Leguminose—Cerets. 139 
2. C. Canadénsis.—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, (4 nat. size.) 
3. C. Chinénsis, syu. C. Japénica.—This is of quite recent 
introduction, and a very handsome species. In foliage it closely 
resembles Canadénsis. 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. 
Orper XXXVLII.—ROSACEZ:. 
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, exalbuminous. With the tribe Chrysobdlanea, this 
