Materials for a Flora of ilie Malayan Veninsiila. 451 



back ; cells 1-2-seetled. Seeds lenticular or subglobose, compressed, 



cxalbuminous, cxarillate, funicle tliickeued ; emhryo spirally involute. 



Dtsi'RiB. A genus of about 65 species mostly endemic in Australia. 



DoDON^A visco?A, Jacq. Enum. PL C<irib» 19. A shrub or small tree : 

 the leaves simple, oblanceolate, sub-acnte or very shortly apiculate, with 

 sub-entire revolute margins, much narrowed to the base, both surfaces 

 sliining and sub-viscid; main nerves faint, numerous^ length ITS to 

 4 in., breadth -5 to 1-25 in., petiole 'l in. Floivers -25 in. in diam., in 

 sliort few-flowered axillary spreading cymes. Sepals oblong, about -1 

 ill. long as are the stamens. Capsule membranous, compressed, with a 

 broad marginal wing notched at base and apex, about 75 in. lono- and 

 slightly broader. Linn Mant. 228 ; Hiern in Fl. B-. Ind. I, 697 ; Kurz 

 For. Flora Burma 1, 287 ; Baker in Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. I, 483 ; Beuth. 

 Fl. Axistral. I, 475; Brand. For. FL 113: Boiss. Fl Orient. I, 953. B, 

 nnijutiiifolia, I-inn. f. Suppl. PL 218; Roxb. FL Ind. II, 256. D. dioica, 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28; FL Ind. II, 256; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. Vol. I. 

 pt. 2, p. 580. I). Burinanniana, DC. Prodi-. I, 616; Wight III. I, t. 52; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 114; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PL 30; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 FL 36; Thwaites Knum. 59; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 580. 

 C ?mc^ocar/(a, DC. Prodr. I, 617. iJ. Wightiana, Blume Rumph. Ill, 

 ]80. D. pentandra, Griff. Notul. IV, 548. D. lieterophylla, HortuL ex 

 G. Don. Gen. Syst. I, 674 ; Wall Cat. 8u81. Ptelea viscosa, Linn. Sp. 

 PL ed. I, 118; Bui-m. FL Ind. 36. B. spathulata, Sm. in Rees Cycl. 

 XI I, n. 2. B. arabica, Hochst. & Steud. in Herb. Arab. Schimp. n. 766. 

 — Burm. FL Zeyl. t. 23. Rumph. Heib. Amboin. IV, t. 50. 



In all the provinces ; but usually planted. — DiiiTKiB. Warm coun- 

 tries generally. 



18. Harpullia, Roxb. 



Erect trees. Leaves alternate, e.tstipulate, pinnate ; leaflets alter- 

 nate, entire, acuminate, sub-glabrous. Floivers dioecious or polygamous, 

 in racemes or panicles, regular. Sepals 4-5, erect, equal, imbiicated. 

 Petals 4-5, narrowly obovatc, exceeding the calyx, sometimes clawed, 

 without either glands or scales, but sometimes with inflected lobes at 

 the base of the laiuina. SlameHS 5-8, inserted witliin the obscure disc. 

 Ovary pubescent, ellipsoidal or oblong, 2-celled ; ovules usually 2 to- 

 gether, superposed. Style elongated ; stigma linear, usually more or less 

 twisted. Capsule coriaceous, inflated, 2-Iobed, 2-celled, loculicidallv 

 2-valved; c^lls 1-2-seLded. Seeds sub-globose, cxalbuminous, usually 

 arillate. — Dlstiub. About 6 species, tropical Asiatic, Australian and 

 Madagascarian. 



Haupullia cui'ANioiDiis, Roxb. Hort. Bcng. 86; FL Ind. ed, 



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