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B. Pod pubescent, very large or middle-sized. 



a. Pod very large, woody, densely clothed with fer- 

 rugineous hairs, 4-12-seeded. Young leaves covered 

 with brown hairs beneath. Woody. Fl. unknown. 

 Formosa. 



31. ferraginea, Matsum. 



b. Pod middle-sized, clothed with whitish hairs, ribbed 

 longitudinally, 2-5-seeded. Herbs. Cult. 



(* -y-y 7 i' ■^>) M. capitata, Wight et Arn. 



54. APIOS, IVICENCH. 



Twining herbs. Rootstock tuberous. Leaves 5-foliolate. Flowers 

 gereenish, rather small, 2-3-geminate, in racemes. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, upper-teeth connate, the lower 3 short, deltoid. Obtuse 

 keels and diadelphous stamens twisted. Pod linear, compressed. 

 Fl. Aug.-Sept. Tokio. 



(^ hM =6) A. Forh'jiei, Maxim. 



55. ERYTHRINA. L. 



I. Trees with prickly branches. Flowers large, scarlet, in dense 

 racemes. Petals very unequal. Ovary stalked. Pod linear, turgid, 

 torulose. 



A. Calyx spathaceous, finally split to the base down the back. 

 Leaflets broad-rhomboidal at the base. A large tree. 

 Liukiu and Formosa. 



(y^ ^) E. indica, Lam. 



B. Calyx campanulate, scarlet, not splitting down to the base. 

 Leaflets elliptical ; petioles prickly. Standard and keels 

 deep red : wings rudimentary. Pod turgid, long-stalked. 

 Cult, in B. G. 



( A >{ ti f y) E. crista-galli, L. 



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