1896.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of Ike Malayan Peninsula. 421 



Calyx gamosopaloug, dontato or lobed ; petals with 

 two crested basal scales ; fruit large, pyriform, with 

 thick pericarp, obtusely 3-aiigled, not lobed 

 Petals with 2 crestless basal scales, or sometimes 

 absent ; fruit with the cocci quite distinct and divai'i- 

 cate ; disc sub-entire, annular. 



Arillns enclosing the whole or nearly the whole of 

 the seed, not appendiculate at the base 

 Arillas with 2 spur-like processes at its base ; 

 fruit pyriform or globose, 3-lobed 

 Petals peltate-infnndibuliform, the single large basal 

 scale being connate with each petal by its edges. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; fruit obovate, the pericarp coria- 

 ceous, the arillas fleshy, basal ; the leaves equally 

 pinnate, flower buds oval, pointed 

 Ovary 3-celled ; fruit with the pericarp woody, 

 tubercular or echinate ; flower-buds sab-globose . . , 

 Ovules 2 or more in each loculus of the ovary. 



Leaves simple, exstipulate : stamens inserted outside the 



disc ; tlie capsule much compressed, membranous, winged, 



seeds ex-arillate 



Leaves pinnate, exstipulate ; stamens inserted inside the 



disc ; capsule coriaceous, inflated, sub-compressed, reni- 



form, 2-celled, not winged; seeds arillate 



Leaves pinnate, stipulate ; stamens inserted outside the 



lobed disc ; fruit more or less fleshy, sub-globose, 3-celled, 



indehiscent : seeds without arill us 



12. Trigonachras. 



13. AllYTliRA. 



14. MlSCHOCABPUa 



15. Lei'idopetalum. 



16. Paranephelium. 



17. DODONAEA. 



18. Harpullia. 



19. Tdrpinia. 



1. Cardiospermum, Liim. 



Climbing- tendril-bearing herbs with alternate exstipulate leaves, 

 biternate coarsely dentate leaflets, axillary racemes, and irregular 

 polygamo-dioecioua flowers. Sepals 4i, imbricate, concave, the 2 outer 

 small. Petals 4, in pairs, the larger two with a scale above tlie base ; the 

 two smaller inferior, remote from the stamens, each furnished with a 

 small crested scale. Disc unilateral, undulate, almost reduced to 2 

 round or linear glands opposite the lower petals. Stamens 8, excentric ; 

 filaments free or connate at base ; the 4 nearest to the glands shorter 

 than the rest. Ovary sessile or sub-sessile, 3-«elled ; style short, trifid ; 

 ovules solitary, ascending. Gapsicle membranous, 3-celled, 3-valved, 

 inflated, loculicidal. Seeds globose, usually arillate at the base, exalbu- 

 minous, testa crustaceous ; cotyledons large, transversely conduplicate. — 

 DiSTRiB. About 30 species, mostly Tropical American and Tropical 

 African. 



Cardiospermum Halicacabum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. I, 366. Annual 

 or perennial ; the branches slender, striate, sparsely pubescent or sub- 

 glabrous. Leaflets deltoid, acuminate, deeply and sharply lobed, 

 J. II. 54 



