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Seme New Species ol West Australian Plants. 
By W. V. FITZGERALD , F.S.Sc., Lond ., F.R.H.S . , Engl. 
SAPINDACEiE. 
DODON^A HACKBTTIANA, Sp. nov. 
SPREADING shrub of 6-10 feet in height, and 12-15 feet 
IT across ; branches and branchlets almost or quite terete ; more 
j or less invested with a white or brownish tomentum ; the 
young shoots viscid. Leaves glabrous or slightly villous, 
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, obtuse, much attenuated at the base, 
copiously gland-dotted, margins flat, entire or repand, mostly i^-if 
inch long, the midrib alone evident. Flowers dioecious, greenish- 
yellow, few or many in terminal or axillary racemes, much shorter than 
the leaves. Pedicels slightly villous, viscid, almost filiform, 2-3 lines 
long. Male flowers : Sepals 3, rarely 4, ovate, obtuse, scantily 
tomentose and viscid without, villous within and on the margins, about 
1^- line long. Anthers 6, seldom 8, obtuse, about as long as the 
sepals. Female flowers : Sepals 3, ovate, obtuse, sparingly tomentose 
and rigid without, villous within and on the margins, about 1 line long. 
Ovary, 3 celled, on a short thick stipes, rigid and slightly villous ; style 
thick, shortly trilobed, at least 3 lines long. Fruit with the wings 
rounded and continuous from the base to the style, the wings attaining 
a circumference of 4-5 lines, and a width of \\-2 lines. Seeds about, 
1 line, dull grey, minutely reticulate or rugose. 
Locality . — King’s Park, Perth, among limestone. — J. Sheath 
August 1904. 
Remarks . — This new species is readily recognised from forms of 
D. viscosa , Linn. andZ>. Attenuata , A. Cgh., by the villous indumentum, 
the calyx of the male flower being mostly 3-partite, the stamens 6, rarely 7 
or 8, the female flower constantly 3-merous and the style long. In 
aspect, the plant somewhat resembles forms of Rhagodia Billardieri , 
R. Br., with which it is associated, and to this may be ascribed its 
non-discovery until it came under the notice of Mr. Sheath, the 
Superintendent of King’s Park. 
