476 xxxviii. SAPINDACE.E. [Dodoncea. 



style, or nearly so, either equally rounded at tlie top and at the base or 

 more contracted at the base. Seeds rather large, dark-coloured or bhick, 

 opaque or scarcely shiuing. — Hook. f. FL Tasin. i. 55 ; 1\ MueU. PI. Vict. 

 L 85, 



N. Australia. Apparently rare, but some specimens from the N.W. coast, Bf/noe, 

 proLaLly belong to this species. 



Queensland. Cumbcriand Islands, R. Broi^n ; Endeavour river, Banks ; Kodd's Bay 

 and llockinghani Bay, A. Canningham ; Cape Upstart and Port Curtis, M^'Gillim'ay ; Rock- 

 hampton, Thozet ; Moretoii Bay, Eraser, A, Canninffham, and others. 



N. S. "V^ales. From the borders of Queeuslaud, Bechler^ C. Stuart, and others, to 

 Twofold Bay, F, Mueller. 



Victoria. Rocky, scrubby, stony, and sandy localities, widely and copiously distributed 

 over the colony, F, Mueller. 



Tasmania. Common in poor soil, especially near the coast, J. D. Hooker. 



S. Australia. Apparently common, at least in the eastern parts of the colony. Herb, 



Mueller, and others. 



^V. Australia- Blaclvwood river, Oldfield, 



The species is abundantly distributed over tropical America, Africa, and Isia, extending 

 to the Pacific Islands, and southward, beyond the tropics, to S. Africa and Xcw Zealand. It 

 includes probably the whole of the extra-Australian described Dodonceas, except, perhaps, 

 the J), eriocarpa from the Sandwich Islands, D. Thmibergiana^ Ecki. and Zeyh., from S. 

 Africa, and one or two Mexican ones, which, whether varieties or species, do not occur iu 

 Australia, The almost protean forms the species assumes in Australia, even after deducting 

 D. atienuala^ D, ciuwata, and D. incfjazyga^ which F. Mueller unites with it, are very ditfi- 

 cult to distribute into definite varieties, although at least the three following are usually consi- 

 dered as jpccies. 



a. vulgaris. Usually tall. Leaves large, obovate-oblong, broadly lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 acuminate or rarely obtuse, the pinnate veins usually numerous and prominent. Capsules 

 larp:e, with rather broad wings, much rounded above and at the base, the terminal sinus (be- 

 tween 2 opposite wings) narrow, each carpel, including its wing, lo!)ger than broad. — B, 

 viscosa, Liun., and J), Bannannnxyia, DC; Griscb. Fl. Brit. W, Ind. 127, with the syno- 

 nyms adduced; A. Gray, Gen. 111. t. 182 ; Wight, lUnstr. t. 52. — The most common form 

 iu America and tropical Africa, extending in Asia as far north as Scinde and Ailghanisian, 

 also in the Pacific islands ^ and to this form belong most of the tropical Australian species as 

 well as some from Hastings river, Beckler, Some specimens from Endeavour river, both in 

 the Banksian and in Cunningham's colLowions, are remarkable for their thick, obscurely 

 veined leaves. 



J. ayigastl folia. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, mostly long and acutely acuminate, much nar- 

 rowed atthe basCjtlie veins usually conspicuous. Capsules small, with verybroad wings, leaving 

 the tenninal siuus very open and sometimes narrowed at the base, each carpel, including its 

 wing, orbienlaror rather broader than long, although nmch less so than in the Platgptera. — B, 

 avgnsfifolia, Swartz; Griscb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 12S, with the synonyms adduced; Lam. Ill- 1. 

 301, n. 2, and consccpieutly D.salicifolia, DC. Prod. i. 617, supposed to be from New Holland ; 

 D. neriifolia^ A. Cunn. in A. Gray, Bot. Am. Expl. Expcd. i. 262. — This variety has ncnrly the 

 same range within the tropics as the large-fruited one, and occasionally is found to pass into it. 

 In Australia it includes many Queensland specimens, and is the common form in N. S. Wales 

 collections. It occurs also iu \V. Australia, but in Victoria, S. Australia, and Tasmania, as 

 in N. Zealand, it tends rather to pass into the si)athulate-Icaved form. 7). umbrllata and B, 

 Kingii, G. Don^ Gea, Syat. i. 074, from the characters given, belong probably to this 

 variety. 



e. spathnlafa. Usually a more bnshy and not so tall a shrub as the preceding varieties, 

 ofteu veiy visciil. Leaves shorter (although much longer than in B. cuneata)^ obovate-ob- 

 long, oblong-cuucate, spathnlate, oblanceolate or broadly lincar-cnneate, usually obtnse or 

 sometimes truncate, the lateral veins usually conspicuous, but iu some thick-leaved specimens 

 scarcely more so than in D. cuneata* Capsules very variable, but generally intermediate be- 

 tween those of the var. vulgaris aud angustifolia, but ueai"er to the former. — B, spaihulatay 

 Sm. in Rees, Cycl. xii. ; DC. Prod. i. 616 ; i). conferta, G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 67-4; B, 



