‘shortly stipitate, 3-angled, tapering into a short 3-sided style, . 
Evrythrophysa. | SAPINDACEE (Sond.) 237 
IV. Sapindus—Flowers 5-parted. Ovary 3-lobed. Fruit tricoccous. 
V. Hippobromus.— Flowers 5-parted. Petals naked. Ovary undivided. Fruit dru- 
paceous. ; 
** Flowers without petals, 
VI. Dodonzea.—Capsule 2-3-4 winged, membranous. Shrubs. 
Tribe 1. Saprype&. Ovules mostly solitary, rarely 2. Embryo curved, 
or rarely straight. (Gen. i.—v.) 
I. CARDIOSPERMUM. L. 
Sepals 4, two of them smaller. Petals 4, with internal, unequal ap- 
pendages. Two hypogynous-glands between the petals and stamens. 
Stamens 8. Styles 3. Fruit inflated, of 3 membranous, dorsally-winged 
carpels, connate by their inner faces, valveless. Seeds globose, with a 
wide, cordate scar ; cotyledons incumbent, large, transversely folded in 
the middle ; radicle short, inferior, pointing to the hilum. ndl. Gen. 
No. 5598. DC. Prod. 1. p. 601. 
Tropical and sub-tropical climbing, herbaceous plants, natives chiefly of the New 
World. Leaves alternate, biternate or supra-decompound, petiolate ; leaflets toothed 
or cut, often dotted. Flowers sometimes dioecious, in axillary racemes or panicles, 
the common peduncle bearing near the summit a pair of simple tendrils, or abortive 
pedicels. The 8. African species is found commonly throughout the tropics of both ° 
hemispheres. Name, xapdia, the heart, and owepua, a seed; from the heart-shaped 
hilum of the seed. 
1. C. Halicacaba (Linn. Sp. 925); stem, petioles and leaves glabrous ; 
leaves biternately cut, the segments petiolate, inciso-dentate ; hypogy- 
nous glands rounded, short. DC.l.c. Lam. Ill. t. 317. Rumph. Amb, 
6. t.24. f.2. Bot. Mag. t. 1049. C. microspermum, E. Mey.! in Herb. 
Drege, non H. BLE. 
Has, In sandy places near the Kei River, and near Omsamwubo, Drege! Umlaas 
River, Natal, Krauss, Gueinzius. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D., Hook., &c.) pe 
Stem furrowed and angular. Leaves petiolate; the common petiole $—14 inches 
long, the partial shorter, unequal, intermediate longer; leaflets ovate or oblong, 
acuminate, glabrous or minutely puberulous at each side, sometimes on longer 
petiolules, 1-1} inches long, the side leaflets usually smaller and less acuminate. 
Peduncles longer than the leaves, triparted at the apex, below which there are two 
tendrils ; pedicels 3-4, which are 6-10 lines long in fruit. Flowers small. Fruit 
thinly downy, netted with veins, 8 lines long, and 10 wide. Seeds as large as pepper- 
corn, black, with a white cordate spot. bE oe 
Flowers perfect. Calyx campanulate, sub-oblique, coloured, 5-lobed, 
the lobes obtuse, sub-unequal. Petals 4 (the place of the fifth vacant), 
inserted under the margin of a fleshy, cup-shaped disc, on long, linear- 
filiform, pilose claws ; the limb oblong, obtuse, hooded at the base and 
furnished with a short, petaloid, toothed and crested, but beardless 
scale. Stamens 8, ascending, inserted in a tuft beneath a rostrate-acu- 
minate, fleshy gland, at the side of the flower, where the fifth petal is = 
deficient ; filaments exserted, hairy ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, dorsally 
inserted above the base, at length bifid at base and versatile. Oi 
