Ungnadia. SAPINDACE^. 445 



& Silv. ii. 73, t. 78, 79. Melicocca, Juss. Mem. Mus. iii. 187, t. 5, in part. 



Hypelate, Cambessedes, ibid. xviii.Sl, in part; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 408, in 



part. — Small subtropical genus consisting of one Mexican species, and the 



following. 



E. oblongifolia, Macfadyen, 1. c. A handsome tree of moderate size, with hard dense 

 but (ace. to Blodgett) brittle wood and reddish brown bark: leaves abruptly pinnate and 

 normally 2-4-foliolate, rarely 6-foliolate or by abortion with an odd number of leaflets ; 

 these oblong or elliptical, obtuse or rounded at the apex, somewhat narrowed at the sessile 

 base, thickish, glabrous, somewhat lucid above, 2 to 5 inches long, f to 1| inches broad : 

 common petiole and rhachis i to 2 inches in length : flowers many, white, in terminal sub- 

 corymbose panicles, fragrant : buds ou short pedicels and clove-shaped, tomeutulose : bi-act- 

 lets minute, subulate : sepals and petals broadly ovate or suborbicular, 1^ to 2 lines in 

 length ; the former toment«lose, persistent and at last reflexed : fruit half inch in diameter, 

 globose, changing from orange to purple, juicy at maturity, but with thin rind and large 

 mahogauy-colored papery-coated seed ; cotyledons very thick, almost hemispherical. — 

 Ilook. Lond. Jour. Bot. iii. 226, t. 7. E. paniculata, Radlk. 11. cc. ; Sargent, Silv. ii. 75, 

 t. 78, 79. Melicocca paniculata, Juss. 1. c, ; Nutt. Sylv. ii. 74, t. 66. Hi/pelate paniculata, 

 Cambessedes, 1. c. 32 ; Hook. 1. c. 227. Sapindus lucidus, Hamilton, ace. to Kadlk. Sitzungsb. 

 Kgl. Bayer. Akad. xx. 276. — E. and S. Florida and Keys, where first coll. by Blodgett; fl. 

 January to April; fr. ripe about September. (Cuba, Jamaica, San Domingo.) 



9. HYPELATE, P. Br. (Pliny's name for the Butcher's Broom, derived 

 from vTTo, under, and iXdrr], pine or fir, applied by Browne to this genus.) — Leaves 

 palmately trifoliolate ; leaflets glabrous, lucid, thickish and veiny, evergreen. 

 Flowers in terminal or subterminal panicles. — Hist. Jam. 208 ; Swartz, Fl. Ind. 

 Occ. ii. 655, t. 14; Deless. Ic. iii. 23, t. 39; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 408 (excl. 

 H. paniculata) ; Sargent, Gard. & For. iv. 100, & Silv. ii. 77, t. 80, 81. — W. 

 Indian monotype. 



H. trifoliata, Swartz. (White Ironwood.) A small and slender tree with smoothish 

 Ijark : leaflets coriaceous, spatulate, or narrowly obovate, 1 to 1^ inches long, a third as 

 broad, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, cuueate at the base; common petioles 8 to 18 

 lines in length, usually narrow-winged near the summit : flowers white, 1| to 2 lines iu 

 diameter : petals and sepals subequal, nearly orbicular : fruit ovoid, sweetish, the size of a 

 pea. — Prodr. 61 ; Chapm. Fl. 78 ; Sargent, 11. cc. Ami/i-is Hi/pelate, A. Robinson in Luuan, 

 Hort. Jam. i. 149. — S. Florida, on Umbrella Key and Upper Metacombe Key, Curtiss ; 

 fl. June, July; fr. September. (Cuba, Jamaica, Forto Rico.) 



10. UNG-NADIA, Endl. (Dedicated to David von Ungnad, Austrian 

 ambassador to Constantinople, who in 1576 by sending seeds of the horse- 

 chestnut to Vienna introduced that attractive tree into western cultivation.) — 

 An ornamental shrub or small tree with reddish twigs, alternate and unequally 

 pinnate exstipitate leaves, conspicuous irregular but bilaterally symmetrical rose- 

 colored fascicled or somewhat corymbose flowers upon jointed pedicels. — Atakt. 

 t. 36; Endl. & Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. 75; Gray, Gen. 111. ii.^ 209, t. 178, 179; 

 Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 398 ; Radlk. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 

 5, 365. — A southwestern monotype. 



U. speciosa, Endl. U. cc. (Mexican Bdckete.) Young parts tomentulose: leaflets 2 

 to 3 pairs and an odd one, ovate-oblong, acuminate, obtusish or rounded at the base, serrate, 

 at maturity 4 to 6 inches in length, a third to half as broad, glabrous above, pubescent or 

 tomentulose beneath : fascicles lateral, sometimes crowded : flowers numerous, half inch in 

 diameter : the long-stiped pendulous leathery capsule, when ripe, more tlian an inch in diam- 

 eter, light-colored, with 3 rounded lobes and tipped with the pointed somewhat persistent 



