SAPOXARIA 



SAPOTE 



3075 



BB. Fls. rose or white. 

 c. The plants not cespitose. 



D. St. stout, erect. 



officinalis, Linn. BOUNCING BET. Fig. 3546. Per- 

 ennial: sts. 1H~2J2 ft. high, leafy, simple, clustered, 

 glabrous: Ivs. mostly oblong-lanceolate, 3-nerved: fls. 

 light pink (nearly white in shady situations), in com- 

 pact, corymbose, paniculate cymes; calyx glabrous, the 

 teeth triangularly acumi- 

 nate; petal -lobes obo- 

 vate, entire, notched at 

 apex. July, Aug. Eu. 

 Var. albo-plena, Hort., is 

 a double white-fld. form 

 growing 2 ft. high. June- 

 Sept. Var. caucasica, 

 Hort. (S. caucasica, 

 Hort.), is a double-fld. 

 form, the fls. described 

 as white tinted rose by 

 some, as deeper colored 

 than the type by others, 

 grows 15 in. high. All 

 summer and fall. Var. 

 caucasica flore-pleno, 

 Hort. (S. caucasica flore- 

 pleno, Hort.), is said to 

 have double reddish pur- 

 ple fls. July-Sept. Var. 

 flore-pleno, Hort., is 

 quite double-fld., the fls. 

 paler than the type. 

 Var. plena, Hort., grows 

 1-3 ft. high and lilac, 

 rose, or white fls. July- 

 Oct. Probably includes 

 some of the other double 

 varieties. Var. roseo- 

 plena, Hort., grows 234-3 

 ft. high and rose-colored 

 fls. July-Sept. 



DD. St. slender, decumbent. 



ocymoides, Linn. Sts. much- 

 branched, 6-9 in. high, half-trailing: 

 Ivs. ovate-lanceolate, about 1-nerved, 

 small, acute: fls. bright pink, in loose, 

 broad cymes. Summer. Eu. B.M. 154. 

 Gn. 60, p. 245; 78, pp. 319, 593. G 

 35:841. G.M. 56:433:57:651. G.W.8, 

 p. 1; 15, pp. 8, 647. Var. alba, Hort., is 

 a form with pure white fls., in reality a hybrid between 

 two forms of the species. Var. floribunda, Hort., is a 

 form more profusely fld. than the type, with Ivs. 

 small and lanceolate and fls. soft pink. Gn.W. 25:67. 

 Var. splendens, Hort., has large fls. which are a more 

 intense rose than the type. Var. splendidissima, 

 Hort., has large deep rosy crimson fls. Var. versi- 

 color, Hort., is a form in which the fls. are at first 

 pure white later becoming rose. A cross between 

 a white-flowering variety and var. splendens. R.H. 

 1913, p. 303. 



cc. The plants cespitose. 

 D. Lrs. oborate-elliptic. 



depressa, Biv. Cespitose: radical Ivs. tufted, obo- 

 vate-elliptic, depressed: fls. subumbellate, large, rose, 

 pedunculate: calyx very long, 5-angled, viscous-pubes- 

 cent ; petals bifid". Sicily. 



DD. LVS. linear. 



caespitosa, DC. Cespitose: sts. 2-3 in. high, nearly 

 naked, fl.-bearing at the top: Ivs. linear, glabrous, 

 mostly radical, hardly denticulate: fls. rather umbellate, 

 rose; calyx cylindrical, villous, deeply lobed, lobes 



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acute; petals emarginate at the top, the blade very 

 narrow. Pyrenees. G.C. II. 15:501. 



S. japonica, Hort. John Saul, is botanically unknown. S pul- 

 nndris,' Boiss. (S. libanotica, Hort., S. Pumilio, Boies ) Densely 

 cespitose-pulyinate: sts. low, 3-7-fld. : Ivs. small, linear, subcarinate- 

 infl. hirsute- villous; fls. bright rose. S. Simdermannii, Hort., closely 

 resembles S. bellidifoha, but has rather larger fls. and more of theni 

 June. S. Weinmannii, Hort., is closely allied to S. caespitosa, pos- 

 sibly only a form of it, but has paler purple fls. and a shorter calyx. 

 Its habit is very compact and it is only 2-3 in. high. 



F. TRACY HUBBAKD.! 



3547. White sapote. Casimiroa edulis. 



SAPOTE, WHITE. A tropical fruit (Fig. 3547). 

 The zapote bianco of the Mexicans (Casimiroa 

 edulis), known in California and Florida as white 

 sapote, is a fruit little cultivated outside of Mexico, 

 but occasionally seen in the southernmost parts of the 

 United States, in the West Indies, and even in the 

 Orient, where it is probably of recent introduction. 

 Horticulturally, it has been given more attention in 

 southern California, than in any other region. (P. 680.) 



The tree reaches an ultimate height of 50 feet or 

 more, with a short stout trunk, often covered with 

 warty excrescences around the base, and a broad erect 

 crown, sometimes spreading and dome-shaped, under 

 favorable conditions densely foliaged and of very 

 attractive and ornamental appearance. The bark is 

 somewhat rough, ashen gray when mature, and dotted 

 with numerous warty light gray lenticels. The leaves 

 are alternate, digitate, borne upon long slender petioles 

 and composed of three to seven, commonly five, ellip- 

 tical to lanceolate, acuminate leaflets, coppery when 

 young but eventually of glossy bright green color. The 

 small greenish flowers, less than % inch in diameter, are 

 produced in spring on short axillary panicles, and are 

 composed of a four- or five-parted calyx, with short 



