KEY TO SUB-CLASSES, ORDERS AND GMNERA. 143 
XXXVI—RHAMNACE Ai—cont. 
(4) Fruit a berry, often nearly dry, 2—4-celled and seeded ; leaves sub- 
bifarious :— 
(A) Leaves palmately 3-costate, membranous, alternate; unarmed ; 
berry on a thickened, fleshy, arching peduncle :— 
ecxxx-—Ilovenia. 
(B) Leaves penninerved, coriaceous, sub-opposite ; prickles recurved ; 
berry with persistent calyx tube at base, peduncle not 
thickened :— § « cecxxxi—Scntia. 
(5) Fruit a capsule, supported by the ‘persistent calyx ‘tube ; ; leaves 
penninerved, alternate :— .. Cexxxii—Colubrina. 
({1) Fruit inferior, crowned ‘by persistent calyx limb ; tendrils usually pre- 
sent ; leaves alternate, penninerved :— 
(i) Fruit samaroid, 3-angled, —-keeled or -winged ; flowers racemose :— 
ccxxxiv—Gouania. 
(ii) Fruit a berry, globose, 3-celled and -seeded, me capsular, not winged ; 
flowers umbellate :— ses vb ee “ee “0 eee we cexxxv—Helinns, 
XXXVJI—AMPELIDACEAi- 
(I) Climbers, (rarely erect); leaves simple and palmately costate, or 3— 
foliate, or digitately or pedately 5—9-foliate ; filaments free ; ovary 2-celled :— 
ccxxxvi— Vitis. 
(11) Erect; leaves (rarely simple) pinnate or bi-or tri-pinnate ; filaments 
united in a tube; ovary 3--6-celled:— ... S3 oes pe «. CCxxxvii—Leea, 
XXXVIII —-SAPINDACEA-— 
[Botanicai Note.—As explained under the Key to the Orders, Sir D. Brandis follow- 
ing Engler u. Prantl., sub-divides this into 3 orders, and the genus Acer then comes 
into ACERAaCEm, and Turpinia into STaAPUYLEACE®, Filiciwm is transferred from Order 
XX1IX--BuRsERACE®; whilst according to Brandis, Hemigyrosa is included under 
Lepisanthes. Onthe other hand, he divides Sapindus into Supindus and Aphania. ] 
(1) Leaves alternate, exstipulate :— 
(i) Leaves biternate or trifoliate, leaflets serrate :-— 
(1) Slender climbers ; leaves biternate ; eopeule inflated, membranons, 
3-celled and —valved :— es 1 C@exxxvili--Cardiospermum. 
(2) Erect; leaves 3-foliate ; ‘fruit a berry : —— aoe ecxli--Allophylus. 
(ii) Leaves (usually, but not always, pari---) pinnate, leaflets entire ; fruit 
indehiscent, usually a leathery, less commonly a woody or fleshy, berry :-- 
(1) Fruit not deeply lobed :—— 
(A) Common petiole (rachis) deeply winged :— .. Clxxiv--Filicium. 
(B) Common petiole not winged :— 
(a) Sepals 5, erect, concave, 2 outer smaller, petals 4—5; fila- 
ments hairy:--_... 560 oot soe cexxxix—Hemigyrosa. 
(b) Sepals 5, concave, widely imbricated ; pepe 5; filaments 
very short: ae ‘coxliv-—Otophora. 
(c) Calyx 4——6-fid, very, small, lobes valvate ; ; petals O; filaments 
downy or not :— ee ane oe ces ecxlv—Schleicher 
(2) Fruit deeply 1-3 lobed :—— ; 
(A) Fruit not muricste, ripe carpels quite distinct:— ... ccxlvii—Sapindus. 
(B) Fruit not muricate, ripe carpels united at the base :—- 
(a) eh ae dia a disk complete ; petals not clawed, pericarp- 
succulent:— . coe A cexlvii—B,. —Aphania. 
(b) Flowers zyg omorphic ; disk unilateral : — . dost ita ci aaa 
(C) Fruit echinate or tubercled, ripe carpels connate ; cexlviiiNephelium, 
(iii) Leaves (usually, bat not always, pari-) pinnate, leaflets entire; fruit 
a dehiscent capsule :— 
(1) Capsule trigonous, 3-celled, seed 1, arillate, in each cell :— 
- : ; cecexliii—Blighia, 
(2) Capsule flattened, 2-celled, seed 1, winged, in each cell:— 
ecxlvi—Ptzroxylon, 
(3) Capsule inflated, 2-lobed and ~celled, seeds 1—-2, usually arillate, in ; 
each cel! :— Ane ays se +s oye See + cexlix—Harpullia, 
