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JAPAN. Hondo : prov. Miisashi, grounds of Yokohama Nursery Co., Kamata, 

 cultivated, April 27, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6579). 



This species is endemic in China and is not uncommon at low altitudes in ■nrest- 

 em Hupeh and in eastern Szech'uan, but ia very rare in western Szech'uan. It is 

 much cultivated in gardens at Shanghai, Soo-chou, Han-chou, and other centres of 

 wealth and culture in eastern China. Fortune says it is a common wild plant on 

 the island of Chusan and elsewhere in the province of Chekiang, but there is no 

 record of it growing wild in districts north of Shanghai. In Japan, where it was 

 tinknoftTi as a cultivated plant until quite recently, it has been introduced and 

 is now cultivated by the Yokohama Nursery Company. 



This Chinese Wistaria is closely related to the Japanese W. florihunda De Can- 

 dolle, which has been confused with it. However, the. Japanese species is readily 

 distinguished by its more numerous (7-9) pairs of leaflets, which fall earlier in the 

 autumn, and by its much smaller flowers, which open two to three weeks later. 

 The Japanese is also much hardier than, the Chinese species. In western Hupeh W. 

 sinensis is colloquially kno\\'n as " Chiao-teng/' A picture will be found under No. 

 62 of the collection of Wilson's photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western 

 China, No. 497. 



Wistaria sinensis was fir^st introduced into England by Captain Wellbank in 

 1816, and presented to Charles Hampden Turner of Rook's-nest, Surrey. Two years 

 later it was sent from Canton by John Reeves to the Chiswick Garden of the 

 Horticultural Society of London. 



The genus Wistaria is represented in eastern Asia by several other species ana 

 garden forms, an account of which follows here. 



Wistaria smensisj. alba Lindley in /owr. Hori. Sac. Land. IV. 221 (W. sinensis: 

 clba) (1849). 



Wistaria sinensis, var. aTbifiora Lemaire in III. Hart. V. t. 166 (IS58). 



Schneider, lU. Handh. Lauhholzk. II. 78 (1907). 

 Wisteria ehinensis, var. alba LavalMe, Arh. Segrez. 65 (nomen nudum) (1877). 



Bean, Trees & Shrubs Brit. IsL 681 {Wistaria) (1914). 

 Wistaria ehinensis, var. albiflora Miller in Bailey, €yd. Am. HoH. IT. 1988 



(1902). 

 ' Wistaria polystachija alba Beissner, Schelle k Zabel, Handh. Lauhholz-Ben, 



269 (1903). 



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According to Wilson (A Naturalist in Western China, 1. 18 [1913]) this albino form 

 occurs wild near Ichang in western Hupeh. Fortune, who introduced this plant to 

 the Chiswick Garden of the Horticultural Society of Londoa in May, 1846, nrst 

 mentions it in his Wandevingz in China, 260 (1847) as a white Gtycine. 



Wistaria floritunda De CandoUe, Pro Jr. II. 390 (Wisteria) (1825). 



Dolichos -polystachios Houttuyn, FflanzensysL Vin. 563, t. 64, fig. 2 ^^^J^J^^f' 

 naeus) (1782) exclud. synon. — Thunberg, Ft. Jap. 281 (polystachyos) {H^V^ 



Glycine floribunda WHIdenow, Spec. III. 1066 (1800). — Peraoon,*S2/n. 11. o^J- 

 (1807). 



Dolichos japonicus Sprengelj Syst. Veg. III. 252 (1826). , a /q n 



Dolichos (?) polystachyos Siebold in Verh, Batav. GenooL XII. no. I, 56 {^y^- 

 PL Oeam. Jap.) (1830). « 



Wisteria brachybotrys Siebold & Zuccarini, FL Jap. I. 92, t. 45 (18^9). --»P^ 

 in Ann. Sac. Agric. Bat. Gand. III. 49, t. {IS4:7).-' Planchon in Fl. des ^err^ 

 IX. 61, t. 880 (Wistana) (1853). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-BaL ly- 

 {Wistaria brachybotrya) (1867); Prol FL Jap. 232 (1867). — Tanaka, useja* 



