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Arnhem’s Land, which species, however, produces terete branchlets, thicker leaves, and exudes a viscid 
secretion. 
The aborigines employ the wood, which is veiy hard, for the manufacture of their spears. 
DODON^EA hirtella — p. 89. 
Specimens, gathered in the Blue Mountains by Miss Atkinson, show leaves with as many as 15 pairs 
of leaflets. The staminiferous flowers form the terminal and axillary compound corymbs usual in Dodonsea. 
Sepals 4, semilanceolate, acuminate, 1J-2 lines long’. Stamens 8 . Filaments extremely short. Anthers 
rather longer than 1 line, narrow-tetragonous, yellow, hispidulous towards the summit . The peduncle of 
the female corymb is sometimes folly an inch long, bearing few or several flowers. The capsule occurs also 
three-valved. 
It seems very likely that this species represents the original D. pinnata. 
SPANOGHEA. 
Plume , Bumphia , iii. 172. 
Calyx cupular, 4-5-toothed, valvate in prteflorescence. Petals 5, equal or wanting. Stamens 8, 
inserted on the inner side of a hypogynous jDerfect disk. Filaments free, filiform. Anthers basifixed. 
Ovary central, 2-4-celled. Ovules single in each cell, ascending from its inner angle. Styles concrete, 
at the summit stigmatose. Carpels 2-4, connate , valveless , bursting by irregular ruptures or not 
opening. Seeds provided with a grv/mular-fleshy arillus. Testa crustaceous. Embryo curved. 
Cotyledons thick, incumbent. Badicle short, inferior. 
Trees peculiar to litoral India and East Australia. Tendrils and stipules wanting. Leaves pin¬ 
nate , alternate. Leaflets large, coriaceous. Flowers racemose or paniculate. Carpels not rarely in 
part suppressed, coriaeeous- or lignous-crustaceous, usually turgid. 
This Sapindaceous genus, is separated from Neplielium on account of not corticate carpels, of an 
arillus not completely enclosing the seed and of curved and unequal cotyledons. From Aryteria it 
differs in the valveless carpels, but hardly in any other character, from Cupania in its not locucidal- 
valvate fruit. Closely allied to Heterodendron. 
Spanog’hea neplielioides, F. M. in Transact . Phil. Inst. Viet. iii. 25; Nephelium leiocarpum, 
F. M. I c. 
Branchlets, petioles and peduncles slightly downy; rachis of leaves two-edged ; leaflets coriaceous, 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate or ovate, entire or distantly serrated, mostly acuminate, beneath very scantily 
downy and usually paler and opaque; fowers petaliferous, amply paniculate 5 anthers yellow 5 styles concrete 
to the summit; carpels 2 - 4 , almost globose , oittside and inside glabrous , disjointed at or towards the summit, 
breaking transversely; seeds large, depressed-spherical. 
On the south-eastern boundary line of the colony near Mount Imlay; thence extending as far north as 
the Richmond River. 
A tall beautiful tree. Bark gTey, usually white-spotted, more or less rimous or quite smooth. Branchlets 
cylindrical, glabrescent, towards the summit furrowed and slightly velvet-downy. Petioles and rachis almost 
semi(jylindrical, the latter upwards compressed. Leaflets 2—6, alternate or scattered or subopposite, tapering 
into an extremely short special leafstalk, strongly ribbed, conspicuously and densely net-veined, perfectly or 
towards the base entire, above glabrous and shining’, varying in length between 2 and 5 inches. Panicles 
axillar, lateral and terminal, from a few to many inches long, consisting’ of short-stalked few-flowered corymbs 
intermixed with single flowers. Ramifications of panicle angular-compressed, short-downy, straight, patent. 
