Blepkarocarya.] XL. SAtlNDACE^E. 31l 



Disk glabrous. Style about f line long. Stigma rather broader than the style. 

 Ovary compressed, with a silky beard at the apex. Fruit sessile, light-brown, 

 li line high and 3 to 4 lines broad, with a very slight groove at the apex, having 

 a glabrous surface, but ciliated marginally by long, fulvous, silky hairs ; testa 

 glabrous, smooth, light-brown ; embryo starchy, almost 3 lines broad. Eadicle 

 terete, ascending, appressed, scarcely 1 line long. — F. v. M., I.e. 



Hab.: Eooky Mountains about the Endeavour Eiver and Coen Eiver ; Herberton district, J. F. 

 Bailey. 



Wood of a light-red colour, close-grained, soft, and easy to vioxk.— Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods 

 No. 106a. 



15. DODON.(EA, Linn. 

 (After E. Dodoens.) 

 (Empleurosma, Bartl.) 

 Flowers polygamous or unisexual, often dicEcious. Sepals 5 or sometimes 

 fewer, valvate in the bud. Petals none. Disk small or inconspicuous. Stamens 

 usually 8, sometimes fewer, rarely 10 ; filaments very short, anthers ovoid or 

 linear-oblong. Ovary 3 or 4, rarely 5 or 6-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell ; 

 style short, or in some flowers very long, shortly lobed at the end. Capsule 

 membranous or coriaceous, opening septicidally in as many valves as cells, each 

 valve with a dorsal angle often produced into a vertical wing, and in falling off 

 leaving the dissepiment attached to the persistent axis, or rarely the dissepiment 

 splitting and remaining attached to the valves, thus closing the carpels and leaving 

 only the central filiform axis persistent. Seeds 1 or 2, nearly globular or more 

 frequently compressed, with a thickened funicle, but not arillate ; testa crus- 

 taceous ; embryo spirally curled. — Shrubs, often tall, but scarcely truly arbores- 

 cent ; the young shoots usually viscid, and often the whole plant. Leaves simple 

 or pinnate, with small leaflets, with or without a terminal odd one. Flowers 

 terminal or axillary by the abortion of the flowering branches, solitary, clustered, 

 or in short racemes or panicles. 



With the exception of D. viscosa, which is widely dispersed over almost all hot countries, and 

 possibly one distinct Sandwich Island species, one from S- Africa, and one or two from Mexico, 

 the Dodonceas are all endemic in Australia, and very difficult to distinguish by positive 

 characters. The form of the wings of the capsule, which has been much relied on, is as variable 

 as that of the leaves, and the species, which at first sight appear the most distinct, often pass one 

 into the other by the most insensible gradations. Even the exceptional dehiscence of the capsule, 

 in those species where the dissepiments are carried oft with the valves, appears sometimes to be 

 not quite constant, and is at most a purely artificial character separating species in aU other 

 respects very closely allied. Several species have in some, occasionally in nearly aU the female 

 flowers, a remarkably long style, sometimes J to liu., whilst other female flowers on the same 

 specimens, or on other specimens of the same species, have no style at all, the stigma or stigmatic 

 surface sessile on the ovary. — Benth. 



Semes I. Cyclopterse. — Leaves entire, toothed, or rarely lobed. Wings of the capsule 

 extending from the base to the style or nearly so, each carpel, including its wing, nearly orbicular 

 or longer than broad. 



Leaves flat, elliptical, oblong-lanceolate or spathulate or, if linear, not 

 filifprm, entire or obscurely sinuate, usually above 2in. long, rarely 

 between 1 and 2in. 

 Young branches very angular. Seed smooth and shining. Leaf-veins 

 indistinct. 



Sepals minute. Anthers linear I. D. triquetra. 



Sepals 1 to IJ line long, from half as long to as long as the anthers . 2. D. lanceolata. 

 Young branches terete or slightly angular. Seeds opaque. 

 Leaves oval-oblong, on a rather long petiole, rounded at the base . . 3. D. petiolaris. 

 Leaves narrowed into the petiole, the lateral veins more or less 

 conspicuous. , , , 



Leaves elliptical-oblong, lanceolate or spathulate, rarely almost 



linear-cuneate 4. D. viscosa. 



Leaves narrow, linear-cuneate or long and linear 5. D. attenuata. 



