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yellow glandulose thickening at the duplicature. Glandules 2, 
hypogynons, short, thick. Stamens 8; filaments monadelphous 
at the base, nearly as long as the petals. Rudiments of the 
pistil consisting of a small villous ovary, and short style, con- 
cealed in the centre of the stamens. <j> Flowers persistent. 
Calyx and corolla as in the barren flowers. Stamens shorter 
than the styles; anthers ovate, white, apparently abortive. 
Ovary 3-gonal, 6-lineated, villous : styles 3, erect, shorter than 
the petals : stigmata obtuse. Fruit pedicelled, subglobose, 
inflated, sub-3-alate, 6-lineated, hispidulous, 3-celled : cells 1- 
seeded. 
This species is nearly allied to C. Molle, but is distinguished 
from it by the leaves not being sharply serrato-incised, and by 
the hairs not being appressed. It is very different from C. 
halicacabum, with which it has hitherto been confounded. 
According to Barham the seeds are narcotic; bruised in water 
and applied externally, they relieve the pain in gout, and are 
useful in chronic affections of the joints; and mixed with sugar 
they may be given for cough. The decoction of the root is 
mucilaginous and somewhat nauseous, and has the reputation of 
being lithontriptic. 
2. Cardiospermum grandiflorum. Large-Flowered 
Heart-Pea. 
Stem frutescent at the base, petioles and leaves 
pubescent, leaves triternately divided, glandules 2 
hypogynous elongated linear, capsules acuminate very 
large tomentose. 
Swartz, Prod. 64. — FI. Ind. Occ. 698. 
HAB. Common in thickets, especially on the lower hills. 
FL. June — October. 
Stem frutescent at the base, subscandent : branches angulose, 
pubescent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, triternate : leaflets pe- 
tiolulated, ovate, slightly acuminate at the base, very much so 
at the apex, deeply serrated with the teeth bluntish, nerved, 
pubescent : petioles subterete, striated, pubescent. Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, elongated, usually longer than the leaf, an- 
guloso-striated, pubescent, bearing at the apex a compound ra- 
ceme : branchlets about an inch in length, the 2 lower ones 
abortive and cirrhose, the others somewhat crowded and 
whorled, each furnished with a small lanceolate bractea at 
the insertion, bearing a number of pedicelled white flowers. 
Flowers polygamous. $ Flowers : deciduous. Calyx with 
the 2 outer sepals small, roundish : the 2 inner several times 
larger, oval, concave. Petals 4, subequal, obovate, rounded at 
the apex : the appendices petaloid, ^ the length of the petals, 
slightly incrassated at the apex and tipt with yellow, obliquely 
