LEGUMINOSAE. — SOPHOBA 95 



marginem anastomosantibus pagina utraque prominulis, margine 

 recurvo, petiolulis 1 mm. longis suffulta. Racemi ad 7 cm. longi, 

 pedunculo commmii circiter 2 cm. longo ut rhachis ramulique 

 pubescente; bracteae 5 mm. longae, deciduae; pedicelli sub anthesin 

 5 mm,, mox 8 mm. longi; calyx ad 8.5 mm. longus, ore oblique trun- 

 catus; vexillum 1.6 cm. longum, fere 6 mm. latum, cuneatum, apiee 

 emarginatum, infeme puberulum, dorso carinatum; alae 6 mm. 

 longae, 3.5 mm. latae, stipite 6.5 mm. longo; carina alis subaequi- 

 longa; filamenta infeme pilosa; ovarium adpresse pilosum. Legumen 

 2-3 cm. longum, stipite 1 cm. longo dense adpresse pubescente sufful- 

 tum, valvis reticulatis parce adpresse pubescentibus; semina brmmea 

 V. fusco-maculata, 1.1-1.2 cm. longa. 



AfBnis S. Franchetianae Dunn et S. Wightii Baker, ab ilia calyce 

 multo longiore, ab hac foliolis minoribus baud longe acuminatis, semi- 

 nibus majoribus baud rubris distinguenda. 



Western Szech'uan: Kuan Hsien, thickets, river valleys, alt. 

 300-1000 m., October 1908 (No. 1067, in part) ; near Wa-shan, thickets, 

 alt. 1000 m., June 2, 1908 (No. 1067, in part) ; without precise locality, 

 cliffs, alt. 600 m., May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3390; shrub 1-2 m., 

 flowers pale yellow). 



This sparsely branched shrub is not uncommon in moist thickets in the river- 

 valleys of western Szech'uan. E. H. W. 



Sophora viciifolia Hance in Jour. BoL XIX. 209 (non Salisbury) 

 (1881). — Hooker f. in BoL Mag. CXXIX. t. 7883 (1903). 



Sophora Moorcroftiana Bentham, var. Davidii Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Miis. 



PaHs, s^r. 2, V. 253, t. 14 (PL David. 101) (1883). 

 Sophora Moorcroftiana Kanitz in Math. Natunoiss, Ber, Ungariif III. 7 



(non Bentham) (1885). 

 Sophora Davidii Komarov apud Pavolini in Nuov. Giom. Bat, Hal. n. ser. 

 XV. 412 (1908), 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, stony places, side of streams, alt. 300- 

 600 m., April and June 1907 (No. 2560; bush 30-2 m. tall, flowers bluish 

 white); without precise locality, April 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 81). 

 Western Szech'uan: valley of the Mm River, Mao-chou, arid 

 regions, alt. 1300-1600 m.. May 25 and August 1908 (No. 841^; shrub 

 30-2 m. tall, flowers violet); near Tachien-lu, dry rocky regions, alt. 

 1300-2000 m., May and August 1908 (No. 841; shrub 30-1.60 m. tall; 

 flowers dark violet-blue); between Batang and Tachien-lu, 1911, John 



Exped 



dry arid places, June 



