312 Sapindacece. \Dodoncea. 



about \ in., oblong-ovoid, smooth and shining, jet black, aril 

 very small, orange, embryo green. 



Moist low country up to 3000 ft.; rather common. Hantane ; Kadu- 

 ganawa ; Hangurankette ; Haldummulla ; Haputale. Fl. April-July, 

 November ; pale greenish or sulphur-yellow. 



Also in S.W. India and Malay Archipelago. 



A very ornamental tree both in flower and fruit. 



The fruit is used for washing purposes, and, like other Sapindaceae so 

 used, often called ' Penela.' The name ' Na-imbul' is sometimes applied 

 to PoDietia. 



Our plant is certainly Oionycliiinii iDiln-icatiuit^ Bl, of Java and 

 Sumatra, and differs from H. a/pa/iioides, Roxb. of Burma, to which it is 

 referred in Fl. B. Ind., in its deciduous calyx, spirally twisted style, and 

 very small aril. The tree of S.W. India is the same as ours. 



10. DODONSIil., L. 



Shrubs or small trees ; 1. simple, alt. ; fl. polygamous or 

 dioecious, in axillary panicles; sep. 5, distinct ; pet. o ; stam. 

 generally 8, fil. very short, inserted outside disk ; disk very 

 small; ov. 3-cellcd, with 2 ovules in each cell; fruit a trigonous 

 winged capsule ; seed without an aril, embryo spiral, no 

 endosperm. — Sp. about 40; 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



I>. viscosa, L. Mant. ii. 149 (i770- Eta-werella, S. 

 Virali, T. 



Herm. Mus. 32. Burm. Thes. 55. Fl. Zeyl. n. 141. Moon Cat. 31. 

 D. Burtiianniatia, DC, Thw. Enum. 59. C. P. 11 58. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 697. Burm. Thes. t. 23. Wight, 111. t. 52. 



A shrub or small tree, with numerous erect, twiggy 

 branches, bark longitudinally cracked and striate, young parts 

 .scurfy-puberulous ; 1. simple, nearly sessile, 2-3!- in., linear- 

 lanceolate, very tapering at base, subacute or obtuse, entire, 

 margin often slightly rcvolute, glabrous, more or less viscid 

 with a shining resinous exudation ; fl. small, on long slender 

 ped., nodding, in lax axillary ])anicles shorter than 1.; sep. 

 ovate, acute, glabrous ; anth. oblong-linear, very large ; ov. 

 pilose, style very long, conspicuous ; capsule over \ in., 

 trigonous, the angles with a broad, membranous, veined, 

 rounded wing, glabrous, viscid with resin, orange-brown; seed 

 black. 



Open waste ground in the low country and ascending to 4000 ft. ; 

 rather rare or local, but where it occurs growing gregariously in great 

 abundance, as in Uva beyond Wilson's Bungalow, the Teak Plantation 

 near Matara, &c. Fl. Jan. -April; yellowish. 



In all Tropical countries. 



