72 LEGUMINOSAE 



tinuous pith; alternate somewhat raised U-shaped leaf-scars 

 partly encircling the buds*, with 3 bundle-traces; minute stip- 

 ule-scars crowning the leaf-cushion; small hairy superposed 

 sessile buds with indistinct scales, the terminal bud lacking; 

 odd-pinnate leaves with stalked entire leaflets; papilionaceous 

 perfect flowers in supra-axillary racemes forming a terminal 

 panicle; and torulose pods. 



Not weeping. S. japonica. 



Weeping. S. japonica pendula. 



LABURNUM. Golden Chain. 



Deciduous shrubs or small trees with brown wood with 

 small ducts crowded in spring, wavy anastomosing tangential 

 wood-parenchyma pattern, and fine medullary rays; moderate 

 fluted twigs; rounded homogeneous pale pith; alternate some- 

 what raised crescent-shaped or transversely elliptical leaf- 

 scars with 3 bundle-traces; short stipules persistent at top of 

 the leaf-scar; solitary sessile round-ovoid buds with 2 or 3 

 exposed scales; typically entire moderately large nearly sessile 

 leaflets 1 ; rather large perfect papilionaceous yellow flowers in 

 racemes; and several-seeded legumes. 



1. Leaflets lobed. L. anagyroides quercifolium. 

 Leaves not lobed. 2. 



2. Leaves yellow. L. anagyroides aureum. 

 Leaves green. 3. 



3. Leaves sessile. L. anagyroides sessilifolium. 

 Leaves petioled. 4. 



4. Leaflets elliptical. 5. 



Leaflets very narrow. L. anagyroides Carlieri. 



5. Leaflets flat. 6. 



Leaflets concave. L. anagyroides bullatum. 



6. Branches rather spreading. L. anagyroides. 

 Branches 1 distinctly drooping. L. anagyroides pendulum. 



GENISTA. Whin. 



Small deciduous shrubs with slender angular twigs; more 

 or less angled homogeneous pale pith; alternate small raised 



