XLIV. SAPINDACE.E (BAKER). 417 



M& "albuminous. 

 Orales solitary in the cells. 

 Flowers irregular, with a unilateral disk. 

 Fruit not vertically lobed. 



Fruit an inflated membranous capsule 1. Cardiospermum. 



Droit a hard bony pyriform capsule 2. Paullinia. 



fruit deeply lobed vertically into indehiscent cocci. 

 W 8 * 3. Erioglossum. 



. Se ^ S 4 , 4. SCHMIDELIA. 



flowers regular with a centrical disk. 

 Fruit dehiscent. 



Sepals much imbricated 5. Cupania. 



Sepals scarcely or not at all imbricated. 



Disk thick, fleshy 6. Blighia. 



Disk thin, membranous 7. Erioccelum. 



fruit indehiscent. 

 Fruit not lobed vertically. 



Sepals much imbricated 8. Lecaniodiscus. 



Calyx with 5 valvate lobes reaching about halfway 



_ .down g. Chtthanthus. 



^ruit vertically 2-3-partite nearly or quite to the base. 



Seeds eiarillate 10. Sapindus. 



n, „ Seeds arillate 11. Deinbollia. 



" ules 2 in the cells 12. Dodonjsa. 



^albuminous 13. Bersama. 



1 CA RDIOSPEBMUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 393. 



IV) 

 L. ° Wers irregular, polyga mo-dioecious. Sepals 4, concave, broadly im- 

 j "jwa, the 2 otiter ones small. Petals 4, in 2 pairs, the larger ones with 

 j J?** Sc & le and the smaller ones with a small one. Disk unilateral, un- 

 tiefii Wltl1 2 ^ ands °PP 0site tne inferior petals. Stamens 8, eccentric, 

 <ate q a , ments u »equal, free or connate at the base. Ovary sessile or stipi- 

 from ft uJar; St .Y le short, 3-fid. Ovules solitary in the cells, ascending 

 , m the middle of "the axis. Capsules 3-gonous, the lobes inflated, mem- 

 ikT*' Veined > dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds globose, usually arillate at 

 gg^ ase » the testa crustaceous. Cotyledons large, transversely folded to- 

 r — Much-branched climbing herbs or slender shrubs. 



""all genus, belting the world in the tropics. 



"offers ' ;„ i 

 rj * ln - long. 



fff e ro «ndish in outline, 1£ in. each way 1. C. HaHcacabum. 



Flower, i . 0bver sely deltoid, | in. each way 2. C. microcarpum. 



Z s * m. long. 



Stem L Uff u Uticose ' dosel 7 grey-downy 3. C. canescens. 



ner baceous, clothed with long spreading hairs 4. C. barbicaule. 



s] end C ; ; HaHcacabum Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 601. Stems annual, 

 sle Dd r ' J er baeeous, deeply 'sulcate, glabrous or finely grey-downy. Petioles 

 H i i eroace °us, 1-2 in. long. Leaves biternate, the divisions stalked, 

 5 0tis Q " , road . with deeply inciso-pinnatifid, ovate segments ; texture membra- 

 iZT mr bri gnt green, surfaces glabrous or a little downy. Flowers in 

 jj J a-fid umbels, on slender herbaceous peduncles, 2-3 in. long with a 

 Toi ' °Pposite spirally decurved tendrils from near the apex. Bracts mi- 



