Dodonaea. | SAPINDACEAE. 87 
summit by a poicsecicsege brown and shining, shield-like testa with a sharp jagged margin, 
in form of a crescent with a short beak in the middle of the concavity. To the lower 
ie i tid > 
Ww 
the lower and middle parts suggests the idea that dogs eed here was cove red by a fleshy 
arillus, which filled the space between it and the shell a d the underlying 
coat by means of an acrid juice. The soft parts of the seed, ‘apparen ntly naked, are so 
ivelle it is i Ti satis 
likely to ‘find a sinse near  Nepastias, Euphoria a and P 
4. DODONAEA, L. 
Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Sepals 2—5, imbricate or valvate. 
Petals none. Disk obsolete in the male flowers, small in the female. 
Stamens 5—10, central, the filaments very short, the anthers linear-oblong, 
4-angled. Ovary 2--6-celled, the angular style 2—6-cleft. Ovules 1 or 2 
in each cell. Capsule septicidally 2—6-valved, the valves winged at the 
ack, generally breaking away from the placentiferous axis. eds 
exar eats: Embryo spirally conyolute. — Trees or shrubs, often viscid. 
Leaves alternate, simple or abrup innate. No stipules. Flowers 
inconspicuous, axillary or terminal, in vacate corymbs or panicles 
About 50 species, mostly Australian, a few dispersed over the tropical regions of 
both Worlds. 
Capsule broadly winged, with wings 8 ae above 
Capsule glabrous, flat, 2-winged, or, in the variety, 2—3- 
wing . D. visco. 
Capsule (or at least ee ovary) pubesce ent, 3—4 winged, turgid = D. erioca spas 
Capsule bladdery ow wings evanescent abo . D. stenoptera. 
1 osa, a — De Prod. I, 616. — A pail oo 12—25 ft. high, 
apparently dioecious. Branches angular stiff, glabrous, glutinous at the 
ends. Leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate or obovate, 21/2—4' X }/2-—D/4‘, 
including the petiole in which the cuneate base gradually merges, acu- 
minate or obtuse, entire, thin chartaceous, with straight parallel nerves, 
viscid. Panicles terminal and axillary, 1—2‘ long, the naked pedicels 
1'/2—2” in the male, 2—4“ in the female flowers. Male fl. Sepals 4 
(rarely 5), lanceolate, aces about 1“ long. Stamens 7—9, as long or 
little longer. Ovary rudimen tary. Fem. fl. Sepals 4. Stamens wanting. 
Ovary shortly stipitate, viscid, glabrous or faintly pubescent, 2- (very 
rarely 3-) celled, each cell with 2 superposed ovules. Style — times 
as long as the ovary, 2!/2—5“, its two linear lobes glued together. 
Capsule brownish or pale, membranous, 6—9“ high a and 8—10“ broad, 
flat, orbicular, faintly ridged along the middle on each face, 2- (rarely 3-) 
winged, the wings uniformly 2—3" broad, leaving a deep sinus at the 
top and base. Seeds 2”, ovate, flattened or plano-convex, with a brown 
crustaceous testa. — Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. p. 127. — Seem. Fl. Vit. p. 49. — 
