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4 inches long, which is edible, but {fide Dalzell & Gibson) can only be eaten fi-ieJ and 

 is ii.sipid (see Dalz. & Gibs. Siippl. p. 13). 



Filicium decipiens, Thwaites, Enum. p. 408, a very ornamental tree, rather slow of 

 growth, with bright-green fern-like leaves, narrow leaflets and a winged riiaehis, has been 

 grown at Poona from seeds procured from the botanical gardens at Peradeuiya, Ceylon 

 (see Woodrow, Gardening in India, ed. 5, p. 232). 



Leaves alternate, exstipulate ; seeds exalbuminous. 

 Stamens inserted within the disk. 



Flowers irregular; disk unilateral. 



Herbs; fruit an inflated capsule 1. Oardiospbrmum. 



Trees or shrubs ; fruit indehisceut. 



Leaves pinnate 2. Hemigyrosa. 



Leaves 1-3-foliolate 3. Allophylus. 



Flowers regular; disk annular. 



Fruit not inflated, indehisceut ; flowers small. 



Fruit not breaking up into cocci ; petals 0. 4. Sciileiciibra. 

 Fruit of 1-3 indehiscent cocci. 



Sepals free, much imbricate 6. Sapindus. 



Sepals connate, valvate or nearly so . 6. Nepiiei.ium. 



Fruit an inflated capsule ; flowers large 7. Hari'ULi.ia. 



Stamens inserted outside the disk ; fruit 3-winged 8. DoooN.iiA. 



Leaves opposite, stipvdate; seeds albuminous ■. 9. Tukpi.via. 



1. CARDIOSPERMUM, Linn. 



Climbing tendril-bearing herbs with wiry stems. Leaves alternate, 

 exstipulate, 2-ternate ; leaflets eoars'^ly crenate or serrate. Flowers 

 irregular, polygamo-dioecious, iu axillary racemes or cor\ mbs, the common 

 peduncle 2-cirrhose. Sepals 4, much imbricat(% the 2 exterior small. 

 Petals 4, arranged in pairs, the two upper furnished with a large scale 

 below the base of each, the 2 lower smaller, distant, each furnished with 

 a small crested scale. Disk unilateral, undulate, of 2 glands opposite 

 the lower petals. Stamens 8, excentric ; filaments unequal, free or 

 connate at the base. Ovary sessile or subsessile, 3-celled ; ovule solitary, 

 ascending ; style short, 3-fld. Capsule membranous, trigonous, 8-celled, 

 3-valved, inflated, loculicidal. Seeds globose, usually arillate at the base ; 

 testa crnstnceous ; cotyledons large, transversely conduplicate. — Distbiu. 

 Chiefly in Tropical America and Africa ; species about 30, 



Capsules winged at the angles 1. G. Halicacahiim. 



Capsules not winged at the angles 2. C. canescens. 



1. Cardiospermum Halicacabum, Linn. 82?. PI. (1753) p. 366. 

 Annual and perennial ; branches slender, striate, pubeseeut or glabrous. 

 Leaves deltoid, 2-ternate ; petioles l-lg in. long; ultimate segments of 

 the leaves lanceolate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, inciso-serrate, very 

 acute at the apex and narrowed at the base. Flowers white, g-i in. 

 long, in few-flowered umbellate cymes ; peduncles slender, stiff, axillary, 

 I2-4 in. long, provided beneath the cyme with 2 opposite usually 

 circinate tendrils ; pedicels very slender, g-g iu. long. Outer sepals 

 rounded, obovate, usually with a few scattered hairs on the back just 

 below the apical margin ; inner sepals larger than the outer, rounded, 

 membranous. Petals rounded at the apex. Style very short. Capsules 

 shortly stalked, subglobose or more commonly depressed-pyriform, tri- 

 gonous, truncate at top, winged at the angles, bladdery, veined. Seeds 

 globose, ^-\ in. in diam., smooth, black, with a small white heart-shaped 

 aril. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 670; Grab. Cat. p. 28; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 34; 

 Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 34 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 299 ; Eadlk. in 



