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Ovules solitary in each loculus of the ovary. 



Leaves trifoliolate ; inner cotyledon transversely bi-pli- 

 oate 5 disc unsymmetrical. 



Scandent tendril-bearing herbs or shrubs with 3-foHolate 

 leaves ; petals with cucullate crested scales ; fruit a 

 membranous 3-celled capsule ... ... ... 1, Cardiospermum. 



Erect shrubs or trees without tendrils; leaves 1- to 3- 

 foliolate ; scales of petals emarginate ; fruit (by abor- 

 tion) with 2 or 1 globose indehiscent baccate cocci ... 2. Allophylus. 

 Leaves (except in Paraneplielium) equally pinnate (simple 

 in one Aphania ) ; cotyledons curved or sub-circinate, rarely 

 sub-diplicolobate ; disc symmetrical or unsymmetrical. 

 Fruit indehiscent. ~ 



Seeds without arillus. 



Fruit 1- to 3-coccous, two of the segments small 

 and imperfect or obsolete, the developed one sub- 

 globose and fleshy, testa of seed bony ; sepals and 

 petals oblong, the basal scales of the petals entire 3. Dittelasma. 

 Fruit 1- to 3-lobed to the base, the lobes diverging, 

 oblong ; the testa of the seed membranous ; sepals 

 orbicular; petals obovate, their basal scale lobed... 4. Erigolossum. 

 Fruit deeply divided into 2 rarely 3 ellipsoid or 

 sub-3-gonous divergent lobes united only at their 

 bases; sepafs more or less orbicular ; petals smaller 

 with 2 infolded basal auricles or with 2 basal scales 5. Aphania. 

 Frait sulcate, never lobed : inflorescence often from 

 the branches. 



Fruit sab-ligneous, 3-celled, 3-angled ; flowers 



symmetrical, scales of petals crested : lower 



pinnules of leaves not stipule-like ... 



Fruit baccate, fleshy, incompletely septate ; 



scales of petals not crested ; lower pinnules of 



leaves stipule-like 



Seeds arillate. 



Fruit coccate or deeply sulcate, arillus adnate to 



the testa with a free edge round the micropyle. 



JVlicropyle near the hilum ; calyx-lobes 4 to 5, 



petaloid, concave, broadly imbricate ; fruit muri- 



cated 



Micropyle remote from the hilum : calyx lobes 

 small, valvate, petals sometimes 0; fruit muri- 

 cated or tubercled or obsoletely so ... 

 Micropyle intermediate between the base and 

 apex of the seed ; lower leaflets stipule-like ; 

 fruit quite smooth ... ... ... 10. Pometia. 



Fruit dehiscent, often produced into false wings ; seeds 

 usually arillate. 



Calyx polysepalous, imbricate in two series, buds 

 sub-globose ; petals with 2 crested basal scales ; fruit 

 3-wingcd or 3-lobed, arillus coudate ... ... IL GuioA. 



6. Lepisanthes. 



Otophora. 



8. Xerospermum. 



Nephelium. 



