LEGUMINOSBAE 18& 



greenish-white, about 8 mm. long on slender pedicels. Pods 4-8 cm. 

 long, brown, oblong, flattened. Seeds 1-5, oblong. 



Amurland, Manchuria, China and Japan. 



The wood is yellowish-brown, hard and tough, fine textured, 

 suitable for building and furniture, for making agricultural implements, 

 saddles, etc., and for railroad ties. Tlie bark yields a yellow dye. 



Propagated by seeds. About 9,950 seeds weigh 1 pound. 

 Maackia hupehensis Takedn. 



Tree to 23 m. tall. Bark greenish-gray. Leaflets 11-13, 2-3 cm. 

 long, ovate to ovate-elliptic, densely hirsute. Flowers numerous, white» 

 about 10 mm. long, 



Hupeh, Szechuan, Kiangsi. 



' According to E. H. Wikon, the bud scales in the spring are bluish 

 with yellow margins. The unfolding leaves are silver gray. 



DALBERGIA 



Trees, shrubs or climbers. Leaves coriaceous, odd pinnate or rarely 

 1 fuliiite. Flowers papilionaceous, numerous, small, in terminal or 

 axilJary panicles; calyx campanulute, 5 toothed; standards ovate or 

 orbiculiir; stamens 9-10, monadelphous or with a split sheath; anthers 

 minute; ovary stipitate, few ovuled; style short, incurved with capitate 

 stigma. Pods oblong or ligulate (strap shaped) usually thin and flat, 

 indeliisicent, 1-4 seeded. 



About 70 species, mostly in the tropics. 9 or 10 species in China. 



Dalbergia hupeana Hance. 

 Tian Shu. 



Tree to 20 m. tall with rough gray bark peeling in thin flakes. 

 Leaflets 9, oblong, rounded at both ends or emarginate at the apex, 

 veins elevated on the under surface, glabrous, usually about 4 cm. long 

 (up to 7 cm.). Panicles glabrous, compact; flowers yellow or creamy 

 white, small, about 1 cm. long; calyx hairy, 4 toothtd, the upper teeth 

 obtuse, the lower tooth elongated; corolla about 1/2 the length of the 

 calyx; stamens, diiidelphous; ovjiry glabrous, 3 ov^led. Pod ligulate, 

 flat, minutely apiculate, 1-3 seeded, up to 8 cm. long. 



