SAPINDACEAE 827 
Famity 12. SAPINDACEAE — SOAPBERRY FAMILY 
Shrubs, trees, or vines. ming alternate in our species: blades simple 
or pinn e. sometimes d1-foliate. Flowers dioecious, polygamous, or 
polygamo- dioecious, or one perfect, borne in racemes, panicles, or 
cor : xo or - sepals. Corolla of 4 or 5 F or wanting. 
isk sometimes gland-bearing. A ecium mostly of more stamens. 
Gynoecium o more or less united Er s. Fruit COEUNT or baceate. 
—About 125 genera and over 1,000 spec 
Vines: fruit bladdery. Tribe I. CARDIOSPERMEAE. 
Shrubs or trees: fruit not inflated 
Fruit baccate, not stipitate Tribe II. SAPINDEAE. 
Fruit capsular, loculicidal, stipitate. Tribe III. CUPANIEAE. 
I. CARD ugs i: 
Climbers with tendrils and nales or woody stems: cap- 
sule inflated, with 1 seed in each c vites 1. CARDIOSPERMUM. 
II. SAPINDEAE 
Petals appendaged, longer than the calyx. 
Fruit lobed, d earpels nearly distinct : petals with short 
claw-like bas 2. SAPINDUS. 
ee oR lobed, "the carpels united: petals with long claw- 
3. TALISIA. 
Petals Bropocn ded about as long as the calyx. 
Ovary 2-celled : leaflets 2, 4 or 6: calyx persistent, 4. EXOTHEA. 
Ovary 3-celled: leaflets 3: calyx deciduo D. HYPELATE. 
IIT. CUPANIEAE 
Shrub or tree: leaflets with toothed blades 6. CUPANIA. 
1. CARDIOSPERMUM L. Herbaceous or woody vines. Leaves alter- 
nate: blades biternate or decompound. Flowers polygamo-dioeeious, irregular. 
Sepals 4. Petals 4, unequal, white. Disk one-sided, with 2 glands opposite 
the lower petals. Stamens 8. Capsules bladdery. Raving 15 species, of the 
warmer parts of America.—BALLOON-VINES. HEART-SE 
Capsule subglobose, obovoid, globose-obovoid, or oval, slightly longer than wide, not - 
angled : blades of the leaflets rather large and acute or acumin 
Outer sepals gla e aen about 5 mm. in diameter, the aril R leaflets 
glabro alicacabum.  - 
Outer Sepa. e de seed about 3.5 m a diameter, 
the aril heart-shaped: leaflets finely R 2. C. keyense. 
Capsule obpyramidal and lobed, wider than long: ‘blades of the 
leaflets small, usually decidedly acuminate. 3. C. microcarpum. 
1. C. Halicacabum L. Twigs Es or doi i pubeseent: blades of the 
leaflets pu to ovate, acute to imate, coarsely serrate and incised, 
x Sb 
about as wide as long, 3. en em. in diame- 
ter, short-stipitate.— (HEART-PEA .) —Waste- 
plaees and cult. gro wem ection provinces, 
Fla. to Tex., Kans., and "Del. Pi ds of trop. 
—(W. L., um. or 
all year S —The root is s medicinal. 
2. C. keyense Small. Twigs closely and 
nd pale Hs d blades of the leaflets 
ess 
Bes or ou serrate, acute to some- 
what acuminate, copi iously fine-pubescent : 
