Sapindacea.] flora of Tasmania 56 
Gen. I. DODONJ5A, I. 
Mores polygami. Sepala 3-5. Corolla 0. Stamina 5 v. plum, recoptnculo insertn ; Jilamenfis brc- 
vissimis. Ovarium sessile, 2-5-gonum, 2-5-loculare ; ovulis quovis loculo 2, Baperimp - 
membranacea, 2-5-valvis; valvis dorso alatis, a columna central] peniatemte llafta solutis. Scwina loculis 2 
v. abortu solitaria; testa Crustacea. — Frutices v. arbores tape resinosce ; foliis alternis, c.rsfipn talis, internum 
mnnatis ; lloribus raeemosis pauiculatisve. 
This is a very abundant genus in Australia, where fully fifty species have been discovered, which is more than 
have been found in any other part of the globe. All are shrubs or small trees, with alternate leaves, pinnate in some 
Australian species, always very variable in form and often full of resinous secretion.— Flowers generally panicled, 
unisexual or polygamous. Sepals three to live. Petals none. Stamens five or more ; anthers generally linear-oblong, 
often sessde. Ovary sessde, two- to five-celled and angled; ovules two, superimposed in each cell. Chpnrfd mem- 
branous, two- to five-valved. Valves winged at tin l>a« k, - paratii \i iVom a central \\in_ J coin 
crustaceous testa. (Named in honour of Rambert Dodoens, a Gh rman botanic of the sixteenth century.) 
1. Dodonsea viscosa (Forst. Prodr. 27) ; foliis obovato-oblongis lanceolatis v. lanceolato-epathulatia 
basi cuneatis viscosis, capsula 2-3-alata.— DC. Prodr. i. 01 1; Fl. A. Zeal L 88, 
Var. /3. asplfdV'j' '' ; tolii- iiiicari-obovatis Mean's v. apice m;e pialitcr trilnbis. — f). asplemifolia, ttudye 
in Linn. Soc. Trans, ii. 297. t. 20. D. aspleniifolia, var. j3, Hook, -hum. Bot. L 251, li. I I 5 
lata, Smith in Bees' Cycl. xii. D. conferta, Don, Si/st. Gard. (G/o/n, 377.) 
Hab. Var. /?. Common in poor soil, especially near tl '•' (v- P») 
Distrib. All warm and hot latitudes, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Malay Islands, India, Tropical 
Africa, and America. 
I have no hesitation in reducing the Tasmanian species to a state of the ubiquitous J), viscosa, which has much 
larger leaves in moister climates than in Tasmania and Australia south of the Tropic. The leaves are seldom toothed 
in my specimens, and I find toothed leaves in Texan ones, which, together with there being no difference in the flower 
or fruit that is not common to all localities, leaves no doubt of its identity. Indeed, considering how wide the 
range of B. viscosa is, and that it is common throughout the Northern and Middle Islands of New Zealand, its ab- 
sence in Tasmania would be anomalous. — A small tree, according to Gunn 6-10 feet high, and extremely variable 
in habit and foliage. Wood described in New Zealand as very hard, variegated black and white. BranchUls com- 
pressed or angular. Leaves 1-3 inches long, very variable in breadth, linear-obovate or spathulate or obovate-lan- 
ceolate, narrowed into a short petiole, blunt or acute, entire or obbquely two- or three-toothed at the extremity. 
Flowers abundant, as are the capsules, which are densely crowded, on short racemes, with sh nder pad 
two- to four-winged; wings £-| inch broad, variable in length and breadth.— The whole plant, especially the young 
leaves, abounds in a resinous secretion. 
2. Dodonsea salsolifolia (A. Cunn. MSS. Hook. Journ. Bot, i. 251); foliis conferttt anguate 
lineari-elongatis integerrimis subacutis superne canaliculars subcarnosis, fioribus masculis glomeratis, ficini- 
neis subsolitariis. {Gunn, 9.) 
Hab. Not uncommon by banks of rivers, etc.; Launceston, New Norfolk, etc., Fnuer, Gunn. — (Fl. 
Oct.) {v.v.) 
Distrib. Port Jackson (fid. A. Cunn.). 
A small shrub, much branched and densely leafy.— Leaves crowded, |-1 inch long, 1 line broad, narrow-linear, 
fleshy, quite entire. Male flowers small, three or four together, on short axillary peduncles. Sepals lanceolate. 
Stamens five or six, almost sessde. Female flowers solitary, or few together. Capsules similar to those of D. viscosa, 
but rather smaller. 
