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AMPELIDEiEo 
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division pinnate ; leaflets short-petioled, opposite, oblong, acute, 1-8 in. 
long, penninerved, membranous, deeply inciso-crenate ; base cuneate, 
entire. Flowers in sessile or short-peduncled axillary cymes 3-6 
in. broad ; branches rough with glands ; pedicels short, thickened at 
the tip so as to enlarge gradually into the calyx. Calyx ^ in. deep ; 
teeth deltoid. Petals % in. long, yellow or reddish, finally spreading. 
Tube of filaments nearly as long as the petals. Berry depresso-glo- 
bose, umbilicate, under \ inch thick. L. coccinea, Bojer , Hort. Maur . 
61. L. arborea, Bojer loc. cit . 
Mauritius, common in the forests. Everywhere in the tropics of Old World. 
Z. arborea is said to he more of a tree, and to have whitish flowers, hut quite agrees 
with the type in structure. Bois de Bureau. Bois de Bceuf. Bois de Source. 
Order XXX. SAPlNDACEiE. 
Flowers usually polygamous, regular or irregular. Sepals usually 5 
and free. Petals 5, or 1 with the place of the fifth vacant, or absent, 
often crested with a scale on the face, or villose. Disk prominent, 
centrical or oblique. Stamens usually 8, in Hornea many ; filaments 
free, bypogynous ; anthers 2-celled, slitting down the side. Oyary 2-3- 
celled ; ovules 1 or 2, rarely more ; placentation axile ; style entire at 
the base, entire or 2-3-fid at the stigmatose apex. Fruit dry or fleshy, 
often 1-celled and 1-seeded by abortion. Seed flat or turgid, usually 
exalbuminous. — Usually trees or shrubs, with alternate, usually extipu- 
late and compound leaves and small flowers, variously arranged. Dis- 
trib. Cosmopolitan. Species 700-800. 
Flowers with petals, irregular (the fifth petal being absent 
and disk unilateral). 
Cirrhose herbs with ternate peduncles 1 . Cardiospermum. 
Shrubs ; flowers racemed ; petals not crested .... 2. Schmidelia. 
Tree with panicled flowers ; petals crested on the face . * Dittelasma. 
Flowers with petals, regular. 
Stamens 5-8. 
Fruit, a loculicidal capsule ; seeds solitary .... 3. Cupania. 
Fruit a loculicidal capsule ; seeds in a cell 2-3 . . 4. Cossigxya. 
Fruit a saponiferous drupe * Sapindus. 
Stamens 20-24 5. Hornea. 
Flowers without petals. 
Leaves pinnate ; sepals connate 6. Stadtmanxia. 
Leaves pinnate ; sepals free, imbricated 7. Doratoxylon. 
Leaves simple 8. Dodox-sa. 
1. CARDIOSPERMUM, Linn. 
Flowers irregular, polygamous. Sepals 4, obovate, imbricated, 2 
alternate ones much larger. Petals 4, obovate, unguiculate, crested 
with a scale at the base, 2 large and 2 small. Disk unilateral, with 
two large glands. Stamens 8, eccentric ; filaments unequal, subulate, 
pilose. Ovary sessile, 2-celled; ovules solitary; style short, trifid. 
Fruit a large membranous inflated capsule dehiscing loculicidally. — 
Shrubby herbs, with slender climbing stems, alternate 2-3-ternate 
