656 . 
2-celled. 
the other one being abortive, tubercled or muricated, rarely 
smooth. Seeds thick, covered by a thick fleshy aril. 
21 Tuovurnia. Calyx 4-5-parted. Petals 4-5, naked. Sta- 
mens 8-10. Style crowned by a trifid stigma, seated between 
‘the lobes of the ovary. Fruit of 3 carpels, adnate to the central 
axis, each drawn out into a wing both at the top and the back, 
1-celled, 1-seeded. 
22 Hyreta'te. Calyx 5-parted.. Petals 5, and wanting, 
naked inside. Stamens 8-10. Style short, crowned by a 2-3- 
lobed stigma. Ovary 2-3-celled, 2-3-ovulate ; ovule pendulous. 
Fruit dry, indehiscent, 1-2-celled from abortion. 
23 Apna‘nia. Calyx 4-parted, unequal. Petals 4, ciliated, 
with 2 little scales at the base of each on the inside. 
‘Ovary ovate, compressed, 2-celled, 2-seeded. 
wanting, crowned by an emarginate stigma. 
24 Mettco’cca. Calyx 4-5-parted. Petals 4-5, naked in- 
side and wanting. Stamens 8-10. Style crowned by 2-3-lobed 
stigma. Ovary 2-3-lobed, 2-3-celled, 2-3-seeded. Fruit fleshy, 
1-2-celled, 1-2-seeded from abortion. Seeds covered by a fleshy 
substance. 
Stamens 5. 
Style nearly 
Section II. 
Dovonma'cex (Cambess. in mem. mus. 19. p. 33.) Cells of 
ovary containing 2-3-ovule (f. 112. g.). 
twisted. 
25 KŒÆLREUTE`RIA. 
each with a small, 2-parted appendage at the base. Disk fleshy. 
Stamens 8, rarely 5-6-7. Style truncate or acutish at the apex. 
Capsule bladdery, 1-celled above, but 3-celled below, 3-valved ; 
valves seminiferous beneath the middle. i 
26 Cossrexwra. Calyx 5-parted. Petals 4, naked inside. 
Stamens 5-6. Style crowned by a capitellate stigma. Ovary 3- 
celled; cells 3-ovulate. Capsule 3-valved, 3-celled ; cells 2-3- 
seeded. Seeds fixed to the central receptacle. 
27 Lracuxòa. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals wanting. Disk fleshy. 
Stamens 8, rarely 9-10. Style crowned by a 3-lobed stigma, 
Capsule 3-lobed, 3-celled, 3-valved ; valves with a dissepiment 
in the middle of each ; cells 1-2-seeded. 
28 Doponala. Calyx 3-4 (f. 112. a., rarely 5-parted. 
Petals wanting. Stamens 8, rarely 9-10. Style short, 2-3, 
rarely 4-cleft (f. 112. d.). Capsule 2 (f. 112. f.) -3-4-winged, 
2-3-4-celled, 2-3-4-valved ; valves keeled, winged on the back 
(f.112. f.). a 
29 Maco'nta. Calyx 5-parted, unequal. Petals 5, naked 
inside. Stamens 8. 
Embryo spirally 
Style curved, crowned by a somewhat 
3-lobed stigma. Capsule large, woody, 3-valved, many-seeded. 
Seeds large, flat, girded by a wing. Embryo straight. 
30 Atercrryon. Berry coriaceous, globose, with a crest on 
one side, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed erect, girded by aril at the 
base. Embryo spirally convolute. 
+ Genera allied to Sapindacee, but they are not sufficiently 
known. 
31 Eysta‘tues. Sepals 5. Petals 5, ovate, equal with the 
sepals. Stamens 8. Style filiform, crowned by an obtuse 
Fruit indehiscent, usually 1-lobed from abortion, ° 
Calyx 5-parted. Petals -3-4, furnished - 
SAPINDACEA, I. CarDIOSPERMUM. 
stigma. Berry globose, fleshy, 1-celled, 4-seeded. Leaves 
simple. . 
32 Raca‘r1a. Drupe ovate, 1-celled, containing 3 oblong, 
trigonal nuts, covered with a fragile integument. Leaves abruptly 
pinnate. Trunk spinose. 
33 VALENTI'NIA. Calyx 5-parted, coloured. Petals want- 
ing. Capsule baccate, pulpy inside, opening by 3-4 revolute 
valves. Seeds 3-4, oblong. Leaves simple. 
34 Prpicr’tu1a. Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 5- 
parted. Petals wanting. Stamens 8. Ovary pedicellate. Style 
almost wanting, crowned by 3 reflexed stigmas. Capsule.3- 
valved, containing 1 pedicellate seed. Leaves opposite, ‘simple. 
35 Prera’rpia. Flowers monoecious. Calyx 4-parted. Pe- 
tals 4. Stamens 8. Style crowned by 3 stigmas. Berry glo- 
bose, 3-celled, 3-seeded. Leaves simple. 
Section I. 
SAPI'NDEZ# (plants agreeing with Sapindus in important 
characters). Ovary containing 1 ovula in each cell. Embryo 
curved, rarely straight. ` 
* Climbing herbs and shrubs, furnished with tendrils. The 
upper or fifth petal absent and mith its seat vacant. Leaves de- 
compound or pinnate. 
I. CARDIOSPE’/RMUM (from xapéva, cardia, the heart, 
and oreppa, sperma, a seed; in allusion to the form of the seeds) 
Lin. gen. no. 498. D. C. prod. 1. p. 601. Cambess. ın mem. 
mus. 19. p. 18. t. 1. A and B.—Corindum, Tour. inst. t. 246. 
Lin. syst. Octdndria, Monogynia. Calyx of 4 sepals, 2 outer 
ones smallest. Petals 4, 2 lateral ones usually adhering to the 
sepals, furnished each with an emarginate scale above the base, 
2 lower ones remote from the stamens, with their scales fumis: . 
ed with a glandular crest at the apex, and ending in an inflexe 
appendage beneath the apex. Glands 2 on the disk, opposi? 
the lower petals ; they are either round or linear. Stamens x 
around the base of the ovary, the 4 which are nearest the glands 
are shortest. Style trifid, with the segments longitudinally stig- 
matose inside. Fruit a membranous, bladdery capsule, which 1s 
8-celled, 3-valved, with a thin dissepiment opposite the yar 
adnate to the central axis. Seeds globose, with a thick funicle, 
usually expanded into a 2-lobed aril.—Twining and climbing, 
tendrilled herbs or shrubs, with biternate or supra-decompoun®, 
exstipulate leaves, and the flowers disposed in short, compor 
racemes, with the common peduncle furnished with 2 oppos! 
tendrils under the flowers. 
* Species with 2 short, rounded, hypogynous glands at the 
base of the lower petals. 
1 C. watica’casum (Lin. spec. 925.) stem, petioles, and 
leaves smooth ; leaves biternate; leaflets stalked, deeply tw he 
ed. ©. S. Native of the East Indies, and perhaps ob 
Caribbee Islands. Sims, bot. mag. t. 1049. —Rumph. are ' 
t. 24. f. 2. Lam. ill. t. 317. Flowers white, on long, axillary 
peduncles. 1. July. 
Winter-cherry or Common Heart-seed, or Heart-pea- FI. Jwy 
Clt. 1594. PI. cl. . as 
2 C. microca’rpum (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. “* P 
104.) branches smooth; leaves biternate ; leaflets deeply-se ‘ 
rated, and clothed on both surfaces with close-pressed OO ai 
capsules rather turbinate, and clothed with hairy-pubesee 
