enish wood, of great use for inside work. Southern
New England and southward. Especially abundant and large in the Western
States. Also cultivated.

GENUS 3. CERCIDIPHYLLUM.

Shrubs or trees with opposite, rarely subalternate, simple, deciduous
leaves. Fruit short-stemmed, with divergent pods, 2-4 in number,
splitting open on the outer edges; each one-celled, with one row of
lapping, pendulous seeds with membranous wings.

[Illustration: C. Japonicum.]

=Cercidiphyllum Japonicum.= (KATSURA-TREE.) Leaves broadly heart-shaped,
palmately veined with 5-7 ribs, and with an apparently entire margin,
dark green above, somewhat glaucous beneath. Under a magnifying glass
the margin will be found to have pellucid crenulations. Leafstalk dark
red and jointed above the base, the veins somewhat red-tinted. A
beautiful, upright tree with birch-like, dotted, brown bark; of recent
introduction from Japan, and probably completely hardy throughout the
region.

ORDER =II. BIXINEAE.=

A rather small order of mostly tropical trees or shrubs, with alternate,
simple leaves.

GENUS 4. =IDESIA.=

Large trees with terminal and axillary panicles of very small flowers
and berries.

[Illustration: I. polycarpa.]

=Idesia polycarpa=, Hook. Leaves large, heart-shaped, serrate, palmately
veined with 5 ribs; leafstalk very long, red, with two glands near the
base; twigs also glandular; berries very small (1/4 inch), with many
seeds. A large tree recently introduced from Japan, which may prove
hardy from Pennsylvania south, but is killed by the climate of
Massachusetts.

ORDER =III. ANONACEAE.=

(CUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY.)

An order of tropical trees and shrubs except the following genus:

GENUS =5. ASIMINA.=

Small trees or shrubs with simple, deciduous, alternate, entire,
pinnately-veined leaves. Flowers large, dull purplish, solitary in the
axils of last year's leaves. Fruit a large, oblong, several-seeded,
pulpy berry.

[Illustration: A. triloba.]

=Asimina triloba=, Dunal. (COMMON PAPAW.) Leaves large (8 to 12 in.
long), oblong-obovate, acuminate, thin, lapping over each other in such
a manner as to give the plant a peculiar imbricated appearance. Flowers
1 in. broad, appearing before the leaves. Fruit 3 in. long, 1 1/2 in.
thick, yellowish, fragrant, about 8-seeded, ripe in the autumn. Small
(10 to 20 ft. high), beautiful tree with dark-brown twigs. All parts
have a rank, fetid smell. Wild in New York and southward a