. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 666 Inkwood usually much smaller. The tree is called Chinaberry in New Mexico, and else- where known as Wild China. Its leaves are deciduous. The thick bark is fissured and flaky. The young twigs are densely velvety, pale green, becoming gray and smooth, the buds small and nearly round. The leaves are dm. long or less, and have 7 to 19 leaflets; the leaf- rachis is hairy, somewhat ridged, not winged; the leaflets are
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 666 Inkwood usually much smaller. The tree is called Chinaberry in New Mexico, and else- where known as Wild China. Its leaves are deciduous. The thick bark is fissured and flaky. The young twigs are densely velvety, pale green, becoming gray and smooth, the buds small and nearly round. The leaves are dm. long or less, and have 7 to 19 leaflets; the leaf- rachis is hairy, somewhat ridged, not winged; the leaflets are markedly scythe-shaped, very short- stalked, to 10 cm. long, unequal-sided, long- pointed, obliquely broadly to narrowly lanceolate, smooth and dull green on the upper surface when mature, yellow green and more or less hairy be- neath, at least on the veins. The flower-clusters are i to 2 dm. long; the flowers, which open from May to July, are about 4 mm. broad, the ovate pointed or bluntish sepals shorter than the obo- vate petals; the stamens of staminate flowers are a Uttle longer than the petals. The fruits are globular, i to cm. in diameter, not keeled, the pulp yeUow, drying black, the obovoid seed dark brown. The wood is light brown, dense but readily spht, with a specific gravity of about ; it is used in basketry. The species was formerly confused with the preceding one, and was illustrated as such in " Illustrated Flora of the northern States and ;. Fig. 618. — Drummond's Soapberry. II. INKWOOD GENUS EXOTHEA MACFADYEN Ezothea paniculata (Jussieu )Rad]kofer Melicocca paniculata Jussieu. Exothea ohlongifolia Macfadyen NKWOOD is probably a monotype, though a second species of the genus has been described from Mexican speciinens; the afiinities of this are uncertain, however. The tree inhabits Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Porto Rico, Santo Domingo, Jamaica, St. Vincent, and Guate- mala, attaining a height of 15 to 20 meters, with a trunk somet
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