LEGOIIXOS;E. 191 



India, Japin, Australia. 



Lespedeza macrocarpa BUNGE ; FRAXCHET PI. David, p. 94 ; FORBES 

 et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 182. Shrub, glabrous, branched. leaves 

 pinnate, tri-foliolate, piaufo oblougo-olwvate, apex roundly retuse, shortly 

 mucrouate, dark aliove when dried, but pallidly glaucous lieueath, reticu- 

 latelv venose terminal leaflet 3 cm. long, Ij cm. broad, petiolule 1 cm. long, 

 Literal ones a little smaller, 2.J cm. long, petiolules 2 mm. long, petioles 2cm. 

 long, stipules subulate, scaly, 4 mm. long, sti]>els obsolete or very small. 

 Flowers racemose-paniculate. Calyx campannlate, ") mm. long, putescent, 

 o-fid, lol>es 2- superior connate, 3- lower ones linear or subulate, 3 mm. long. 

 Standard olxwate, 12 mm. long, 7 mm. broad, obtuse at the apex, gradually 

 nan-owed at the base ; wings linear, 12 mm. long, (claw slender, linear, 3 mm. 

 longs slightly auriculate above the claw, blades 9 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, 

 obtuse at the apex: keel narrowed, incurved, rostrate, clawed, claws 3mm. 

 long, blade nearly 10 mm. long, 2 mm. broad. Ovary cylindrical complauate, 

 3 mm. long, narrowed at the apex to the style, 2-ovulate, pubescent, style 

 long, 10 mm. long, iucrassate alxvve the middle. Pols eomplanate, mem- 

 branaceous, reticulately venose, 1 seeded. 



HAB. Toroku, Tohozan. 



PLSTIJIB. China : Peking, Hupeh. 



Lespedeza pubescens HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 80. 

 Shrub, subglabrotis. Leaves alternate, 3 -leaved, terminal leaflet oblong, 

 acute on lx>th ends, shortly mucronate at the apex, 2.1 cm. long, li cm. 

 broad, latei-al ones a little smaller, petiolules 2 mm. long, pul^esceut, petioles 



3 cm. long, subglabrous. leaflets nigrie-mt glabrous, alvive pallid-glaucous 

 beneath, depressiugly pul^esceut. Panicles terminal, profusely flowered, 

 branches 7-8 cm. long, flowers shortly pedicellate, pedicels 3 mm. long. Calyx 



4 mm. long, depressiiigly pul Descent, o- lolled, doljes oblong, 2 mm. long, 2- 

 upper ones connate, 3-lower ones distinct), 2-bracteolate at the base, bracteoles 

 ovate, } mm. long. Standard 17 mm. long, clawed, claw 2 mm. long, 2.} mm. 

 broad, blade olx>vate, 7 mm. long, 6-1 mm. broad, round or emaEginate at 

 the apex, slightly auriculate at the base ; wings 10 mm. long, shorter tlian the 



