3. A ripe capsule, natural size.
4. One of the divisions of the capsule.
5. A ripe seed, natural size.
The species here figured of Dodonæa is from New Holland; where, Forster says he found it, as we have given it, with the chives and pointals distinct; but, that the same species was hermaphrodite, when growing in New Zealand, which may perhaps be the fact, though we should suspect, from such circumstance, they were different species. Martyn in his Ed. of Miller’s Dict. mentions this plant, and throws it to the broad-leaved species found in the tropical climates of America and Asia. Willdenow, in his Sp. Plant. Tom. 11. P. 1. p. 345, has made it a species, without any observation on its parts of fructification; which leads us to suppose, he had not seen flowering specimens. It is as hardy as any greenhouse plant we possess, but will not resist the severity of our frosts; is easily propagated by cuttings, and thrives in almost any earth. It is so very common in New Holland, that, scarce a parcel of seeds has arrived from thence, but has contained some of the seeds. The two figures were taken from two plants at the nursery Hammersmith.[Pg 350]
PLATE CCXXXI.
CERBERA AHOUAI.
Oval-leaved Cerbera.
CLASS V. ORDER I.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.