300 SapllldacecC. \Cardiospermum. 



circinatc or hooked tendrils; sep. rounded, the outer pair very 

 small ; pet. rounded, scarcely clawed, scales of upper ones 

 emarginate ; style very short ; capsule on a short slender 

 stalk, bladder-like, \-\ in. wide, deprcssed-pyriform, trigonous, 

 truncate at top, winged at the angles, valves papery, veiny, 

 finely pubescent ; seeds \-\ in., globular, glabrous, black, the 

 aril heart-shaped, white. 



Low country in both moist and dry regions ; very common. Often a 

 weed in waste ground. Fl. all the year ; white. 



Throughout the Tropics of the world. 



The form with smaller capsules (C inicrocarpum H.B.K.) is equally 

 common with the type, and was already distinguished by Hermann. 



A plant collected on the shores of Kantalai Tank and in the Kottiyar 

 District has very large, less angular, and more strongly pubescent capsules 

 ijin. wide, and the young leaves are very pubescent, but the very small 

 flowers separate it from the next, which it otherwise much resembles. It 

 requires further study. 



2. C. Corindum,'^ L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 526 (1762). 



C. canesccns, Wall., Trim, m Journ. Bot. 1885, 144 ; Cat. Ceyl. PI. 20. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 670 (C. caftescetts). Wight, Ic. t. 74. 



Annual, scandent, much-branched, stems deeply furrowed, 

 minutely cottony-pubescent; 1. bi-ternate, Iflts. smaller than 

 in the last, pubescent on both sides, densely so beneath, 

 terminal ones very acuminate, cuspidate; fl. large, ^\n. diam., 

 numerous, in pyramidal, paniculate cymes, peduncles stiff, 

 sparingly pubescent ; scales of upper pet. as long as them, 

 entire, those of lower pet. strongly crested ; style larger, 

 stigmas longer; capsule i|-i;|in., inflated, ovoid-globose, 

 3-angled, not winged. Otherwise as in C. Halicacabum. 



Dry country ; very rare (?). About Hambantota, abundant. Fl, 

 December ; white and yellow. 



S. India, Burma, Trop. Africa, and America. 



I have reduced C. catiescc/is, Wall, to Linnitus' C. Corindum (origin- 

 ally based on S. American specimens), from which it does not appear to 

 differ materially so far as descriptions go. 



A very pretty climber, abundantly distinct from C. Halicacabum. 



Dittelasma Rara/,\ Hk. f. There are a few trees of this near the 

 BaduUa road about Palagama, Uva, but they are probably introduced ; 

 the tree is native in Java and Malacca. The berry is used here for soap, 

 and called ' Pencla.' Thwaites distributed specimens 'from a native 

 garden ' under C. P. 3509. 



* Properly two words, Cor indum; another name used by the old 

 botanists for this genus, and alluding, like Cardiospcrmuin., to the heart- 

 shaped aril of the seed. 



