106 LEGUMINOSAE, 
rather slender twigs, rounded or bluntly angular continuous pith; 
alternate somewhat raised U-shaped leaf-scars partly encircling 
the buds, with 3 bundle-traces; minute stipule-scars crowning the 
leaf-cushion; small hairy superposed sessile buds with indistinct 
scales, the terminal bud lacking; odd-pinnate leaves with stalked 
entire leaflets; papilionaceous perfect flowers in supra-axillary 
racemes forming a terminal panicle; and torulose pods. 
Not weeping. S. japonica. 
Weeping. S. japonica pendula. 
LABURNUM. Golden Chain. 
Deciduous shrubs or small trees with brown wood with small 
ducts crowded in spring, wavy anastomosing tangential wood- 
parenchyma pattern, and fine medullary rays; moderate fluted 
twigs; rounded homogeneous pale pith; alternate somewhat raised - 
crescent-shaped or transversely elliptical leaf-scars with 3 bundle- 
traces; short stipules persistent at top of the leaf-scar; solitary 
sessile round-ovoid buds with 2 or 3 exposed scales; typically en- 
tire moderately large nearly sessile leaflets; rather large perfect 
papilionaceous yellow flowers in racemes; and_ several-seeded 
legumes, 
1.. Leaflets lobed. L. anagyroides quercifolium. 
Leaflets not lobed. 2, 
2. Leaves yellow. L. anagyroides aureum. 
Leaves. green. 3: 
3. Leaves sessile. L. anagyroides sessilifolium. 
Leaves petioled. 4. 
4. Leaflets. elliptical. 5. 
Leaflets very narrow, L. anagyroides Carlieri. 
5. Leaflets flat. 6. 
Leaflets concave. L. anagyroides bullatum. 
6. Branches rather spreading. L. anagyroides. 
Branches distinctly drooping. L. anagyroides pendulum. 
_GENISTA, ;Whin. 
Small deciduous. shrubs with slender. angular twigs; more 
or less angled homogeneous pale pith; alternate small raised 
crescent-shaped or 3-lobed leaf-scars:' with .3 bundle-traces; more 
