7. Leaves twice ternate. Fruit 3-winged below, separating into 3 nutlets.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Serjania= Schum. Leaves pinnate. Fruit wingless, capsular.--Species 1. Tropics. Poisonous and yielding fibres and medicaments. =Paullinia= L. 8. Leaves simple or trifoliolate. Sepals 4, broadly imbricate in bud. Petals with a crestless, notched or 2-parted scale. Stamens 8. Ovary deeply lobed. Fruit of 1-3 drupes.--Species 50. Tropical and South Africa. Some species yield timber, edible fruits, and medicaments. (Under _Schmidelia_ L.) =Allophyllus= L. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Sepals 5. 9 9. Sepals free, broadly imbricate in bud. Petals with a notched scale. Stamens 8. Fruit separating into 3 mericarps. Seed-coat hard.--Species 3. Naturalized in the Mascarenes and Seychelles. The wood and the fruits (soap-berries) are used; the latter afford a substitute for soap, mucilage, oil, poison, and medicaments; the seeds serve as ornaments and for making buttons and rosaries. (Including _Dittelasma_ Hook.) =Sapindus= L. Sepals more or less united, narrowly imbricate or valvate in bud. Fruit furrowed or lobed, indehiscent. 10 10. Calyx shortly bell-or top-shaped; sepals united at the base only. Petals with a 2-crested scale. Stamens 6-8. Pericarp crustaceous or leathery. 11 Calyx deeply urn-shaped or almost globular; sepals united high up. Pericarp more or less fleshy. 12 11. Disc obliquely cupular. Ovary 2-celled. Sepals imbricate in bud. Petals with a very broad scale. Shrubs. Leaflets 10.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Plagioscyphus= Radlk. Disc not cupular. Ovary 3-celled. Leaflets 4-8.--Species 7. West Africa. (Under _Erioglossum_ Blume) =Pancovia= Willd. 12. Stamens 12-15. Petals sessile; scale adnate below by the margin, bearing a short crest. Ovary 6-8-celled. Trees. Leaflets 10-12.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). =Glossolepis= Gilg Stamens 6-8. Petals clawed. 13 13. Scales of the petals adnate below by the margins, bearing an incurved crest; claws elongate. Calyx subglobose, shortly toothed. Ovary 7-celled. Trees. Leaflets numerous.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). =Radlkofera= Gilg Scales of the petals adnate by a ridge, more rarely free. Ovary 3-4-celled, rarely 7-8-celled, but then petals with a free and crestless scale. Species 10. West Africa. Some have edible fruits. =Chytranthus= Hook. fil. 14. (4.) Petals absent. 15 Petals present. 23 15. Sepals 4-6, united at the base only, valvate or almost valvate in bud. 16 Sepals 5, united high up. 19 16. Stamens 4. Ovary 2-celled. Sepals 4. Leaves with 4-6 leaflets.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Crossonephelis= Baill. Stamens 5-8. Ovary 3-celled. 17 17. Flowers in racemes or panicles. Sepals 4-5, hairy outside. Stamens 7-8. Seeds without an aril. Leaves with 4-6 leaflets.--Species 2. Central Africa. =Melanodiscus= Radlk. Flowers in clusters. Stamens 5, rarely 6-7, but then seeds with an aril. 18