154 MR. 8. T. DUNN : A REVISION 
Flowers July-August. 
Japan: Herb. Siebold (type), Oldham, 386, C. Wright ; Nagasaki, Mazi- 
mowiez, Oldham, 801 (climber in woods); Moji, Hongkong Herb. 8527. 
A favourite Japanese garden creeper called Aofusi or Kohusi. It is fairly 
common also in hedges and wood-borders, sometimes covering the trees with 
masses of white flowers during July and August. 
14. M. RETICULATA, Benth. in Mig. Pl. Jungh. 249; Hance in Tourn. 
Linn, Soc., Bot, xiii. (1872) 101; Forbes et Hemsl. 1. с. xxiii. (1886) 159; Diels 
in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. (1900) 412; Dunn and Tuteher, Fl. Kwangt. 76 ; 
Ito et Matsum. Tent. Fl. Lutchu, 136.—9M. cognata, Hance in Journ. Bot. xviii. 
(1880) 260. M. purpurea, Yatabe in Bot. Mag. Tokyo, vi. 919, t. 12. 
Frutex scandens, cortice pallido fibroso. Folia 3(-4)-juga, 10-20 em. 
longa, petiolo 4-plo longiora, rachi glabra; stipulæ persistentes, lineares, 
glabrz,3 mm. longe ; foliola superiora lateralia ovato-oblon ga vel rarius ovata, 
obtusa vel obtuse acuminata, emarginata, 3-10 em. (sepius 5-6 em.) longa, 
chartacea, supra subnitentia, utrinque crebre reticulata, glabra, nervis margi- 
nem propinquantibus sepius 6-paribus erecto-patentibus ; petioluli 2 mm. 
longi; stipellee ѕеѓасез, 1-2 mm. longe. Sanicula terminalis, 10-20 em, 
longa, ad basin ramosa, rachi ut ramis in apice sæpius omnino velutina ; 
rami floriferi patentes, 6-12 cm. longi, sessiles, bracteis cum stipulis con- 
formibus basi suffulti, primo caudati. Flores approximati, tamen singuli, 
L3-L7 em. longi; pedicelli 3-5 mm. longi, puberuli ; bracteæ anguste 
lineari-lanceolatze ante anthesin decidum. Calyx late campanulatus, 3-4 mm. 
longus, 5 mm. latus, preter marginem ssepius fere glaber, dentibus tubo 
4—5-plo brevioribus ovatis ; bracteole persistentes, lanceolate, bis calyce 
breviores. Petala glabra, purpurea vel rosea; vexilli lamina ovata, basi 
ecallosa, in unguem 3-plo breviorem subito angustata ; alarum laminæ basi 
cuneate ; caring laminz basi fortiter faleatze, Stamina diadelpha, vexillare 
solutum. Discus tubulosus, 1 mm. longus. Ovarium lineare, ad basin 
angustatum, multiovulatum, glabrum. Legumen lineare, ad 15 em. longum, 
1:5 em. latum, facile dehiscens, valvis elasticis sublignosis primo inter semina 
coherentibus. Semina 3-6, oblongo-lenticularia. 
Flowers summer ; fruits autumn and winter. 
СніхА : Millett (type), Carles, and Bullock (Fengwanshan) ; Kwangtung. 
Staunton, Ford, 43, 36, 97, Hongkong Herb. 9397 (N. River), Henry, 8392 
(Hainan) ; Fokien, Fortune, А 95 (type), Hongkong Herb. 2588 (Foochow 
shores) ; Hongkong, Hongkong Herb. 1754 (Aberdeen and Repulse Bay), 
Lamont, 161 4 (Pokfulam), Tuteher. (Tytam), Hance, 1489 (Tytam Tuk). 
Ford, 10 (Lantao Island), Hongkong Herb. 9898 (Lantao) ; Formosa, Faurie, 
146 (Mt. Taitum), 164 (Mokuto), Oldham, 158, Wilford, 462 (E. Coast), 
Hongkong Herb. 6860 (Hokuto), Playfair, 120 (Apes Hill, Takow), Swinhoe, 
