Dodo7i(ea!\ xxxyiii. sapindaceji:. 



475 



not very viscid, the young branches flattened or angular. Leaves from oval- 

 elhpticai to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 in. long, the pin- 

 nate and reticulate veinlets few and fine, usually scarcely conspicuous. Pedicels 

 slender, in short, oblong, compact panicles or* racemes. Sepals minute, rarely 



1 nne long. Anthers linear, often 1| lines long. Styles, when long, attaining 



2 in. Capsule of D. viscosa, usually middle-sized. Seeds brown, very smooth 

 and shiuing._DC. Prod. i. 617; F. Mnell. Pragra. i. 73, and PL Vict. i. 

 ^26.~Z). laiirina, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 152.— i). longipes, G. 

 i^on, Gen. Syst. i. 674- (from the character given). 



Queensland. Brisbane river, ^loreton Bay, Fraser^ Fitzalan. 

 ^^•*' S. Wales, Port Jacl^sou to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, SieLer, n.27l and 

 il-j and others; northward to Clarence and Hastings rivers, Bec/c/er, and Kew England, 

 C- SUarC ;^ southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 



_ Victoria. BaiTeu declivities and granite rocks of Genoa Pcak^ and elsewhere in the 

 vicinity of Genoa river, F. Mueller, 



Ihe Fiji Islaud plant referred by A. Gray and Seemann to D. triquetra, appears to me to 

 be one of the common forms of B. viscosa. 



2. D, lanceolata^ F. MuelL Fragm, i. 73. Very closely allied to B. 

 triquetral with the same angular hrancheSj smooth, almost veiuless leaves, 

 slender pedicels, and very shining seeds, and scarcely distinguishable except 

 by the sepals, which are from 1 to 1^ lines long. The leaves are perhaps 

 generally rather narrower, and the capsule-wings broader, but neither of these 

 characters can be relied upon. 



N, Australia. Capstan Island, N.W, coast, A. Cunnin gl am (the specnncns rather 

 aoubtful^ not being in frnit) ; Victoria river and Sea range, F, Mueller ; islands of the Gulf 

 ot Urpcntaria, R. Brown. 



Queenslaud. Northumberland Islands, B, Broun ; Cape Cleveland, A. Cimnhigham ; 

 feumlav Island, M'GilUvray ; Pahu Island, Henue ; Port Denison, Fltzalan. 



«• S- "^Vales. Clarence river, Beckler, 



3? D. petiolaris, F. MuelL Fragm, iii. 13. The single fragment in 

 ■F; Mueller's herbarium has a few small oval-oblong leaves, veined as in D. 

 vkcosa, but much less narrowed at the base, on petioles of 2 or 3 lines. TJie 

 si^^gle capsule is not yet full-grown, but, in that state, does not appear at all 

 differeiit from the larger varieties of D, viscosa, of which this plant may pro- 

 bably prove to be a variety, 



N. S. "Wales. Desert on the Darling river, NeUson {lib, F. 3TnelL), 



4- D, viscosa, Linn.; DC. Prod, i. 616. A shrub, sometimes low and 

 stunted, more frequently tall, glabrous, and usually more or less viscid, the 

 young branches frequently compressed or somewhat triangular, but much less 

 so than in D. triqiietra. Leaves simple, varying from broadly oblong-lanceo- 

 liite, acute or acuminate, and 3 or 4 in. long, to narrow-lanceolate, or oblong- 

 cuneate and veiy obtuse or almost linear-cuneate, always naiTOWcd into a 

 ^ore or less distinct petiole, entire or obscurely sinuate, or rarely almost 

 3-toothed at the end, the pinnate veins usually rather numerous and very 

 divergent, sometimes scarcely conspicuous. Panicles or racemes usually short 

 and terminal, or reduced to' axillary clusters. Sepals ovate, usually as long 

 ^^ or rather longer than the oblong obtuse anthers. Style rarely lengthened 

 out. Capside very variable in size, the wings continued from the base to the 



