Leguminoscz Cercis. 139 



2. C. Canadensis. Similar to the foregoing, but smaller 

 and of more slender habit, with cordate acuminate leaves and 

 fewer paler flowers. North America. 



Fig. 78. Cercis Siliquastrum. ( nat. size.) 



3. C. Chinensis, syn. C. Japonica. This is of quite recent 

 introduction, and a very handsome species. In foliage it closely 

 resembles Canadensis. The rosy-pink flowers are larger, how- 

 ever, and very numerous, and produced on the old wood in 

 Spring before the appearance of the leaves. 



ORDER XXXVIII. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, erect, prostrate, or rarely climbing. 

 Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, simple or variously com- 

 pound, stipulate. Calyx superior or inferior, with 5 or 4 lobes, 

 the fifth lobe next the axis. Petals 5, rarely none, inserted 

 under the margin of the disk, imbricate. Stamens usually 

 numerous, seldom 1 or few, inserted with the petals. Disk 

 lining the calyx-tube. Fruit various. Seeds ascending or 

 pendulous, exalburninous. With the tribe Chrysobdlanece, this 



