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Order SAPINDALES. 

 Family SAPINDACEAE. 



Genus SAPINDUS Linnaeus. 



SAPINDUS HISPANIOLANA. new species. 



Plate 21, fig. 3. 



Description. — Leaflets of small size ; ovate lanceolate in general 

 outline with a broad abrutply pointed base and a much extended 

 acuminate tip. Margins entire. Texture subcoriaceous. Length 

 about 4.5 cm. Maximum width, in the lower half of the leaflet, 

 about 1.3 cm. Petiolule missing or wanting. Midrib mediumly 

 stought; straight. Secondaries thin, mostly immersed; numerous 

 equally spaced camptodrome pairs diverge from the midrib at wide 

 angles. Tertiaries obsolete. 



These small leaflets appear to represent a new species of Sapindus. 

 They are approximately equilateral and smaller than most of the 

 fossil species but may be compared with Sapindus georgiana Berry 7 

 from the lower Jackson of Georgia, which, except for their somewhat 

 narrower form, are exceedingly close to the present species. The 

 existing species are numerous in the warmer parts of both hemis- 

 pheres, including several species of soapberry of the Antillean beaches. 

 Among these the present species is very similar to S. marginatus 

 Willdenow of the Florida keys, which is a rare and little known form 

 that may be present still in the Antilles. The fossil species are 

 exceedingly numerous from the Upper Cretaceous through the 

 Tertiary. 



Occurrence. — Locality No. 8684. Cut in clay near pier at Sanchez, 

 District of Samana. 



Holotype—C&t. No. 35455, U.S.N.M. 



Order MYRTALES. 



Family MYRTACEAE. 



Genus CALYPTRANTHES Swartz. 



CALYPTRANTHES DOMINGENSIS, new species. 



Plate 21, figs. 9, 10. 



Description. — Obovate subsessile leaves of small size and leathery 

 texture, with a broadly rounded tip, widest above the middle, from 

 which it tapers to a cuneate base. Margins entire, evenly rounded. 

 Length about 2.5 cm. Maximum width about 1.6 cm. Midrib 

 stout, prominent. Secondaries thin, immersed, numerous, and 

 subparallel; they diverge from the midrib at wide angles, pursue 

 a rather straight outward course, and are abruptly camptodrome 



t Berry, E. W., U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 84, p. 143, pi. 27, fig. 11, 19W. 



