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the flowers in Spring. The flowers diffuse their fragrance to 

 a considerable distance, and attract swarms of bees and hum- 

 ming birds. The fruit is very much esteemed, especially by 

 the natives of the country. The nuts, in the Caraccas, are 

 roasted and used as a substitute for Chesnuts. 



X. DODON^A. 



Flowers in general (from abortion) polygamous or 

 dioecious. Calyx 4-partite, deciduous. Petals O. 

 Stamens 8, with very short filaments, and oblong or 

 linear anthers. Style filiform, distinct from the wings 

 of the capsule, sub-3-fid at the apex. Capsule 2-3 

 valved, 2-3 celled, 2-3 winged De Cand. 



Shrubs, with leaves oblong, and frequently viscose. Named, 

 after Rambert Dodoens, Professor of Medicine, Author of 

 Fragum Historia, 1552, and Pemptades, 1583. 



1. Dodonaea Jamaicensis. Common Dodoncea. 



Leaves lanceolate or lineari-lanceolate attenuated at 

 the base rounded and apiculated at the apex sub- 

 viscose, flowers shortly racemose. 



Aceri f. Paliuro affinis, angusto oblongo ligustri folio, flore 

 tetrapetalo herbaceo, Sloane, II. 27. t. 162. f. 3? Triopteris 

 erecta fruticosa, Broivne, 191. t. 18. f. 1. D. angustifolia. 

 Swartz,Obs. 150. D. Jamaicensis, De Cand. Prod. I. 616. 



HAB. Common in the mountains, and moist marshy savan- 

 nahs. 



FL. February. 



A shrub, 6-10 feet in height : branches slender, of a ferru- 

 ginous colour, compressed towards their extremities, angulated, 

 sub-viscose. Leaves alternate, very shortly petiolated, narrow 

 lanceolate or lineari-lanceolate, attenuated towards the base, 

 obtuse with a bluntish apicula at the apex, entire with the 

 margin slightly revolute, glabrous, shining above, sub-viscose, 

 stiffish, usually 4 inches long, and J of an inch broad. Racemes 

 terminal, compound, short, of several obscure greenish-yellow 

 flowers: pedicels filiform. $ Ft. Calycine sepals 4, sometimes 

 unequal, oblong, obtuse. Filaments 8, very short : anthers 

 large in proportion, oblong, incurved. The rudiments of the 

 pistil in the centre. FL usually on the same individual. Calyx 

 as in the male, but the sepals only 3. Anthers of the same size 

 as in the former, but abortive. Ovary globose, 3-sided with 

 the angles winged : style erect, length of the sepals, 3-fid at 

 the apex : stigmata simple. Capsule with three membranaceous 

 wings : seeds solitary, oblong, slightly compressed. 



