58 XXXVIII. AMPELIDES. 
nous or 0. Peduncles opposite the leaves. Flowers small, cymose, panicled 
or spiked. The Grape Vine is the type of this genus. —There are about 18 
South African species, all but V’. Capensis, which is dispersed, natives of 
the Eastern district and Natal. 
OrpeR XXXIX. SAPINDACEA. 
Flowers regular or irregular, frequently polygamous. Se- 
pals 4-5, free or connate, often unequal, imbricate, rarely val- 
vate. Petals 0 or 3-5, imbricate. Disk various, rarely defi- 
cient, often unilateral. Stamens 8, rarely 5-10 (very rarely 
2-4-12 or many), mostly hypogynous, inserted either within 
the disk, sometimes unilateral, straight or declined, or rarely 
round the base of the disk. Ovary entire or lobed, mostly 3- 
celled, or 1-4-celled ; style simple or divided, terminal; ovules 
1-2, rarely more in each cell, ascending. Fruit capsular or 
indehiscent, often pulpy within. Seeds rarely (in Melianthee) 
albuminous.—Trees and shrubs, rarely half-herbaceous. Leaves 
alternate, mostly pinnate, rarely simple. 
Fruit membranous, inflated, 3-4-lobed and celled. 
Fruit 3-lobed, the lobes dorsally winged. 
Calyx 4-parted. Herbaceous, tendril-bearing 
climbers . . . . . 1. CaRDIOSPERMUM. 
Calyx 5-parted. An erect, rigid shrub . . . 2. ERYTHROPHYSA. 
Fruit 4-lobed, the lobes sharply angled or winged. 
Calyx 4- parted. Petals equal. Stamens 8, 
monadelphous MM cons. 
Calyx 5-parted, unequal. Petals unequal. Sta- 
mens 4,2 longand 2short . . - 9. MELIANTHUS. 
Fruit fleshy or leathery. Carpels 2-3-4, not com- 
pressed or winged. 
Sepals and petals 4. Ovary 2-lobed. . . . . 3. SCHMIDELIA. 
Sepals and petals 5. Ovary 3-4-celled. 
Stamens 8-10. Ovary 3-celled. 
Ovary lobed. Fruit 3-coccous . - . - 95. SAPINDUS. 
Ovary undivided. Fruit drupaceous. . 4, HIPPOBROMUS. 
Stamens 5. Ovary bluntly 4-angled, 4- celled . 10. Brrsama. 
Fruit strongly compressed or winged, not inflated. 
Petals 3. Stamens 5-8. Capsule 2-4-winged . 6, Doponma. 
Petals 4. Stamens 4. Capsule oblong, com- 
pressed, 2-lobed at the apex. Seeds winged . 7. Pr#ROXYLON. 
Trrpe 1. SaprnpEm. (Gen. 1-5.) 
1. CARDIOSPERMUM, Linn. 
Flowers irregular, polygamo-dicecious. Sepals 4, concave, 
imbricate, the 2 outer small. Petals 4, in opposite pairs, the 
2 larger with a large scale, 2 smaller with a small crested 
scale at base. Disk unilateral, undulate, swelling into 2 glands 
opposite the lower petals. Stamens 8, excentric. Ovary ses- 
