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SAPINDACE^E. I. CARDIOSPERMUM. 



2-celled. Fruit indehiscent, usually 1-lobed from abortion, 

 the other one being abortive, tubercled or muricated, rarely 

 smooth. Seeds thick, covered by a thick fleshy aril. 



21 THOUI'NIA. Calyx 4-5-parted. Petals 4-5, naked. Sta- 

 mens 8-10. Style crowned by a trifid stigma, seated between 

 the lobes of the ovary. Fruit of 3 carpels, adnate to the central 

 axis, each drawn out into a wing both at the top and the back, 

 1 -celled, 1 -seeded. 



22 HYPELA'TE. Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5, and wanting, 

 naked inside. Stamens 8-10. Style short, crowned by a 2-3- 

 lobed stigma. Ovary 2-3-celled, 2-3-ovulate ; ovulae pendulous. 

 Fruit dry, indehiscent, 1 -2-celled from abortion. 



23 APHA'NIA. Calyx 4-parted, unequal. Petals 4, ciliated, 

 with 2 little scales at the base of each on the inside. Stamens 5. 

 Ovary ovate, compressed, 2-celled, 2-seeded. Style nearly 

 wanting, crowned by an emarginate stigma. 



24 MELICO'CCA. Calyx 4-5-parted. Petals 4-5, naked in- 

 side and wanting. Stamens 8-10. Style crowned by 2-3-lobed 

 stigma. Ovary 2-3-lobed, 2-3-celled, 2-3-seeded. Fruit fleshy, 

 1 -2-celled, 1 -2-seeded from abortion. Seeds covered by a fleshy 

 substance. 



SECTION II. 



DODONJEA'CEJE (Cambess. in mem. mus. 19. p. 33.) Cells of 

 ovary containing 2-3-ovulce (f. 112. g.). Embryo spirally 

 twisted. 



25 KOZLREUTE'RIA. Calyx 5-parted. Petals 3-4, furnished 

 each with a small, 2-parted appendage at the base. Disk fleshy. 

 Stamens 8, rarely 5-6-7. Style truncate or acutish at the apex. 

 Capsule bladdery, 1 -celled above, but 3-celled below, 3-valved ; 

 valves seminiferous beneath the middle. 



26 COSSI'GNIA. Calyx 5-parted. Petals 4, naked inside. 

 Stamens 5-6. Style crowned by a capitellate stigma. Ovary 3- 

 celled ; cells 3-ovulate. Capsule 3-valved, 3-celled ; cells 2-3- 

 seeded. Seeds fixed to the central receptacle. 



27 LLAGUNOA. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals wanting. Disk fleshy. 

 Stamens 8, rarely 9-10. Style crowned by a 3-lobed stigma, 

 Capsule 3-lobed, 3-celled, 3-valved ; valves with a dissepiment 

 in the middle of each ; cells 1 -2-seeded. 



28 DODON^E'A. Calyx 3-4 (f. 112. .), rarely 5-parted. 

 Petals wanting. Stamens 8, rarely 9-10. Style short, 2-3, 

 rarely 4-cleft (f. 112. d.). Capsule 2 (f. 112. /.) -3-4-winged, 

 2-3-4-celled, 2-3-4-valved ; valves keeled, winged on the back 

 (f.112./.). 



29 MAGO V NIA. Calyx 5-parted, unequal. Petals 5, naked 

 inside. Stamens 8. Style curved, crowned, by a somewhat 

 3-lobed stigma. Capsule large, woody, 3-valved, many-seeded. 

 Seeds large, flat, girded by a wing. Embryo straight. 



30 ALE'CTRYON. Berry coriaceous, globose, with a crest on 

 one side, 1 -celled, 1 -seeded. Seed erect, girded by aril at the 

 base. Embryo spirally convolute. 



f Genera allied to Sapindacece, but they are not sufficiently 

 known. 



31 EYSTA'THES. Sepals 5. Petals 5, ovate, equal with the 

 sepals. Stamens 8. Style filiform, crowned by an obtuse 



stigma. Berry globose, fleshy, 1 -celled, 4-seeded. Leaves 

 simple. 



32 RACA'RIA. Drupe ovate, 1 -celled, containing 3 oblong, 

 trigonal nuts, covered with a fragile integument. Leaves abruptly 

 pinnate. Trunk spinose. 



33 VALENTI'NIA. Calyx 5-parted, coloured. Petals want- 

 ing. Capsule baccate, pulpy inside, opening by 3-4 revolute 

 valves. Seeds 3-4, oblong. Leaves simple. 



34 PEDICE'LLIA. Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 5- 

 parted. Petals wanting. Stamens 8. Ovary pedicellate. Style 

 almost wanting, crowned by 3 reflexed stigmas. Capsule 3- 

 valved, containing 1 pedicellate seed. Leaves opposite, simple. 



35 PIERA'RDIA. Flowers monoecious. Calyx 4-parted. Pe- 

 tals 4. Stamens 8. Style crowned by 3 stigmas. Berry glo- 

 bose, 3-celled, 3-seeded. Leaves simple. 



Section I. 



SAPI'NDEjE (plants agreeing with Sapindus in important 

 characters). Ovary containing 1 ovula in each cell. Embryo 

 curved, rarely straight. 



* Climbing herbs and shrubs, furnished with tendrils. The 

 upper or fifth petal absent and with its seat vacant. Leaves de- 

 compound or pinnate. 



I. CARDIOSPE'RMUM (from KapSta, cardia, the heart, 

 and trireppa, sperma, a seed ; in allusion to the form of the seeds) 

 Lin. gen. no. 498. D. C. prod. 1. p. 601. Cambess. in mem. 

 mus. 19. p. 18. t. 1. A and B. Corindum, Tour. inst. t. 246. 



LIN. SYST. Octandria, Monogynia. Calyx of 4 sepals, 2 outer 

 ones smallest. Petals 4, 2 lateral ones usually adhering to the 

 sepals, furnished each with an emarginate scale above the base, 

 2 lower ones remote from the 'stamens, with their scales furnish- 

 ed with a glandular crest at the apex, and ending in an inflexed 

 appendage beneath the apex. Glands 2 on the disk, opposite 

 the lower petals ; they are either round or linear. Stamens 8, 

 around the base of the ovary, the 4 which are nearest the glands 

 are shortest. Style trifid, with the segments longitudinally stig- 

 matose inside. Fruit a membranous, bladdery capsule, which is 

 3-celled, 3-valved, with a thin dissepiment opposite the valves, 

 adnate to the central axis. Seeds globose, with a thick funicle, 

 usually expanded into a 2-lobed aril. Twining and climbing, 

 tendrilled herbs or shrubs, with biternate or supra-decompound, 

 exstipulate leaves, and the flowers disposed in short, compound 

 racemes, with the common peduncle furnished with 2 opposite 

 tendrils under the flowers. 



* Species with 2 short, rounded, hypogynous glands at the 

 base of the loner petals. 



1 C. HALICA'CABUM (Lin. spec. 925.) stem, petioles, and 

 leaves smooth ; leaves biternate ; leaflets stalked, deeply tooth- 

 ed. O- S. Native of the East Indies, and perhaps of the 

 Caribbee Islands. Sims, hot. mag. t. 1049. Rumph. amb. 6. 

 t. 24. f. 2. Lam. ill. t. 317. Flowers white, on long, axillary 

 peduncles. 



Winter-cherry or Common Heart-seed, or Heart-pea. Fl. July. 

 Clt. 1594. PI. cl. 



2 C. MICROCA'RPUM (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 5. p. 

 104.) branches smooth; leaves biternate; leaflets deeply-ser- 

 rated, and clothed on both surfaces with close-pressed down ; 

 capsules rather turbinate, and clothed _with hairy-pubescence. 



