162 46. LEGTJMIN0SJ3 : PAPILIONACEJ!. 



Glycine sinensis, Bot. Reg. t. 650 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 773. 



Wistaria floribunda, DC. loc. cit. 



Dolichos polystachyos, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 281, excl. synon. 



Dolichos japonicus, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. p. 252. 



Glycine floribunda, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. p. 1066 ; Pers. Syn. PI. ii. p. 301. 



Chihli: mountains of Zuweyshan (Bungel), Waushoushan 

 (Hancock !) ; Kiangsu : near Shanghai (Jib. Forbes !) ; Chekiang : 

 Ningpo, generally distributed throughout the district, growing in 

 festoons over rocks (Hancock !); Kiangsi : Kiukiang (Shearer !) ; 

 Shensi (Piasezki ex Maximowicz MSS.) ; Hongkong ( Wright !). 

 Herb. Kew. 



Universally cultivated in Japan, and naturalized in a wild 

 state in some parts, though originally introduced from China 

 according to Siebold and Zuccarini. In Europe it bears fruit 

 only in warm situations, and in England only in unusually warm 

 seasous (see Dyer, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 329). 



3. Wistaria dubia, Walp. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix., Suppl. 

 i. p. 324, et Rep. v. p. 536. 

 South China (ex Walpers). 

 An obscure plant, probably not of this genus. 



1. Sesbania aculeata, Pers. Syn. PL ii. p. 316 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 

 p. 205 ; Baker in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. ]). 114. 



iEschynomene Sesban, Jacq. 1c. PI. Rar. t. 564. 

 China, without locality (Fortune, 33!): Eokien : Amoy 

 (Hance, 1472 !) . Herb. Kew. 



Nearly all over the tropics in the Old World. 



2. Sesbania aegyptiaca, Pers. Syn. PI. ii. p. 316 ; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. p. 264 ; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 32. 



Formosa: Tamsui (Oldham I). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 

 Generally dispersed in the tropics of the Old World. 



1. Sphaerophysa Salsula, DC. Prodr. ii. p. 271 ; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Boss. i. p. 574 ; Maxim. Ind. Pek. in Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 471. 



Phaca Salsula, Pall. ltin. iii. p. 216, ex Ledeb. 



Chihli : Peking, river Hunho, growing in the saady wastes 

 in the gorges near Saukiatien (Hancock !). Herb. Kew. 



Siberia and Mongolia. 



