110 TREES AND SHRUBS 



The New Mexico Buckeye (Ungnadia speciosa) is a 

 shrub 4 to 6 feet high, with many smooth reddish-brown 

 stems arising from the root. Preceding the leaves in early 

 spring come the profuse clusters of bright pink flowers, the 

 bushes being loaded with them. The leaves are compound, 

 having from 3 to 9 leaflets, usually 7. The leaflets are rather 

 large. 2 to 3 inches long, broadly lanceolate and irregularly 

 toothed. The pod is a 3-celled capsule \ l / 2 inches in diameter, 

 somewhat irregularly triangular, with a long stem and con- 

 taining 3 spherical smooth dark brown seeds about y 2 inch in 

 diameter and resembling the buckeye. This plant grows 

 usually in the foothills of the drier mountains, and we have 

 transplanted it two or three times into the garden at the Ex- 

 periment Station. It seems to stand 'the transplanting well, 

 and -tails to grow very vigorously in the spring, but the hot 

 weather of summer ultimately kills it. If properly shaded it 

 will no doubt grow at the valley levels. 



SAPINDACEAE. Soapberry Family 



Shrubs or :n-<~ with alternate pinnate leaves; inflorescence 

 ral "i- terminal, m sstly paniculate; I owers white or pink, po 



- ally en; spicuous- sepals 4 or ■">: peti _ 



- ilar; stamens 7 to 12, inserted on a disk; ovary 2 to 4-celled; 

 fruit a capsule <>r berrylike. 



- with small while flowers: fruit berrvlike. 

 with a single seed. 1. Sapixdus. 



Shrubs with large pink flowers; fruit a 3-celled 



capsule with 3 seeds. _ Ungnadia. 



