Leea.] 



XLI. AMPELIDE^. 



487 



long, 2 in. wide; petiolules -4 to -6 in. long. Flowers capitate on 

 a hairy peduncle 5 to 1-5 in. long, much shorter than leaves. Head 

 many-flowered 75 in. through, red-hairy. Fruit round flat at top, 

 5-lobed red '3 in. across on a peduncle 3 in. long and cyme-branches 

 I in. long. Hab. Limestone rocks in damp forest. Selangor, Batu 

 Caves. Pahang, Tahan River. Perak, Kwala Dipang. Lankawi 

 (Curtis). 



Order XLII. SAPINDACE.E. 



Trees, shrubs, rarely climbing herbs. Leaves alternate (rarely 

 opposite), pinnate or simple; leaflets entire or toothed. Flowers 

 small, usually unisexual and irregular. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed, or of 

 4 or 5 sepals, often unequal. Petals equal or not, 4 or 5 or sup- 

 pressed, often bearded or scaled at the base. Disc annular or 

 unilateral. Stamens 5 to 10, inserted inside, outside or on the 

 disc; anthers 2-celled; filaments often pubescent, rarely connate. 

 Ovary sometimes excentric, entire or lobed, i- to 3-celled, i to 2 

 ovules in cell affixed to axis of ovary, ascending. Fruit capsular 

 or drupaceous, entire or lobed, rarely winged. Seed globose or 

 compressed, ariUate or not, usually exalbuminous. About 800 

 species, whole world. 



Ovules I in each cell. 

 Leaves trifoliolate. 



Slender climber with tendrils ; fruit capsular 

 inflated ...... 



Shrubs usually erect ; fruit a drupe . 

 Leaves equally pinnate (except i species Aphania 

 simple) . 

 Fruit indehiscent. 

 Seeds not arillate. 



Sepals and petals oblong 4 or 5 ; fruit i- to 



3-lobed, only I lobe developed 

 Sepals and petals 3 ; stamens 6 ; fruit 

 bilobed ...... 



Sepals orbicular ; petals obovate ; fruit 

 I- to 3-lobed; lobes oblong; panicles 

 terminal ...... 



Sepals orbicular ; petals smaller ; fruit lobes 

 divergent, i- to 3-lobed. Racemes 

 axillary ...... 



Fruit sulcate, not lobed, 3-angled ; petals 

 scaled crested ..... 



Fruit baccate, scales not crested ; basal 

 leaflets stipule-like .... 



Fruit angled ; petals o ; disc lobed . 

 Seeds arillate. 



Sepals petaloid imbricate; stamens within 

 disc ....... 



Sepals small, valvate ; petals often absent . 



Calyx cup-shaped, 4- to 3-lobed, valvate; 



fruit smooth, hard .... 



Cardiospermum 

 Allophylus 



3. Sapindus 



CURTISINA 



Erioglossum 



6. Aphania 



7. Lepisanthes 



9- 



10. 

 II. 



Otophora 

 Tristira 



Xerospermu 

 Nephelium 



12. POMETIA 



