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Blades of the lateral leaflets relatively narrow, of an oblong type, the sides more or less parallel, 

 or broadened upward from the cuneate base, or rarely slightly narrowed upward ; flowers 

 short-stalked ; corolla yellowish or greenish ; filament-appendage pubescent ; fruits scarcely 

 flattened. 

 Leaves with mostly 9 leaflets, or more, the blades veiny. 1. S. glauca. 



Leaves with mostly 5 leaflets or fewer, the blades veinless. 2. S. laevis. 



Blades of the lateral leaflets relatively broad, of an oval or elliptic type, the sides 

 not parallel ; flowers long-stalked ; corolla red ; filament-appendage gla- 

 brous ; fruits much flattened. (Flowers and fruits not known in S. (?) 

 Berteroana,.) 

 Leaflets with thin leathery acuminate blades. 3. S. Tulae. 



Leaflets with thick leathery obtuse blades. 4. 5. Berleroana. 



1. Simarouba glauca DC. Ann. Mus. Paris 17 : 424. 1811. 



? Simarouba amara Aubl. PI. Guian. 2: 860. 1775. 



? Quassia Simaruba L. f. Suppl. 234. 1781. 



Quassia Simaruba W. Wright, Trans. Rov. Soc. Edinb. 2 : 73. 1790. Not (?) Q. Simarouba L. f . 



1 Simarouba officinalis DC. Ann. Mus. Paris 17: 423. 1811. 



Quassia glauca Spreng. Syst. 2 : 319. 1825. 



Simarouba medicinalis Endl. Med. Pfl. 528. 1842. 



A shrub or medium-sized tree, with pale bark and more or less glaucous foliage. 

 Leaves 2-4 dm. long; leaflets 11-21 or rarely fewer, 5-11 cm. long, the blades oblong, or 

 broadened upward or rarely somewhat narrowed upward, rounded, refuse, or abruptly 

 pointed at the apex, light-green above, pale or glaucous beneath, glabrous or with very 

 short spreading hairs beneath, more or less cuneate at the base, short-petioluled ; panicle 

 1-3 dm. long or rarely longer, widely branched, the staminate more copiously flowered than 

 the pistillate ; calyx 3-3.5 mm. wide, the lobes ovate to triangular, obtuse or acute, ciliolate ; 

 petals oblong to ovate, 4-6 mm. long, rounded erose or abruptly pointed at the apex ; 

 drupes oval or oblong-oval, 14-20 mm. long, slightly oblique, scarlet or dark-purple. 



Type locality : Havana, Cuba. 



Distribution : Florida, West Indies, southern Mexico to Panama, and perhaps in northern 

 South America. 



Illustrations: Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. 2 : pi. 1, 2; Gaertn. Fruct. pi. 70; Hayne, Arzn. 

 Gew. 9: pi. 15 ; Descourt. Fl. Ant. 1 : pi. 14; T. Nees, PI. Off. pi. 3S2 ; Berg & Schmidt, Off. 

 Gew. 2 : pi. 13 f; Nutt. N. Am. Sylva 3 : pi. S7 ; Bentley & Trimen, Med. PI. 1 : pi. 56; Sargent, 

 Silva N. Am. 1 : pi. 4$, 49; Sargent, Man./. 485; Britton, N. Am. Trees /. 539. 



2. Simarouba laevis Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 49. 1866. 

 A small tree with glabrous and somewhat glaucous young twigs and young leaves. 

 Leaves mostly 1-1.5 dm. long; leaflets mostly 5 or fewer, or rarely 7, 4-7 cm. long, 

 the blades oblong to oblong-obovate, rounded or emarginate at the apex, bright-green and 

 shining above, somewhat paler and slightly shining beneath, glabrous, veinless, narrowly 

 or broadly cuneate at the base, very short-petioluled ; panicle commonly 1 dm. long, spar- 

 ingly branched ; calyx 3.5-4 mm. wide, the lobes ovate, obtuse ; petals broadly oblong to 

 ovate-oblong, 5-5.5 mm. long, often abruptly contracted at the apex ; drupes ovoid or oval- 

 ovoid, about 17 mm. long, slightly oblique. 



Type locality : Eastern Cuba. 

 Distribution : Cuba. 



3. Simarouba Tulae Urban, Jahrb. Bot. Gart. 

 Berlin 4 : 245. 1886. 

 A shrub or medium-sized tree with furrowed bark and glabrous foliage. Leaves 2-3 dm. 

 long ; leaflets 6-10, 5-10 cm. long, short-acuminate at the apex, bright green and somewhat 

 shining above, yellowish-green and dull beneath, glabrous, acute or slightly acuminate at 

 the base, short-petioluled ; panicle mostly 1 dm. long or less, sparingly branched ; calyx 

 2.5-3 cm. wide, the lobes ovate or triangular-ovate, obtuse ; petals elliptic or oblong-ellip- 

 tic, 10-11 mm. long, obtuse or emarginate at the apex ; drupes obovoid or orbicular-obovoid, 

 much flattened, 2.5-3 cm. long, obliquely pointed. 



Type locality : Porto Rico. 

 Distribution : Porto Rico. 

 Illustration : Gartenflora 38 : pi. 129S. 



