SAPINDACE^E 713 



with long scattered hairs; ovary slightly 3-lobed; stamens included or slightly exserted, 

 with hairy filaments broadened at base. Fruit ripening in spring or in early summer, 

 globose, f'-f in diameter, with thin orange-brown semitranslucent flesh; seeds obovoid, 

 black, 1' in diameter. 



A tree, sometimes 25-30 high, with a trunk rarely exceeding 10'-12' in diameter, erect 

 branches and slender branchletsat first slightly many-angled and puberulous, soon glabrous, 

 orange-green and marked by white lenticels, becoming in their second season terete, pale 

 brown faintly tinged with red. Bark of the trunk j'-|' thick, light gray and roughened by 

 oblong lighter colored excrescences, the outer layer exfoliating in" large flakes exposing the 

 nearly black inner bark. Wood heavy, rather hard, close-grained, light brown tinged with 

 yellow, with thick yellow sapwood. 



Distribution. Florida, shores of Cape Sable, shores and islands of Caximbas Bay, Key 

 Largo, Elliott's Key, and the shores of Bay Biscayne, Dade County; in Florida most com- 

 mon in the region of Cape Sable, and of its largest size on some of the Ten Thousand 

 Islands, Lee County; generally distributed through the West Indies to Venezuela and 

 Ecuador. 



2. Sapindus marginatus Willd. 

 Sapindus manatensis Radlk. 



Leaves 6'-7' long, with a slender wingless or narrow-margined or marginless rachis, and 

 7-13 lance-oblong acuminate more or less falcate leaflets, glabrous, dark green, and lustrous 

 on the upper surface, paler and glabrous or puberulous on the lower surface along the slen- 



Fig. 641 



der midrib, sessile or very short-petiolulate, 2'-5' Jong, f'-lj' wide, the lower usually 

 alternate, the upper opposite. Flowers appearing in early spring, more or less tinged with 

 red and nearly |' in diameter, on short stout tomentose pedicels, in panicles 4'-5' long and 

 usually about 3' wide, with a villose stem and branches; sepals acute, < oncave, ciliate on the 

 margins, much shorter than the ovate-oblong, short-clawed, ciliate petals furnished on 

 the inner surface near the base with a 2-lobed villose scale; filaments villose; ovary 3-lobed. 

 Fruit conspicuously keeled on the back, short-oblong to slightly obovoid, about f ' long, 

 with thin light yellow translucent flesh; seeds obovoid, dark brown. 



A tree, rarely more than 25-30 high, with a trunk sometimes 1 in diameter, and stout 

 pale brown or ultimately ashy gray branchlets. 



Distribution. Hurricane Island at the mouth of Medway River, Liberty County, 



