180 LEGUMINOS^E. 



apex, llacemes shorb, 3-5 mm. long, recurved, axillary near the apex of 

 the branchlets, pedunculate, peduncles 1-2 cm. long, pedicels l mm. long, 

 1-bracteate at the base, (bracts hyaline ovately-narrowed, 3 mm. long, margin 

 ciliately setose, very oblique), 2-bracteolate at the apex, bracteoles ovately 

 acute, 5 mm. long, acute on both sides, setose on the margin, (seta) 1 1 mm. 

 long), setulose outside, glabrous inside. Calyx 2-parted, upper-segment 

 broadly ovate, plicate, 6 mm. long, 7-8 mm. broad, rotundately emarginate 

 at the apex, carinate at the middle, margin upwards ciliately setulose, 

 entire downwards, inultinerved, setulose outside on the cariua ; lower 

 segment obovate, 6 mm. long, 3J- mm. broad, ciliately setose, entire on the 

 margin. Petals not known. Pods included within the calyx, 2 times spirally 

 recurved, constricted between articles to the lower sutures, articles 7-8, 

 obliquely broadly globose, 1^ mm. broad, minutely irregularly maculately 

 punctate, cariuate at the lower suture, upper suture rounded, lower suture 

 straight or slightly incurved. Seeds reniforrned, laterally compressed, 1| mm. 

 broad, 1| mm. long. 



HAB. Kodensho. 



The present plant bears some resemblance to Smithia ciliata ROYLE, 

 from which it is distinguishable by the truncate rather round apex of the 

 bracts. The bracts of S. ciliata are rather acute on the apex. 



Smithia sensitiva AIT.; DC. Prodr. II. p. 323 ; HANCE in Journ. Bot. 

 (1878) p. 226 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Bid. IX. p. 58 ; FOEBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. 

 Sin. I. p. 170 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 106. 



HAB. Hikaku, Shintiku, Byoritsu, Taiharo. 



DISTBIB. Tropical Asia and Africa. 



14. AracJiis LINN. 



Arachis hypogaBa LINN.; MATSUM. et HAYATA. Enum. PI. Formos. p. 

 106. 



HAB. Senton, Taihoku, Hozan. 



DISTMB. South American plant ; cultivated in warm countries. 



