specimens, identical with native ones (but with foliage 
only) collected by Dr. Tate in the province of Quantung. 
In his Memoir on Leguminose, I suspect that De Candolle 
has confounded the two; for whilst describing B. corymbosa 
alone, his figure (tab. 70) intended for that plant represents 
the foliage of B. glauca. 
In so far as I can determine, B. glauca differs (as 
Bentham has pointed out) from B. corymbosa unmistakeably 
in the large broad thin straight pod, six to eight inches 
long by one and three-quarters to two and a half inches 
broad ; it has also larger leaves, bifid, or if divided, only 
half-way down, and more truncate at the base ; whilst 
B. corymbosa has more or less curved pods five to six inches 
long by one-half to three-quarters of an inch broad, with 
smaller more coriaceous leaves, more cordate at the base, 
and these are divided more deeply, usually, as Roxburgh 
describes them, three-quarters of the way down. 
B. corymbosa is one of the most beautiful of climbing 
plants. The specimen here figured was sent me from Sir 
G. MacLeay’s fine gardens at Pendle Court, Bletchingly, 
in May of last year. 
Descr. A woody climber, branching from the ground, 
glabrous except the young shoots and sometimes the 
inflorescence, which is then covered with rusty shining 
scattered hairs. Branches grooved; tendrils opposite, 
revolute. Leaves one and a half to two inches long, 
divided to the middle or usually deeper; lobes parallel, 
oblong, with the outer edge, base and tip rounded, and 
the inner edge nearly straight, two- to four-nerved, bright 
pale green ; petiole one-half to one inch. Corymbs terminal 
and on short subterminal branches, shortly peduncled, 
many-flowered ; bracts small, filiform. lowers rosy, one 
inch in diameter. Calyz-tube one-half to three-quarters of an 
inch long, three times as long as the two boat-shaped 
lobes. Petals spreading, obovate-orbicular, margins crisped 
and crenulate. Stamens three, perfect as long as the petals, 
anthers and stout filaments bright red; imperfect filiform 
with twisted tips.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Top of calyx-tube with stamens and style; 2, anthers; 3, imperfect 
stamens; 4, section of portion of ovary :—all enlarged. 
