SOAP-BERRY TREE. 
(Savonnier, Fr.) 
Natural Order , Sapindaceal (Jussieu.) Linncean 
Classification , Octandria, Trigynia. 
SAPINDUS, (Linn.) 
Sepals (or calyx leaves) 4 to 5. Petals 4 or 5, glandular or 
bearded within, or with a lateral filament at the summit of the 
claw. Stamens 8 to 10, with the filaments villous. Styles 
combined, stigmas 3. Carpels 3, globose, fleshy, connate, 2 
of them in general abortive. Seed large and spherical, one in 
each carpel (or small capsule). 
The plants of this genus are small trees, with the present ex- 
ceptions, and one of doubtful character in Japan, all inhabitants 
of the tropical climates of America and India. The leaves are 
without stipules, abruptly pinnate, or unequally pinnate by the 
abortion of the last pair of leaflets. The flowers are small and 
whitish, very numerous, disposed in racemes or panicles. The 
pulp of the berries in all the species is saponaceous. (The name 
is a contraction of Sapo-indicus , or Indian soap.) 
FLORIDA SOAP-BERRY. 
SAPINDUS marginatus, vachi superne august e marginata , 
foliolis glabris insequilateralis laneeolatis subfalcatis acu - 
minatis 5-6 jugis , paniculis compositis terminalibus , 
petalis inappendiculatis. 
Sapindus marginatus . Willd. Enumer. p. 432. Decand. 
Prod., vol. 1. p. 607. Torrey and Gray, vol. 1. p. 255. 
Sapindus saponaria . Lamarck’s Illust. tab. 307. Mich. 
Flora Bor. Am. 1. p. 242. Pursh. Flor., vol. 1. p. 274. 
Nutt. Gen. Am. 1. p. 257. Elliott’s Sketches, Bot., vol. 1. 
p. 460. S. inxqualis. Decand., vol. 1. p. 608. 
This elegant tree, exclusively indigenous to the United 
