1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 451 



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

 exalbuminons, exarillate, funicle thickened ; embryo spirally involute. — 

 Distrib. A genus of about 65 species mostly endemic in Australia. 



DODON2EA viscosa, Jacq. Enum. PL Carib. 19. A shrub or small tree : 

 the leaves simple, oblanceolate, sub-acute or very shortly apiculate, with 

 sub-entire revolute margins, much narrowed to the base, both surfaces 

 shining and sub-viscid ; main nerves faint, numerous ; length 1*75 to 

 4 in., breadth *5 to 1*25 in., petiole '1 in. Flowers *25 in. in diam., in 

 short few-flowered axillary spreading cymes. Sepals oblong, about *1 

 in. long as are the stamens. Capsule membranous, compressed, with a 

 broad marginal wing notched at base and apex, about "75 in. long and 

 slightly broader. Linn. Mant. 228 ; Hiern in PI. Br. Ind. I, 697 ; Kurz 

 Por. Flora Burma I, 287 ; Baker in Oliv. PI. Trop. Afr. I, 433 ; Benth. 

 PL Austral. T, 475 ; Brand. Por. PL 113 : Boiss. PI. Orient. I, 953. D. 

 angustifolia, Linn. f. Suppl. PL 218 ; Roxb. PL Ind. II, 256. D. dioica, 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28 ; PL Ind. II, 256 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I. 

 pt. 2, p. 580. B. Burmanniana, DO. Prodr. I, 616 ; Wight 111. I, t. 52 ; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 114 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 30 ; Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb. 

 PL 36 ; Thwaites Enum. 59 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 580. 

 D. mi'crocarpa, DC. Prodr. I, 617. D. Wightiana, Blume Rumpb. Ill, 

 189. D. pentandra, Griff. Nbtul. IV, 548. D. heteropliylla, Hortul. ex 

 G. Don. Gen. Syst. I, 674 ; Wall. Cat. 8081. Ftelea viscosa, Linn. Sp. 

 PL ed. I, 118 ; Bnrm. FL Ind. 36. D. spathulata, Sm. in Rees Cycl. 

 XII, n. 2. D. arabica, Hochst. & Steud. in Herb. Arab. Schinrp. n. 766. 

 — Burm. FL Zeyl. t. 23. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. IV, t. 50. 



In all the provinces ; but usually planted. — Distrib. Warm coun- 

 tries generally. 



18. Harpullia, Roxb. 



Erect trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnate ; leaflets alter- 

 nate, entire, acuminate, sub-glabrous. Flowers dioecious or polygamous, 

 in racemes or panicles, regular. Sepals 4-5, erect, equal, imbricated. 

 Petals 4-5, narrowly obovate, exceeding the calyx, sometimes clawed, 

 without either glands or scales, but sometimes with inflected lobes at 

 the base of the lamina. Stamens 5-8, inserted within the obscure disc. 

 Cvary pubescent, ellipsoidal or oblong, 2-celled ; ovules usually 2 to- 

 gether, superposed. Style elongated ; stigma linear, usually more or less 

 twisted. Capsule coriaceous, inflated, 2-lobed, 2-celled, loculicidally 

 2-valved ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds sub-globose, exalbuminous, usually 

 arillate. — Distrib. About 6 species, tropical Asiatic, Australian and 

 Madagascarian. 



Harpullia copanioides, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 86; Fl. Ind. ed. 



