XLIV. SAPINDACE.^ (BAKKk). 417 



Seeds exalbuminous. 



Ovules solitary in the cells. 



Flowers irregular, with a unilateral disk. 

 Fruit not vertically lobed. 



Fruit an inflated membranous capsule 1. ( AUDinvi-f Kury. 



Fruit a hard bony pyriform capsule 2. Falllinu. 



Fruit deeply lobed vertically into indehiscent cocci. 



Sepals 5 3. Erioolossl'M. 



Sepals 4 4. Scmmidllu. 



Flowers regular with a centrical disk. 

 Fruit dehiscent. 



Sepals much imbricated 5. ( ipama. 



Sepals scarcely or not at all imbricated. 



Disk thick, fleshy C. Hmgiiia. 



Disk thin, membranous 7. Krioccimjsi. 



Fruit indehiscent. 



Fruit not lobed vertically. 



Sepals much imbricated 8. Lecaniodiscus. 



Calyx with 5 valvate lobes reaching about halfway 



down 9. Chytbanthls. 



Fruit vertically 2-3-partite nearly or quite to the base. 



Seeds exarillate 10. Sapindus. 



Seeds arillate ^ 11. Deinbollia. 



Ovules 2 iu the cells 12. Dodon.ka. 



Seeds albuminous 13. Beksama. 



1. CARDIOSPERMUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. i. 393. 



Flowers irregular, polygamo-dioecions. Sepals 4, concave, broadly im- 

 bricated, the 2 outer ones small. Petals 4, in 2 pairs, the larger ones with 

 a large scale and the smaller ones with a small one. Disk unilateral, iin- 

 dulated, with 2 glands opposite the inferior petals. Stamens 8, eccentric, 

 the filaments unequal, free or connate at the base. Ovary sessile or stipi- 

 tate, 3-locular. Style short, 3-fid. Ovules solitary in the cells, ascending 

 from the middle of the axis. Capsules 3-gonous, the lobes inflated, mem- 

 branous, veined, dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds globose, usually arillate nt 

 the base, the testa crustaceous. Cotyledons large, transversely folded to- 

 gether. — Much-branched climbing herbs or slender shrubs. 



A small genus, belting the world in the tropics. 



Flowers ^ in. long. 



Capsule roundish in outline, li in. each way 1- C. Hahcacabum. 



Capsule obversely deltoid, | in. each way 2. C. microcarpum. 



Flowers i in. long. 



Stem suffruticose, closely grey-downy 3. C. canescens. 



Stem herbaceous, clothed with long spreading hairs \. C. barbicauU. 



1. C. Halicacabum, Linn.; DC. Prod. i. GOl. Stems annual, 



slender, herbaceous, deeply 'sulcate, glabrous or finely grey-downy. IVtioies 

 slender, herbaceous, 1-2 in. long. Leaves bitcrnate, the divisions stalked. 

 ]-3 in. broad, with deeply inciso-pinnatifid, ovate segments ; texture membra- 

 nous, colour bright green, surfaces glabrous or a little downy. Flowers in 

 axillary 8-fid umbels, on slender herbaceous peduncles. 2 3 in. long with a 

 pair of opposite spirally decurved tendrils from near the apex. Bracts mi- 

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