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DESCRirTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



KEY TO THE CULTIVATED COLUTEAS 



* Flowers lemon-yellow, | inch long, 3-8 in a cluster ; shrub to 15 feet; 



leaves with 9-13 dull green blades ^-1 inch long. Tall Colutea 

 (150) — Colutea arborescens. 



* Flowers orange to brownish, 3-0 in a cluster. (A.) 



A. Pod closed at tip. Orange-flowered Colutea (151) — Colutea 



ni^dia. 

 A. Pod open at tip. Oriental Colutea — Colutea orient^lis, 



Lespedeza. The Lespedezas or Bush ' Clovers ' are mainly herba- 

 ceous, but one species in cultivation is shrubby, and two others have a 

 shrubby appearance as used in borders. These three species are exten- 

 sively cultivated for their flowers and are practically hardy to Massa- 



Shrubby Bush ' Clover.' Fig. 153. — Siebold's Bush ' Clover. 



chusetts. The Lespedezas have alternate 3-bladed leaves, the end blade 

 at some distance from the side blades. The pea-shaped flowers in these 

 species are purple (or white) in axillary racemes. The upper parts 

 of these plants show much smaller leaves than the lower and this gives 

 them the peculiar bush-clover look. [Divisions.] 



