333 PEACTICAL FOKESTEY. 



leaves, and scurfy fruit, is a low shrub, peculiar to the moun- 

 tains of Southern Utah. 



siDEEOXTLOsr, Linn. — Ironiuood. 



Tropical trees and shrubs of the Sapodilla Family. Flowers 

 Tvith a four-pointed calyx and coroUa, five -cleft. Fruit, a small 

 drupe, mostly one-celled and one-seeded, the kernel with 

 abundant albumen. 



Sideroxylon Mastichodendron, Jacq. — Mastic Tree. — Leaves 

 smooth, five to six inches long, very thin, elliptical, obtuse, wavy 

 on the margins; on slender petioles. Flowers few in a cluster and 

 small. Fruit purplish, ovoid. A large tree in the West Indies, 

 but only thirty to forty feet high at Key West, Florida. 



siMARUBA, Aublet. — Quassia. 



Trees or shrubs with bitter, milky juice, pinnate-alternate 

 leaves, and small greenish monoecious or dioecious flowers. 

 Fruit drupaceous and one-seeded. There are several tropical 

 species, but only one coming within the United States. 



Simiirnba glanca, DC. — Bitter Wood. — Leaves and twigs 

 smooth. Flowers dioecious ; leaflets four to eight, alternate 

 and opposite, coriaceous, obovate or oblong, obtuse, paler 

 beneath than above. Fruit oval, mostly solitary. According 

 to some authorities, a small tree or shrub. Chapman says, "a 

 large tree in South Florida." 



SOPHOKA. — Linn. 



A genus of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, and of 

 about twenty-flve species, mainly in the warmer parts of the 

 world, although a few inhabit the colder regions of Asia. 

 Leaves unevenly pinnate, with few or many entire and some- 

 times quite thick leaflets. Flowers showy, pea-shaped, suc- 

 ceeded by large, thick pods, with several seeds. We have no 

 indigenous species wortliy of any especial attention, and only 

 one grows to the hight of twenty feet, and this is the 



Sopbora seenndiflora. — Lag. — Leaves evergreen. Flowers blue 

 and quite showy ; sweet scented. A small tree, twenty to thirty 

 feet high, with very hard, heavy yeUow wood, said to be excel- 

 lent for fuel. In groves near Matagorda Bay to Western Texas. 

 The next largest native species is 8. affinis, Torr. and Gray. A 

 large shrub, ten to fifteen feet feet high, with evergreen leaves, 

 and very hard wood. In Arkansas and Eastern Texas. S, Arir 



