, but the sepals only 3. Anthers of the same size 

 as in the former, but abortive. Ovary globose, 3-sided with 

 the angles winged : style erect, length of the sepals, 3-fid at 

 the apex : stigmata simple. Capsule with three membranaceous 

 wings: seeds solitary, oblong, slightly compressed. 



