250 SAPINDACEAE. 



obovate to elliptic, 3-8 em. long, remotely low-dentate or entire, rounded or 

 obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, revolute-margined, the stout petioles 

 2-10 mm. long; flowers greenish yellow; sepals about 1 mm. long; petals about 

 2 mm. long, those of staminate flowers a little longer than those of pistillate; 

 drupe ovoid or subglobose, yellow, pointed ■or rounded, 1.5-2.5 em. long, the 

 stone very hard. 



Scrub-laufls and coppices, Abaco, New Providence, Watling's Island, Crooked 

 Island, Fortune Island, Grand Turk and Inagua : — Cuba. Referred by Mrs. Nor- 

 throp to B. xylocarpum DC. Olive-wood. 



Family 5. DODONAEACEAE H.B.K. 



DODONABA TAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees, commonly sticky with a resinous excretion. Leaves 

 alternate, without stipules. Flowers clustered, polygamous or polygamo- 

 dioecious. Sepals 3-5, nearly equal. Corolla and disk wanting. Andro- 

 ecium of 5-8 regularly inserted stamens; filaments distinct; anthers 4- 

 angled. Gynoecium of 3 or 4 united carpels, wholly superior. Ovary 

 3-4-celIed; styles united. Ovules 2 in each cavity, half-anatropous, often 

 superposed, the upper one ascending and the lower one pendulous. Cap- 

 sule membranous or leathery, reticulated, 2^6-angIed, the angles obtus.e, or 

 winged, opening septicidally by 2-6 valves. Seed subglobose or flattened, 

 without an aril; endosperm none; embryo spiral. Only the following 

 genus. 



1. DODONABA Jaeq. Enum. 19. 1760. 



Characters of the family, as given above. [In honor of Eembert Dodoens, 

 1518-158'5, Dutch herbalist.] About 50 species, of tropical and subtropical 

 regions. Type species: Dodotwea viscosa Jaeq. 



1. Dodonaea Ehrenbergii Schl. Linnaea 18 : 36. 1844. 



Dodonaea viscosa oiovata Hitchc. Eep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 73. 1893. 



A nearly glabrous shruTo or small tree sometimes 5 m. high, the foliage 

 slightly viscid, the twigs slender. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate, 1.5-6 cm. 

 long, obtuse, rounded or emarginate at the apex, cuneate-narrowed at the base, 

 the petioles 1 cm. long or less; panicles terminal, rather densely many -flowered, 

 puberulent, not longer than the leaves; pedicels short; flowers yellowish, green, 

 about 5 mm. broad; anthers oblong; capsule-wings finely veined, obtuse, 5-8 

 mm. wide, papery, shining. 



Wbite-lands and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco to Grand 

 Turk, Ambergris Cay and Inagua : — Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Mona ; Anegada ; Desirade. 

 Dogwood. 



Family 6. SAPINDACBAE. 



Soapberry Family. 



Trees or shrubs, with watery sap, rarely vines. Leaves alternate (op- 

 posite in one Chilian genus), mostly pinnate or palmate, without stipules. 

 Flowers polygamo-dioecious, regular or slightly irregular. Sepals or 

 calyx-lobes 4 or 5, mostly imbricated. Petals 3-5. Disk fleshy. Stamens 

 5-10 (rarely fevper or more), generally inserted on the disk. Ovary 1, 2-4- 

 lobed or entire, 2^-eelled ; ovules 1 or more in each cavity. Fruit various. 



