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LEGUMINOSAE. 



LEUCAENA. White Popinac. 

 (Family Leguminosae). 



Tender graceful trees: ever- 

 green. Twigs moderate or rather 

 slender, terete: pith rather small, 

 round, continuous, white. Buds 

 solitary, sessile, ovoid, with stipu- 

 lar scales only. Leaf-scars alter- 

 nate, 2-ranked, somewhat elevat- 

 ed, rather small, half-elliptical: 

 bundle-traces 3: stipules persist- 

 ent at top of the leaf-cushion. 

 Leaves abruptly bipinnate with 

 numerous small oblong inequilat- 

 eral whitened leaflets. The fruit, 

 when present, is of long thin le- 

 gumes. 



Winter-character references to 

 Leguminosae not considered here: 

 Caesalpinia sepiaria. Shirasawa, 

 234, pi. 2. Calycotome spinosa. 

 Schneider, f. 82. Dorycnium suf- 

 fruticosum. Schneider, f. 140. 



Hedysarum multijugum. Schneider, f. 72. Indigofera Gerar- 



diana. Schneider, f. 134. Lespedeza Hcolor. Schneider, f. 



73. Ononis fruticosa. Schneider, f. 70. Petteria (Laburnum) 



ramentacea. Schneider, f. 72. 



Twigs light brown, warty, for a time puberulent. L. glauca. 



