182 SAPINBACJE^. [Dodon^a^ 



In the Flora of Brit. India 13 kinds of Maple are described, of which' 

 five (including the following) are fonnd on the adjacent ranges of the~ 

 W. Himalaya. The Sycamore or Plane-tree of Scotland belongs also to 

 this genns. 



A. oWongum, Wall, ex DC. Prod.i, 593; Boyle III. 134; Brand. For 

 Fl. 110; F. B. I. i, 693; Watt E. I). 



A moderate-sized evergreen tree. Leaves 2-6 in. long, undivided, oblong 

 or ovate, acuminate, entire, glabrescent, penninerved, dark green above, 

 silvery-glaucous beneath; base obtuse, 3-nerved, main lateral nerves 

 4-8 pairs ; petiole |-4i in. Cymes panicled, contemporary with the leaves, 

 pubescent. 8epals and petals narrow. Stamens 8, longer in the male 

 flowers, glabrous. Ovary ha,irj. Fruit glabrous . Carpels 1-]^ in. long; 

 wings veined, diverging, contracted below ; hack nearly straight ; cells 

 clothed inside with white hairs. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range. Distbib.: Temperate Himalaya up to 

 6,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim, Bhutan and Mishmi Hills ; also in 

 Hongkong and Loochoo Island. The flowers appear Feb. -April, and the 

 fruit ripens during the rains. The wood, which is of a pink or reddish- 

 brown colour and close-grained, is used for agricultural implements, and 

 drinking cups are sometimes made from it. 



6, DODONiEA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i, 697. 



Shrubs, rarely trees, with alternate exstipulate leaves. Flowers 

 polygamous, inconspicuous. Sepals 5 or fewer, imbricate or valvate. 

 Fetals 0, Stamens usually 8, inserted on the outer side of the disk ; 

 filaments short ; anthers linear-oblong. Dish obsolete in the male 

 flower, small in the female. Ovary 3-6-sided and -celled; style ^- 

 6-sided, apex 3-6-cleft; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule 2-6-sided, 

 septicidally 2-6-valved ; valves winged on the back ; cells 1-2-seeded. 

 Seeds exalbuminous, without an aril, funicle thickened. Embryo 

 spirally involute. — Species 46, mostly Australian. 



D. viscosa, Jacq. Enum.Pl. Carih. 19 ; Brand. For. Fl. 113; F. B. I, i, 

 697; Watt E.B. D. angustifolia, Linn, f ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii^ 256. D. 

 dioica. Boxh.; Fl. Ind. I. c. D. Burmanniana, DC; W.'^ A. Prod. 

 144; D. Sc G. Bomh. Fl.36. Vern. Sanatta, walayati mendi. 



An evergreen shrub, or occasionally a small tree. Leaves undivided^, 

 subsessile, 1-5 in. long, glabrous and viscid-shining, oblanceolate, sub- 

 apiculate, base ctineate-attenuate ; margin revolute, entire or nearly so. 

 Flowers small, in short terminal panicles with racemose branches. Sepals 

 usually 5, oblong, about equalling the stamens, greenish-yellow. Cap" 

 sule ^-1 in. broad, compressed, glabrous ; wings broad, rounded, extend- 

 ing from the base to the style, viscid with resin. Seeds black, 



Merwara (wild) ; cultivated in many other places wthin the area for 

 hedges. Distkib. : Sindh, Punjab, W. Himalaya up to 4,000 ft., Ohota. 



