Sapindus. S A r I N I ) AC E.E. 44^ 



Willd. Spec. ii. 465 ; Benth. Vl Ilartw. 15 ; Raillk. Moiiogr. Serj. 264.— Rio Graude, Mt-x., 

 J. EkjIiIs, and tlirouf^liuut Me.xici). Tlie speciinoii cDllt-rUMl In I'.udm &. ICdwunlH at Mon- 

 terey and asfi-ibed to this spt-cies li_v Dr. (iniv (I'l. Wright, i. ,J8) :i]ipi-ars to he S. mnau- 

 cocca, Kadlk. 



-J— -h- Seeds nearly or cpiite tilling the cells ; these of tinner te.xture. 

 S. brachycarpa, Gk.vy. Closely related to the preceding hut witli leaflets mostly snialitr 

 (6 to 10 lines long), thicker, and more densely tomentose hcneath : racemes in tlower nor an 

 inch in length, in fruit somewhat more elongated : fruit 5 or 6 lines long, fully as hroad at 

 the deeply cordate ha.sc. — (Jray in Kadlk. Monogr. Serj. 25'J. — Corpus Christi Hay, S. 

 Texas, J'uhiur. (Northern .Mix. at \ictoria, Tamaulipas, where first coll. by iJerlundn r.) 



6. CARDIOSPERMUM, L. (Kaf,?>ia, heart, and a-Tripfia, seed.) — 

 Slender herbaceous or (in warm countrie.s) sli^litly woody clinihens with or with- 

 out tendrils. Leaves alternate, biternate ; leaflets usually incised. Peduncles 

 usually bearing two short recurving tendrils near the umbelliform clusters of 

 small slender-pedicclled flowers. — Syst. Nat. ed. 1, & Gen. no. 332; Gaertn. 

 Fruct. i. t. 79 ; Lam. 111. t. 317 ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 215, t. 181 ; Benth. & Hook. 

 Gen. i. 31)3 ; Radlk. Sitzungsb. Kgl. Bayer. Akad. 1878, 260, & in Eug\. & 

 Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 306. — A small but rather confused genus ; 

 the commoner species widely distributed and often cultivated. 



C. Halicacabum, L- (H.\i.u)On Vine, Heaktsekd.) A graceful herhaceous climber 

 w itli annual root, slender angulate-furrowed stem and smoothish or moderately pubescent 

 leaves : leaflets more or less distinctly petiolulate and cut-toothed : petals whitish, about 2 

 lines long : upper glands of the disk short-ohlong, transverse : fruit subglobo.se or somewhat 

 obovate, rather large, usually an inch to inch and half in diameter ; seeds glabrous, black, 

 but marked with a conspicuous white heart-shaped scar. — Spec. i. 366; Michx. Fl. i. 242; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 254 ; Gray, 1. c. ; Chapm. Fl. 79. — Preferring moist soil and climbing 

 over low shrubbery ; Gulf States from E. Florida, where spontaneous about dwellings, 

 Curtiss, and S. Florida, where apparently indigenous (ace. to Chapman), west to Texas, 

 where certainly so ; fl. and fr. throughout summer and autumn. (Mex., S. Am., Afr., E. Ind.) 

 Often cultivated. The southwestern form is somewhat more pubescent and has leaflets of 

 slightly firmer texture, thus showing some transition to 



C. Corindum, L. Perennial, suffrutescent at base : leaves and stems soft-tomentose : 

 upper glands of the disk short, oblong, somewhat obliquely placed : seeds with semicircular 

 rather than heart-shai)ed scar. — Spec. ed. 2, i. 526 ; Kadlk. Sitzungsb. Kgl. Bayer. Akad. 

 1878, 261. C. moUe, HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. v. 103; Coulter, Contrib. V. S. Nat. Herb. i. 

 33, & ii. 65. — Common in Mexico, at Tamaulipas, Beiiandier, &c., and \V. Texas, Presidio 

 Countv, and mountains west of Pecos (ace. to Coulter, 11. cc). 



C. microcarpura, HBK. With habit of C. Halicuaibum, but sometimes a little woody 

 toward the base : flowers minute : petals a line or less in length : fruit depressed-obovoid, 

 8 to 10 lines in diameter ; seeds with a hroad lunate rather than heart-shaped scar — Nov. 

 Gen. & Spec. v. 104; Gri.seb. Fl. W. Ind. 122. C. II(ilir(ir(il)iim,\ar. inicrocar/nim, Bl. Kum- 

 phia, iii. 185; Badlk. 1. c. — Centr. and S. Florida, at Key West, Rit</el, and in clayey soil 

 of " hammocks," near Eustis, Nash. (W. Ind., S. Am., Afr., Pacif. Ids.) 



7. SAPINDUS, Tourn. {Sttpo, soap, and Indus, Indian, from the (niali- 

 ties of the W. Indian S. Snponan'a, the soap-berry.) — Tropical and subtropical 

 trees and shrubs with yellow wood, alternate exstipitate abruptly (rarely odd) 

 pinnate leaves and small whitisli flowers in lateral or terminal racemes or pan- 

 icles. Fruit baccate, usually of a single maturing carpel ami globose or nearly 

 so, less frequently 2- or even 3-lobed through the development of one or both of 

 the other carpels ; seeds solitary in the carpels, large, nearly globose, exalbumi- 



