202 46. leguminos^e : papieionace.e. 



2. Sophora flavescens, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. p. 43 ; Willd. 

 8p.Pl. ii. p. 499; DC. Prodr. ii. p. 96; Franchet, PI. David. 

 p. 100, et in Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. p. 212 (/3. gale- 

 goides). 



Sophora galegoides, Pall. Astrag. p. 118, t. 88; Debeaux, Fl. Tchef. 

 p. 29. 



Sophora angustifolia, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. p. 10 ; Miq. in 

 Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. hi. p. 53. 



Sophora Kronei, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 me serie, xviii. p. 220; 

 Walp. Ann. vii. p. 801. 



Sophora sororia, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 me serie, v. p. 210. 



Chihli: near Peking (Bretschneiderl Bushelll Williams I), 

 Pohuashan (Bretschneiderl); Shingking : Talienhwan (Birnie !), 

 Peiling (Webster I); Shantung: without locality (Maingayl), 

 Cheefoo (Perry X); Kiangsi: Kiukiang (Shearer I); Po kien : 

 Lamyit Island (Swinhoe, hb. Hance, 1722 !) ; Formosa : Tamsui 

 (Oldham, 174!); Hupeh : Ichang (A. LTenryl); Shensi or 

 Kansuh : Tsunglin range (Piasezki ex Maximowicz) ; Cobea : 

 Port Chusan ( Wilfor d, 952 !) ; Corean Archjpelago : Herschel 

 Island &c. (Oldham, 383, 384 !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Dahuria to Japan. 



The extreme forms here referred to one species are easily dis- 

 tinguishable ; but with a large series of specimens we have not 

 been able to make a satisfactory separation of the intermediate 

 ones. 



Bretsehneider ('Early Researches,' p. 145) states that the 

 Cbinese name of Loureiro's Bobinia ? amara (PL Cocbinch. 

 p. 455) is applied to Sophora angustifolia ; and he suggests (op. 

 cit. p. 147) that Bobinia ? flava, Lour. (op. cit. p. 456), may be 

 Sophora flavescens, Ait. 



3. Sophora japonica, Linn. Mant. p. 68 ; DC. Prodr. ii. p. 95 ; 

 Benth. FL Hongk. p. 95 ; Debeaux, Fl. Tients. p. 16, et Fl. 

 Shangh. p. 26 ; Franchet, PI. David, p. 100 (var. oligophylld). 



Styphnolobium japonicum, Schott in Wiener Zeitschr. 1830, p. 884; 

 Walp. Rep. i. p. 807. 



Mimosa corniculata, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 651 ?, vide Bretschn. Early 

 Res. p. 148. 



China : without locality (Macartney ! Millett ! Fortune, 35 !) ; 

 Chihli : without locality (Stauntonl), near Peking (Bret- 

 schneiderl); Shantung (Stauntonl); Kiangsu: Shanghai (ex 

 Debeaux); Chekiang: Ningpo (Cooper I); Kiangsi : Kiukiang 



