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Carina: Szechuen, Æ. H. Parker (in 1881), Hance, Herb. Propr. 21961. 
Only one specimen known (British Museum Herbarium). Hance referred 
it to $ Otosema on account of the subeordate standard. 
32. M. DIELSIANA, Harms ex Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxix. (1900) 412; Dunn 
and Tutcher, Fl. Kwantung, 76.—M. Bockii, Harms, l.e. M. Duclouxii, 
Pamp. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. N. S. xvii. (1910) 25. M. cinerea, Benth., 
var. yunnansis, Pamp. l.c. M. cinerea, Franch. Pl. David. ii. 32 (non Benth. ?). 
M. ?, Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xxiii. (1886) 159. 
Frutex scandens vel sepius longe procumbens, cortice fusco striato. 
Folia sepissime 2-juga, 15-30 em. longa, sepius glabra ; stipule lineares, 
З mm. longe, deciduæ ; foliola lateralia superiora seepius lanceolata, gradatim 
acuta vel breviter aeuminata, apice obtusa, basi obtusa vel rotundata vel 
etiam subcordata, 5-15 em. longa, chartacea, supra subnitentia, rarius rugosa, 
venis marginem appropinquantibus 6-paribus erecto-patentibus supra im- 
pressis infra prominentibus ; petioluli 2-3 mm. longi: stipelle setaceæ, 
persistentes, 3-5 mm. longæ. — Panicula terminalis in magnitudine formaque 
late variat, aliquot parva erecta, ramis brevibus patentibus, aliquot magna 
pendula, ramis longis flabelliformibus, ad 40 em. extensa, basi foliosa, rachi 
plus minus dense pubescente ; rami ad basin floriferi, bracteis stipuliformibus 
suffulti. Flores fragrantes, approximati, L2-2:4 са. longi, pedicellis 
3-4-plo longiores ; bractese setaceæ, persistentes. — Calyx late campanulatus, 
3-5 mm. longus, 4-6 mm. latus; ut pedicelli sepissime tenuiter pubescens, 
dentibus 4, superiore late ovato emarginato, cæteris ovatis vel lanceolatis, 
tubo -plo brevioribus, bracteole lineares, tubo calycis duplo breviores. 
Vexilli lamina ovata, ante anthesin recurvata, apice emarginata, basi truncata, 
subcordata, juxta unguem ininute inflexa, intense rubra, extus dense sericea, 
ungui 3-plo longior ; alee breviores utrinque subfaleaize ; carinæ petala basi 
truncata. Stamina diadelpha, vexillare liberum ima basi dilatatum. Discus 
brevissimus. Ovarium sericeum, stylo glabro wquilongo. Legumen lineare, 
7-12 em. longum, 1:5-2:0 em. latum, facile dehiscens, velutinum, valvis 
lignosis, inter semina coherentibus. Semina 3-4, oblonga, compressa, 8 mm. 
longa, 6 mm. lata, 2 mm. erassa. 
Flowers through the summer, fruits in autumn and winter. 
CHINA : Yunnan, Henry, 9633 (Red River), 10813 (Mengtze), Maire, 163 
(Yunnan-sen Mts.), Duclowe, 875 (Cheng Tong Han), 384, 389 ; Kwangsi, 
Morse, 582 (Lungchow); Kwangtung, Hongkong Herb. 1799, 5059, and 
9394 (Lienchow River), Ford, 63 (Lofoushan) ; Hongkong, Wright, 137 ; 
Hongkong New Territory, Ford, 645 (Taimoshan), Hongkong Herb. 4805 
(Kanghau), 7094 (Taimoshan) ; Fokien, Fortune, 17 (Foochow Mnts.), 
Hongkong Herb. 2579 (Yenping hills); Chekiang, Barchet, 128; Hupeh, 
Henry, 1584 (Ichang), 1938 (Nanto), 2561, 2917, 3074 ; Szechuen, Faber, 
757 and 773 (Wushan), 758, 774 (Omie), Wilson, 824, 1089, 3412, 3412 4, 
