444 SAPINDACE^. Sapindus. 



nous, with bony testa. — Inst. 659, t, 440 ; L. Gen. no. 898 ; Lam. 111. t. 307 ; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 213, t. 180; Radlk. Sitzungsb. Kgl. Bayer. Akad. 1878, 265, 

 315, & in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 315 ; Sargent, Silv. ii. 07, 

 t. 74-77. — Of a dozen species, widely dispersed in warm countries, the following 

 of the § Etisapindus, Radlk., are constituents of our southern flora. 



S. Saponaria, L. (Soap-berry.) A small tree with rough grayish bark : leaves large, 

 4-7-foliolate ; leaflets obloug-lauceolate and acute to elliptic-ovate and obtusish, opposite or 

 alternate, entire, of fiVm texture, glabrous veiny and lucid above, tomentulose beneath ; 

 rhachis usually interruptedly winged : petals about equalling the sepals, scarcely unguicu- 

 late, with rounded blade pubescent on the inner surface and ciliated : fruit lucid, 6 to 8 lines 

 in diameter. — Spec. i. 367 ; Descourt. Fl. Antil. iv. 121 , t. 261 ; Baill. Hist. PI. v. 349, f. 3.53 ; 

 Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 613 ; Sargent, Silv. ii. 69, t. 74, 75 (but leaves seldom so regularly impari- 

 pinnate). — S. Florida and Keys. (W. lud., S. Am.) Specimens coll. by Simpson show 

 that the compound leaves are iu some cases replaced by long obloug-lauceolate subsessile 

 simple ones, which by various transitions pass on the same shoot to the compound. 



S. marginatus, Willd. A larger tree : leaflets more numerous (7 to 13), lance-oblong, 

 acuminate, often somewhat falcate, glabrous and lucid above, slightly paler and essentially 

 glabrous except on the mid nerve beneath, 2 to 5 inches long, a fourth to a third as broad ; 

 the upper usually subopposite, the lower mostly alternate upon the wingless narrowly mar- 

 gined or marginless rhachis : flowers white, often with a reddish tinge, borne in ample pyram- 

 idal panicles: petals short-clawed; the ovate obtuse blade ciliated and bearing near the 

 base inside a 2-lobed villous scale : filaments villous : fruit yellow ; the 1 or 2 maturing 

 carpels large, becoming 8 lines in length, more or less distinctly cariuate dorsally, somewhat 

 oblong, not truly spherical, not drying black. — Euum. 432; Muhl. Cat. 41; DC. I'rodr. 

 i. 607 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 25.5, as to pi. Ga. & Fla. ; Nutt. Sylv. ii. 72, t. 65, numbered by 

 error 66 (very poor), in part; Chapm. Fl. 79 (excl. westward range) ; Sargent, Silv. ii. 71, 

 as to southeastern plant. S. Saponaria, Michx. Fl. i. 242 ; Pursh, Fl. i. 274 ; Ell. Sk. i. 460 ; 

 not L. (Lamarck's figure is poor and dubious, but probably is of this species.) S. fnlcatus, 

 Raf. Med. Bot. ii. 261. S. acuminata, Raf. New Fl.Am. iii. 22. S. Manalensis, Shuttl. in distr. 

 pi. Rugel, no. 115, & Radlk. Sitzungsb. Kgl. Bayer. Akad. 1878, 318, 400; Nash. Bull. Torr. 

 Club, xxiii. 102. — Lowlands of Florida, chiefly near the coast, formerly collected in Georgia 

 and S. Carolina, but no specimens from north of Jacksonville, Fla., are in the larger Amer. 

 herbaria. Ace. to Radlkofer's critical notes (1. c. 394) S. marginatus, Willd., appears to be 

 only a form of S. Saponaria ; but this view has an inherent improbability, since, both from 

 description and assigned range, Willdenow's not very satisfactory type is much more likely 

 to appertain to the present species, which extends to E. and N. Florida, and not to 5. Sapo- 

 naria, which as all available evidence indicates is confined to the shore and keys of S. Florida, 

 where the flora has a much stronger W. Indian cast. 



S. Drummondi, Hook. & Arn. Similar to and long confused with the foregoing species: 

 leaflets in general more numerous (8 to 19), narrower, Innceolate, 1^ to 3 inches long, more 

 often falcate, taper-pointed, glabrous above, soft-pubescent or very tardily glabrate beneath ; 

 rhachis wingless : petals rliombic-lanceolate, strongly unguiculate, narrowed to an obtusish 

 sometimes lacerate point ; internal scale much as in the last : fruit of a single maturing car- 

 pel, truly globose, not at all carinate, yellow, drying black, somewhat smaller than in the 

 last species. — Bot. Beech. 281 , as to a. S. marginatus, Engelm. & Gray, PI. Lindh. pt. 1 , 33, 

 pt. 2, 168; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 214 (as to western pl.), t. 180; Sargent, Silv. ii. 71, as to west- 

 ern pi. 6\ acuniinatus, Wats. & Coulter in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 116, not Raf. — Hillsides, &c., 

 Arkansas to W. Louisiana, westward to Kansas and Arizona. (Mex.) Known in Texas 

 (where abundant) as " Wild China Tree" from a superficial likeness to Melia Azedarach. 



8. EXOTHEA, Macfadyen. ('E^w^eo), to eject, used in reference to the 

 separation of this genus from the Amyridece, to which its author believed it nearly 

 related.) — Trees with alternate exstipulate leaves. — Fl. Jam. i. 232; Endl. 

 Gen. 1134; Radlk. in Durand, Ind. 81, Sitzungsb. Kgl. Bayer. Akad. xx. 276, & 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 358 ; Sargent, Gard. & For. iv. 100, 



