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DODON ZA oblongifolia. 
Oblong-leaved Dodonea. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGY.NIA. 
Nat. ord. Sarrnpacex. Tribus ITI. Dodonwacer Kunth. Decan- 
dolle. 
DODONAA L,—Flores sep abortu polygami aut dioici. Calyx 
4-partitus deciduus. Pet. 0. Stamina 8, filamentis brevissimis, antheris 
oblongis ‘linearibusve. Stylus ‘filiformis ab alis capsule distinctus, apice 
subtrifidus. Capsula 2-3-valvis, 2-3-loc., 2-8-dlata, angulo centrali 2-3- 
angulato jin faciebus seminifero. Semzna bina, subglobosa. Frutices folis 
oblongis sepiis viscosis. Decand. prodr. 1. 616. 
D. oblongifolia ; foliis oblongis submucronatis integerrimis basi attenuatis, 
floribus terminalibus subsessilibus. Link. enum. 1. 381. 
Ramuli glabri, obtuse triquetri, rubri. Folia obovata, mucronata, coriacea, 
leviter pubescentia, nunc apice subcuneata, integerrima v. subdentata, juni- 
oribus tantiim viscosis. Racemi pauciflori, terminales, foliis breviores. Flores 
dioic?. Antheree magne, purpurea. Stigmata filiformia, rubra. 
A small shrub, native of New Holland. Requires the 
protection of the greenhouse, and flowers in October. 
Our drawing was made from specimens supplied by Mr. 
Mackay, of the Clapton Nursery. 
This is referred by Decandolle, with doubt, to Dodonea 
dioica of Roxburgh, a plant.with which we are unac- 
quainted ; but as he compares that species with D. tri- 
quetra, and not with D. cuneata, we conclude it must be 
distinct from this. Professor Sprengel refers D. oblongi- 
folia to D. cuneata; but upon comparing it both with 
Mr. Rudge’s figure in the Linnean Transactions, and with 
our native New Holland specimens, which precisely agree 
with that figure, we have formed a contrary opinion. In 
D. cuneata, the leaves are very small, always decidedly 
cuneate, with the lateral angles frequently elongated into 
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