SAPINDACEAE. 



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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. X. sorbifolia. 



Winter-characters of Meliosma myriantha, of the related 

 family Sabiaceae, are pictured by Shirasawa, 234, pi. 1. 



