XXV. legumina'ce^ : ce'rcis. 



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Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; heart-shaped at the base, 

 many-nerved, rising after the flowers have decayed. Flowers in 1-flowered 

 l)edicels, rising from the trunk and branches in fascicles. Trees, deciduous, 

 of the third rank ; natives of Europe, or North America. Decaying leaves 

 yellowish purple. Propagated by seeds or grafting. 



I. C. /SiLiauA'sTRUM L. The common Jiidas Tree 



Identification. IJn. Sp., 534. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. .518. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 463. 



Synonpnes. Siliquastrum orbiculatum Mcrnch Met/i. ; Love Tree ; Galnier comraun, Arore de 



Judee, Fr. ; Arbol d'.'imor. Span. ; Jiidasbaum, Gcr. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., t. 7. ; Bot. Mag., t. 1138. ; the plates of this species in Arb. Brit., 1st 



edit., vol. V. ; and our Jig. 419. 



Spec. Char., 4'c. Leaves very obtuse, and wholly glabrous. (Dec. Prod.) A 

 low tree. South of Europe, in Greece, in Asiatic Turkey, and more es- 

 pecially in Judea. Height 20 ft. to 30 ft. liitrodnced in 1596. Flowers 

 purplish pink ; May. Legume brown ; ripe in September. Kaked young 

 wood purplish, with small white spots. 



Varieties. 



a^ C. S. 2 parvifldritm Dec. A shrub ; its branches spotted with white, 



its flowers smaller by half than those of the species. A native of 



Bokhara. 

 C. S. Sflore a/bido. F]owers whitish. H. S. 

 'i' C. S. 4 rosea. A seedling, raised from foreign seeds, which has 



flowered in the Botanic Garden at Kew ; has numerous flowers, 



which are brighter, and a shade darker, than those of the species ; 



and they also appear about a fortnight later ; but it is, perhaps, 



hardly worth noticing as a variety. 



419. Cercis MUquastrum 



The common Judas tree, in the South of Europe, forms a handsome low 

 free, with a flat spreading head, in the form of a parasol; and it is a singularly 



