`: 746 SAPINDACEAE 
1. Exothea paniculata (Juss.) Radlk. A tree, with a hard but brittle wood and a 
reddish brown bark. Leaflets 2-4 or rarely 6, the blades rather thick, oblong or elliptic, 
5-13 cm. long, entire somewhat lustrous above, glabrous: flowers numerous, fragrant, from 
^elove-shaped buds: panicles corymbose : bractlets subulate : sepals 4, broadly ovate to 
| Suborbicular, 3-4 mm. long, tomentose, persistent: and reflexed : petals 4, white, similar to 
; the sepals but glabrous : fruit subglobose, 10-13 mm. in diameter, orange turning purple, 
, with a juicy pulp: seed solitary, papery coated, mahogany-colored. 
In sandy places, peninsular Florida and the Keys. Also in the West Indies. Winter and spring. 
* INKWOOD. IRONWOOD. - 
6. HYPELATE P. Br. 
Evergreen shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate: blades palmately 3-foliolate : leaflets 
with leathery, prominently nerved blades. Flowers polygamo-dioecious in terminal or 
almost terminal panicles. Sepals 5, imbricated, nearly glabrous. Petals 5, unappendaged, 
sessile. Stamens 8-10, imperfect or wanting in the pistillate flowers: filaments glabrous. 
Ovary 3-celled, sessile: styles united. Ovules 2 in each cavity, superposed, the upper as- 
cending, the lower rather pendulous. Fruit l-celled (by abortion). Seed solitary. Em- 
bryo with thin crumpled cotyledons and a long radicle. : 
: 1l. Hypelate trifoliata Sw. A slender tree, with a smoothish bark and brittle 
` branches. Leaves numerous; leaflets 3, the blades spatulate to narrowly obovate, 2.5-4.5 
cm. long, leathery, rounded or retuse at the apex, cuneate at the base ; rachis usuall 
` narrowly winged above: flowers in panicles surpassing the leaves : stamens 6-8 : sepal 
suborbicular, pubescent within : corolla white, 3-4 mm. broad : petals suborbicular : fruit. 
ovoid, 5-7 mm, long, black, with a single seed. 
On the Florida Keys. Also in the West Indies. Spring and summer. WHITE IRONWOOD. 
7. CUPANIA L. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, without stipules, pinnate: leaflets alternate or 
opposite, entire or. shallowly toothed. ' Flowers regular, polygamo-dioecious, in racemes 
or panicles. Sepals 4-5, or rarely 3 or 6, broad. Corolla green, white or reddish, or 
wanting. Petals 4-5, each sometimes bearing 1 or 2 scales. Stamens 8, or 5, 6, 10 or 12. 
Ovary 2-3-celled, or rarely 4-celled. Ovules solitary in each cavity. Capsule 2-4-lobed, 
commonly 3-lobed, leathery or firmer, loculicidal. Seeds globular or oblong. 
1. Cupania glábra Sw. A tree, with glabrous or thinly pubescent branches. Leaves 
1.5-3.5 dm. long: leaflets leathery, few or several, the blades oblong with a cuneate base, 
6-11 em. long, more or less crenate or crenate-serrate above the middle: panicle-branches 
pee : petals broad, about as long as the sepals : capsules turbinate, 3-lobed, 11-14 mm. 
road, apiculate, stout-stipitate. , 
In hammocks, Pine Key, Florida. Also in tropical America. 
8. UNGNADIA Endl. 
Shrubs or small trees, with a pale bark and a brittle wood. Leaves alternate: blades 
pinnately compound, with a terminal leaflet: leaflets 5-7 or rarely 3, with leathery 
serrate blades. Flowers irregular, polygamous, pedicelled, deep pink, in lateral clusters. 
Sepals 5, imbricated. Petals 4-5, undulate or erose, nearly equal, strongly crested with 
fimbriate seales. Disk one-sided, oblique. Stamens 7-10, unequal in length, declined : 
filaments filiform. Ovary 3-celled, stalked : styles and stigmas united. Ovules 2 in each 
cavity, ascending, anatropous or amphitropous. Capsule leathery, 3-celled, ` 3-lobed. 
Seeds 1 in each cavity, globose, without an aril. Endosperm wanting. Cotyledons nearly 
. hemispheric. 5 
1. Ungnadia specidsa Endl. A shrub or tree 2-10 m. tall, the twigs, foliage and 
inflorescence more or less pubescent. Leaves 1-2 dm. long, the rachis nearly terete ; 
leaflets usually 5-7, the blades ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, 5-12 cm. long, acutish or 
acuminate, appressed-serrate, rounded or subcordate at the base, deep green above, paler 
beneath : calyx 4-5 mm. long: sepals oblong-ovate, longer than the tube: corolla rose t 
- pink, about 2 em. broad : petals obovate-spatulate, 9-13 mm. long, the scale reaching to abou 
the middle : stamens exserted : capsules leathery, broadly obovoid, 3-5 cm. broad, shorter 
than broad, minutely pubescent or glabrous: seeds subglobose, nearly 1.5 cm. in diameter, 
black, shining. 
i Chiefly along streams, Texas to New Mexico and Mexico. Spring. SPANISH BUCKEYE. TEXAS 
UCKEYE. 
