176 LEGTTMTsmaE. 



at the base ; wings narrowed, 3 mm. long ; keel slightly incurved, rounded 

 at the apex, 3 mm. long, ciliolate on the upper side. Ovary cylindrical, iJ, 

 mm. long. Pod linear, slightly complaiiate, tetragonous in section, 4-winged, 

 12 mm. long, 1-.} mm. broad. 



HAB. Ako ; Taito, Hinaii. 



Near I. trifdiala, but differs in having 4- winged logumen and gland- 

 dotted leaves, which are more conspicuously dotted on the under surface. 



Indigofera hirsuta Lixx. ; DC. Prodr. II. p. 228 ; BENTIT. Fl. Hougk. 

 p. 76 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Tnd. FL Sin. I. p. 157 ; MAT.SUM. et HAY ATA 

 Euum. PI. Formos. p. 104. 



HAB. Hozan, Soobonsha, Sensoleisho. 



DISTBIB. Widely distributed in tropical Asia, Africa, America and 

 Australia 



Indigofera kotcensis HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 75. 

 Shrubby, branches fulvo-cinerascent, leuticellate, branclilets straight, subtetrago- 

 nous or subterete, slightly pul>esceut or subglabrous, remotely foliate. Leaves 

 iinparipiunate, oblong-linear in outline, 18 cm. long, 8 cm. broad, thinly 

 pul>esceut, lateral leaflets equally long, 5-6 on each side, terminal one 

 oblong, 5 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, obtuse at the apex, shortly aristate at the 

 extremity, obtuse at the base, quite entire, thinly chartaceous or membra - 

 naceous, veins slightly elevated above, inconspicuous beneath, depressiugly 

 pubescent above, petiolules 3 mm. long, petioles 2 cm. long, furrowed above, 

 glaudulose, terminal leaflet larger than the lateral ones, liacemes terminal or 

 axillary 8 cm. long, densely flowered, (peduncles 1 cm. long), bracts reduced 

 to small ciliate teeth at the pulvinus. Flowers 9 mm. long, pubescent. 

 Calyx broadly cainpanulate, very oblique, 1.1 mm. long on the upper side, but 

 3 mm. long on the lower side, 6-deutate ; standard rounded, rounded at the 

 apex, 11 mm. long, 7 .] mm. broad, truncately obtuse at the base; Avings 

 narrowed, 9 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, carinate on the back at the base ; keel 

 broadly knife-shaped, 9 mm. long, 3i mm. broad, obtuse at the apex, broadly 

 truncate at the base. Ovary glabrous. 



HAB. Kotosho. 



