1036 L- Radlkofer. — Sapindaceae. 



Alltill. IV. 3. (1910) 373; P. C. Standley, Trees and Shrubs of Mexico in Contr. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. XXIII. 3. (1923) 707, c. indic. Sinaloa to Oaxaca and Veracruz; — non 

 Willd. Hb. (n. 7255!) ed. Schlechtendal et Cham. (1831) (quae Matayba scrobiculata R.), 

 nee Triana et PI. (1862!) (quae Cup. papulosa R.). — Cupania arborea foliis oblongis, 

 crenato-serratis, distiche et alternatim sitis, racemis laxis propendentibus P. Browne, Hist. 

 Jam. (1756) 178 n. 1, excl. syn. Plum. — Cupania americana (non L. Sp.) L. Amoen. 

 Acad.V. (1760, Sandmark, Fl. Jam. 1759) 377 (Hb. P. Browne); Gärtn.Fruct. II. (1791) 

 469 1. 177 f. 2, excl. syn. Plum. et Linn., »Jamaica, Hb. Banks«! (optime Gaertn. 

 interrogat, an ne planta sua jamaicensis dtversa a dominicensi [i. e. C. americ. L.], cum 

 huic posteriori sit fruetus sericeus); ?Hitchcock, PI. Baham., Jamaic. etc. in Report IV. 

 Missouri Bot. Gard. (1893) 72 (Port Morant Jamaicae). — Cupania excelsa Kunth in 

 H.B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. V. (1821) 97 n. 2! (ed. in 4<> 125), VII. (1825) Distrib. geogr. 

 362 (ed. in 4« 460, Mexico inter Mazatlan et Zumpango) et Syn. PI. Aequin. III. (1824) 

 163 n. 2, IV. (1925) Distrib. geogr. 501; DC. Prodr. I. (1824) 613 n. 2; Spreng. Syst. 

 II. (1825) 221 n. 2; Camb. in Mem. Mus. d'Hist. nat. XVIII. (1829) 28; Don, Gen. 

 Syst. I. (1831) 667 n. 2; Spach, Hist. d. Veget., Phanerog. III. (1834) 59; Hemsl. in 

 Biol. Centr.-Am. I. (1879 — 1881) 212 n. 4; P. C. Standley, Trees and Shrubs of Mexico 

 in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. XXIII. 3. (1923) 707 (speeim. Humboldt.). - Cupania 

 multijuga A. Rieh. Fl. Cub. I. (1845) 287 t. 31!; Walp. Rep. II. Suppl. (1845?) 815 

 n. 6. — Stadmannia Frazeri Linden, Cat. n. 12 (1857) 17, 40 et Gat. plur. seq., nomen 

 nudum, Hort. Paris.!; — non Teijsm. et Binn. Cat. Hort. Bogor. (1866) Suppl. 391, quae 

 fide speeim. ex Hort. Bog. a. 1881 etl922 comm. Cup. americanah. — Vulgo: Loblolly- 

 wood Anglis t. P. Browne, 1. c; Loblolly-tree t. Don, 1. c; Guara t. Ramon, Hist. 

 etc. de Cuba (1831) 355, t. A. Rieh. 1. c. et fid. Grosourdy, El Medico Criollo II. (1864) 

 387; Guara blanca Ramon in sched. (n. 522, Cuba, Hb. Berol.); Guara de costa 

 Sauv. et Wright 1. c, Morales in sched. (n. 25, Cuba, Hb. Berol.); Bois de Jamone 

 Duchesne, PI. utiles (1846) 193, ubi syn. »Paullinia Cupana« Kunth exeludend.; 

 Chichon blanco Rovirosa in sched. (quo nomine in mentem revocatur Guarea 

 Chichon C. DC. in Ann. Conserv. Jard. bot. Geneve X. (1906 — 1907) 147, c. nom. vulg. 

 »Chichon de Montana« t. Rovirosa); Huanchal in Oaxaca ex Standley, I.e. (1923); 

 Muskwood t. Harris. — Frutex vel arbor medioeris excelsave (t. Wullschlaegel, 

 t. Kunth, »C. excelsa K.«); rami subteretes, plerumque plurisulcati, juveniles puberuli, 

 adultiores glabrati; folia abrupte pinnata, perraro simplicata vel (in speeiminibus eultis) 

 impari-pinnata ; foliola 6—14, plerumque alterna, nunc obovato-oblonga majora et 

 pauciora, nunc anguste oblonga minora et plura (var. multijuga), apice plus minus 

 rotundata, saepe retusa, basi attenuata, remote (interdum inaequaliter) subrepando- 

 dentata vel subintegerrima, breviter petiolulata, chartacea, efoveolata, nunc utrinque 

 glabra nunc subtus plus minus pubescentia (C. excelsa Kunth, Stadmannia Frazeri Lind.), 

 glandulis microscopicis subtus obsita, punetis pellucidis plerumque inconspicue notata ; 

 paniculae pulverulento-puberulae, axillares vel subterminales; flores inter minores; 

 discus puberulus, fruetifer glabrescens; Capsula turbinato-triangularis, plerumque 

 3-locularis, interdum 2- vel 4-locularis, longius stipitata, utrinque glabra, sicca spadicea; 

 semen ellipsoideum, usque ad mediam partem arillatum, testa spadieeo-rubra. 



Arbor frutescens 12 — 14-pedalis (P. Browne) vel sat excelsa 36— 40-pedalis 

 (A.Rich.) etaltior, cortice laevi (Swartz). Rami paniculas gerentes diametro 2 — 3 mm, 

 adultiores saepe lenticellosi, cortice fuseidulo. Folia 15 — 40cm longa; foliola 6—20 cm 

 longa, 2 — 7 cm lata. Paniculae 11 — 20 cm longae; ramuli densius cymuligeri, cymulis 

 stipitatis vel subsessilibus ; bracteae bracteolaeque lanceolato-subulatae, circ. 1 mm 

 longae; pedicelli 2 — 3 mm longi. Sepala 2 mm longa, breviter ovata, chartacea, extus 

 pube cinerea adpressa induta. Petala 2 mm longa, unguiculata, squamaeque albo- 

 pilosiuscula. Stamina 3 mm longa, filiformia, pilis albis pubescentia, antheris glabris. 

 Germen subserieeo-tomentosum. Capsula 1,5 — 2 cm longa. 



Var. multijuga (A.Rich.) Griseb. 11. cc. (1859, 1866) speeim. exclus. (Cupania 



