PLATE CCXXX. 



DODON^A TRIQUETRA. 



Three-Jided Dodoiuca. 



CLASS Vm. ORDER L 

 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perlantbium tetraphyllum, planum; 



foliolis ovatis, obtufis, concavis, deciduis. 

 Corolla nulla. 

 Stamina. Filamenta ofto, brevilUma. Antherae 



oblongae, arcuatx, coiiniventes, loiigitudine 



calycis. 

 PisTiLLUM. Germen triquetrum, longitudine 



calycis. Stylus cylinciricus, trilulcatus, erec- 



tus. Stigma fubtrifidum acutiulculuni. 



Pbricabpium. Capfula trifulca, inflata, trilo- 



cularis; angulis mcmbranaceis, magnis. 

 Semina bina, lubrotunda. 



Empalement. Cup four-leaved, flat; leaflets 

 egg-lhaped, obtufe, concave, falling off. 



Blossom, none. 



Chives. Eight threads, very fliort. Tips oblong, 

 curved, approaching, the length of the 

 cup. 



Pointal. Seed-bud three-fided, the length of 

 the cup. Shaft cylindrical, three-furrowed, 

 upright. Summit nearly three-cleft ra- 

 ther pointed. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule three-furrowed, fwelled 

 out, three cells, angles skinny, large. 



Seeds by twos, nearly round. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Dodonaea foliis lanceolatis, utrinquc attenuatis, 

 glaberrimis; ramulis triquctris; floribus 

 dioicis. 



Dodonaea wiih lancp-fliaped leaves, tapered to 

 both ends, very fmooth; the fmall branches 

 three-fided; flowers with chives and poin- 

 tals diftinft. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



Male Flower. 



1. The Empalement, magnified. 



2. The Empalement and Chives, before the burning of the tips, magnified. 



3. The fame, when the tips have emitted the pollen, magnified. 



Female Flower. 



1. The Empalement, magnified. 



2. The Empalement, leed bud, fhaft and furamit, magnified. 



3. A ripe capfule, natural fize. 



4. One of the divifions of the capfule. 

 .5, A ripe feed, natural fize. 



The fpecies here figured of Dodonaea is from New Holland; where, Forfter fays he found it, as wc 

 have given it, with the chives and pointals dillinft; but, that the fame fpecies was hermaphrodite, 

 when growing in New Zealand, which may perhaps be the fact, though we (hould fufpeft, from 

 fuch circumftance, they were different fpecies. Martyn in his Ed. of Miller's Diet mentions this 

 plant, and throws it to the bro.id-leaved fpecies found in the tropical climates of America and Afia. 

 VVilldenow, in his Sp. Plant. Tom. 1 1. P. 1. p. 345, has made it a fpecies, without any obfervation on 

 its parts of fruftification : which leads us to fuppofe, he had not feen flowering I'pecimens. It is as 

 hardy as any greenhoufe plant we polfefs, but will not rcfift the feverity of our trolts; is cafily propa- 

 gated by cuttings, and thrives in almoft any earth. It is fo very common in New Holland, that, 

 fcarce a parcel of feeds has arrived from thence, but has contained fome of the feeds. The two figures 

 were taken from two plants at the nurfery Hammerfmith. 



