Cardiospermtem.'] Sapindacece. 299 



Fr. of 1-3 indehiscent cocci. 



Sep. much imbricate .... 6. SapinduS. 

 Sep. valvate or nearly so. 



Stam (in male fl.) 10 . . . . 7. Nephelium. 



Stam. 5 8. POMETIA. 



Fr. an inflated capsule ; fl. rather large . 9. Harpui.lia. 



Stam. inserted outside disk ; fr. 3-winged . 10. DODONyEA. 

 L. opposite, stipulate ; seeds with endosperm 



{Staphylea) n. TuRPlNIA. 



All our 19 species are natives of the low country ; 2 species of Sapindus,- 

 I of Nephelhiin, and i of Cardiosperinum are confined to the dry region, 

 and Gleniea is nearly so ; 3 species of Sapi7idus, i oi Allophylus^ Pometia, 

 and HarpuUia occur only in the moist region; Allophylus zeylanicua and 

 Turpinia have montane varieties, and Allophylus Cobbe and Dodoncsa 

 also reach into the mountain zone. 



I. CARDZOSPERXtZUM, L. 



Annual herbs ; 1. alternate, without stip., 2-ternate ; fl. 

 polygamo-dicecious, irregular, in small cymes ; sep. 4, per- 

 sistent, in pairs, outer much the smaller; pet. 4, 2 upper each 

 with a large scale near the base, 2 lower distant, each with a 

 smaller crested scale ; disk unilateral, of 2 glands opp. lower 

 pet. ; stam. 8, excentric, fil. connate at base ; ov. 3-celled, with 

 I ascending ovule in each cell, style short, stigmas 3 ; fruit an 

 inflated, 3-celled, 3-valved, membranous, loculicidal capsule ; 

 seed globose, with a small aril, cotyledons large, no endo- 

 sperm. — Sp. 15; 2 \n Fl. B. Ind. 



L, glabrous; fl. ^ in. ; capsule depressed-pyriform i. C. Halicacabum. 

 L. pubescent ; fl. over \ in. ; caps, globular-ovoid. 2. C. CORINDUM. 



I. C. Halicacabum,* Z. Sp. PL 366 (1753). Penela-wel, S. 



Herm. Mus. 5, 42. Burm. Thes. 75, 76. Fl. Zeyl. n. 142. Moon 

 Cat. 32. Thw. Enum. 54. C. P. 2598. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 670. Wight, Ic. t. 508. Bot. Mag. t. 1049. 



Annual, subscandent, stem slender, strongly furrowed, 

 slightly branched, glabrous, young parts puberulous ; 1. bi- 

 ternate, petiole long, 2-3 in., spreading or deflexed, furrowed, 

 Iflts. sessile or shortly stalked, ovate, tapering at base, acute, 

 deeply incised-serrate, glabrous, thin and flaccid ; fl. very 

 small, \ in., on slender ped. 3-7 in., a very small cyme ter- 

 minating a stiff, slender, horizontal, axillary peduncle 4 in. 

 long, and provided beneath the cyme with 2 opp. reflexed, 



* Halicacabum peregriman was the name for this in the early writers 

 on olants, but the uKiKaKafio%> of the Greeks was probably a Phy sails. 



