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ing towards the hilum : cotyledons sometimes conferruminate.— Leaves 
alternate, usually compound, having generally pellucid lines or dots. 
TRIBE L—SAPINDEX. Camb. 
Ovary containing 1 ovule in each cell. Embryo curved, rarely straight. 
I. CARDIOSPERMUM. Linn. ; Lam. ill. t. 317 ; Gertn. fr. t. 79. 
Sepals 4, two outer ones smallest. Petals 4; the two lateral ones usually 
adhering to the sepals, each with an emarginate scale above the base; the 
two lower ones remote from the stamens, with their scales furnished with a 
glandular crest at their extremity, and ending in an inflexed appendage be- 
neath the apex. Glands 2, round or linear, on the disk opposite the lower 
petals. Stamens 8, around the base of the ovary: the four that are nearest 
the glands are shorter than the others. Style 3-fid : segments covered on the 
inside with the adnate stigmas. Fruit a membranous bladdery capsule, 3- 
celled, 3-valved, loculicidal. Seeds globose, with a thick podosperm usually 
expanding into a 2-lobed aril .— T wining and climbing, usually tendrilled, 
herbaceous plants. Leaves biternate or supra-decompound, without stipules. 
Flowers racemose: common peduncles, with two opposite tendrils (abortive 
pedicels) under the racemes. 
376. (1) C. Halicacabum (Linn. :) annual: stem, petioles, and leaves, near- 
ly glabrous: leaves biternate : leaflets oblong, much acuminated, coarsely eut 
and serrated: glands of the disk roundish: fruit broadly pyriform.—DC. 
prod. 1. p. 601 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 246; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 292; Wight! cat. n. 
371, 372.— Rheed. Mal. 8. t.28; Rumph. Amb. 6. t. 24. f. 2. 
In Wight's cat. n. 371, the fruit is about the size of that in Rheede's figure ; 
in n. 372, it is more than twice as large: but there appears to be no other 
difference. In both the capsules are pubescent. 
377. (2) C. canescens (Wall. :) stem, petioles, and leaves, covered with a 
dense hoary pubescence: leaves biternate : leaflets ovate or obovate, acute, 
coarsely serrated: glands of the disk roundish : fruit nearly globose on a long- 
ish stalk.— Wall. pl. As. rar. 1. p. 14. t. 14; Wight ! cat. n. 370. 
The character taken by Dr Wallich from the leaflets being stalked or ses- 
sile, is very inconstant: the leaflets also vary from cuneate at the base to 
slightly cordate. The flowers are much larger than in the first species. 
II. SCHMIDELIA. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 312—Ormitrophe. Lam. ill. t. 309. 
Sepals 4, unequal. Petals 4, the fifth or superior one deficient and its seat 
vacant, either naked on the inside or usually furnished with a scale above the 
unguis. Disk incomplete, with 4 glands opposite the petals. Stamens 8, in- 
Serted on the receptacle, and connate round the ovary at its base. Ovary 
usually 2-, sometimes 3-lobed: style from between the lobes of the ovary, 
2-3-cleft, the segments recurved, longitudinally stigmatose on the inside. 
Fruit indehiscent, 1-2-, or rarely 3-lobed : lobes somewhat globose, fleshy or 
dry, l-celled. Seeds with or without an arillus.—Trees or shrubs, usually 
With trifoliate, rarely with simple, exstipulate leaves. Flowers white, small, 
im axillary racemes. eap | 
378. (1) S. Cobbe (DC. :) leaves trifoliate ; leaflets stalked, ovate or oblong, 
te, serrated ; younger ones more or less pubescent above, villous beneath ; 
older ones more glabrous, but always more or less pubescent: racemes axil- 
» Solitary, simple, or sometimes bifid ; rachis pubescent : petals cuneate, 
emarginate, with a scale bearing a tuft of hairs above the slightly hairy claw, 
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