Corpus  Christi,  Texas,  west  along  the  Mexican  boundary  to  the  valley  of  the  Colorado  river,  Arizona  (Yuma);
and  southward  into  Mexico;  probably  of  American  origin,  but  now  widely  naturalized  throughout  the  tropical
and  warmer  regions  of  the  globe  (A.  De  Oandolle,  Geog.  Bof.  ii,  719, 770,  793).
A  small  tree,  6  to  12  meters  in  height,  with  a  trunk  sometimes  0.30  meter  in  diameter.
Wood  heavy,  hard,  very  close-grained,  inclined  to  check  in  drying,  containing  many  evenly-distributed  small
open  ducts;  medullary  rays  very  numerous,  thin,  conspicuous;  color,  light  brown,  the  very  thick  sap-wood  lighter,
/Often  tinged  with  yellow;  specific  gravity.  0.6116;  ash,  2.32.
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91. — Cercis  Canadensis,  Linnscus,

Spec.  1  ed.  374.— Du  Eoi,  Obs.  Bot.  10.— Marsball,  Arbustum,  32.— Lamarck,  Diet,  ii,  586.— Wangenheim,  Amer.  84.— Walter,  Fl.
