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sile or stipitate, 3-celled; style short, 3-fid; ovules solitary. 
Capsule 3-lobed; lobes inflated, membranous, veiny, loculici- 
dally opening.— 7. Cap. i. p. 237. 
Much-branched, half-herbaceous climbers. Leaves 2-ternate or decom- 
pound, the common petiole bearing tendrils. Flowers in axillary racemes 
or panicles.—C. Halicacaba, Linn., a common tropical weed, is found at 
Natal. 
2. ERYTHROPHYSA, E. Mey. 
Flowers perfect, irregular. Calyx campanulate, oblique, 
coloured, 5-lobed, the lobes obtuse, unequal. Petals 4 (the 
place of the fifth vacant), inserted under the margin of a fleshy, 
cup-like disk, on long, linear, pilose claws ; limb oblong, ob- 
tuse, hooded at base, and furnished with a short, petaloid, 
toothed and crested, but beardless scale. Stamens 8, ascend- 
ing, inserted together under a fleshy gland, on that side of the 
flower where the fifth petal is deficient ; filaments hairy; an- 
thers oblong, 2-celled. Ovary shortly stipitate, 3-angled, 
tapering into a short 3-angled style, 3-celled ; ovules in pairs, 
one above the other. Fruit inflated, of 3 membranous, dor- 
sally-winged, valveless carpels, connate by their inner faces. 
Seed solitary, globose, exalbuminous.—F7. Cap. i. p. 237. 
E. undulata, B. Mey., the only species, is a rigid, glabrous shrub, with 
imparipinnate leaves on winged petioles, and racemose red flowers. It 
grows in Namaqualand. 
3. SCHMIDELIA, Linn. 
Fiowers irregular, polygamo-dicecious. Sepals 4, in oppo- 
site pairs, hooded, membranous, imbricate, the outer small. 
Petals small or 0, glabrous or bearded. Disk unilateral, either 
lobed or swelling in glands opposite the petals. Stamens 
more or less excentric, short. Ovary excentric, 2-celled, 
compressed or 2-parted; style 2-3-lobed or partite; ovules 
solitary. Fruit of 1-2 ovoid or globose, leathery or fieshy car- 
pels.—FI. Cap. 1. p. 238. 
Trees or shrubs, chiefly tropical. Leaves rarely 1-, commonly 3-foliate. 
Flowers small, in axillary racemes.—5 South African species, in the Hastern 
district and at Natal. 
4. HIPPOBROMUS, E. and Z. 
Flowers regular, polygamous. Sepals 5, persistent, rounded, 
concave, unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, obovate, glabrous, 
ciliate-fringed, without scale. Disk annular. Stamens 8, 
central, exserted; filaments glabrous. Ovary subglobose, 3- 
celled, silky ; style short ; stigma 3-fid ; ovules mostly solitary. 
Fruit globose, leathery, 3-celled, indehiscent.—F/. Cap. i. 
p. 241. 
