and it has also been found in the Japanese island of Jesso. 
Like C. virginica (Virgilia lutea), it is perfectly hardy in 
England, and, unlike the last-named plant, it flowers abun- 
dantly at Kew in the month of August, fruiting in October. 
The pods vary much in shape and size, in native specimens 
from one and a quarter to two inches long, whilst at Kew 
they attain three and a half inches in length. The Royal 
Gardens are indebted to Mr. Van Volxem, of Brussels, for 
specimens which are planted in the Leguminous beds of 
the Arboretum. 
Descr. A tree forty feet high, with a trunk six inches in 
diameter, and spreading and drooping densely leafy 
branches; young parts silkily pubescent, as are the 
rounded bud-scales. Leaves alternate, four to six inches 
long, pinnate ; pinne three to four pair, subopposite, shortly 
petioled, two to three inches long, ovate ovate-cordate or 
elliptic-ovate, obtuse or subacute, membranous, glabrous or 
sparsely hairy beneath, nerves slender ; petiole terete. 
Jtacemes four to six inches long, subterminal, drooping 
with ascending flowers, shortly peduncled, very dense- 
flowered, cylindric. Flowers one-third of an inch in 
diameter, one to three together, greenish-white ; pedicels 
rathar larger than the calyx; bracts very small. Calyx 
shortly cylindric, obtusely shortly two-lipped. Standard 
obovate-spathulate, recurved, notched, gradually narrowed 
into the claw; wing's linear-oblong, obtuse, with a deeply 
cordate base, claw slender; keel oblong, obtuse. Ovary 
pubescent; style very short. Pod two to three and a half 
inches long, linear or elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, 
much compressed, membranous, veined, brown. Seeds 
oblong.—J. D. H. 
Fig, 1, flower; 2, cal 
standard ; 5, wings ; 
and 10 enlarged. 
1yx staminal bundle and ovary, cut vertically ; 3, calyx; 4, 
6, keel; 7, stamens; 8, ovary; 9, pod; 10, seed:—all but 9 
