Leguminose—Erythrina, 135 
E. laurifolia is a variety of the foregoing, easily distinguished 
by its less robust habit, smaller bright green leaves, and brighter 
scarlet flowers. 
Trips [X.—SOPHOREA. 
Tall erect trees or shrubs or climbers. Leaves pinnate. 
Stamens 10, free. 
28. CLADRASTIS. 
Small trees with imparipinnate exstipulate leaves and ter- 
minal panicles of white flowers. Pod shortly stalked, flat, thin, 
scarcely dehiscent. Onlytwo species are described: the following 
an American, and another from Manchuria. 
1. C.litea(fig.76), syn. Virgilia lutea and tinctoria.— Usually 
known under the latter name. This is a handsome deciduous 
Fig. 76. Cladrastis Intea. (} nat. size.) 
tree, bearing a great profusion of white flowers in J uly. There 
are some specimens in England upwards of thirty feet high. 
The wood is yellow, whence the specific name and the American 
appellation of Yellow Wood. 
C. Amirensis (Mdackia) has smaller leaves and yellowish 
