LEGXJMINOSAE. — WISTARIA 513 



Kraunhia sinensiSj var. pleniflora Makino in ToJcyo Bot. Mag, XXIV. 299 



(1910). 

 Kravnhia florxhunda^ a typicaj forma pleniflora Makino in Tokyo Bot, Mag. 



XXV. 18 (1911). 



This double-flowered form of the type is occasionally cultivated in Japan. It 

 was first introduced to western gardens by Dr. G. R. Hall, who sent it from Japan 

 to Francis Parkman, Jamaica Plain^ Boston, Mass., in 1S61 through Mr. F. Gordon 

 Dexter. A year or so later it was also sent from Japan by Mr. Thomas Hogg. 

 The first note on this plant we have found appears in Gard. Chron, 1871, 7, and the 

 first figure is given in Garden, II. 51 (1872), taken from Hearth & Home. 



A form with double white flowers is mentioned by Dippel {Handb. Lauhkolzk. 

 III. 696 [1893]) under the name W, polystachya fl.. albo-pleno and by Miller (in 

 Bailey, Cycl. Am, Hort, IV. 1988 [1902]) and by Bean {Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isl. 

 II. 681 [1914]) as W. chinensis, var. alba plena. As Dippel does not mention the 

 form with violet double flowers, it is possible that he assumed that the double- 

 flowered form had white flowers, but according to information received from Mr. 

 Bean there is now a Wistaria with double white flowers in cultivation in Eng- 

 land introduced from Japan, which, however, cannot be referred to W.floribunda, 



Wistaria fioribunda, f. macrobotrys Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 



Wisteria sinensis Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. I. 90, t. 44 (non Sweet) (1839). 



Wistaria chinensis Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 111. 44 (non De Candolle) 

 (1867); Prol, Fl Jap. 232 (1867) . — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PL Jap, 

 1, 98 (1875). — Tanaka, Useful PI. Jap. 69, fig. 611, (1891). 



Wistaria macrobotrys Siebold apud Neubert in Deutsch. Mag. Gart.-Blumenk. 

 1870, 16, t. 



Wistaria multijuga Van Houtte in Fl des Serres, XIX. 127, t. 2002 (1873). — 

 Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1891, 175, figs. 44-46. — Schneider, III Handb, 

 Laubholzk. II. 77, figs. 46 i-pS 47 d-e {Wisteria) (1907). — Bean, Trees & 

 Shrubs Brit Isl II. 682 (1914). 



Wisteria chinensis, var. macrobotrys Lavallde, Arb. Segrez, 65 (1877). — Nichol- 

 son, Did Gardening, IV. 214 {Wistaria) (1889). 



Wisteria grandiflora Hort. ex Lavallde, Arb. Segrez, 65 (pro synon.) (1877). 



Kraunhia chinensis Green, Pittonia, II. 175 (1892). 



Wistaria chinensis "var." Tanaka, Useful PI Jap. 152, fig. 611 (1895). 



Wistaria chinensis, var. multijuga Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. CXXIII. t. 7522 

 (pro parte) (1897). 



Wistaria polystachya multijuga Hort. Siebold apud Zabel in Beissner, Schelle 



& Zabel, Handb, Laubholz.-Ben. 269 (1903). 



Kraunhia Rintrnjiiji. var. HoTihunda Makino in Tokyo Bot. Maa. XXIV. 298 



(pro parte) (1910). 

 raunhia jioribunda, 

 (1911). 



XXV 



JAPAN. Hondo: prov. Musashi, grounds of the Yokohama Nursery Co., 

 Kamata, May 21, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6671; racemes 56 inches long) ; prov. 



Shimosa, Kasukabe, cultivated, May 15, 1914, E. H, Wilson (No. 6691; raeemea 

 1.6 m. long). 



This form differs from the type in its phenomenally long racemes, although under 



cultivation in the Occident there is no record of the racemes equaling in length 



those produced in Japan. In Tokyo this Wistaria is commonly cultivated and 



Bome fine specimens may be seen. In the garden of Mr. Tokoen at Kasukabe there 



