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I. SAPINDUS L. Soapberry Tree 



Tree 20 or 25 feet high or less, with erect trunk, rather 

 smooth yellowish gray bark and thick foliage; leaves with 8 to. 19 

 narrowly lanceolate leaflets 2 to 3 inches long, somewhat falcate, 

 acuminate, glabrous above, soft-pubescent beneath; flowers white, 

 small, numerous in terminal panicles; sepals and petals 4 or 5, the 

 latter twice as long as the former and more or less lacerate, 

 fruit a globose yellow, fleshy to leathery pericarp about V2 inch 

 in diameter, containing ;i single globose seed, drying black. 



1. S. drummondii. 



2. UNGNADIA New Mexican Buckeye 



Bushy branched shiubs 6 feet high or les« with reddish twigs 

 and large leaves with 2 to 9 leaflets; leaflets usually 7, broadly 

 lanceolate acuminate, irregularly serrate ; flowers rather large, bright 

 pink, numerous, appearing before the leaves, irregular, polygamous; 

 sepals 5; petals 4 or 5; stamens 7 to 10, exserted; capsule long 

 stipitate, coriaceous to Avoody, 1 to 2 inches in diameter, 3-celled; 

 seeds globose, brown, smooth, and shining, about 10 cm. in diameter. 

 A single species. 1. V. speciosa. 



