Bodona^a.^ xxxviiL sapindace^. 481 



ceratocarp 



An erect or divaricate 



rigid shrub, the smaller branches virgate, acutely angled or almost winged, 

 glabrous and often viscid. Leaves narrow-obovate oblong or narrow-cuneate, 

 obtuse or acute, | to 1^ in. long, entii'e or when luxuriant sometimes 2- or 

 3-toothed, narrowed into a very sliort petiole, rather coriaceous, a few lateral 

 veins sometimes conspicuous underneath, the margins usually recurved, 

 Flowers on very short pedicels, few together in very short terminal leafy ra- 

 cemes or axillary clusters. Sepals broad, thin and almost petal-like, above 1 

 hue long, the buds very anguhir. Style occasionally elongated. Capsule 2 

 to 3 lines long, glabrous, 4-angled, the angles produced at tlie upper outer 

 edge into erect horn-like lanceolate or falcate wings, 1 to 2 lines long. — D. 

 plerocaulis, Miq. in PI. Preiss. i. 225. 



^V, Australia. Eald Head and Goose Island Bay, R. Brown ; King George's Sound 

 and towards Cape lliche, J. Cunningham, Lrummond, n. i02, and Wi ColL n, 246, 247, 

 Preiss, n. 2440, and others. 



18, D. divaricata, Benth. A low shrub, with divaricate branches, the 

 smaller ones slender but rigid and sometimes almost spinescent, terete, 

 glabrous or minutely pubescent and Adscid. Leaves linear or linear-cuneate, 2 

 to 4 lines or rarely '|- in. long, entire or 3-lobed, rigid, with revolute margins. 

 Flowers not seen. Capsules sessile or nearly so, obtusely 3- or 4-anglcd, 

 often hirsute on the back, the outer angles produced into long lanceolate or 

 falcate horn-like wings. 



"W". Australia. Betvveeu Moore and iliuxhison rivers, Brummond, n, 96, and \th 



ColL n. 256. 



Series IV. Aptek^. — Leaves entire or toothed. Capsules without wings, 

 ov the angles sliglitly and irregularly dilated into verj^ naiTOw wings. Dis- 

 sepiments persistent on the axis, except in D, bursarifolia. 



19. D. triangxaaris, Lindl in Mitch. Trop. Audr. 219 (male plant). 

 An erect shrub of 3 to 4 ft., glabrous, pubescent or softly villous. Leaves 

 ohovate cuneate or almost triangular, rounded truncate or 3-toothed at the 

 end, or very rarely elliptical-oblong, i to 1 in. or rarely li in. long, coria- 

 ceous, 1-nerved, tlie lateral veins quite inconspicuous. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary or clustered, on short pedicels. Sepals narrow-lauccolate, rather 

 thick. Anthers as in B. triqnetra, narrow, acuminate, exceeding the calyx. 

 Capsule glal)rou3 or pubescent, 3- or 4-angled, the angles _ rarely diTatcd 

 towards the top into very narrow wings ; dissepiments remaining attached to 

 tlie axis, or very rarely deciduous but not splitting,— -D- mollis, LindL in 

 stitch. Trop. Austr. 312 (with pubescent capsules); D, trigona^ Lindl. 1. c. 

 23G (with glabrous capsules) ; D. Lindleyana, F. Muell. PL Vict. i. 88. 



Queensland. Suttor river, F. Mueller ; near xMouut Owen, Monnt f^ira.iay, and 

 Maiituan Downs, Mitchell ; near Brisbane and Tronbark forrst, Leichhardl. 

 ^J. S. Wales. W. branches of Hunter's River, A, Cunningham, 



20. D, aptera, Miq. In PL Preiss. i. 225. A shnib of 2 to 5 ft., gla- 

 brous and slightly viscid, the young branches very prouuuently au-led. 

 Leaves obovate, very obtuse or obcordatc, mostly 1 to li or eveu ^^ lu. long, 

 entire, narrowed into a petiole, coriaceous, l^nei-ved, the lateral veins mcon- 

 spicuous. Eaccmes terminal, short, fc^v-iloivered. Sepals broadly lanceolate, 



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