Demhollia.'] XLiv. sapindace.e (hakeu). 433 



mens 8, equalling the petals in tlie m-A, flowers, the filaments filiform, 

 grey-downy. Capsule oblong-turbinate, cru.staccous, { in. long. 

 Iiower Guinea. Congo, Smith ! 



12. DODON^A, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Cn. PI. i. 110. 



Flowers unisexual or polygamo-ilia'cious. Sepals 2-5, imbricate or vai- 

 vate. Petals 0. Disk obsolete in the male flowers, small in tiie female 

 ones. Stamens 5-8, centrical, the filaments very short, the anthers linear- 

 oblong, obtusely tetragonous. Ovary sessile, with 3 G angles and .'3-G cells. 

 Style 3-6-angled, 3-6-fid at the apex. Ovules 2 in the cells, collateral or one 

 above another, ascending or the upper one pendulous. Capsule membranous 

 or coriaceous, 2-6-anglecl, the cells l-2.seeded, the angles obtuse or acute or 

 winged on the back, septicidally 2-6-valved, the valves frequently winged on 

 the back, the septiferous column remaining attached after the part that bears 

 the seeds falls. Seeds lenticular or subglobose, exarillatc, the hilum some- 

 times excavated, the funiculus thickened, the testa crustaceous or coriaceous. 

 Embryo spirally tw'isted. — Trees or shrulis. 



A considerable genus, with its headquarters in Australia. 



1. D. viscosa, Limi. ; DC. Prod. i. 616. A shrub ox small tree, the 

 ultimate branches slender, often subtriquetrous, not at all hairy, more or less 

 viscid. Leaves simple, oblanceolate, 2-4 in. long, |— 1 in. broad, the apex 

 blunt or subacute, the lower part narrowed very gradually to the base, the 

 edge entire ; texture membranous or slightly coriaceous, colour dark green, 

 surfaces not at all hairy but usually more or less Niscid, the veins not raised. 

 Flowers in 6-20-flowered terminal panicles, the ultimate pedicels slender, gla- 

 brous, |— f long. Sepals glabrous, ligulate-oblong, 1 line long. Capsule |- 1- 

 in. deep, with 3 broad, glabrous, membranous wings cordate at both ends. — 

 D. Kohautiana, Schlecht. in Linnaea, xviii. 36, B. arahica, Hochst. and 

 Steud. in Schimp. PI. Abyss, n. 314 ; Webb, Frag. Fl. .-iJhiop. 55. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sieber I Heitdelot ! 



Nile Land. Coast of Nubia, Schweinfurth ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Parh/m ' 

 Dillon and Petit ! 



Mozamb. Di^tr. Zambesi-land, Lr. Kirk ! 



B. repanda, Schum. et Thoun. PI. Guin. 194, is probably this species, but the leaves nre 

 described as ovate and repaud. Universally distributed through tropical auJ south tiuj- 

 perate regions. 



Turczaninow (Mosc. Bull. 36, 517) describes a Thouinia i* dicarpa from Sierra I.eonc, 

 to which he assigns alternate simple leaves, dicarpellary, winged fruit, and solitary l-flowcnd 

 peduncles, which we cannot at all identify. 



13. BERSAMA, Fresen. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 412. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo-dia^cious. Sepals 5, free or 2 ntore 

 or less connate, imbricated. Petals 5, unequal, imbricated, unguiculntc, the 

 lowest the smallest the claws silky or the apex glaiidulo^e. Disk unilntcrnl, 



