SAPINDACEAE. 211 
_ XANTHOCERAS. Chinese Buckeye. 
(Family Sapindaceae). 
Tree-like shrub, or small tree: 
deciduous. Twigs moderate, te- 
rete, with coarse lenticels: pith 
moderate, continuous, _ slightly 
brownish. Buds moderate, soli- 
tary, sessile, round-ovoid, with 
about half-a-dozen more or less 
fringed or lacerate scales. Leaf- 
scars alternate, half - elliptical, 
moderate, elevated: bundle-traces 
3, large. 
Winter-character reference to 
Xanthoceras sorbifolia: — Schnei- 
der; f.,.127. 
Xanthoceras is coming into ex- 
tensive cultivation on lawns and 
in shrubbery masses, and is a 
shapely hardy plant with pleasing 
compound leaves and conspicuous 
white flowers which show a 
change in their striping similar 
to that of the spotting of horsechestnut flowers, as they 
change in maturity. 
Glabrate: buds chestnut, glossy. xX. sorbifolia. 
Winter-characters of Meliosma myriantha, of the related 
family Sabiaceae, are pictured by Shirasawa, 234, pl. 1. 
