CATALOGUE. 8&3 
spinescent; leaves thick, evergreen, obovate, 3’ long; petiole 1-2’ long, 
glandularly denticulate ; flowers dicecious, apetalous, styles distinct above. 
A thorny shrub with yellow wood, imparting its color to water.” Arizona. 
I have not seen the plant. 3 
Cranotuus Fenpiert, Gray.—Shrub, with stiff, and often spine-tipped, 
gray branches; leaves thickish, tomentose pubescent beneath, smoother on 
upper surface, lanceolate to oval, 5-12” long, usually cuneate at base, 
petioles 1-3” long; small white flowers in paniculate racemes terminating 
the branches. New Mexico (143). Camp Apache, Ariz. (257), at 4,900 
feet. 
AMPELIDEZ. 
Vitis zsTivaLis, Michx., var.?—‘‘ Resembling a common Texan and 
New Mexican form; perhaps V. Arizonica, Engelm.  Arizona.”—8. 
Watson. 
AMPELOPSIS QUINQUEFOLIA, Michx. (Vitis, Bentham & Hooker, Gen. 
Plant.)—New Mexico. (110.) 
SAPINDACE ZA. 
Sapinpus* maroinatus, Willd.—Tree 10-30° high; leaves 4-8’ long, 
leaflets thickish, shining, plainly penninerved, lanceolate, tapering into a 
long point, ineequilateral, somewhat falcate; flowers in compound terminal 
and axillary panicles; fruit globose, 6’ in diameter. Arizona, in the dryer 
portions. (301.) ‘ Soapberry.” 
AcER GLaBRUM, Torr.—Mountain streams of Colorado. The name <A. 
tripartitum, Nutt., would have been much more appropriate. (1.) 
ACER GRANDIDENTATUM, Nutt—(303.) Ash Creek, Arizona, at 4,684 
feet altitude. Utah. 
*Saprinpus, Linn.—Flowers polygamous, regular. Sepals 4-5, 2-seried, imbricated. Pe tals 4-5, 
naked or with 1-2 glabrous or villous scales within, produced into a daw above. Disk complete, 
annular or elevated. Stamens 8-10 (rarely 4-7 or more), filaments free, frequently pilose ; anthers 
versatile. Ovary entire or 2-4-lobed, 2-4-celled; style terminal, stigma 2—4-lobed ; ovules solitary in 
each cell, ascending from the base of the interior neigti. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, w with 1-2, (rarely) 3-4 
cocri, which are oblong or et and indebiscent. Seeds usually globose, destitute of an aril, testa 
cru: taceous or membranous; embryo straight or curved, cotyledons thick, radicle short.—Trees or shrubs. 
Le wes alternate, iesptior stipules, simple, 1-foliate, or abruptly pinnate, with the leaflets entire, or rarely 
serrait Racemes or panicles either terminal or axillary. Fruit dry or baccate.—BENTHAM & HOOKER. 
