46. leguminosjE : papilionacejj. 153 



Kiangsi: Kiukiang (Shearer I)-, Fobmosa : Tamsui (Oldham, 

 154 !) ; Hupeh : Ichang (A. Henry !) ; Kwangtung : Pakhoi 

 (Play/air !), Macao (Tate !), Lofaushan (Ford !) ; Hongkong 

 (Champion I); Cobea : Chemulpo (Carlesl); Cobean Archipe- 

 lago: Green Island (Oldham, 320!). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 

 India, from the Punjab eastward, Malaya, Japan, and the Phi- 

 lippines. 



13. Crotalaria striata, DC. Prodr. ii. p. 131 ; Baker in Hook.f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 84; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 10; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3200. 



Kwangtung : Whampoa, Danes Island (Ranee, 15086 !) ; 

 Hongkong (Ford ! Lamont !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 

 Tropical Asia, Africa, and America. 



14. Crotalaria verrucosa, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 715 ; DC. 

 Prodr. ii. p. 125 ; Baker in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 77. 



Fobmosa: Takow (Sivinhoel), Tamsui (Oldham, 152 !). Mus. 

 Brit. Herb. Kew. 



Tropical Asia, Africa, and America. 



1. Medicago denticulata, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. p. 1414; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. p. 176 ; Baker in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 90 ; Franchet, 

 PI. David, p. 80. 



This is now generally diffused in north temperate regions and 

 naturalized in the south. There are Chinese specimens in the 

 British Museum and Kew Herbaria from Hupeh and Fobmosa; 

 Franchet records it from Shensi, " probably introduced," and 

 Maxirnowicz from Kansuh. Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



2. Medicago falcata, Linn. Sp. PI ed. 1, p. 779 ; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. p. 172 ; Maxim. Ind. Fl. Pek. in Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 470 

 (flore eaeruleo). 



Chihli : Peking (ex Maxirnowicz). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



The plant collected at Jehol by David, aud named Medicago 

 ruthenica, Ledeb. (Trigonella ruthenica, Linn.), by Franchet (PI. 

 David, p. 80), is probably the plant intended by Maxirnowicz and 

 a variety of M. falcata. 



[Medicago lappacea, Lam., a European species, has been found 

 by Lamont near the race-course and other places in Hongkong 

 —see Hance in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 105.] 



