. Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state . single or compound pinnate leaves; mostly dioecious-flowers borne in axillary, lateral or terminal spikes or racemes^and dense heads of drupaceous fruits. Leaves simple 1. Cotinus. Leaves pinnately compound 2. Sehmaltzia. COTINUS Adams. 1. Cotinus cotinoides (Xutt.) Britton. Smoke Tree. Ashrub or small tree with spreading, drooping branches, purpletwigs, and light gray furrowed bark. Leaves simple, alter-nate, oval or obovate, 2-6 long, entire or with undulate mar-gins, dark green above, paler below. Flow
. Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state . single or compound pinnate leaves; mostly dioecious-flowers borne in axillary, lateral or terminal spikes or racemes^and dense heads of drupaceous fruits. Leaves simple 1. Cotinus. Leaves pinnately compound 2. Sehmaltzia. COTINUS Adams. 1. Cotinus cotinoides (Xutt.) Britton. Smoke Tree. Ashrub or small tree with spreading, drooping branches, purpletwigs, and light gray furrowed bark. Leaves simple, alter-nate, oval or obovate, 2-6 long, entire or with undulate mar-gins, dark green above, paler below. Flowers in few floweredplumose panicles, at the ends of branches, staminate and pis-tillate borne on different trees. Fruit a drupe. Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas. Cultivated forornament. The Trees of TexasSCHMALTZIA Desv. Sumac. 120 1. Schmaltzia copallina (L.) Small. Dwarf Sumac. Us-ually a shrub, but sometimes a small tree with velvety twigsand reddish brown bark. Leaves alternate, unequally pin-nate; leaflets 9-21, sessile, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, the axis *^ >:ii *1^. S-. V^^V^^^^^M Fig. 4 0. ]\IeJia Azedarach umbraculifera. of the leaf winged. Flowers terminal in dense panicles, thestaminate and pistillate on different trees. Fruit bright reddrupes in clusters. Ornamental. 9—Trees. 130 Bulletin of the University of Texas 2. Schmaltzia lanceolata (Asa Gray) Britton. Closely re-sembles S. copallina and sometimes becomes a small tree. Itsleaflets are short stalked, narrowly lanceolate, pointed at theapex and somewhat curved. Found only in Texas, principally on limestone soil. CYRILLACEAE Lindley. The Titi L. Cyrilla racemiflora (L.) Titi. Leatherwood. A shrul) orsmall tree 30°-35° high with thin, pale or whitish bark andreddish brown smooth twigs. Leaves alternate, deciduous,simple, obovate to oblanceolate, 2-3 long, i/4-l wide, leath-ery with entire margins. Flowers small white or pink in clus-ters of many elongated racemes. Fruit a blunt ovoi
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