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LYONIA MAACKIA 



in cultivation thrives in ordinary peat or light sandy loam. Propagated 

 by seed or by cuttings taken with a slight heel from the shoots that 

 spring freely from beneath the flower panicle. The genus commemorates 

 John Lyon, a famous collector of North American plants, who died about 

 1818 during one of his expeditions to the mountains of the south-eastern 

 United States the " savage and romantic mountains which had so often 

 been the theatre of his labours." 



Var. PUBESCENS, Gray. The most pubescent form of this species (which 

 varies considerably in this respect), and entirely of a greyish aspect. 



MAACKIA AMURENSIS, Ruprecht. LEGUMINOS^. 



(Cladrastis amurensis, Bentham, Bot. Mag., t. 6551.) 



A small deciduous tree, said to be 40 ft. or more high in a wild state, 

 with peeling bark, but usually shrubby in cultivation in this country ; young 

 shoots minutely downy. Leaves 8 to 12 ins. long, pinnate, with seven 

 to eleven leaflets ; the main-stalk rather swollen at the base, but leaving 

 the bud quite exposed; leaflets opposite, ovate, blunt at the top, i.V to 



MAACKIA AMURENSIS. 



3 ins. long, dark green above, paler and downy beneath. Flowers pea- 

 shaped, dull white, closely set on stiff, erect racemes, 4 to 6 ins. long, 

 sometimes branched at the base. Each flower is -J in. long on a short 

 stalk about half its length ; calyx bell-shaped, \ in. long, covered like the 

 flower-stalk with a thick brown down. Pod 2 to 3 ins. long, \ in. wide, 

 flat, with the seam slightly winged. 



Native of Manchuria, Corea, and Japan; introduced in 1864. The 

 separation of this tree from the true Cladrastis is now generally accepted ; 



