94 *AMPELIDEAE. [Vitis. 



* V. vinifera, L., Sp. PL 202. A robust woody climber, the old bark separating 

 in long fibrous ribbons. Leaves palmate, cordate at base, 5-lobed, lobes acute or sub- 

 acute, margins coarsely serrate. Calyx formiag a raised margin; teeth obsolete. 



NORTH Island : on the sites of deserted gardens and Maori cultivations, &a., where it main- 

 tains itself for years, although not naturalised. Vine. 



Oedee XX.-SAPINDAOEAE. 



Flowers regular or irregular, unisexual or polygamous. Sepals 4 or 5, 

 free or united in a toothed or lobed calyx, imbricate or rarely valvate. Petals 

 equalling the sepals or fewer or 0^ sometimes with a scale on the inner face, 

 usually small. Disk rarely 0. Stamens 5—8, inserted within the disk or 

 hypogynous. Ovary entire or lobed, usually S-celled, rarely 1— 4-celled ; style 

 simple ; stigma more or less lobed or divided ; ovules usually 1—2 in each cell, 

 ascending or horizontal. Fruit dry or succulent, dehiscent or indehiscent, 

 entire or separating into cocci. Seeds often arillate, usually without endo- 

 sperm ; cotyledons often unequal, large, thick, spirally coiled or superposed ; 

 radicle short, incurved. Trees or rarely shrubs or climbers, with alternate 

 rarely opposite entire or divided exstipulate leaves and axillary flowers. 



A large order, most abundant in the tropical and warm regions of the Southern Hemisphere ; 

 rare in the temperate regions and in the Northern Hemisphere. Geneea, about 75. Species, about 

 670. 



1. DopONABA. Leaves entire (in the New Zealand species). 



2. Albctbyon. Leaves pinnate, green. Flowers regular. 



* Melianthus. Leaves pinnate. Flowers irregular. 



1. DODONAEA, Linn. 

 Flowers unisexual or polygamous, regular. Sepals 3—5. Petals 0. Male 

 flowers : disk small or ; stamens 5—8, on very short filaments ; anthers usually 

 linear-oblong ; ovary 0. Female flowers : ovary sessile, 3— 6-celled, 3— 6-angled ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a septicidal membranous or coriaceous capsule 

 with as many valves as cells ; valves broadly winged. Seeds 1 or 2, globular or 

 compressed, with a thickened funicle ; cotyledons spiral ; endosperm ; 

 arillus 0. Shrubs or small trees, often viscid. Leaves simple or pinnate. 

 Flowers terminal or axillary. 



Species, about 50, of which nearly 40 are endemic in Australia, the others being distributed 

 through the tropical and warm regions of the earth. 



Named in honour of Eambert Dodoens, a German botanist. 



1. D. viscosa, Jacg., Enum. PI. Carib. 19. A shrub or small tree, 

 lft.-30ft. high, with loose brown bark and viscid shoots, more or less com- 

 pressed. Leaves lin.— 3in. long, shortly petiolate, linear-oblong- obovate or 

 linear-spathulate, entire, obtuse or retuse. Flowers in terminal or axillarv 

 cymes or racemes, or small panicles. Male : sepals 4, free, membranous, 

 orbicular, ovate; stamens usually 10, rarely 13; filaments extremelv short; 

 anthers apiculate. Female : calyx deeply 4-cleft, coriaceous ; style stout, 2-fid. 

 Fruit orbicular, flat, with 2-3 broad membi'anous wings. Seeds orbicular, com- 

 pressed, brown. — Linn., Mant. 228; G. Forst., Prod. u. 1()4 ; DC, Prod. i. 616 ; 



