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LEGUMINOSAE 



Sophora japonica var. vestita, var. nov. 



A typo recedit foliis supra laxe breviter accumbenti-pubescentibus, 

 subtus molliter dense subaccumbenti-villosis, petiolis rhaehibusque, in- 

 florescentia, ramulis dense breviter villosis, tomento in ramulis ad secun- 

 dum annum persistente. 



China. Hup eh, north and south of Ichang, alt. 1-3000 ft., July 1907, E. H. 

 Wilson (No. 651, partly, type); Hsing-shan Hsien,open country, alt. 1-3000 ft., 

 October 1907, E. H. Wilson (No. 651 partly). 



This variety with its velutinous branchlets, inflorescence and petioles 

 and the soft-pubescent under side of the leaflets appears quite distinct 

 from the typical form which has glabrous or glabrescent branchlets, 

 inflorescence and petioles and the under side of the leaves furnished with 

 a strigillose pubescence so closely appressed as to be almost imperceptible 

 to the naked eye, although in all other characters it agrees with the type. 



This variety seems to occur only in western Hupeh, while the follow- 

 ing variety which may be considered intermediate between this variety 

 and the typical form, has a much wider distribution. 



Sophora japonica y pubescens Bosse, Vollst. Handb. Blumengart. 

 ed. 2, in. 408 (1842).— Lavaltee, Arb. Segrez. Knum. 54 (1877) 1 . — S. pu- 

 bescens Tausch in Flora, xvn. 489 (1834) . — Styphnolobium japonicum 

 pubescens Hort. apud Kirchner in Petzold & Kirchner, Arb. Muse. 366 

 (1864). — S. japonica var. tomentosa Hort. apud Dieck, Haupt-Kat. Zoschen, 

 Nachtr. i. 26 (1887), nomen. — S. Korolkowii Dieck apud Koehne, Dendr. 

 323 (1893), in nota. — Cornu in litt. apud Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 

 ii. 662 (1893).— S. violacea Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. ii. 663 (1893), pro 

 parte. — S. tomentosa hort. apud Dippel, 1. c. 663 (1893). — S. sinensis Hort. 

 apud Rehder in Moller's Deutsch. Gartn.-Zeit. xm. 184 (1898).— S. 

 japonica [f.] chinensis Hort. apud Zabel in Beissner, Schelle & Zabel, 

 Handb. Laubholz-Uen. 256 (1903), nomen. — S., chinensis Hort. ex Zabel, 

 1. c. (1903), pro synon. — S. japonica tomentosa Hort. apud Zabel, 1. c. 

 (1903).— S. japonica [f.] Korolkowii hort. apud Zabel, 1. c. (1903).— A. 

 Henry in Elwes & Henry, Trees (Jr. lirit. Ireh I. 38 (1906), as var. 



This variety which differs from the type in the soft-pubescent under- 

 side of the leaflets, was first noticed in 1834 by Tausch. He distinguished 

 it as a species with "foliis subtus pubescentibus" from S. japonica which 

 he describes as: ''foliis . . . subtus glaucis glabris," which is, however, 

 not quite correct as the underside is not glabrous, although it appears so 

 to the naked eye, while in the form in question the villous but slightly 

 appressed pubescence is easily discernible by the eye as well as by the 

 touch. In addition to the character of the pubescence Tausch makes 



1 Lavallee bases the variety on S. pubescens Tausch, but Bosse gives no authr 

 citation; he only describes it as a variety with hairy leaves and states that the plant is 

 tor sale in Flottbeek. Probably the name of this variety will also be found in one of 

 the catalogues of J. Booth's nursery prior to 1842. 



