Dodonaea.l SAP1NDACEAE. 253 



narrowly obovate, without scales. Disk obscure. Stamens 5-8, 

 inserted inside the disk; filaments slender; anthers oblong. 

 Ovary ovoid, 2-celled ; style elongate ; stigma linear, usually 

 more or less twisted ; ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit 

 an inflated, coriaceous, 2-lobed, 2-celled, loculicidally 2-valved 

 capsule ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds subglobose, usually arillate ; 

 embryo with thick hemispheric cotyledons. 



HARPULLIA IMBRICATA, Thw.; F. B. I. i. 692; Bedd. Fl. t, 158. 

 W. Ghats, in evergreen forests from S. Canara to the 

 Anamalais and Travancore. up to 4,000 ft. 

 A large tree with pinnate leaves up to 16 in. long, 3-4 pairs 

 of membranous, usually lanceolate leaflets up to 7 in. long, 

 flowers with delicate clawed greenish petals and brilliant 

 orange- scarlet inflated 2-lobed capsules. Bark smooth, 

 greenish; wood white, soft. Yern. Tarn. Nei kottei; Mai. 

 Chittila madakku. 



12. Dodonaea, L. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leave* alternate, simple or pinnate, exstipu- 

 late. Floirer* small, polygamous, in axillary or terminal racemes or 

 panicles. Sejttil* --5. imbricate or valvate. Petals 0. Disk none 

 in (J flowers, small in tf . Stamens 5-10, usually 8. inserted 

 without the disk in J flowers, in g round a small pistillode; 

 filaments short ; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 3-6-angled and 

 -celled ; style 3-6-sided, 3-6-cleft at top ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 collateral or superposed. Fruit a 2-6-sided membranous or 

 coriaceous capsule, septicidally 2-6-valved, the valves winged 

 at the back ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds lenticular or subglobose, 

 compressed, exarillate ; funicle thickened ; testa crustaceous or 

 coriaceous ; cotyleydons spirally convolute. 

 DODONAEA VISCOSA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 697. D. Burmanniana, 

 DC. : W. & A. 114 ; Wt. 111. i. t, 52. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, a common shrub often 

 more or less gregarious ; W. Ghats, in Shola forests up to 

 8,000 ft. and often then a small tree ; sometimes planted as 

 a hedge plant. 



A stiff shrub or a small tree with shining simple oblanceolate 

 leaves and 2-3-winged capsules. Bark thin, grey; wood 



