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II. Leaves trifoliokte, dotted. Corolla scarlet. Pod with 4 narrow 

 lomritudinal wiiiiis. 



A. The end leallet sessile, digitate. 



Perennials, decumbent, llacemes shorter than the leaves. 

 Pod straight, deflexed, thinly covered with appressed hairs, 

 not torulose, 6-8-seeded. Liukiu. 



/. trifoliata, L. 



B. The end leatiet stalked. 



Perennials, assurgent. llacenies shorter than the leaves. 

 Pod as in the preceding, 6-9-sceded. Linkiu. 



/. trita, L. f. 



III. Leaves 5- 21-foliolate. 



A. Leaflets 5-17. Ilacenies longer than the leaves, 

 a. Pod straight, dellexed. 



aa. Leaflets 5-9. Stems clothed with spreading 

 hairs. Pod clothed with stiff" hairs, 6-8- 

 seeded, valves dotted witliin. Annual or 

 biennial. Formosa. 



/. Idrisuta, L. 



hb. Leaflets usually IL Stems clothed thinly 

 with a})i)res.sed hairs. Pod glabrescent. 

 Corolla red. Undershrubs. Hondo; Shikoku; 

 Kiushiu, 

 (ti -? i^ :j- af.*) I. pi^eudo-tinctoria, 'Matsam. 



cc. Leaflets 15-17. Eacemes almost twice as 

 long as the leaves. Pod short, straight or 

 snbrecurved, 7 -8- seeded. Stipels subulate. 

 Collora unknown. Formosa. 



I. formosana, Matsum. 



b. Pod not deflexed. Leaflets 7-9, large, glaucous 

 beneath. Corolla large for the genus, red, or white, 

 puberulent externally. Bracts and stipels minute, 

 gland-like. Pod divergent, glabrous, many-seeded, 

 beaked. Shrubs. Hondo. 



(=.^^7^) /. decora, Lindl. 



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