172 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Family SAPINDACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Leaves with usually 6-10 (4-12) leaflets. 



Leaflets scabrous-pubescent (or glabrate) beneath, obovate-oblong, serrate, or 



repand-crenate 419. Cupania americana. 



Leaflets glabrous, entire, lance-oblong. 



421. Matayba apelala forma opposilifolia. 

 Leaves with 3-5 leaflets. 



Climbing woody vines with tendrils 416. Serjania diversifolia. 



Non-climbing shrubs or trees. 



Leaflets three 417. Allophyllus Cominia. 



Leaflets four, in two pairs 418. Melicocca bijuga. 



Leaflets mostly five; fruit with three almost spherical lobes. 



420. Cupania macrophylla. 



416. Serjania diversifolia (Jacquin) Radlkofer. 



Paullinia diversifolia Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum, 1760, p. 36. 



Serjania diversifolia Radlkofer, Monographic der Sapindaceen Gattung Serjania, 



1875. P- 179- 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 31 (flowers) and March 24 (fruit), 

 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 321; in clearing on low ground north of 

 Nueva Gerona, May 8, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 14Q; along South 

 Coast, near Caleta Grande, May 22, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 506; 

 in thicket along river south of Nueva Gerona, May 12, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 652. General Distribution: Bahamas, Cuba, the 

 Isle of Pines, Porto Rico, Haiti, Venezuela. 



This plant is a woody climber and is quite common in thickets 

 on low grounds in various parts of the island, often growing at the 

 edge of the mangrove association in brackish soil. The plant helps 

 materially to make the thickets almost impenetrable, clinging to 

 its supports with strong tendrils; but it is often highly ornamental, 

 the winged seeds, usually tinted a rose-purple, hanging in large 

 racemes, 



417. Allophyllus Cominia (Swartz) Radlkofer. 



Schmidelia Cominia Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae 



Occidentalis. 

 Allophyllus Cominia Radlkofer, Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien, IH, Abt. V, 1895, 



p. 312. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 18, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 242. 

 General Distribution: Cuba, Haiti, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica. 



