418 XLiv. SAFINDACEJE (baker). \_Cardiospermum . 



nute, linear; pedicels ^-f in. long, 2-3-flowered. Male flowers \ in. long, 

 the largest pair of sepals equalling the white petals. Glands roundish. 

 Capsule distinctly stalked, roundish in general outline, 1^-1 i in. each way, 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent, the seeds round, black, 2 lines broad with a 

 white arilkis. — Bot. Mag. t. 1049. C. Jdrsutum and C. glabrum, Schum. 

 andThonn. PL Guin. 19G-7. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Bidje?n ! Guinea, T. Vogel ! Barter ! 

 " A common riverside plant." 



Nile Land. Nubia, Petherick ! Gallabat, Schweinfurlh ! Unyoro,and common every- 

 where from 7° S. to 2° N. lat., Speke and Grant! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, i)r. Jf^//?r / Peters 



Everywhere in the tropics. A specimen from Annabon, Capt. Burton, with downy stems 

 and leaves, the valves of the capsule not more than \ in. broad and umbels not regularly 

 3-fid, may possibly be C. molle^ H. B. K. 



2. C. microcarpum, ^. -5. X. ; DC. Prod. i. 601. Stems annual, 

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

 shorter than in the preceding, the leaves similarly biternate, the segments 

 generally smaller and more deeply cut; texture membranous, surfaces gla- 

 brous or slightly downy. Plowers arranged as in the preceding and similar 

 in size and structure, but tlie capsule more or less distinctly obversely tri- 

 angular, not more than |- in. each way. — C. Halicacabum, Webb in Fl. Nigrit. 

 114, in part; Sond. Fl. Cap. 237 (excl. syn.). C. acuminatum, Miquel in 

 Linnaea, xviii. 359. C. microspermum, E. Meyer in Drege, PI. Exsicc. C. 

 truncatum, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 101. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Fernando Po, Mann ! Guinea, T. Vogel ! 



North Central. Boruu, E. Vogel! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Dillon ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Peters ! 



Also a plant of the Cape and Comoro islands, and distributed throughout the tropics. 



3. C. canescens. Wall, PI. Asiat. Ear. i. 14. t. 14. Stems slender, 

 suffruticose, deeply sulcate, finely grey-downy. Petioles short, often scarcely 

 any. Leaves biternate or the lateral divisions reduced so that they appear 

 like pinnae, the segments ovate, deeply inciso-pinnatifid, the colour a duller 

 green and the texture firmer than in the others, and especially the lower 

 surface always downy, with the main veins a little raised. Peduncles 3-4 

 in. long, usually much exceeding the leaves, with a pair of opposite, spirally 

 decurved, firm tendrils near the apex, the forks of the umbel 3 or 4, each 

 2-6-flowered and 1 sometimes branched. Fully developed flowers nearly \ 

 in. long, the larger sepals equalling the white petals, the filaments slightly 

 hairy and the glands oblong. Capsule distinctly stipitate, roundish in 

 general outline, measuring 1-li in. each way. — Wight and Arn. Prod. Fl. 

 Ind. 109. C. moUe? Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. 761. C. clematideim 

 and C. oblongum^ A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 100. 



Nile Ijand. Abyssinia, Sckimper ! Billon ! 

 A common E. Indian species. 



4. C. barbicaule. Baker. Stems slender, herbaceous, climbing to a 

 height of 30 ft., deeply sulcate, thinly clothed with fine, spreading, grey 



