XIIII. SAPINDACE-fl. £69 



usually more or less spirally twisted. Capsules inflaterl, broadly reniform, 

 coinp!vs-ed, broader than long, about 1 by 1|-4|, bright ojange, ulti- 

 mately glabrous, tipped with the long persistent style. Seeds ovoid, 

 black, smooth, with a small disciform aril. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 311 ; 

 Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 158. //. mpiinioideii, Hiern, in Hook. f. Fl. B. 1. 

 V. ], p. 692 {not of Koxb.) ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 59 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 272. Strepiodiyma viridiflomm, Thwaites, 

 in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 6 (1854) p. 298, t. 9.— Flowers : Nov.-Jan. 



There is no doubt that this plant is perfectly distinct from H. ciqHtni- 

 oideif of Eoxburgh. 



Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. (1824) p. 442, describes H. cupanioides, a native of 

 Chittagong, as having a somewhat 2-lobed ovary, a short style, a 2-lobed 

 stigma with reflexed lobes, a semi-oval seed, of which the inner side is 

 straight, with a deep orange aril covering the whole seed. The Bombay 

 plant agrees exactly with the description given by Thwaites (Kew Journ. 

 Bot. I.e.) and Trimen (Fl. Ceyl. 1. c.) and with'the plate (t. 158) given 

 by Beddome. The aril of the Bombay plant is small and disciform, the 

 seed is ovoid, black, the style is long and the stigma oblong and spirally 

 twisted. 



KosKAN : Stocks'., Low'. Kanara : in the evergreen forests of N. Kanara ; very 

 common in the forests near Goond, Talbot. — Distrib. India (Cliittagong, Biruia, 

 S. Andamaus, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo, Java. 



8. DODON^A, Linn. 



Shrubs, rarely trees, often viscous. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 

 simple or abruptly-pinnate. Flowers unisexual or polygamo-dioecious in 

 axillary or terminal racemes, corymbs or panicles, inconspicuous. Sepals 

 2-5, imbricate or valvate. Petals 0. Disk obsolete in the male, small 

 in the female flowers. Stamens 5-10 (usually 8), inserted on the outer 

 side of the disk ; filaments very short ; anthers linear-oblong, obtusely 

 4-gonous. Ovary sessile, 3-6-gonous, 3-6-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 collateral or superposed. Capsule membranous or coriaceous, 2-6-gonous, 

 septicidally 2-6-valved, valves winged at the back, cells 1-2-seeded. 

 Seeds lenticular or subglobose, compi'essed, exalbuminous, exarillate ; 

 funicle thickened; testa crustaceous or coriaceous; embryo spirally 

 convolute. — Distrib. Chiefly Australian ; species about Qo. 



1. Dodonaea viscosa, Linn. Maniiss. v. 2 (1771) p. 149, A shrub, 

 rarely a small tree, with erect twiggy branches often angled ; young parts 

 scurfy-puberulous. Leaves subsessile, simple, more or less viscid with a 

 yellowish resinous exudation, 11-4 by j-1 g in. (the breadth very variable), 

 oblanceolate, subacute or shortly apiculate, glabrous, shining, tapering 

 much towards the base. Flowers greenish-yellow, small, in short few- 

 flowered axillary spreading cymes ; pedicels slender, nodding. Sepals 

 ob'ong, -f'g— g in. long, about equalling the stamens. Anthers oblong- 

 linear, very large. Ovary pilose ; style long. Capsules membranous, 

 compressed, k-^ in. long and slightly broader, with a wide marginal wing 

 notched at the base and apex, viscid, orange-brown. Seeds black. 

 Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 697; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 812; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 p. 60 : Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1S97) p. 272; Watt, Diet 

 Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 172. D. Bunnanniana, DC. Prodr. v. 1, p. 616; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 30 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 36 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 34! 



