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and heavy, close grained and takes a high polish. The wood of the 

 American species is sometimes used for gun stock. It also yields a 

 yellow dye. 



Cladrastis chinensis Hemsley. 



A medium-sized tree sometimes 25 m. tall with smooth, gray-green 

 bark and young shoots pubescent toward the base. Leaflets 9-13, 

 •oblong to oblong-lanceolate, entire, usually rounded at the base, blunt or 

 acute at the apex, yellow-green, pubescent below along the midrib and 

 toward the base, 5-11 cm. long. Flowers about 12 mm. long, white or 

 pinkish white, fragrant, in large, loose, much branched, erect, terminal, 

 rusty pubescent panicles, 13-30 cm. long, sometimes 20 cm. wide. 

 Stamens slightly connate at the base. Pods oblong, thin, papery with 

 thickened edges. 



Szechuan, Yunnan and Hupeh. 



A handsome tree on account of its showy flowers which are fragrant, 

 white or pinkish white in color. Tliis tree resembles somewhat Sophora 

 japonica in appearance. Cladrastis chinensis is a comparatively rare tree 

 but it is well worthy of cultivation as an avenue or lawn tree and 

 perhaps for timber. It is cultivated in Europe and America. 



MAACKIA 



Deciduous trees or rarely shrubs with axillary scaly buds. Leaves 

 alternate, odd pinnate; leaflets entire, opposite or subopposite, short 

 stalked. Flowers white, papilionaceous in terminal erect panicles ; calyx 

 4 or 6 toothed, campanulate ; stamens 10, more or less connate. Pods 

 1-5 seeded. 



2 or 3 species in Eastern Asia. Distinguished from Cladrastis by 

 the scaly buds not enclosed in the leaf base, and by the opposite leaflets. 



Al^aackia amurensis (Koch) Ruprecht. 

 (Cladrastis amurensis Koeh.) 



Tree to 15 m. tall with bark peeling in thin lateral strips. Buds 

 «caly, shiny brown. Leaflets 7-11, elliptic-ovate or oblong-ovate, acute 

 or obtuse, rounded at the base, glabrous, dark green, 5-8 cm. long. 

 Racemes many flowered, usually panicled, 10-20 cm. long; flowers 



