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GENUS VIII. DODON#A.' 
Octandria Monogynia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv.. In honour..of R. Dodoens, author of the “ Historia 
Plantarum.” 5 
Gey. Cuar. Shrubs, with exstipulate, simple or pinnate leaves : 
calyx 4, rarely 5-partite: petals wanting: stamens inserted on the: 
disk : style 2-3-cleft, with the stigmas on the inside of the seg- 
ments: ‘capsule 2- ~4-angled, septicidal: valves keeled and winged 
on the back: seeds without an aril: ovary with 2-3 ovules in each 
cell. 
(1) D. Burmannrana. (Dec.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 114.—Dec. prod. I. p. 616. 
Syn. D. angustifolia, Roxb. ft, Ind. I. p. 256. ~—Ptelea viscosa, 
Burm. Ind. p. 36. . 
Engrav. Burm. Zeyl. t. 23.—Rumph. Amb. IV. t. 50.—Wight’s 
Til, I. t. 52. 
Sprc. Cuan. Leaves simple, quite entire, oblong-lanceolates 
cuneate at the base, clammy : sepals ovate: capsules deeply emar- 
ginate at both ends: wings 2-3, broad: flowers small, greenish. ~ 
Coromandel and Malabar. Concans. Flowering nearly: all the 
year, 
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(2) D. viecta. (Roxb. ) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p.-256.—Dec. prod. I. p. 617. 
Srzc. Cuar. A dicecious shrub : leaves broad-lanceolate, taper- 
ing towards the base, entire: racemes axillary and terminal, short, 
corymbiform : flowers on longish pedicels : stigma aca flow- 
ers small, greenish. : 
Interior parts of Andia; flowering in the rainy season. 
ORDER XXXIII. MILLINGTONIACEZ. 
Trees: leaves alternate, eustinulatey entire or rarely pinnate: 
sepals 5, unequal, imbricated in estivation: petals 5, deciduous, 
alternating with the sepals, 3 outer ones orbicular, entire, two 
interior ones smaller, acutely 2-cleft and resembling scales: 
stamens slightly united to the petals at the base, 3 sterile ones 
opposite the larger petals, 2 fertile ones opposite the bifid pe- 
tals: anther-cells globose, opening transversely : ovary: ovate, 
2-celled, with 2 superposed ovules in each cell: style simple, 
short and thick: stigma slightly 2-lobed: drupe “1-celled,”.1- 
seeded: seed with a small cavity on one side near the base: 
albumen none, 
