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paullo brevioribus anguste triangularibus apice rotundatis. Veæilli lamina 
forte reflexa, basi callosa, aurieulis attingentibus stamen vexillare amplee- 
tentibus, extus alba, intus intense violascens ; alee breviores, basi hastatee ; 
caring petala in unguem angustata. Stamina diadelpha. Discus brevissi- 
mus. Ovarium lineare, velutinum, multiovulatum. Legumen 10-14 em 
longum, 1°5-2 em. latum, velutinum, facile dehiscens ; valvis tenuiter lig- 
nosis, inter semina cohærentibus. Semina 4-5, 1 em. longa, 8 mm. lata, 
2 mm. crassz. 
Flowers in summer and autumn, fruits in winter, 
Cara : Hongkong, Millett (type), Wilford, 146, Hinds (type), Champion, 
Urquhart, Honakong Herb. 1903, Hance, Forbes, 592, Lamont, 158-9. 
Ic. wep Fyre (Libr. Kew). 
This straggling or shortly climbing Леа has not so far leen found 
outside the island of Hongkong, though common there and ene of the well- 
known ornaments of the uplands. During the winter months long leafless 
shoots are thrown out to a length of sometimes 15 feet along the ground, 
climbing, when circumstances permit, by means of a retlexed strigosity. 
23a. M. uEGASPERMA, Benth. Fl. Austral. ii. 211 ; Bailey, Queensl. FL ii. 
396; Cat. Queensl, Pl. (1912) 138.—Wistaria megasperma, / von Muell. 
Fragm. i. 10; Moore, Fl. New South Wales, 149. 
Frutex alte scandens, preter novellas et inflorescentiam glaber, cortice levi. 
Folia 3--juga, 15-20 em. longa, petiolo 5-plo longiora; stipulæ lineares, 
persistentes, 5 mm. long ; foliola superiora lateralia oblongo-lanceolata vel 
obovata, acuminata, basi cuneata, subcoriacea, lævia, venis marginem appro- 
pinquantibus 5-7-paribus obscuris; petioluli 2-3 mm. longi; stipelle 
setacew, 2 mm. longe. Racemi longi, laxiflori, in paniculam longam ter- 
minalem collecti, rachi breviter velutina. Flores singuli, 9 mm.-Ll:2 em. 
longi, purpurei; pedicelli ad 1:3 em. longi, graciles ut calyees, dorsumque 
vexilli breviter dense pubescentes ; bracteæ ovate, acuminate, 3 mm. 
longs, caduce ; bracteole lineares, eaduem. Calyæ late campanulatus, 
3-4 mm. longus, lobis tubo subequalibus, 2 superioribus in unum latum 
emarginatum connatis. Vexillum rotundatum, in unguem brevem latam 
contractum, basi transverse callosum; alee oblonge, basi uncinatæ ; carino 
petala conformia, Stamina diadelpha. — Diseus brevis, eylindicus. Ovarium 
lineare, teres, stipulatum, sericeum, pluriovulatum. Legumen crassum, 
lineare, apice basique acuminatum, ad 18 em. longum, 4 cm. latum, 
35 em. crassum, 4-spermum, breviter tomentosum, suturis haud incrassatis, 
dehiscens, Semina ovalia, 4 em. longa, 3 em. lata, 2:5 em. crassa. 
AUSTRALIA: Queensland, not uncommon in the southern scrubs (side 
Bailey, (. е.) ; Upper Brisbane River, Zill and Mueller, Moreton Bay District, 
(т. M. Leay ; New South Wales, Richmond River, C. Moore. 
CULTIVATED : Sydney and Hongkong Botanic Gardens. 
