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long, 2 in. wide; petiolules - 4 to - 6 in. long. Flowers capitate on 
a hairy peduncle 5 to 1-5 in. long, much shorter than leaves. Head 
many-flowered ’75 in. through, red-hairy. Fruit round flat at top, 
5-lobed red - 3 in. across on a peduncle 3 in. long and cyme-branches 
1 in. long. Hab. Limestone rocks in damp forest. Selangor, Batu 
Caves. Pahang, Tahan River. Perak, Kwala Dipang. Lankawi 
(Curtis). 
Order XLII. SAPINDACE^E. 
Trees, shrubs, rarely climbing herbs. Leaves alternate (rarely 
opposite), pinnate or simple; leaflets entire or toothed. Flowers 
small, usually unisexual and irregular. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed, or of 
4 or 5 sepals, often unequal. Petals equal or not, 4 or 5 or sup¬ 
pressed, often bearded or scaled at the base. Disc annular or 
unilateral. Stamens 5 to 10, inserted inside, outside or on the 
disc; anthers 2-celled; filaments often pubescent, rarely connate. 
Ovary sometimes excentric, entire or lobed, 1- to 3-celled, 1 to 2 
ovules in cell affixed to axis of ovary, ascending. Fruit capsular 
or drupaceous, entire or lobed, rarely winged. Seed globose or 
compressed, arillate or not, usually exalbuminous. About 800 
species, whole world. 
Ovules 1 in each cell. 
Leaves trifoliolate. 
Slender climber with tendrils; fruit capsular 
inflated ...... 
Shrubs usually erect; fruit a drupe . 
Leaves equally pinnate (except 1 species Aphania 
simple). 
Fruit indehiscent. 
Seeds not arillate. 
Sepals and petals oblong 4 or 5; fruit 1 - to 
3-lobed, only 1 lobe developed 
Sepals and petals 3; stamens 6; fruit 
bilobed ...... 
Sepals orbicular; petals obovate; fruit 
1- to 3-lobed; lobes oblong; panicles 
terminal ...... 
Sepals orbicular; petals smaller; fruit lobes 
divergent, 1- to 3-lobed. Racemes 
axillary ...... 
Fruit sulcate, not lobed, 3-angled; petals 
scaled crested ..... 
Fruit baccate, scales not crested; basal 
leaflets stipule-like .... 
Fruit angled; petals o; disc lobed . 
Seeds arillate. 
Sepals petaloid imbricate; stamens within 
disc ....... 
Sepals small, valvate; petals often absent . 
Calyx cup-shaped, 4- to 5-lobed, valvate; 
fruit smooth, hard .... 
r. Cardiospermum 
2. Allophylus 
3. Sapindus 
4. CURTISINA 
5. Erioglossum 
6. Aphania 
7. Lepisanthes 
8. Otophora 
9. Tristir a 
10. Xerospermua^ 
11. Nephelium 
12. Pometia 
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