Cardiospermum.^ XLiv sapindace^ (bakek) 419 



hairs U-2 lines lono^. Petioles 1^-2 in. loiijr, slender. I^nves (li«,linclly 

 biternate, the central division with a stalk more than 1 in. lon<;, the sej;- 

 nicnts stalked, ovate, incjso-pinnatifid ; texture nicnihranoiis. colour brijrht 

 green, upper surface olabrous, nnder one with tufts of l.airs in tlie axils 

 of the main veins. Peduncles herbaceous, fjlabrous, 5-G in. \o\\\r. Uin- 

 bcls with G-8 branches, some of them simple, l-:i-flowcrcd, some s^niii 

 umbellate or subpaniculate. Flowers quite i in. long, the larger »epnls 2 

 lines broad, equalling the white obovate petals; tilaments \ in. long, wl.itc, 

 naked, free. Pistil grey-villose, equalling the stamens. Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountain, at 2000 ft., Mann ! 



Received also and cultivated at Kew from Mr. Mouteiro. Agrees with the W. Inditn 

 C. grandifiorum, Sw., in the size and arrangement of the flowers. 



2. PAULLINIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 394. 



Flowers irregular, polygamo-dioecious. Sepals 5, concave, imbricated, 

 the 2 upper ones larger and connate. Petals 4, the place of the fifth va- 

 cant, furnished with a scale internally, the 2 smaller ones appendiculate, 

 with a scale below^ the apex. Disk annular, with 4 glands, the 2 which arc 

 opposite the smaller petals larger than the other 2. Stamens 8, eccentric, 

 the filaments free or connate at the base. Ovary eccentric, stalked or sub- 

 sessile, 3-locular. Style 3-fid. Ovules solitary or very rarely 2 in the cells, 

 ascending from the middle of the axis. Capsule stalked, pyriform, 3- 

 gonous or 3-winged above, coriaceous, with 3 septicidal valves. Seeds 

 shortly arillate with a crustaceous testa; embryo curved, rarely straight. — 

 Climbing shrubs. 



A'large genus ; all the species confined to America with this exccjition. 



1. P. pinnata, Linn,; DC. Prod. i. 604. A wide-clind)ing shrub with 

 strong, woody, deeply sulcate, glabrous stems. Petioles 13 in. long, with ^ 

 wing l-f in. broad upwards, narrowed to the base. Leaves imparipinnate, 

 with 2 pairs of sessile opposite leaflets and a sessile terminal one, the latter 

 obovate-oblong, cuneate at the base, 3-6 in. long by about half as broad, 

 the point acute, the edge with conspicuous, distant, blunt teeth, the side 

 ones similar but shorter ; texture subcoriaceous, both sides (piite glabrous. 

 Flowers in racemes 3-4 in. long, ^-^ in. broad, with a woody spiral tendril 

 at the base, on long woody peduncles as long as or longer than the racemes. 

 Flowers very numerous, clustered, the clusters sometimes stalked, not more 

 than 1 line long, subglobose, the larger sepals equalling the whitish corolla, 

 the pedicel equalling the flower, both it and sepals a little grey-downy. 

 Capsule woody, turbinate, about 1 in. long by half as broad, quite glabrous, 

 brownish, 3-valved, the valves angled upwards on the back, with a (listinct 

 stalk passing graduallv into the capsule. — P. sencgalensii, Ju89. in Ann. 

 Mus. iv. 348; DC. 1. c. 605; Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 116. P. mtatc, 

 Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 195. P. africono, G. Don, Gen. Svst. i. 661. 



"Upper Guinea. Sencgamhia, Steber ! Ilevdcht ! Slues! Guinea pr- prr, T. t'o^el I 

 Barter! S'wrva Lcowe, Don, iJr. Kiri / 



Plozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Drs. MeUer and Knk' 



