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XIX. SAPINDACE^E. 
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1. D. viscosa, Forst. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 88. A small glabrous tree, 6- 
12 ft. high, with very hard wood, variegated black and white, and compressed, 
viscid young shoots. Leaves 2-3 in. long, on short petioles, linear-obovate, 
obtuse acute or refuse, quite entire, membranous, veined. Flowers small, 
in terminal, erect, few-flowered panicles. Sepals ovate, subacute. Anthers 
large, almost sessile. Fruit \ in. long, orbicular, 2-lobed at both ends, on 
slender pedicels, 2-3-valved ; valves with broad, oblong, membranous veined 
wings. Seeds with dark red-brown testa. — D. spathulata , Smith. 
Abundant in dry woods, etc., Banks and Solander, etc. Wood used for native clubs ; 
also a native of Australia, the Pacific, and the tropics of the Old and New World. 
2. ALECTKYON, Gartner. 
A lofty tree, with tomentose branchlets. Leaves alternate, unequally pin- 
nate, exstipulate. Panicles branched, axillary and terminal, many-flowered. 
Flowers small, almost regular, unisexual. — Calyx 4 or 5-lobed; lobes villous 
within, rather unequal, imbricate. Petals 0. Disk small, 8-lobed. Stamens 
5-8, inserted between the lobes of the disk ; anthers large, almost sessile. 
Ovary obliquely obcordate, compressed, 1 -celled ; style short, stigma simple 
or 2-3-fid ; cell 1-ovuled. Fruit gibbous, pubescent, tumid or globose, with 
a compressed prominence on one side, rather woody, indehiscent. Seed sub- 
globose, arillate ; cotyledons spirally twisted. 
1. A. excels urn, DC.; — FI. N. Z. i. 37. Leaves 4-10 in. long; 
leaflets alternate, the young ones lobed and cut, serrate in young plants, petio- 
late, 2-3 in. long, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, obscurely crenate, 
tomentose below, as are the petioles. Panicles 6-8 in. long, much-branched, 
branches stout and spreading, densely tomentose, as are the flowers. Calyx 
pilose. Anthers deep-red. Ovary hairy, hidden by the copious hairs at the 
base of the calyx. Capsule -§• in. long. Seed globose, in a large scarlet 
aril. — FTook. Ic. PI. t. 570. 
Northern and Middle Islands : in forests not uncommon. Banks and Solander, etc. 
The only species of the genus, and confined to New Zealand. The oil of the seeds was used 
for anointing the person, according to Cunningham. 
Order XX. ANACARDIACE2E. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, simple or compound, exstipulate. Flowers re- 
gular, usually small, unisexual or hermaphrodite. — Calyx 3-7-fid or -partite. 
Petals 3-7 or 0. Disk usually annular. Stamens as many as the petals, 
alternating with staminodia, or twice as many, inserted on or at the base of 
the disk ; filaments free ; anthers versatile. Ovary free, in the female flower 
1- or 2-5-celled; in the male often of 4 imperfect carpels; styles 1-3; 
ovule solitary, pendulous from a basal funicle, or from the wall or top of 
the cell. Fruit superior, usually 1-5-celled; drupe with hard putamen. 
Seed exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick, fleshy ; radicle short. 
A very large tropical Order, rarer in temperate climates. The only New Zealand genus is 
endemic, and allied to the Mango. 
