travelled in Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, returning twice 
to England with large contributions to our gardens. He 
died in 1818, in America. 
The Gopher wood is not uncommon in plantations in 
various parts of Europe, flowering abundantly in the 
warmer climates, but rarely in the northern. There is a 
Jarge tree of it in the Royal Gardens, Kew, which flowered 
in June, 1900, and from which the foliage and panicle of 
the accompanying figure was taken. 
Descr.—A tree fifty to sixty feet high, with smooth bark, 
yellow wood and glabrous branches, foliage and flowers. 
Leaves eight to twelve inches long, impari-pinnate; petiole 
short, much thickened at the base, and there enclosing an 
axillary bud; rhachis slender, terete; leaflets seven to 
thirteen, three to four inches long, shortly petiolulate, 
ovate or oblong, obtuse, rather thin, terminal largest, with 
a longer petiolule ; stipules 0. Panicles or racemes twelve 
to fourteen inches long, terminal, pendulous, laxly very 
many flowered; rhachis and branches slender; bracts 
minute, caducous; pedicels slender. lowers white, with a 
yellow speckled spot at the base of the standard. Caly« 
obtusely five-toothed, green. Standard orbicular, reflexed. 
Wings obliquely oblong. Keel-petals free, concave. Stamens 
nearly free. Ovary hairy. Pod three to four inches long, 
linear, flattened. “Seeds oblong, compressed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. calyx laid o i ; : 
a : pen and stamens ; 2, wing-petal; 3, keel-petal ; A, ovary 
all enlarged ; 5, legume; 6, seed: both of sy size, 
