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Kwangtung : on the "West river {Ford !). Herb, et Hort. 

 Kew. 



This genus is named after Mr. Ford, the superintendent of the 

 Hongkong Botanic Garden, to whom Botany is indebted for a 

 considerable number of discoveries both in Hongkong and in the 

 Chinese province of Kwangtung. It differs from the allied genera 

 in its multifoliolate leaves, rigid racemes of flowers borne on the 

 old wood near the ground, 2-ovulate ovary, and strophiolate 

 discoid seeds. Judging from a small living plant sent to Kew 

 by Mr. Ford in 1883, it has much the same habit of growth as 

 Wistaria sinensis, though it may be permanently erect. From 

 Wistaria, which it most nearly approaches, it differs, besides 

 the points already mentioned, in having a truncate calyx, an 

 inappendiculate vexillum, and a sessile ovary. The Kew culti- 

 vated plant has a relatively thick stem, bifurcate near the top, 

 and bearing a tuft of drooping leaves of seventeen to nineteen 

 leaflets. Ford's specimen, cultivated in the Hongkong Botanic 

 Garden, is more vigorous *. 



1. Wistaria brachybotrys, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. i. p. 92, 

 t. 45 ; Maxim. Ind. Fl. Pek. in Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 471, et Fl. 

 As. Or. Fragm. p. 9. 



Chiiili : Peking (ex Maximowicz) ; Chekiang : Ningpo (Han- 

 cock ex Maximowicz). 



Japan. 



We have seen no Chinese specimens of this species, and 

 Hancock's Ningpo specimens of a Wistaria in the Kew Herba- 

 rium belong to W. chinensis. Whether he collected both species 

 there is uncertain. 



2. Wistaria chinensis, DC. Prodr. ii. p. 390 (sphalmate Wis- 

 teria) ; Walp. Rep. i. p. 770 ; Bunge, Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 

 p. 20 ; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 1, t. 211 ; Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. 

 i. p. 90, t. 44 (sinensis) ; III. Sort. 1858, 1. 166 (var. albiflora). 



Wistaria multijuga, Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, t. 2002. 



Wistaria Consequana, Loud. Hort. Brit., et Paxt. Mag. Bot. vii. p. 127, 

 cum ic. color. 



Glycine chinensis, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2083. 



* Since the description of this genus was published, Mr. Ford has written to 

 the effect that the plant is of strictly erect habit. 



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