LEGUMINOSJE. 191 



DISTRIB. India, Japan, Australia. 



Lespedeza macrocarpa BUNGE ; FRANCHET PI. David, p. 94 ; FORBES 

 et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 182. Shrub, glabrous, branched. Leaves 

 pinnate, tri-foliolate, pumas oblougo-obovate, apex roundly retuse, shortly 

 mucronate, dark above when dried, but pallidly glaucous beneath, reticu- 

 lately venose terminal leaflet 3^ cm. long, 1| cm. broad, petiolule 1 cm. long, 

 Literal ones a little smaller, 2| cm. long, petiolules 2 mm. long, petioles 2 cm. 

 long, stipules subulate, scaly, 4 mm. long, stipels obsolete or very small. 

 Flowers race moso -paniculate. Calyx campanulate, 5 mm. long, pubescent, 

 5-fid, lobes 2-superior connate, 3-lower ones linear or subulate, 3 mm. long. 

 Standard obovate, 12 mm. long, 7 mm. broad, obtuse at the apex, gradually 

 narrowed at the base ; wings linear, 12 mm. long, (claw slender, linear, 3 mm. 

 long), slightly auriculate above the claw, blades 9 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, 

 obtuse at the apex; keel narrowed, incurved, rostrate, clawed, claws 3 mm. 

 long, blade nearly 10 mm. long, 2 mm. broad. Ovary cylindrical complanate, 

 3 mm. long, narrowed at the apex to the style, 2-ovulate, pubescent, style 

 long, 10 mm. long, incrassate above the middle. Pods complanate, mem- 

 branaceous, reticulately venose, 1 seeded. 



HAB. Toroku, Tohozan. 



DISTEIB. China: Peking, Hupeh. 



Lespedeza pubescens HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 80. 

 Shrub, subglabrous. Leaves alternate, 3 -leaved, terminal leaflet oblong, 

 acute on both ends, shortly mucronate at the apex, 2i cm. long, li cm. 

 broad, lateral ones a little smaller, petiolules 2 mm. long, pubescent, petioles 



3 cm. long, subglabrous, leaflets nigricant glabrous, above pallid-glaucous 

 beneath, depressingly pubescent. Panicles terminal, profusely flowered, 

 branches 7-8 cm. long, flowers shortly pedicellate, pedicels 3 mm. long. Calyx 



4 mm. long, depressingly pubescent, 5-lobed, (lobes oblong, 2 mm. long, 2- 

 upper ones connate, 3-lower ones distinct), 2-bracteolate at the base, bracteoles 

 ovate, | mm. long. Standard 17 mm. long, clawed, claw 2 mm. long, 2| mm. 

 broad, blade obovate, 7 mm. long, 6-i mm. broad, round or emargiuate at 

 the apex, slightly auriculate at the base ; wings 10 mm. long, shorter than the 



