28 SAPINDACE^ 



CAYRATIA. 



Flowers all bi-sexual ; climbing shrubs with tendrils 

 opposite the leaves. Petals 4, valvate. Seeds two 

 grooved, slightly angular, or endosperm T shaped. 



Cayratia pcdata Juss. ; F.B.L i 661 as Vitis pedata 

 Vahl. A large climber, with cylindrical hirsute branches. 

 Leaflets usually seven ; on long stalks 4 to 8 by ij^ to 3 

 inches, oblong lanceolate, acuminate, serrate. Petiole 6 

 inches. Flowers in widely branching corymbose cymes, 

 green. Fruit globose, white. Seeds J^ inch semi-hemi- 

 spherical, hollowed out on the flat side and the ^opening 

 closed by a membrane. [F.B.L] 



Nilgiri and Pulney Hills below 6,000 feet. F^son 1186, 



6471. 



Gen. Dist. Bengal, Silhet, Khasia and to Burma and Singapore, and 

 down the Western Ghats. 



SAPINDACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 88. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



Petals 4, stamens inserted inside the disc, trees with 

 three-foliate leaves ... ... allophvlus. 



No petals, stamens inserted outside the disc, shrubs with 

 simple leaves ... ... -.. dodongea. 



ALLOPHYLUS. f.b.i. 44 v. 



Small trees or shrubs with simple or three-foliate leaves 



and small globose, polygamo-dioecious flowers, white or 



yellowish, in simple or branched axillary spikes. Sepals 



4. Petals 4, small or obsolete, naked inside or with a 



reflexed shaggy scale. Disc of four glands. Stamens 8, 



inside the disc. Ovary usually two-lobed, of 2 cells v/ith 



one seed in each cell. Fruit indehiscent ; seeds erect with 



short aril, embryo curved, cotyledons folded. 



Species about 20, chiefly in tropical America, also Africa, 

 tropical and South Madagascar and Indian Archipelago. 



