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hypogynous, sometimes naked, or hairy or glandular, or furnish- 
ed with a petaloid scale, imbricated in estivation: disk some- 
times occupying the base of the calyx and expanded between 
the petals and stamens, sometimes consisting of glands between 
the petals and stamens: stamens 8-10, rarely 20, either inserted 
on the disk, or on the receptacle between the glands and the 
ovary: filaments free or slightly combined at the base: anthers 
bursting lengthwise. Matz: pistil rudimentary or wanting. 
Femate: Ovary 3, rarely 2—4-celled: ovules 1-3 in each eell: 
style undivided or 2-8-cleft: fruit sometimes capsular, 2-3- 
valved, occasionally extended at the back into a wing, occasion- 
ally fleshy and indehiscent: seeds generally with an aril: albu- 
men none: embryo usually curved or spirally twisted. 
GENUS I. CARDIOSPERMUM. 
Octandria Trigynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Kardia, the heart, and Sperma, a seed, alluding to 
the shape of the seeds. : : 
Gen. Cuan. Twining and climbing herbaceous plants, general- 
ly with tendrils: leaves without stipules: flowers racemose: com-~ 
mon peduncles with 2 opposite tendrils under the racemes: sepals 
4, two exterior ones smaller: petals 4, the two lateral ones usually 
adhering to the sepals, each with a scale above the base, the two 
lower ones with their scales furnished with a crest at the extremity 
and with an inflexed appendage beneath the apex: glands 2, situ- 
ated on the disk opposite the lower petals: the 4 stamens that are 
nearest the glands shorter than the others: style 3-cleft, with the 
stigmas attached to the segments on the inside: capsule membra- 
a like a bladder, 3-celled, 3-valved, loculicidal: seeds globose, 
arilate. 
(1) C. Hanicacasum. (Linn.) 
Ident. W. & A prod. I. p. 109.—Dec. prod. I. p. 601.-—Roxb. 
fi. Ind, I. p. 292. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 508.—Rheede Mal, VIII. t. 28.— 
Rumph. Amb. VI. t. 24. f. 2. 
Spec. Cuar. Annual: climbing: leaves biternate: leaflets ob« 
long, acuminated, coarsely cut and serrated: fruit broadly pear 
shaped: seeds black, with a white spot: flowers very small, white 
or pale rese-coloured. 
All over India, flowering nearly all the year, 
