Tats sor: 
CLADRASTIS ‘incrorta. 
Native of the Western United States. 
Nat. Ord. LEcuminos™.—Tribe SorpHore.xs. 
Genus Craprastis, Raf. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 554.) 
~ Ciaprastis tinctoria ; arbor 50-60-pedalis, fere omnino glabra, cortice levi, ligno 
flavo, ramulis pendulis lenticellatis glabrescentibus, foliis impari-pinnatis 
8-12 poll. longis, rbachi gracili basi tumido cavo alabastrum claudente, 
foliolis 7-13 ovatis oblongisve 3—4 poll. longis apice rotundatis basi acutis, 
stipulis obsoletis, racem's paniculisve terminalibus 12-14 poll. longis 
pendulis laxifloris, rhachi gracillimo, bracteis minutis caducis, floribus 
expansis ad 1 poll. longis pedicellatis albis, calyce 5-dentato, vexillo 
rotundato reflexo, alis oblique oblongis, carine petalis liberis dorso arcte 
imbricatis, staminibus fere liberis, legumine lineari plano-compresso, 
semiuibus oblongis compressis estrophiolatis. 
C. tinctoria, Raf. Fl. Kent. 1824 (er S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot. p. 210) ; 
Neogenyt. (1825); Med. Fl. vol. ii. p. 210; New. Fl. N. Am. vol. iii. p. 83. 
Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 391. Chapman, Fl. 8. U. St. p. 118. 
A. Gray Man. Bot. N. U. States, Ei. 1880, p. 143. 
C. lutea, Koch, Dendrol. vol. i. p.6. Sargent, Gard. & Forest, vol. ii. p. 375 ; 
Silv. N. Am. vol. iii. p. 57, t. 119, 120. 
Virgilia lutea, Miche. fil. Hist. Arbr. Am. Sept. vol. iii. p. 266, t. 3; Pursh 
_ Fl. Am. Sept. p. 309. Nutt. Gen, N. Am. Pl. vol. i. p. 284. Loitsel. 
Herb. Gen. de V Amat. t. 197. D.C. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 98. Spach. Hist. 
Veg. vol. i. p. 163. Eaton, Man. Bot. N. Am. Ed. 6, p. 395. -Haton 
& i oa N. Am. Bot. Ed. 8, p. 480. Loud. Arboret, Brit, vol. ii. 
p- 565. 
Cladrastis tinctoria, the ‘‘ yellow” or ‘‘ Gopher” wood 
of N. America, is one of the rarest trees of the United 
States, being confined to the western bases of the Alle- 
ghany Mts. in Kentucky, Central Tennessee, and N. Carolina. 
It is remarkable for its silvery closely appressed bark, like 
that of the Beech, pendulous brittle branches, and pro- 
fusion of delicately fragrant white flowers. Only two 
other species of the genus are known, C. amurensis, Benth. 
(see tab. 6551) a native of Manchuria, and C. sinensis, 
Helms., of China. It is remarkable as one of the most 
striking evidences of the affinity of the Flora of N.E. Asia 
with that of N.H. America (to the exclusion of both Japan 
and W. America). According to Eaton the bark yields a 
yellow dye. According to Loudon it was introduced into 
England in 1812 by John Lyon, a Scotchman, who 
Aprit Ist, 1901. 
