LEGUMINOSAE. 139 
GLEDITSIA. Honey Locust. 
(Family Leguminosae). 
Trees, often large and spread- 
ing, usually armed with often 
horridly compound spines arising 
above the axils and persisting on 
the trunk. Twigs moderate, some- 
what nodose and zig-zag, irregu- 
larly terete: pith rounded, con- 
tinuous, pale or pinkish. Buds 
glabrous, sessile, superposed, the 
uppermost often developing into 
a spine or replaced by an inflo- 
rescence-scar, the others more or 
less covered by the torn margin 
of the leaf-scar, glabrous, with 
few scales, the end-bud lacking. 
Leaf-scars alternate, rather large, 
irregularly shield-shaped, little 
raised: bundle-traces 3:  stipule- 
sears lacking. 
Winter-character references:— 
G. japonica. Shirasawa, 239, pl. 
2. G. triacanthos. Blakeslee & Jarvis, 330, 333, 516, pl.; 
Bosemann, 51; Brendel, 28, pl. 3; Hitchcock (1), 4, (3), 13, 
(4), 186, f. 46-8; Otis, 164; Schneider, f. 22, 68. 
1. Unarmed. 2. 
Spiny. 3. 
2. Large tree. (Thornless honey 1.). G. triacanthos inermis. 
Shrub. G. triacanthos elegantissima. 
3. Spines terete. 4. 
Spines flattened. 5. 
4. Tree. G. sinensis. 
Shrub. G. sinensis nana. 
5. Pods elongated, with many seeds. (1). G. triacanthos. 
Pods short, with 1-3 seeds. G. aquatica. 
