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the flowers in Spring. The flowers diffuse their fragrance to 
a considerable distance, and attract swarms of bees and hum- 
ming birds. The fruit is very much esteemed, especially by 
the natives of the country. The nuts, in the Caraccas, are 
roasted and used as a substitute for Chesnuts. 
X. DoDONiEA. 
Flowers in general (from abortion) polygamous or 
dioecious. Calyx 4-partite, deciduous. Petals O. 
Stamens 8, with very short filaments, and oblong or 
linear anthers. Style filiform, distinct from the wings 
of the capsule, sub-3-fid at the apex. Capside 2-3 
valved, 2-3 celled, 2-3 winged De Cartel. 
Shrubs, with leaves oblong, and frequently viscose. — Named , 
after Rambert Dodoens, Professor of Medicine, Author of 
Fragum Historia, 1552, and Pemptades, 1583. 
1. Dodonsea Jamaicensis. Common Doiloruea. 
Leaves lanceolate or lineari-lanceolate attenuated at 
the base rounded and apiculated at the apex sub- 
viscose, flowers shortly racemose. 
Aceri f. Paliuro affinis, angusto oblongo ligustri folio, flore 
tetrapetalo herbaceo, Sloane , 11. 27. t. 102. f. 3? — Triopteris 
erecta fruticosa, Browne, 191. t. 18. f. 1. — D. angustifolia. 
Swartz, Obs. 150. — D. Jamaicensis, De Cand. Prod. I. 616. 
IIAB. Common in the mountains, and moist marshy savan- 
nahs. 
FL. February. 
A shrub, 6-10 feet in height : branches slender, of a ferru- 
ginous colour, compressed towards their extremities, angulated, 
sub-viscose. Leaves alternate, very shortly petiolated, narrow 
lanceolate or lineari-lanceolate, attenuated towards the base, 
obtuse with a bluntish apicula at the apex, entire with the 
margin slightly revolute, glabrous, shining above, sub-viscose, 
stitAsh, usually 4 inches long, and | of an inch broad. Racemes 
terminal, compound, short, of several obscure greenish-yellow 
flowers: pedicels filiform. $ FI. Calycine sepals 4, sometimes 
unequal, oblong, obtuse. Filaments 8, very short : anthers 
large in proportion, oblong, incurved. The rudiments of the 
pistil in the centre. $ FI. usually on the same individual. Calyx 
as in the male, but the sepals only 3. Anthers of the same size 
as in the former, but abortive. Ovary globose, 3-sided with 
the angles winged : style erect, length of the sepals, 3-fid at 
the apex : stigmata simple. Capsule with three membranaceous 
wings: seeds solitary, oblong, slightly compressed. 
