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the leaf, you will find glands (like the glands on 

 the leaf-stems of the prunus). Glands are also pres- 

 ent on the twigs of the tree. This interesting im- 

 portation from Japan and China blooms in drooping, 

 fragrant, terminal and axillary panicles of greenish- 

 yellow flowers. The flowers are rather inconspicuous. 

 They are petalless, but have five woolly sepals. The 

 sepals are divisions of the calyx. These flowers change 

 into small orange-yellow many-seeded berries about 

 the size of an ordinary pea. 



Fhellodendron Amurense. ( Chinese Cork Tree. No. 

 II.) In his Section there grows the best specimen 

 of the Chinese cork tree in the Park. You can find 

 it very easily by entering the Park at the East One 

 Hundred and Sixth St^reet Gate and going west until 

 you pass the third branching of the Walk. Just be- 

 yond this third offshoot of Walk (which leads in to 

 the Green Houses), down in the open space which fills 

 in back of McGowan's stables, and west of the beds 

 that lie to the north of the Green Houses you will find 

 this tree. It is down the bank, due south of the Walk 

 by which you entered, about a stone's throw from the 

 point where the third fork breaks off from the Walk 

 to run south to the Green Houses. It is a tall thin 

 tree about thirty feet high, somewhat Y-form in shape. 

 You will know it easily by its ailanthus-like leaves. 

 These compound leaves are about two or three feet 

 long, and set oppositely on the branch. They are 

 made up of many leaflets which are placed along the 

 leaf-stem in a way that botanists term odd-pinnate. 

 That is, pinnate (with the leaflets set along the stem in a 



