746 SAPLNDACEAE 



1. Exothea paniculata (Juss.) Eadlk. A tree, with a hard but brittle wood and a 

 reddish brown bark. Leaflets 2-4 or rarely 6, the blades rather thick, oblong or elliptic, 

 5-13 cm. long, entire somewhat lustrous above, glabrous : flowers numerous, fragrant, from 

 clove-shaped buds : panicles corymbose : bractlets subulate : sepals 4, broadly ovate to 

 suborbicular, 3-4 mm. long, tomentose, persistent and reflexed : petals 4, white, similar to 

 the sepals but glabrous : fruit subglobose, 10-13 mm. in diameter, orange turning purple, 

 with a juicy pulp : seed solitary, papery coated, mahogany-colored. 



In sandy places, peninsular Florida and the Keys. Also in the West Indies. Winter and spring. 



INKWOOD. IRONWOOD. 



6. HYPELATE P. Br. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate : blades palmately 3-foliolate : leaflets 

 with leathery, prominently nerved blades. Flowers polygamo-dioecious in terminal or 

 almost terminal panicles. Sepals 5, imbricated, nearly glabrous. Petals 5, unappendaged, 

 sessile. Stamens 8-10, imperfect or wanting in the pistillate flowers : filaments glabrous. 

 Ovary 3-celled, sessile : styles united. Ovules 2 in each cavity, superposed, the upper as- 

 cending, the lower rather pendulous. Fruit 1-celled (by abortion). Seed solitary. Em- 

 bryo with thin crumpled cotyledons and a long radicle. 



1. Hypelate trifoliata Sw. A slender tree, with a smoothish bark and brittle 

 branches. Leaves numerous ; leaflets 3, the blades spatulate to narrowly obovate, 2.5-4.5 

 cm. long, leathery, rounded or retuse at the apex, cuneate at the base ; rachis usually 

 narrowly winged above : flowers in panicles surpassing the leaves : stamens 6-8 : sepals 

 suborbicular, pubescent within : corolla white, 3-4 mm. broad : petals suborbicular : fruit 

 ovoid, 5-7 mm. long, black, with a single seed. 



On the Florida Keys. Also in the West Indies. Spring and summer. WHITE IRONWOOD. 



7. CUPANIA L. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, without stipules, pinnate : leaflets alternate or 

 opposite, entire or shallowly toothed. Flowers regular, polygamo-dioecious, in racemes 

 or panicles. Sepals 4-5, or rarely 3 or 6, broad. Corolla green, white or reddish, or 

 wanting. Petals 4-5, each sometimes bearing 1 or 2 scales. Stamens 8, or 5, 6, 10 or 12. 

 Ovary 2-3-celled, or rarely 4-celled. Ovules solitary in each cavity. Capsule 2-4-lobed, 

 commonly 3-lobed, leathery or firmer, loculicidal. Seeds globular or oblong. 



1. Cupania glabra Sw. A tree, with glabrous or thinly pubescent branches. Leaves 

 1.5-3.5 dm. long : leaflets leathery, few or several, the blades oblong with a cuneate base, 

 6-11 cm. long, more or less crenate or crenate-serrate above the middle : panicle-branches 

 pubescent : petals broad, about ag long as the sepals : capsules turbinate, 3-lobed, 11-14 mm. 

 broad, apiculate, stout-stipitate. 



In hammocks, Pine Key, Florida. Also in tropical America. 



8. UNGNADIA Endl. 



Shrubs or small trees, with a pale bark and a brittle wood. Leaves alternate : blades 

 pinnately compound, with a terminal leaflet : leaflets 5-7 or rarely 3, with leathery 

 serrate blades. Flowers irregular, polygamous, pedicelled, deep pink, in lateral clusters. 

 Sepals 5, imbricated. Petals 4-5, undulate or erose, nearly equal, strongly crested with 

 fimbriate scales. Disk one-sided, oblique. Stamens 7-10, unequal in length, declined : 

 filaments filiform. Ovary 3-celled, stalked : styles and stigmas united. Ovules 2 in each 

 cavity, ascending, anatropous or amphitropous. Capsule leathery, 3-celled, 3-lobed. 

 Seeds 1 in each cavity, globose, without an aril. Endosperm wanting. Cotyledons nearly 

 hemispheric. 



1. Ungnadia speciosa Endl. A shrub or tree 2-10 m. tall, the twigs, foliage and 

 inflorescence more or less pubescent. Leaves 1-2 dm. long, the rachis nearly terete ; 

 leaflets usually 5-7, the blades ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, 5-12 cm. long, acutish or 

 acuminate, appressed-serrate, rounded or subcordate at the base, deep green above, paler 

 beneath : calyx 4-5 mm. long : sepals oblong-ovate, longer than the tube : corolla deep 

 pink, about 2 cm. broad : petals obovate-spatulate, 9-13 mm.- long, the scale reaching to about 

 the middle : stamens exserted : capsules leathery, broadly obovoid, 3-5 cm. broad, shorter 

 than broad, minutely pubescent or glabrous : seeds subglobose, nearly 1.5 cm. in diameter, 

 black, shining. 



Chiefly along streams, Texas to New Mexico and Mexico. Spring. SPANISH BUCKEYE. TEXAS 

 BUCKEYE. 



