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North American species are S. marginatus Willd., which 
ranges from Kansas to northern Mexico and eastward to 
Georgia and Florida; S. Saponarza Linn., of the Florida 
Keys, West Indies and Venezuela; and S. Drummondii H. & 
A. The American fossil species are numerous, there being 
twenty-one or more forms distributed as follows: Island 1, 
Matawan 1, Dakota 2, Denver 1, Upper Laramie 1, Eocene, 
Ky. 1, Brandon, Vt. 1, Green River 7, Fort Union 5, Ter- 
tiary of Yellowstone Park 2, Eolignitic 4, Miocene 1, Green- 
land 3. 
Did we assume that these fossil leaflets should be of uni- 
form size and form, as they are in our existing species of 
the Southwest, the number of fossil species would be greatly 
multiplied. 
Sapinpus Morrisoni Lesq. F¥. 47. fi 2, 3. 
Sapindus Morrisont Lesq. Cret. & Tert. Fl. 83. p/. 76. 
j. I, 2. 1883; Fl. Dak. Group, 158. p20. 375. fi 7, 2. 
1892. Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct. 6: 96. fl. go. fir; pl. 
Al. f. 3; pl. 43. f. 1a, 6; pl. gg. f. 7,8. 1882. Hollick, 
Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 11: pl. 3. fi 5. 1892; 12 
235. pl. 6. f. 3. 1893; Bull. Torrey Club, 22: 57. 
pl. 179. f. 8. 1894; Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 7: 13. 1895 ; 
Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 11: 422. pl. 36. f. g. 1898. 
White, Am. Jour. Sci. III. 39: 99. pl. 2. f. 12. 1890. 
The Cliffwood forms are small leaves with a considerably 
inequilateral base and numerous somewhat ascending irregu- 
larly curved camptodrome secondaries. There is no question 
but what this is a species of Sapzndus; it agrees quite well 
with Lesquereux’s Cret. & Tert. Fl. 4 2, and Fl. Dak. 
Group, / 2, and Hollick’s specimen from Tottenville, 
Staten Island, all of which are rather smaller than the other 
figured leaves of this species. Hoollick * identifies two fairly 
perfect leaves from this horizon with Velenovsky’s Sapzndus 
apiculatus from the Bohemian Cretaceous. These leaves are 
somewhat smaller than our specimens and less full at the 
* Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 16: 133. p/. 77. fis, 2. 1897 
