throughout the district of Ningpo from W. Hancock, Esq., 
F.L.S.; and from Ichang, Dr. Henry. There are also 
cultivated specimens from Hong Kong ; and from Nagasaki 
in Japan. Of var. multijuga there are Japanese specimens 
from Maximovicz (cult.), and Dr. Albrecht, and from 
Nagasaki, Oldham. The specimen here figured was from a 
plant obtained in 1874 from M. Van Houtte, which flowered 
in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens in May, 1896. 
Deser.—A luxuriant, woody, branched climber, the 
branches attaining many yards in length; bark brown. 
Leaves eight to twelve inches long, young silkily hairy, old 
nearly glabrous ;_ petiole slender, swollen at the base, sub- 
terete; leaflets eightto ten pairs, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
membranous, pale green; stipules ovate-lanceolate; stipella 
subulate. Stacemes two feet long and more, pendulous; 
rachis slender, nearly glabrous, lax-flowered; pedicels about 
an inch long, slender; bracts obsolete. Flowers when ex- 
panded about an inch long from the tip of the standard to 
that of the keel. Calyx shortly campanulate, pubescent, 
green and purple, five-toothed, dorsal tooth subulate, rather 
longer than the triangular lateral, anterior teeth confluent in 
a very short two-toothed lip. Standard orbicular, one half 
to two-thirds of an inch in diam., very pale violet, yellow 
towards the notched base, where there is a bifid tubercle. 
Wing-petals about a third shorter than the standard, 
obovate-oblong, violet-blue, tip rounded, base excised with 
a cusp, claw slender. Keel-petals shorter than the wings, 
obovate, almost hatchet-shaped, violet-blue, base narrow 
rounded. <Anthers minute. Ovary pubescent. Legume 
four to nine inches long, suboblanceolate, flattened, 
narrowed from the upper third to the base, top acute or 
cuspidate ; valves thinly woody, clothed externally with a 
dense brown velvety pubescence, internally with a thin 
_ puberulous white corky layer, twisted after dehiscence, 
margins not thickened. Seeds one half to three-fourths of 
an inch in diameter, orbicular, flattened, dark brown, 
smooth.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with petals removed; 2, base of standard; 3, wing-petal ; 
4, keel-petal ; 5, ovary :—All enlarged, 
