46. leguminoSjE : papilionace^. 169 



Chihli : Peking (ex Maximowicz'). 

 South-eastern Europe to Afghanistan and Turkestan. 

 Boissier treats this as a variety of G. glabra, which extends 

 westward to Portugal. 



5. Glycyrrhiza pallidiflora, Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 79. 

 Shingking : Peiling (Webster I); Shantung: Chefoo (Sluhl- 



mann, hb. Hance, 17912 !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 

 Amurland. 



6. Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Fitch, in DC. Prodr. ii. p. 248 ; 

 Hance in Joum. Pot. 1883, p. 297 ; Franchet, PI. David. 

 p. 92. 



Chihli : plains (David ex Franchet). 

 Siberia. 



1 . Hedysarum brachypterum, Bunge, Fnum. PI. Chin. Dor. 

 p. 18 ; Walp. Pep. i. p. 745 ; Franchet, PI. David, p. 93. 



Chihli: near Zsimini and Swanchuafu (Punge\). Herb. 

 Kew. 



Mongolia. 



2. Hedysarum esculentum, Ledeb. in Denkschr. Pot. Gescllsch. 

 Begensb. iii. p. 112; Fl. Boss. i. p. 707. 



China ? (Wykeham Perry !). Herb. Kew. 

 Eastern Siberia ; Mandshuria ; Japan. 



3. Hedysarum muitijugum, Maxim, in Mel. Piol. xi. p. 212. 

 Kansuh: western alpine region (Przewalsky ex Maximo- 

 wicz). 



4. Hedysarum obscurum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, p. 1057 ; DC. 

 Prodr. ii. p. 343 ; Ledeb. Fl. Boss. i. p. 706. 



Chihli : Siaowutaishan (Hancock ex Maximowicz MSS.). 

 South of Europe eastward through Siberia to Sachalin. 



5. Hedysarum, sp. nov. ? 



"Western China : Kamala Mountains (Gill !). Mus. Brit. 



A very distinct plant ; but the specimen consists of a branch 

 bearing one spike of flowers ; hence we are not certain that it 

 belongs to this genus. 



In the Kew Herbarium is a flowering specimen of a probable 

 species of this genus, different from any of the foregoing, col- 

 lected by Bushell near Peking. 



