104 Ampelidea— Vitis. 
1. V. quinquefolia, syn. Ampelépsis hederacea. Virginian 
Creeper.—This fast-growing climber is a general favourite, its 
5-foliolate leaves being particularly handsome towards Autumn, 
when they change to a bright red colour. North America. 
2. V. Veitchii, syn. V. Japonica, Ampelopsis tricuspidata. 
—A Japanese species with trifoliolate leaves, which assume 
the same ruddy tint in Autumn. This is probably less hardy 
than the foregoing. 
V. Labrisca, cordifolia, vulpina, ete., are hardy North 
American species which have improved under cultivation, and 
produce edible fruit, and may likewise be planted for ornament. 
Orprr XXXIV.—SAPINDACEZ. 
Deciduous trees or shrubs with alternate or opposite simple 
or compound leaves and usually polygamous flowers. Stamens 
unequal, or double the number of the petals, or if equal alter- 
nate with them, inserted within, upon or around the disk. 
Ovary 1- to 3- (rarely 4-) celled, with 1 style. Fruit variable. 
This order includes an assemblage of genera of somewhat 
heterogeneous appearance and structure to the number of 73, 
containing between 600 and 700 species. 
Tre .—SAPINDES. 
Stamens inserted within the disk at the base of the ovary, or 
on one side. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit dehiscent. 
1, KGLREUTERIA. 
Leaves alternate, imparipinnate. Flowers irregular, poly- 
gamous, yellow, in large terminal panicles. Calyx 5-partite, 
with valvate sepals. Petals 3 or 4, clawed, with two scales at 
the base, the position of the fifth or suppressed one empty. 
Stamens 5 to 8. Capsule vesiculate, inflated, three-lobed, 
dehiseing loculicidally, with 1 or 2 seeds in each cell. Named 
in honour of a German botanist. 
1. AK. panicwlata.—A small tree, handsome when in flower, 
but of rather irregular erowth. The leaves are composed of 
about 7 or 9 deeply toothed leaflets. It is the only species 
known, a native of China, producing its flowers in this country 
in great abundance in June or July. 
