6?0 XLIV. SAPINDACE^. (W. P. Hiem.) [Cardiospemum. 



pedicels developed into spiral tendrils, and irregular polygamo-dioecious 

 flowers. Sepals 4, concave, the 2 outer ones small. Petah 4, m pairs, -the 

 2 greater lateral usually adhering to the sepals each with an emarginate 

 scale above the base, the two smaller inferior remote from the stamens each 

 furnished with a small crested scale. Disk unilateral, wavy, almost reduced 

 to 2 round or linear glands opposite the lower petals. Stamenx 8, excen- 

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

 than the rest. Ovary 3-celled ; style short, trifid ; ovules solitary, ascending. 

 Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, inflated, loculicidal ; valves membranous, vemy. 

 Seeds globose, usually arillate at the base, exalbuminous, testa crustaceous ; 

 cotyledons large, transversely conduplicate.— Distrib. Several species, 

 mostly occurring in Tropical America and a few in Tropical Africa. 



For the morphology of the flower in this genus, see Griffith Notvla, iv. p. 546. 



C. Schmiedelia and C. villosa, Ddlz. & Oibs. Bomb. PI. 34, are clearly meant to be 

 Schmiedelia villosa, Boxb. 



1. C. Kalloacabum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 366; thinly pubescent or 

 nearly glabrous rather pale, leaflets much acuminate, flowers small. 

 W. &A. Prodr. L 109 ; Wall. Gat. 8030 ; Griff. Notvl. iv. 546, Ic. PI. Aaiat. 

 iv t. 599, f. 3; Stewart Punjab PL 31; Batz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 34; 

 Wight Ic. t. 508 ; Thwaites Enum. 54 ; Boxb. FL Ind. ii. 292 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 1049 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 28 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. L 945 ; Baker in Oliv. 

 FL Trap. Afr. i. 417, with syn.; Benth. Fl. AustraL L 453. C. microcarpum, 

 E. B. K. S'ov. Gen. & Sp. PL v. 104 ; Baker I.e. 418, viith syn.—Plieede 

 Hort. Mai. viii. t. 28 ; Rumph. Herb. Amhoin. vi. t. 24, f. 2. 



Throughout Indl*., from the N.W. Fbohtiee to Ceylon and Malacca. — ^Distrib. 

 Most tropical and subtropical countries. 



Annual or perhaps in some cases perennial. Branches slender, furrowed. Leaves 

 deltoid or ovate, 14-3 in. ; leaflets deeply cut. Flowers white, J in. Fruit J-IJ in. 

 wide, broadly pyrifoi-m. Seeds officinal. Boot aperient. — The form with smaller 

 obversely deltoid capsule (C microcarpum), being connected with the type by con- 

 tinuous links, does not appear to me to be a distinct species. 



2. C. canescens, Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 14, t. 14 ; paJe, softly pubescent, 

 leaflets short, flowers of moderate size. W. it A. Prodr. L 109 ; WigJU Ic. 

 t. 74 ; WaU. Cat. 8032 ; Balcer in Oliv. FL Trap. Afr. L 418, wkh syn. 

 ?'C. ovatum, WaU. Gat. 8031. C. pubescens. Griff. Joum. 108, not of Lagasca. 



BiKMA, WaUich, Griffith. Western Peninsula, from the Conoan and Circars south- 

 wards. — DisTBiB. Abyssinia. 



Annual. Branches 5-furrowed. Leaves patent, triangular, 2-3 in. Flowers J— J in. 

 Fruit nearly globose, l-lj in. — C. ovatum doTiates somewhat from the type in the 

 direction of the previous species. 



2. KBUXXGYROSA, Blume. 



Trees with alternate exstipulatp abruptly pinnate pallid leaves, quite 

 entire coriaceous oblong much reticulated leaflets, short pedicels bracteate 

 at the base and crowded polygamo-monoecious irregular flowers on spicate 

 racemes arranged in axillary panicles. Sepals 5, erect, concave, the 2 outer 

 ones smaller. Petals 4-5, concave, shaggy at the claw, with an entire or 

 bifid or crested and hooded scale inserted at the claw within ; the fifth 

 petal equal minute or obsolete. Bisk unilateral, cushion-shaped. Stamens 8 

 or in (J flowers 6-10, ascending, somewhat unilateral, inserted at the base 

 of the ovary within the disk j filaments pilose ; anthers not or scarcely 



