CAPRIFOLIACE.E 883 



1 . Sambucus Simpsonii Rehd. 



Leaves 4'-7' long, 3-7, usually 5-foliolulate, with a glabrous petiole and usually 5 dark 

 yellow-green leaflets, lustrous and glabrous on the upper surface with the exception of a 

 few scattered hairs on the midrib, and paler and glabrous on the lower surface, the ter- 

 minal leaflet obovate or oblong-obovate, short-acuminate at apex, and gradually narrowed 

 at base into a slender petiolule \'-%' in length, the lateral leaflets broad-elliptic to oblong- 



Fig. 776 



elliptic, short-acuminate, broad-cuneate at base, those of the upper pair usually sessile,, 

 those of the lower pair on short stalks rarely more than T ^' long, serrate except at the base 

 with small slightly spreading teeth, li'-3' long and 1%'-%%' wide. Flowers slightly fragrant, 

 on slender pedicels in convex or sometimes flat cymes 3' -8' in diameter, with 4 or 5 rays, 

 the terminal ray as long or longer than the lateral rays, rarely shorter; calyx-tube ovoid, 

 the lobes oblong-ovate, acute, about as long as the tube and slightly exceeding the thick 

 conic style; stamens about as long as the white corolla-lobes; ovary usually 5, rarely 

 4-celled. Fruit subglobose, dark purplish black, about f "' in diameter; nutlets rugose. 



A tree, sometimes 15-18 high, with a trunk often 8' in diameter, and slightly angled 

 branchlets greenish when they first appear, becoming light yellow-gray and sometimes- 

 covered during their second and third years with thick corky excrescences; pith white, on 2 

 or 3-year-old branches comparatively narrow, occupying only about one-third of the diame- 

 ter of the stem. 



Distribution. Florida, neighborhood of Jacksonville, Duval County, to Eustis, Lake 

 County, Bradentown, Manatee County, and Sanibel Island, Lee County; Mississippi, 

 Ocean Springs, Jackson County; Louisiana, Cameron, Cameron Parish. 



2. Sambucus coerulea Raf. 



Sambucus glauca Nutt. 

 Sambucus neomexicana Woot. 



Leaves 5 '-!' long, with a stout grooved petiole much enlarged and naked or sometimes 

 furnished at the base with leaf-like appendages, and 5-9 ovate or narrow-oblong leaflets 

 contracted at apex into a long point, unequally cuneate or rounded at base, and coarsely 



