LEGUMINOSAE. — SOPHORA 95 



marginem anastomosantibus pagina utraque prominulis, margine 

 recurvo, petiolulis 1 mm. longis suffulta. Racemi ad 7 cm. longi, 

 pedunculo communi circiter 2 cm. longo ut rhachis ramulique 

 pubescente; bracteae 5 mm, longae, deciduae; pedicelli sub anthesin 

 5 mm., mox 8 mm. longi; calyx ad 8.5 mm. longus, ore oblique trun- 

 catus; vexillum 1.6 cm. longum, fere 6 mm. latum, cuneatum, apice 

 emarginatum, inferne puberulum, dorso carinatum; alae 6 mm. 

 longae, 3.5 mm. latae, stipite 6.5 mm. longo; carina alls subaequi- 

 longa; filamenta inferne pilosa; ovarium adpresse pilosum. Legumen 

 2-3 cm. longum, stipite 1 cm. longo dense adpresse pubescente sufful- 

 tum, valvis reticulatis parce adpresse pubescentibus; semina brunnea 

 V. fusco-maculata, 1.1-1.2 cm. longa. 



Affinis S. Franchetianae Dunn et S. Wightii Baker, ab ilia calyce 

 multo longiore, ab hac foliolis minoribus baud longe acuminatis, semi- 

 nibus majoribus baud rubris distinguenda. 



Western Szech'uan: Kuan Hsien, thickets, river valleys, alt. 

 300-1000 m., October 1908 (No. 1067, in part) ; near Wa-shan, thickets, 

 alt. 1000 m., June 2, 1908 (No. 1067, in part) ; without precise locality, 

 cUffs, alt. 600 m., May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3390; shrub 1-2 m., 

 flowers pale yellow). 



This sparsely branched shrub is not uncommon in moist thickets in the river- 

 valleys of western Szech'uan. E. H. W. 



Sophora viciifolia Hance in Jour. Bot. XIX. 209 (non Salisbury) 

 (1881). — Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. CXXIX. t. 7883 (1903). 



Sophora Moorcroftiana Bentham, var. Davidii Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 



Paris, s6r. 2, V. 253, t. 14 (PI. David. 101) (1883). 

 Sophora Moorcroftiana Kanitz in Math. Naturwiss. Ber. Ungarn, III. 7 



(non Bentham) (1885). 

 Sophora Davidii Komarov apud Pavolini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 



XV. 412 (1908). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, stony places, side of streams, alt. 300- 

 600 m., April and June 1907 (No. 2560; bush 30-2 m. tall, flowers bluish 

 white); without precise locality, April 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 81). 

 Western Szech'uan: valley of the Min River, Mao-chou, arid 

 regions, alt. 1300-1600 m.. May 25 and August 1908 (No. 841''; shrub 

 30-2 m. tall, flowers violet) ; near Tachien-lu, dry rocky regions, alt. 

 1300-2000 m., May and August 1908 (No. 841; shrub 30-1.60 m. tall; 

 flowers dark violet-blue); between Batang and Tachien-lu, 1911, John 

 R. Muir; without precise locality, dry arid places, June 1904 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 3388). 



