Tap. 7022. 
WISTARIA CHINENSIS, var. MULTIJUGA. 
Introduced from Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Lecumtnosa.—Tribe GaLEGEA. 
Genus Wistaria, Nutt.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 499.) 
Cee chinensis, DO. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 390. Bunge Enum. Pl. Chin. bor. 
p. 20. 
W. Consequana, Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 315. Part. Mag. Bot. vol. vii. p. 127. 
GuycinE sinensis, Sims Bot Mag. t. 2083. Bot. Reg. t. 650. : 
Var. multijuga, nob.; foliis longioribus, foliolis ad 8-10 jugis majoribus, 
racemis duplo longioribus laxifloris, floribus fere duplo minoribus, legumine 
3-7-pollicari. = 
W. multijuga, Van Houtte Fl. des Serres, vol. xix. (1869-70) p. 126, t. 2002. 
W.? floribunda, DC. J. c. iis: 
W. chinensis, Sied. § Zucc. Fl. Japon. vol. i. p. 90, t. 44. 
GtycrneE floribunda, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 1066. 
Do.tcuos polystachyos, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 281 (in part, excl. Syn. Linn). 
Too vulgo Fupsi, Kempf. Amen. Acad. fase. v. p. 856. 
There are two very different-looking plants known as 
Wistaria chinensis; one, that upon which De Candolle 
founded the species, is an undoubted native of China. 
The other doubtfully referred to the genus, was founded 
also by De Candolle on the badly * described Dolichos poly- 
stachyos, Thunb., as W, ? floribunda, which has _ hitherto 
been known only in Japan, as a cultivated plant reported to 
have been introduced from China. To this last is, I think, 
clearly referable the W. multijuga, Van Houtte, not only be- 
cause of its country, but because Thunberg describes it as 
having a very long raceme (racemis longissimis), a term 
which can hardly be applied to the raceme of W. chinensis 
proper, but which is singularly applicable to var. multijuga. 
Siebold and Zuccarini cite W, ? floribunda, as a synonym 
* In his diagnosis Thunberg says of the pedicels that they are geminate ; 
but in the description following that they are scattered opposite and alternate. 
Then as regards the legume, he describes it as either glabrous or pubescent, 
probably confounding the pod of W. japonica with that of chinensis. 
Marcu lst, 1897. 
