Cardiospermnm.'] xliv. sapindace^e (baker). 419 



hairs H-2 lines long. Petioles l|-2 in. long, slender. Leaves distinctly 

 biternate, the central division with a stalk more than 1 in. long, the seg"- 

 ments stalked, ovate, inciso-pinnatifid ; texture membranous, colour bright 

 ?reen, upper surface glabrous, under one with tufts of hairs in the axils 

 m the main veins. Peduncles herbaceous, glabrous, 5-6 in. long. Um- 

 bels with 6-8 branches, some of them simple, 1-3-flowered, some again 

 umbellate or subpaniculate. Flowers quite i in. long, the larger sepals 2 

 lines broad, equalling the white obovate petals ; filaments a in. long, white, 

 naked, free. Pistil grey-villose, equalling the stamens. Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountain, at 2000 ft.. Mann ! 



Received also and cultivated at Kew from Mr. Mouteiro. Agrees with the W. Indian 

 (<■ Srandiflorum, Sw., in the size and arrangement of the flowers. 



2. PATXLLINIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 394. 



Flowers irregular, polygamo-dioecious. Sepals 5, concave, imbricated, 

 tne 2 upper ones larger and connate. Petals 4, the place of the fifth va- 

 •H furnished with a scale internally, the 2 smaller ones appendiculate, 

 Wlt n a scale below the apex. Disk annular, with 4 glands, the 2 which are 

 opposite the smaller petals larger than the other 2. Stamens 8, eccentric, 



e ^amenta free or connate at the base. Ovary eccentric, stalked or rab- 

 ble, 3-locular. Style 3-fid. Ovules solitary or very rarely 2 in the cells, 

 •tending from the middle of the axis. Capsule stalked, pyriform, 8- 

 gonous or 3-winged above, coriaceous, with 3 septicidal valves. Seeds 

 pj°rtly arillate with a crustaceous testa; embryo curved, rarely straight.— 

 L "mbing shrubs. 



large genus ; all the species confined to America with this exception. 



J - P. pinnata, Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 604. A wide-climbing shrub with 

 '!" 0ll g> woody, deeply sulcate, glabrous stems. Petioles 1-3 in. long, with a 



!J8 i-f in. broad upwards, narrowed to the base. Leaves imparipinnate, 

 g 2 pairs of sessile opposite leaflets and a sessile terminal one, the latter 

 "*»te-oblong, cuneate at the base, 3-6 in. long by about half as broad, 

 e P°! nt acute, the edge with conspicuous, distant, blunt teeth, the side 

 p, Slmil ar but shorter ; texture subcoriaceous, both sides quite glabrous. 

 SJfJ ln racemes 3-4 in. long, £-f in. broad, with a woody spiral tendril 

 | the base, on long woody peduncles as long as or longer than the racemes. 

 t i 0Wers very numerous, clustered, the clusters sometimes stalked, not more 

 P line lo ng» subglobose, the larger sepals equalling the whitish corolla, 

 c e Nicel equalling the flower, both it and sepals a little grey-downy. 

 kZ • , w oody, turbinate, about 1 in. long by half as broad, quite glabrous 



"Jnish, 3-valved, the valves angled upwards on the back, with a distinct 



?. senegalensis, Juss. in Ann. 

 Fl. Seneg. i. 116. P- «vata, 



M„ P assin g gradually into the capsule.— P. senegalensis, Juss. in Ann. 



3L*' 348 ' DC - 1- c. 605; Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 116. P. «™tc 



^- et Thonn. PL Guin. 195. P. africana, G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 661. 



& e c. Quinea - Senegambia, Sieber ! Heudelot I Skues ! Guinea proper, T. Vogell 



*o« v a Leone > - Do ». Dr - Kirk! 

 »*amb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Drs. Meller and Kirk ! 



' 2 E 2 



