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Order. Safin dales. 



Sapindaccac. Soapberry Family. 



38. Sapindus (Tourn.) L. Soapberry. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate, odcl-i)innate leaves, with 

 entire, inequilateral, acuminate leaflets, and w^ith solid pith ; 

 with axillary, exposed, superposed buds ; and without stipular 

 spines. 



{■•lowers imperfectly diecious ; fruit a l-.^-seeded berry. 



1. Sapindus drummondii H & A. Drummond Soap- 

 l)erry. A tree with white flowers in dense terminal panicles 

 and very saponaceous, globose berries. Wood hard, light yel- 

 lowish brown ; used in Texas for cotton baskets. Kan. and 

 Mo. to La. and Ariz. 



39. Koelreuteria Laxm. 



Trees with alternate, odd-pinnate or bipinnate leaves 

 with the leaflets toothed and usually more or less cut and 

 lobed ; without prickles, stipules, or terminal buds, but with 

 numerous scattered bundle-scars and large cylindrical pith. 



Flowers yellow, diecious, in large terminal panicles : fruit 

 a trilocular bladdery capsule ; outer Inid-scales 2. 



1. Koelreuteria paniculata Laxm. Chinese Varnish- 

 tree. A tree much planted ior ornament. Reported as spon- 

 taneous from seed in Indiana. 



Acscuhce^c. Buckeye F'amil\. 

 40. Aesculus L. Ruckeye. Horse-che.stnut. 



Trees or slirubs with opposite palmately compound leaves. 



blowers imperfectly monosporangiate, zygomorphic, in 

 terminal panicles; capsules leather\-. containing large shining 

 nut-like seeds. 



1. b'lowers wliite, mottied with yellow and purple: 



leaflets abruptly acuminate; winter buds gunnny ; 



capsule spiny; bundle scars arranged in a curve<l 



line. A. hippocoslniiniii. 

 1. blowers yellow or purplish; leaflets acuminate, more 



or less abrupt; winter buds not gummy: bundle 



scars arranged in 3 areas. 2. 



