1 04 A mpelidece Vitis. 



1. F. quinquefolia, syn. Ampelopsis hederacea. Virginian 

 Creeper. This fast-growing climber is a general favourite, its 

 5-foliolate leaves being particularly handsome towards Autumn, 

 when they change to a bright red colour. North America. 



2. F. Veitchii, syn. F. Japonica, Ampelopsis tricuspidata. 

 A Japanese species with trifoliolate leaves, which assume 

 the same ruddy tint in Autumn. This is probably less hardy 

 than the foregoing. 



F. Labrusca, cordifolia, vulplna, etc., are hardy North 

 American species which have improved under cultivation, and 

 produce edible fruit, and may likewise be planted for ornament. 



ORDER XXXIV. SAPINDACE^E. 



Deciduous trees or shrubs with alternate or opposite simple 

 or compound leaves and usually polygamous flowers. Stamens 

 unequal, or double the number of the petals, or if equal alter- 

 nate with them, inserted within, upon or around the disk. 

 Ovary 1- to 3- (rarely 4-) celled, with 1 style. Fruit variable. 

 This order includes an assemblage of genera of somewhat 

 heterogeneous appearance and structure to the number of 73, 

 containing between 600 and 700 species. 



TRIBE I.SAPINDE^E. 



Stamens inserted within the disk at the base of the ovary, or 

 on one side. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit dehiscent, 



1. KCELKEUTEKIA. 



Leaves alternate, imparipinnate. Flowers irregular, poly- 

 gamous, yellow, in large terminal panicles. Calyx 5-partite, 

 with valvate sepals. Petals 3 or 4, clawed, with two scales at 

 the base, the position of the fifth or suppressed one empty. 

 Stamens 5 to 8. Capsule vesiculate, inflated, three-lobed, 

 dehiscing loculicidally, with 1 or 2 seeds in each cell. Named 

 in honour of a German botanist. 



1. K. paniculata. A small tree, handsome when in flower, 

 but of rather irregular growth. The leaves are composed of 

 about 7 or 9 deeply toothed leaflets. It is the only species 

 known, a native of China, producing its flowers in this country 

 in great abundance in June or July. 



