Bohinea.] XLiv. sapindace^. (W. P. Hiern.) 697 



Leaves 3-7 by 1-2 in. ; petioles ^1§ in., pubeaoent. Panides ranging [up to 2 ft. in 

 width. _ Flowers Yt-^ in. diam. ; bracts linear, shortly pubescent, free ; fliose close to 

 the fruit obcordate-orbioular, yenose, 4~| in. diam., rose-coloured. Fruit \ in. diam. 



21. DODOZraiA, Linn. 



Shrabs rarely arborescent. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Inflorescence 

 lateral and terminal. Flowers polygamous, inconspicuous. Sepals 5-2, 

 imbricated or valvate. Petals wanting, iSiamens 10-5, usually 8, inserted 

 on the outer side of tbe disk ; filaments abort : anthers linear-oblong. • 

 Disk obsolete in the male flower, small in the female. Ovary 3-6-sided arid 

 -celled ; style 3-6-sided, apex 3-6-cleft. Ovules 2 together, collateral or 

 superposed. Capsule 2-6-sided, membranous or coriaceous, septicidally 

 2-6-valved ; valves winged at the back ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds lenticular 

 or.'subglobose, compressed, exalbiiminous, exariUate, funicle thickened; 

 eml}ryo spirally involute. — Distreb. A genus of some 40 species or more, 

 mostly endemic in Australia. 



Dodonaea (sp.) in Seri. Hohenack. n. 2355, is Aspidopterys canarensis, Dalz. 



1. D. viscosai Linn. Mant. PI. alt. 228 ; leaves undivided oblanceolate 

 viscid-shining glabrous subapiculate base cuneate-attenuate subsessile 

 margin revolute entire or nearly so, cymes short, wings of each carpel 

 oblong-orbicular extending from the base to the style. Baker in Oliv. Fl. 

 Trap. Afr. i. 433; Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 475; Brand. For. Fl. 113 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, i. 953. D. angustifolia, IAnn.f. Suppl. PI. 218 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 256. D. dioica, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 28 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 256. D. Burmanniana, 

 DG. Prodr. i. 616; Wight III. i. t. 52 ; If. & A. Prodr. 114) Grah.'Gat. 

 Bomb. PI. 30 ; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 36 ; Thwaites Enum. 59. D. pallida, 

 Miq. in Herb. Hohenack. n. 1068. D. microcarpa, BG. Prod/r. i. 617. E>. 

 ■'Wightiana, Blwme Rwmph. iii. 189. D. pentandra. Griff. Notul. iv. 548. 

 D. heterophylla, HaHvl. ex G. Don Gen. Syst. i. 674. Wall. Gat. 8081. 

 Ptelea viscosa, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 118 ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 36. D. spathulata, 

 Sm. in Rees Cycl. xii. n. 2. D. arabica, Hochsi. <& Stevd. in He/rb. Arab. 

 'ScMmp. n, 766. — Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 23. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. iv. t. 60. 



Throughout Ikdia, from the Indus Eastwards and Southwards to Cetloh and 

 Malacca. — Distkib. All warm countries. 



An evergreen shrub occasionally growing into a small tree. Shoots^ terete or some- 

 what angular. Leaves more or less viscid with a shining yellowish resin, very variable 

 in breadth, 1-5 by J-li in. Sepals oblong, xVJ ™- ^°^S< about equalling the stamens. 

 Oapsijfe compressed, glabrous, |-1 in. broad. — Several synonyms, not strictly Indian, 

 are omitted. 



21.-* IM[EJ:.IANTKUS, Toumef. 



Shrubby glabrous plants with a. strong odour. Leaves alternate, stipulate, 

 unequally pinnate ; leaflets toothed, decurrent. Racemes axillary and ter- 

 minal. Flowers bracteate, hermaphrodite irregular, sometimes apetalous. 

 Gdyio laterally compressed, 5-partite, base with a saccate gibbosity ; lobes 

 unequal, imbricated. Petals excentric, declinate, subperigynous, Barrow, 

 long-clawed ; the fifth petal very small or wanting. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 declinate, inserted within the disk. Disk unilateral, honeyed. Ovary 

 oblong, 4-lobed, 4-celled, style filiform, 4-tootheddeeply at apex ; ovules. 2-^ 

 together. Capsule papery, vesicular, deeply 4-lobed, 4-celled. Seeds. 

 subglobose, exarillate ; albumen fleshy or horny.— DiSTJUB, A small South 

 African genus. 



