204 LEGUMIXOS^. 



Leaflets larger, more than 3 cm., densely villose or pubescent. ('2) 

 (2) Pods short, 1-H cm. long ............................. B- vduliiis. 



Pods longer, 2|-3 cm. long .................... .......... R. sericecr. 



Rhynchosia minima I>C. Prodr. II. p. 385 ; BAKER in HOOK. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. II. p. 223 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Eiol. XII. p. 447 ; MATSUM. et 

 HAYATA Eiium. II. Formos. p. 113. 



HAB. Takow. 



DISTRIB. All over the tropics. 



Rhynchosia sericea SPAN. ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 37 ; MATSUM. 

 et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 113. 

 HAB. 



DlSTLIB. 



Rhynchosia volubilis Loot.; DC. Prodr. II. p. 385; BENTH. Fl. 

 Hougk. p. 90 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. IX p. 70 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. 

 Sin. I. p. 196; MATSUM. et HAYATA Emim. PI. Formos. p. IIP. 



HAB. Byoritsu, Sharyoto, Shizangan. 



PISTRIB. Japan 



42. Ylcmhigia PIOXB. 

 DicJtofomous Key to tie Formosan Species. 



(1) Shrubs. I eaves simple. Flowers in small cymes, each hidden by a 



large folded persistent bract, closely distichously arranged in 

 copious simple or slightly branched racemes, both in the axils of 

 the leaves and above them ................. Flemingia strobilifera. 



Fiect shrubs. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate. Flowers in dense sub- 

 spicate axillary racemes ; bracts deciduous. (2) 



(2) Branches triquetrous, leaflets thin large acuminate obscurely silky on 



the ribs below, bracts linear firm much exceeding the buds, calyx 

 silky ....................... ...................... F. strlda. 



Branches subterete, leaflets oblong acuminate silky on the ribs below, 

 bracts neither rigid nor protracted, calyx silky ....... F. con^esta. 



