638 L. Radlkofer. — Sapindaceae. 



South. U. S. ed. 2. (1884) 79, part., excl. stirp. occid.; Sargent, Silva N.-Am. II. (1895) 

 71, part., quoad stirp. merid.-orient., quoad syn. »-5". Manatens.«, quoad »S. Saponaria« 

 L. ap. Michaux (1803, cf. infra) ob patriam indicatam »Georgia«, et quoad »Persoon 

 Synops. II« (1805) ob hanc patriam repetit., excl. vero syn. »S. Drummondii Hook, et 

 Arn.« et tab. 76 et 77 hanc speciem illustrantibus, nee non excl. Lamarckii 111. II. 

 (1792?) t. 307 f. 2, quae ex Poiret Encycl. VI. (1804) 663-664 et Tableau II. (1817) 

 441 speeimen borbonicum S. rigidi Vahl, resp. Gaertn. (i. e. S. Saponaria L. f. 2. in- 

 aequalis, subf. r ig idus Radlk.) illustrat, äxCommerson lectum, in Herb. Juss. sub n. 11383 

 servatum, excl. denique nom. vulg. »Wild China Tree«, cfr. S. Drummondii Hook, 

 et Arn.; Robinson in Gray, Synopt. Fl. North Am. I. 2, Fase. 2. (1897) 444, distribu- 

 tione geographica duetus cf. supra cum cit. Mühl., DC, Torr, et Gray part., Nuttall 

 part., Chapm. part., Sarg, part., cum syn. S. Saponaria Michx., Pursh, Elliott cf. infra, 

 S.falcatus Raf., S. acuminatus Raf., S. Manatensis Shuttlew. 1845, Radlk. 1878, Nash 

 1886, cf. infra; Sargent, Silva N.-Am. XIII. (Suppl., 1902) 52, revis. vol. II duce 

 Robinson c. syn. »S. Manatens. Shuttlew.«; id. Manual Trees N.-Am. (1905) 651 

 f. 551; — non autor. americ. plurimor. ante 1897, ut jam supra indicat. (cf. S. Drum- 

 mondii Hook, et Arn.); non Curtiss in sched. PI. Ind. occ. n. 707! (Cuba, 1905), quae 

 S. Sapon. f. inaequalis Radlk.; non Cook et Gollins, Econom. PI. of Porto Rico in 

 Gontr. U. S. Nat. Hb. VIII. (1903) 169 (sphalm. S. marginalis) et p. 235 (errore loco 

 S. inaequalis); non autor. var. sphalm. loco S. emarginat. (cf. S.trifoliat. L.). — S. 

 Saponaria, non L., Michaux, Fl. bor. am. I. (1803) 242 (Georgia); Nuttall, Gen. I. 

 (1818) 257; Pursh, Fl. Am. sept. (1814) 274; Elliott, Sketch Bot. South Carolina et 

 Georgia I. (1821) 460; A. Richard, Fl. Cubens. (1845) 280, quoad Sap. marginal. Willd.; 

 Radlk. in Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. VIII. (1878) 318 n. 40, p. 321, 394, quoad stirp. 

 Willd., et Fl. bras. XIII. 3. (1900) 515, solummodo quoad syn. »S. marginat. Willd.«; 

 Standley, Trees and Shrubs Mexico in Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. XXIII. 3. (1923) 

 780, quoad id. syn. - S.falcatus Raf. Medic. Bot. II. (1830) 261 (sec. Robins., 1. c. 

 1897). — S. acuminatus Raf. New Fl. N.-Am. III. (1836) 22 »Carolina« (sec. Robins. 

 1. c. 1897); — non Radlk. in Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. VIII. (1878) 316 »Texas etc.«, 

 321, 393 — 394, quae S. Drummondii Hook, et Arn.; non Wats. et Coult. in Gray, 

 Manual ed. 6. (1890) 116, c. syn. »S. marginat. autor.«; — non Wall. ed. Royle (1839), 

 cfr. S.mukorossi. — S. Manatensis Shuttlew. in distrib. pl. Rugel n. 115! (1845); 

 Radlk. in Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. VIII. (1878) 318, 331, 400; Nash in Bull. Torr. 

 Bot. Club XXIII. (1896) 102 (ex Robins.); Index Sem. Horti Panormit. (1910) 74, 

 ex Berger Hort. Mortolens. (1912) 286. — Arbor medioeris; rami teretes, striati vel 

 subsulcati, pube densa cano-velutina induti, denique glabrescentes, cortice canescente 

 lenticelloso-punctato; folia 5 — 7( — 9)-juga, rhachi bisulcata cano-velutina, foliola 

 alterna vel opposita, ex ovato-lanceolato ^ interdum conspicue falcata, sensim acute 

 acuminata, basi inaequali (latere inferiore angustiore brevioreque) petiolulis brevibus 

 •insidentia, lineari-lanceolata, parum inaequalia acutissima, membranacea vel sub- 

 chartacea, nervis lateralibus subtilibus irregulariter procurvis utrinque prominulis, 

 arete reticulato-venosa, glabra nee nisi subtus ad nervi mediani basin laxe puberula, 

 opaca, flavescenti-viridia, glandulis paucis foveolis ineumbentibus ornata; panicula 

 terminalis, folia vix superans, ramis ramulisque patentibus crassiusculis rhachique 

 dense cano-velutinis sat laxe cymulas stipitatas gerentibus; alabastra subglobosa, 

 sectionis maxima, perbreviter pedicellata; flores albidi, saepius rubelli (t. Robinson); 

 sepala 5, parva, suborbicularia, margine glanduloso-ciliolata, extus basi pubescentia, 

 petaloidea; petala 5, sepala plus duplo superantia, lanceolato-spathulata, acuta, breviter 

 unguiculata, margine crispato-ciliolata, utrinque papulosa, intus basi margine inflexo 

 squamulis binis medio connatis villosissimis aueta; discus regularis, glaber; stamina 8, 

 filamenta filiformia, inferne dense pilosa, antherae breviter ellipticae, obtusae, glabrae; 

 germen 3-loculare, trigono-ovatum, coccato-lobatum, glabrum, in stylum rectiusculum 

 attenuatum; fruetus 3- vel abortu 2 — 1-coccus, coccis horizontaliter divaricatis breviter 



