10b SOAPliEKKY FAMIJA'. 



3. AMPELOPSIS. (Greek: like the vine.) (Lessons, Figs. 93. 94.) 

 Flowers jnurh like Vitis. 



A. quinquefdlia. Mielix. \'ii{i;inia Ckkepku, Woodbink. In all l(i\v 

 gixuinds, climbing- fxlensivt-ly, sometimes by rootlets as well as by the 

 tendrils ; leaflets ;">. digitate, lance-oblong, cut-tootlied, changing to crim- 

 son in antuinn ; flowers cymose in summer ; berries small, black or bluish. 

 One form does not cling well. 



A. tricuspidata, Sieb. & Zucc. (or A. VtixcHii). Japan Iw, Bostox 

 Ivv. liranehing profusely and adhering tenaciously by nuicli-hranched 

 tendrils ; leaves very variable, roundish-ovate and crenate-serrate, or 

 cordate, o-lobed or even o-foliolate, shining, thickish, finely colored in 

 autumn ; cymes umch shorter than petioles, inconspicuous. Japan. A 

 handsome hardy climber for covering walls. 



A. heterophy//a, Sieb. & Zucc. (or Vitis iieterophylla). Has the 

 small thin leaves variously 3-5-lobed, often blotched or variegated, slender 

 soft canes, and small, porcelain-blue berries. Hardy N. China and Japan. 

 Does not cling. 



XXXIII. SAPINDACE^, SOAPBEERY FAMILY. 



Trees, shrubs, or one or two herbaceous climbers, mostly 

 with compound or lobed leaves, and uusynimetrical flowers, 

 the stamens sometimes twice as many as the petals or lobes 

 of the calyx, but commonly rather fewer, when of equal num- 

 ber alternate with the petals ; these imbricated in the bud, 

 inserted on a disk in the bottom of the calyx and often coherent 

 with it ; ovary 2-3-celled, sometimes 2-3-lobed, with 1-3 (or 

 in Staphylea several) ovules in each cell. A large and diverse 

 order. 



I. SOAPBERRY SUBFAMILY. Flowers often polyg- 

 amous or dioecious, mostly irregular or unsymmetrical, the 

 embryo coiled or curved, without aliniiuen. No stipules. 



* Leaves alternate, twice tcrtuioe and cut-toothed. Pod hhidderij-iiijlated. 



1. CARDIOSPKKMUM. Herbs, climbing by liook-like tiiuliiN in the llower clusters. 



Sepals 4, the inner pair la-per. Petals 4, each with an appendage on the inner face, 

 that of the two upper larjre and petal-like, of the two lower crest-like and with a de- 

 flexed spur or process, raised on a claw. Disk irregular, enlarged into two glands, 

 one before each lower petal. Staoiens S, turned towards the upper side of the flower 

 away from the glands, the filaments next to them .shorter. Styles or stigmas 3, short : 

 ovary triangular, 3-celled, with a single ovule rising from the middle of each cell. Pod 

 8-lobed ; seeds bony, globose, with a scale-like heart-shaped aril adherent to the base. 

 * » Leaves alternate, pinnate. 



2. KCELREUTERIA. Small tree. Sepals 5. Petals 3 or 4 (the place of the others vacant), 



each with a small, 2-parted, scale-like appendage attached to its claw. Disk enlarging 

 into a lobe before each petal. Stamens .5-8, decUned ; filaments hairy. Style single, 

 slender; ovary triangular, 3-celled, with a pair of ovules in each cell. Pod bladdery, 

 3-lobed, .S-celled. 



3. XANTHOCEIJAS. Shrub. Flowers regular. Sepals .5 ; petals 5, without a scale. Disk 



cup-like, with 5 curved, si)rending horns alternate with the petals. Stamens S. Style 



