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Bodoncea.'] xxxviii, SAPiNDACHiE. 487 



erect, compact, very mucli branched slirub, glabrous and often viscid, tlie last 

 slender branchlets not much thicker than the petioles and leaflets. Leaves 

 mostly pinnate with few usually distant linear and almost terete leaflets 

 rarely above |- in. long, channelled above and convex underneath like the 

 common petioles. Male flowers not seen. Female pedicels solitary, 2 to 6 

 lines long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, about I line long. Capsules of D. 

 mcosa, rather large, the wings rounded at the top and at the base, the 

 terminal sinus open ; persistent dissepiments rather broad. 



N. S- Wales. Desert of the Darhug, Dallachy and Goodwin, 

 Victoria. Desert near the confluence of the I.oddon and the Murray^ /'. Mueller, 

 S. Australia. S. coast, 22. Brown (leaflets rather njorc nunicroQS, but inflorescence of 

 1), stenoz]/f/a). 



Vr. Australia, Brummond^ n. 188 (spccimcus precisely similar to the Victorian 

 ones). 



39 ? D. concinna^ BentJt, Very near D, denozyga, and perhaps a va- 

 riety, but the small specimens seen have a very different aspect. Leaflets 5 

 to 11, crowded on short coriaceous petioles, linear, almost terete, channelled 

 above, convex underneath, 2 to 4 lines long. Flowers not seen. Fruiting 

 pedicels several, in a very short raceme. Capsule of T>. viscosa, the wings 

 rounded at the top and at the base, the dissepiments broad and persistent as 

 ill D. stenozyga, not splitting and deciduous as in the true B. adenophora. 

 -0. f(d€noj)Jiora, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 98, not of Miquel. 



V^- Australia. In the south-west, Herb, F, Mueller, 



16. DISTICHOSTEMON", F. Muell. 



Characters of Dodoncea except that the sepals vary from 5 to 8, and the 

 stamens are indefinite, usually above 20, closely packed in 3 or more series. — 

 I'ubescent shrub. Leaves simple. Inflorescence more nearly an interrupted 

 spike than in any Bodon^as.' 



The geuus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia, scarcely sufficiently distinct 

 from Lodoncea, 



1. D. phyllopterus, F, MnelL in nool\ Kew Jonrn. ix. 306. A tall 

 shrub, softly tomentosc-pnbescent or villous in all its parts. Leaves very 

 shortly petiolate, oblong or rarely obovate, xery obtuse, 1 to 3 in. long, entire, 

 soft and velvety on both sides* the veins prominent underneath. Plon-ers 

 nearly sessile, in terminal leafless interrupted spikes or racemes of 1 to 3 in., 

 rarely branching into oblong panicles. Sepals most frequently 6, but in some 

 specimens almost all 5. Stamens although usually above 20, yet occasionally 

 only 12 to 15, and often above 30; anthers oblong-linear, crowded, with very 

 short filaments as in Bodon^a, Styles occasionally elongated as in some Bodo- 

 nceas. Capsule more orless tomentose, obovoid-triquetrous, the angles more or 

 less produced into herbaceous erect wings, usually ovate, verj- obtuse, and only 

 on the upper outer half of the carpels, but occasionally, especially in the Bank- 

 sian specimens, not so broad, and continued almost to the base. Seeds very 

 shining, usually 2 in each cell. — Bodoncea hispidula, Endl. Atakt. t. 30. 



N. Australia. N.W- coast, %/2^^; Goulbourn Wand and C^^^VonA, A, Canning - 

 ham; Victoria river. Point Pearcc, and Roper Rixer, F. Jlueller ; Port E^siugton, ^m- 



