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Descriptive Flora 



broad, white scar. May to fall. Prefers moist situations such 

 as banks of streams. Often cultivated for ornament. 



Sapindus drummondii Hook. & Arn. Soapberry. Wild China. 



Shrub or small tree with once-pinnately compound leaves 

 consisting of 8 to 19 unequal-sided, entire-margined leaflets 

 (each 2 to 4" long), and short branches ending in big, much 

 branched clusters of small white or greenish flowers. Petals 

 4 or 5, very small. Stamens 8 to 10. Fruits berry-like, about 

 the size of a marble, and containing orange-colored pulp similar 

 to the fruits of the cultivated china tree of our yards and parks. 

 May and June. 



Ungnadia speciom Endl. Spanish Buckeye. 



Texas Buckeye. 



Tall shrub or small tree brilliant with clusters of deep pink 

 to rose-colored flowers that are scattered all along the branches 

 and appear with or before the leaves, the whole resembling the 

 familiar peach tree in blossom. Leaves large, once pinnately 

 compound, alternate. Leaflets 3 to 7, large, lanceolate, saw- 

 toothed. Petals 4, erect, spreading, with a tuft of small, white or 

 yellow fringed scales at base. Stamens 7 to 10. Filaments 

 usually pink. Anthers red. Pods leathery, 3-lobed, containing 

 3 large, almost round, shiny, dark brown or black seeds, March. 

 Low grounds and ravines. 



RHAMNACEAE. Buckthorn Family. 



FRANGULACEAE. Buckthorn Family. In Small's Flora. 

 CeanotJius ovatus Desf. Red Root. Indian Tea. 



New Jersey Tea. 



Shrub, usually only 1 to 2 feet tall, with deep red roots and 

 oblong, terminal and axillary clusters of tiny, creamy-white 

 flowers. Leaves simple, alternate. Blades 3-nerved, ovate to 

 oblong-ovate, 1 to 2y 2 inches long, saw-toothed. Petals 5, turned 

 inward at their tips. Stamens 5. Pods small, 3-lobed. Closely 

 related to CeanotJius americanus, an historic plant of the Revolu- 



