Dob'mea.] XLiv. SAPINDACE^. (W. P. Hiern.) 697 



Leaves 3-7 by 1-2 in. ; petioles | 1 in., pubescent. Panicles ranging [up to 2 ft. in 

 width. Flowers ^-^ in. diam. ; bracts linear, shortly pubescent, free ; those close to 

 the fruit obcordate-orbicular, venose, 4~f in- diam., rose-coloured. Fruit in. diam. 



21. DODONJEA, Linn. 



Shrubs rarely arborescent. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Inflorescence 

 lateral and terminal. Floivers polygamous, inconspicuous. Sepals 5-2, 

 imbricated or valvate. Petals wanting. Stamens 10-5, usually 8, inserted 

 on the outer side of the disk ; filaments short ; anthers linear-oblong. 

 Disk obsolete in the male flower, small in the female. Ovary 3-6-sided and 

 -celled; style 3-6-sided, apex 3-6-cleft. Ovules 2 together, collateral or 

 superposed. Capsufo 2-6-sided, membranous or coriaceous, septicidally 

 2-6-valved ; valves winged at the back ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds lenticular 

 or subglobose, compressed, exalbuminous, exarillate, funicle thickened; 

 embryo spirally involute. DISTKIB. A genus of some 40 species or more, 

 mostly endemic in Australia. 



Dodonsea (sp.) in Herb. HohenacTc. n. 2355, is Aspidopterys canarensis, Dalz. 



1. I>. yiscosa, Linn. Mant. PL alt. 228 ; leaves undivided oblanceolate 

 viscid-shining glabrous subapiculate base cuneate-attenuate subsessile 

 margin revolute entire or nearly so, cymes short, wings of each carpel 

 oblong-orbicular extending from the base to the style. Baker in Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. i. 433; Benth. FL Austral, i. 475; Brand. For. FL 113 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, i. 953. D. angustifolia, Linn.f. Suppl. PL 218 ; Roxb. FL Ind, ii. 

 256. D. dioica. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 256. D. Burmanniana, 

 DC. Prodr. i.' 616; Wight III. i. t. 52 ; W. & A. Prodr. 114; Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 30 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 36 ; Thwaites Enum. 59. D. pallida, 

 Miq. in Herb. Hohenack. n. 1068. D. microcarpa, DC. Prodr. i. 617. D. 

 Wightiana, Blume Rumph. iii. 189. D. pentandra, Griff. Noted, iv. 548. 

 D. heterophylla, Hortul. ex G. Don Gen. Syst. i. 674. Wall. Cat. 8081. 

 Ptelea viscosa, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 118 ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 36. D. spathulata, 

 Sm. in Rees Cycl. xii. n. 2. D. arabica, Hochst. & Steud. in Herb. Arab. 

 Schimp. IL 766. Burm. FL Zeyl. t. 23. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. iv. t. 50. 



Throughout INDIA, from the Indus Eastwards and Southwards to CEYLON and 

 MALACCA. DISTRIB. All warm countries. 



An evergreen shrub occasionally growing into a small tree. Shoots terete or some- 

 what angular. Leaves more or less viscid with a shining yellowish resin, very variable 

 in breadth, 1-5 by -14 in. Sepals oblong, tV~s m - l n & about equalling the stamens. 

 Capsule compressed, glabrous, |-1 in. broad. Several synonyms, not strictly Indian, 

 are omitted. 



21.* IVIELIANTHUS, Tournef. 



Shrubby glabrous plants with a strong odour. Leaves alternate, stipulate, 

 unequally pinnate ; leaflets toothed, decurrent. Racemes axillary and ter- 

 minal. Flowers bracteate, hermaphrodite irregular, sometimes apetalous. 

 Calyx laterally compressed, 5-partite, base with a saccate gibbosity ; lobes 

 unequal, imbricated. Petals excentric, declinate, subperigynous, narrow, 

 long-clawed ; the fifth petal very small or wanting. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 declinate, inserted within the disk. Disk unilateral, honeyed. Ovary 

 oblong, 4-lobed, 4-celled, style filiform, 4-toothed deeply at apex ; ovules 2-4 

 together. Capsule papery, vesicular, deeply 4-lobed, 4-celled. Seeds 

 subglobose, exarillate ; albumen fleshy or horny. DISTRIB. A small South 

 African genus. 



