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spinescent; leaves thick, evergreen, obovate, J' long; petiole 1-2" long, 

 glandularly denticulate ; flowers dioecious, apetalous, styles distinct above. 

 A thorny shrub with yellow wood, imparting its color to water." Arizona. 

 I have not seen the plant. 



Ceanothits Fendleei, 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 (J 43). Camp Apache, Ariz. (257), at 4,900 

 feet 



AMPELIDE^i. 



Vitis .ESTiVALis, Michx., var. ? — " Resembling a common Texan and 

 New Mexican form; perhaps V. Arisonica, Engelm. Arizona." — S. 

 Watson. 



Ampelopsis qdinqoefolia, Michx. ( Vitis, Bentham & Hooker, Gen. 

 Plant.)— New Mexico. (110.) 



SAPINDACE^. 



Sapindus* marginatus, Willd.— Tree 10-30° high; leaves 4-8' long, 

 leaflets thickish, shining, plainly penninerved, lanceolate, tapering into a 

 long point, insequilateral, somewhat falcate ; flowers in compound terminal 

 and axillary panicles ; fruit globose, 6" in diameter. Arizona, in the dryer 

 portions. (301.) " Soapberry." 



Acee glabrum, Torr. — Mountain streams of Colorado. The name A. 

 tripartitum, Nutt., would have been much more appropriate. (1.) 



Acre gbandidentatum, Nutt. — (303.) Ash Creek, Arizona, at 4,684 

 feet altitude. Utah. 



* Sapindus, Linn. — Flowers polygamous, regular. Sepals 4-5, 2-seried, imbricated. Petals 4-5, 

 naked or with 1-2 glabrous or villous scales within, produced into a claw 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-Iobed, 2-4-celled ; style terminal, stigma 2-4-lobed ; ovules solitary in 

 each cell, ascending from the base of the interior angle. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, with 1-2, (rarely) 3-4 

 cooni, which are oblong or globose and indehiscent. Seeds usually globose, destitute of an aril, testa 

 crut taceous or membranous ; embryo straight or curved, cotyledons thick, radicle short. — Trees or shrubs. 

 ]jh i\ es alternate, without stipnles, simple, 1-foliate, or abruptly pinnate, with the leaflets entire, or rarely 

 serrate Eacemes or panicles either terminal or axillary. Fruit dry or baccate. — Bentham & Hooker. 



