LEGUMINOSAE. — STIZOLOBIXJM 117 



Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, thickets, alt. 1000-1300 m., 

 July 1907 (No. 3483; climber, 2 m., flowers yellowish); same locality, 

 A, Henry (No. 6115); Chiensi, 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 1330). 



ERYTHRINA L. 



Erythrina arborescens Roxburgh, HorL Beng, 53 (nomen nudum) 

 (1814); FL Ind. ed. 2, III. 256 (1832). 



Western Szech'uan: near Luting-chiao, alt. 1300 m., October 

 1910 (No. 4565; tree, 7 m. tall, girth 0.45-0.6 m.). 



The specimen is in fruit only and its determination rests doubtful. 

 This tree is found round dwellings in the warm arid river-valleys of western 

 Szech^uan but is rare. E. H. W. 



APIOS Moench. 



Fortunei 



XVIII. 396 (1873); in Mel Biol IX. 67 (1873). 



Western Hupeh: Changlo Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-1000 m., 

 June and September 1907 (No. 3488; climber, 1-3 m., flowers yellow). 

 Kiangsi: Kuling, thickets, not common, alt. 1300 m., July 30, 

 1907 (No. 1641; climber, 3 m., flowers pale yellow). 



MUCUNA Adans. 



Mucuna sempervirens Hemsley in Jour, Linn. Soc. XXIII. 190 

 (1887). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, glens, alt. 30-300 m., April 24, 1907 

 (No. 3271; huge climber; flowers maroon-purple, foetid). Sze- 

 ch'uan: Yangtze cliffs, April 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3411). 



This climber grows to a huge size and is very common on the chfFs of glens 

 and gorges and elsewhere at low altitudes in western Hupeh and in Szech'uan. It 

 is very floriferous and its large, waxy, evil-smelling flowers are very rich in honey 

 and attract a large variety of insects. The flowers are produced mainly on the 

 old wood and are hidden from view by an overhanging mantle of dark green 

 leaves. The fiat, broad bean-like pods are a yard or more long and are densely 

 covered on the outside with tawny, appressed barbed hau^. In the neighborhood 

 of Ichang this cUmber is known as the " Mien-ma-t'^ng " or " Niu-ma-t'eng." 



E. H. W. 



STIZOLOBIUM Pers. 



otazolobium 

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