LEGTJMINOSAE 71 



white papilionaceous flowers in axillary umbels; and thin 

 several-seeded legumes. 



1. Leaves more or less pointed. 2. 

 Leaves rounded or notched at apex. 5. 



2. Leaves with a distinct translucent margin. C. chinensis. 

 Leaves with obscure translucent border. 3. 



3. Flowers reddish. 4. 



Flow r ers white. C. canadensis alba. 



4. Flowers single. (Redbud). C. canadensis. 

 Flowers double. C. canadensis plena. 



5. Flowers reddish. (Judas tree). C. Siliquastrum. 

 Flowers white. C. Siliquastrum alba. 



CLADRASTIS. Yellow-wood. 



Small or moderate-sized deciduous trees with smooth 

 gray bark ; yellowish moderately hard wood with diffused small 

 ducts and fine but distinct medullary rays; moderate rather 

 zig-zag twigs; rather large roundish homogeneous pale pith; 

 alternate crescent-shaped or horseshoe-shaped low leaf-scars 

 with 3 or 5 at first protruding bundle-traces; no stipule-scars; 

 s'essile solitary or superposed lateral buds often aggregated in 

 a conical budlike group; no end bud; odd-pinnate leaves with 

 large entire short-stalked leaflets; rather large white perfect 

 papilionaceous flowers in a terminal raceme or panicle; and 

 thin few-seeded legumes. 



1. Bundle-traces 3; buds glabrate. C. (Maackia) amurensis. 

 Bundle-traces 5; buds superposed, silky. 2. 



2. Leaves glabrate. 3. 



Leaves pubescent. C. sinensis. 



3. Unvariegated. C. lutea. 

 Variegated with yellow. C. lutea aureo-variegata. 



SOPHORA. Pagoda Tree. 



Deciduous small trees with firm pale wood with small 

 ducts, somewhat larger and crowded in spring and in tangen- 

 tial lines in autumn, and fine medullary rays; somewhat finely 

 fluted rather slender twigs; rounded or bluntly angular con- 



