Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



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Calyx gamosepnlons, dentate or lobod ; petals with 

 two crested basal scales ; frnit large, pyriform, with 

 thick ptricarp, obtusely 3-angled, i;ot lobed 

 Petals with 2 crestless basal scales, or sometimes 

 absent ; fruit with the cocci quite distinct and divari- 

 cate ; disc sub -entire, annular. 



Arillus enclosing the whole or nearly the whole of 

 the seed, not appendiculate at the base 

 Arillus with 2 spur-like processes at its base ; 

 fruit pyriform or globose, 3-lobed 

 Petals peltate-infundibuliform, the single large basal 

 scale being connate with each petal by its edges. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; fruit obov.ite, the pericarp coria- 

 ceous, the arillus fleshy, basal ; the leaves equally 

 pinnate, flower buds oval, pointed .. ... 



Ovary 3 celled; frnit with the pericarp woody, 

 tubercolar or ecliinate : flower-buds sub-globose ... 

 Ovules 2 or more in each locnlus of the ovary. 



Leaves simple, exstipulate : stamens inserted outside the 



disc ; the capsule much compressed, membranous, winged, 



seeds ex-arillate 



Leaves pinnate, exstipulate ; stamens inserted inside the 



disc ; capsule coiiaceous, inflated, sub-compressed, reni- 



form, 2-celled, not winged ; seeds arillate 



Leaves pinnate, stipulate ; stamens inserted outside the 



lobed disc ; fruit more or less fleshy, sub-globose, 3-celled, 



indehiscent ; seeds without ai'illus ... ... 



12. Teigonachr.\.s. 



13. 



14. 



15. 



16. 



Aeytera. 



MiSCHOCARPUS. 



Lepidopetalum. 

 Parankphelium. 



17. Dodonaea, 



18. Harpullia. 



19, TURPINIA. 



1. Casdiospermum, Linn. 



Climbing tendi"il-beariiig herbs with alternate exstipulate leaves, 

 biteriiate coarsely dentate leaflets, axillary racemes, and irregular 

 polygamo-dicecious flowers. Sepals 4, imbricate, concave, the 2 outer 

 small. Petals 4, in pairs, the larger two with a scale above the base ; the 

 two smaller inferior, remote from the stamens, each furnished with a 

 small crested scale. Disc unilateral, undulate, almost reduced to 2 

 round or linear glands opposite the lower petals. Stamens 8, exceiiti ic ; 

 filaments free or connate at base ; the 4 nearest to the glands shorter 

 than the rest. Ofari/ sessile or sub-sessile, 3-celled ; style short, trifid ; 

 ovules solitary, ascending. Capsule membranous, 3-celled, 3-valved, 

 inflated, loculicidal. iSeeds globose, usually arillate at the base, exalbu- 

 miuous, testa crustaceous ; cutyleduns large, transversely couduplicate. — 

 DisTRiu. About 30 species, mostly Tropical American and Tropical 

 African. 



Cardiospermum Halicacabum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. I, 366. Annual 

 or perennial ; the branches slender, striate, sparsely pubescent or sub- 

 glabrous. Lcajlds deltoid, acuiiiinate, deeply and sharply lobed, 



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