46. LEGUMINOS.S : PAPILIONACE.E. 201 



unguiculatis • stamina 10, libera, filamentis deoi sum dilatatis gla- 

 bris ; ovarium stipitatum, pauciovulatum, praecipue secus suturas 

 louge denseque pilosum. Legumen ignotum. 



Chekiang : Ningpo {Cooper !). Herb. Kew. 



This is readily distinguished from the other two species by 

 its very thin leaves with conspicuous finely reticulated venation. 

 The free stamens and shaggy ovary are also distinctive characters, 

 so far as the other species are known. 



1. Bowringia callicarpa, Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 

 p. 75 ; Walp. Ann. iv. p. 585 ; Benth. Fl. HongTe. p. 95. 



China : without locality (Beechey !) ; Fokien : Amoy moun- 

 tains (Swinhoe !) ; Kwangtung: Lofaushan (Ford I); Hong- 

 kong ( Urquhart ! Champion ! Wilford ! Wright ! Lamont !). Mus. 

 Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



1. Cladrastis sp. ? 



China: without locality (Millettl). Herb. Kew. 



This is perhaps the same as Buergeria floribunda, Miq. (Ann. 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. iii. p. 53), which Maximowicz regards as a 

 variety of Cladrastis amurensis (Mel. Biol. ix. p. 73) ; but our 

 plant has flowers about half the size of typical C. amurensis, with 

 an unequally 5-toothed calyx, and the alae are auricled on one 

 margin only. Millett's plant in the Kew Herbarium is named 

 Sophora heptaphylla in the handwriting of the late Mr. Benthain. 

 Linnaeus's name Sophora heptaphylla is correctly applied to a 

 Ceylon plant (see Baker in Hooker's ' Flora of British India,' ii. 

 p. 250); though Linnaeus himself never clearly defined it. In 

 the first edition of the ' Species Plantarum ' he doubtingly cites 

 Plukenet's " Fructiculus [Erutex] sinensis," «fcc. (Amalth. App. 

 no. 18, t. 451. fig. 10) , and in the second edition he cites, without 

 the sign of doubt, Kumphius's Anticholerica (Herb. Amb. iv. 

 p. 60, t. 22), which is almost certainly S. tomentosa. Plukenet's 

 figure probably represents the Chinese S.flavescens. 



1. Sophora alopecuroides, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 373 ; DC. 

 Prodr. ii. p. 96 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. p. 716 ; Kanitz in Math, und 

 Naturw. Ber. TJngarn (reprint), p. 7. 



Kansuh (Loczy ex Kanitz). 



Asia Minor, eastward through Central Asia, 



