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



Arytera. 

 Mischocarpus 



Lepidopktalum. 

 Pasanephelium. 



Calyx gamosepalous, dentate or lobed ; petals with 

 two crested basal scales ; fruit large, pyriform, with 



thick pericarp, obtusely 3-angled, not lobed ... 12. Trigonachras, 



Petals with 2 crestless basal scales, or sometimes 

 absent ; fruit with the cocci quite distinct and divari- 

 cate ; disc sub-entire, annular. 



Arillus enclosing the whole or nearly the whole of 

 the seed, not appendiculate at the base ... 18. 



Arillus with 2 spur-like processes at its base ; 

 fruit pyriform or globose, 3-lobed ... .., 14. 



Petals peltate-infundibuliform, the single large basal 

 scale being connate with each petal by its edges. 

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

 ceous, the arillus fleshy, basal ; the leaves equally 

 pinnate, flower buds oval, pointed ... ... 15. 



Ovary 3-celled ; fruit with the pericarp woody, 

 tubercular or echinate ; flower-buds sub-globese ... 16. 

 Ovules 2 or more in each loculus of the ovary. 



Leaves simple, exstipulate : stamens inserted outside the 

 disc ; the capsule much compressed, membranous, winged, 

 seeds ex-arfflate ... ... ... .. 17. Dodonaea. 



Leaves pinnate, exstipulate ; stamens inserted inside the 

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

 form, 2-celled, not winged ; seeds arillate ... ... 18. Harpullia, 



Leaves pinnate, stipulate ; stamens iaserted outside the 

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

 indehiscent ; seeds without arillus ... ... 19. Tdepinia. 



1. Cardiospermttm, Linn. 



Climbing tendril-bearing berbs with alternate exstipulate leaves, 

 foiternate coarsely dentate leaflets, axillary racemes, and irregular 

 polygamo-dioecious flowers. Sepals 4, imbricate, concave, tbe 2 outer 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 minous, testa crustaceous ; cotyledons larg6, transversely conduplicate. — 

 Disteib. About 30 species, mostly Tropical American and Tropical 

 African. 



Cardiosperjutm 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 



