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racemis elongatis et floribus multo minoribus facile distincta. Fru- 
tex est biorgyalis. Foliorum petiolus communis semipollicaris, pilis 
paucis puberulus. Foliola, exceptis barbis ad axillas venarum, glabra, 
terminale 2—4-pollicare; lateralia vulgo minora, omnia basi angus- 
tata, margine dentibus paucis brevibus subcallosis notata, supra 
siccitate nigricantia, subtus pallide virentia. Racemi- vulgo semi- 
pedales vel longiores, fere a basi fasciculato-floriferi. Flores albi, 
aperti vix lin. diametro. Sepala 2 exteriora interioribus dimidio 
breviora, omnia orbiculata, concava. Petala sepalis breviora, cu- 
 neato-oblonga. Fructus sessiles, subglobosi, magnitudine pisi.— 
Near Santarem. 
There are fine specimens in flower and fruit of Sapindus inequalis, 
DC., a tree of twenty to forty feet, common about Santarem. As this 
has been ascertained to be the same as 5. divaricatus of Willdenow's 
herbarium (Schlecht. Linnæa, vol. vi. p. 419), it is probably also the 
S. divaricatus of Camb. and St. Hil., and has a wide range in Brazil. 
I have it from Utinga, prov. Bahia (Blanchet, n. 2755), and from 
Pohl’s collection. It is nearly allied to the West Indian S. marginatus, 
and differs from all other known American Sapindi in its small flowers. 
The following handsome large-flowered species appears to be unde- 
scribed, although probably near to S. Surinamensis, Poir., a species un- 
known to me. That is, however, said to have thin membranous leaf- 
lets rounded at the base and blunt at the apex, whilst those of our 
S. cerasinus are stiff and narrowed at both ends. Mr. Spruce found it 
in gravelly situations about Santarem, where it forms a shrub of eight 
or ten feet, with yellowish flowers, and a fruit resembling a cherry in ap- 
pearance. Itis called Pitomba by the Brazilians, who eat its thin pulp. - 
1. Sapindus cerasinus, sp. n. ; foliolis 3-8-jugis oblongis sublanceola- - 
tisve acuminatis basi inæqualiter angustatis coriaceis utrinque gla- 
berrimis nitidis, panicula ampla floribunda, cymulis laxis calycibusque 
puberulis, petalis glabris calyce triplo longioribus squamas ligulatas 
brevissime bilobas paullo superantibus.—Foliorum petiolus com- 
munis semipedalis ad pedalis v. etiam longior. Z/io/a foliorum _ 
majorum 6-8 poll. longa, 2-23 poll. lata, utrinque viridia, ve- —— 
nulis crebris. Panicula pyramidata, floribunda, 1-14-pedalis. Se- 
pala vix lineam longa, orbieularia. Petala 3 lin. longa, oblonga, 
crassiuseula, glaberrima, squama intus dense et longe barbata. - 
Ovarium sessile, breviter pubescens, stylo simplici ovario æquilongo. 
