TAKEDA—CLADRASTIS AND MAACKIA. 97 
vix vel haud dehiscens. Semina oblonga, compressa, vix 
strophiolata, testa tenue, membranacea, brunnea. Gemma basi 
petioli inflatae innata. 
The genus is further subdivided into two subgenera :— 
Eucladrastis. Takeda. Folia exstipellata, subtus glauca. 
Legumen exalatum, margine tantum subincrassatum. 
Platyosprion, Maxim., in Bull. Acad., Imp. Sc. St. Petersb., 
Xvili, p. 398 (Sophorae subgenus). Folia stipellata, subtus 
viridula. Legumen secus utrumque marginem alatum, indehiscens. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
I. Legumen exalatum. Folia  exstipellata, 
subtus glauca. ; é 2 
“Legumen utrinque alatum. Foie stipellata, 
supra pilosula, subtus viridula, tenuiter 
membranacea acuminata ‘ 4. C. platycarpa, Makino. 
2. Legumen __longe —— maturum 
labrum ; 
3- 
Legumen __breviter ‘stipitat um, ma natnrein 
hirsutum. Foliola elliptico-lanceolata, 
obtusa vel acutiuscula, subtus juvenilia 
tomentosa adulta glabrescentia . 3. C. sinensis, Hemsl. 
3. Folia plerumque 3-juga, foliolis ovatis vel 
late ovatis, breviter cuspidatis, obtusis, 
subtus parce pilosulis. Gemma ferru- 
ineo-tomentosa 1. C. lutea, C. Koch. 
Folia plerumque 5-juga, foliolis ovate- vel 
elliptico-lanceolatis, subtus ad costam 
mediam pilosulis. Gemma  aureo- 
tomentosa . . 2. C. shikokiana, Makino. 
ENUMERATION OF THE SPECIES. 
1. C. lutea, C. Koch, Dendrol. i (1869), p.6; Sargent, Gard. and 
Forest, li, p. 375 ; Sylva of N. Am., ili, p. 57, tab. cxix, cxx. 
Syn.—Virgilia lutea, Michx. f. Arb. Am., iii (1813), p. 266, 
tab. iii; C. tinctoria, Rafin. Neogen. (1825), p. 1.; DC. 
Prodr., ii, p. 98. 
Has.—N. America; Hills near Nashville, Tennessee (A. 
Gattinger, fl. fr. Hb. Kew, Hb. Brit. Mus.), ad rupes prope Painted 
Rock, Tennessee (Rugel, Aug. 1842, fr. Hb. Kew), banks, Ken- 
tucky river (R. Petter, May, 1833, fl. fr. Hb. Kew), V. C. to Ga. 
and FI. (S. B. Buckley, ex Hb. A. Gr., Hb. Brit. Mus.), calcareous 
cliffs of the Kentucky river (C. W. Short, fl. Hb. Kew). 
