LEGUMINOSAE. — LESPEDEZA 105 



LESPEDEZA Michx. 



Determined by A. K. Schindler. 



Lespedeza floribunda Bunge, Plant. Mongh.-Chin. 13 (1835). — 

 Maximowicz in Mem. Sav. Etr. Acad. Sci. St. Petershourg, IX. 470 

 (Prim. Fl. Amur.) (1859); in Act. Hort. Petrop. II. 360 (1873).— 

 Hance in Jour. Linn. Soc. XIII. 78 (1871). — Franchet in Nouv. 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, V. 248 (PI. David. I. 96) (1883). — Hem- 

 sley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 181 (1887). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXIX. 415 (1900), excluso specimine citato Giraldi No. 1593. 



Lespedeza medicaginoides Hemsley in Jour. lAnJi. Soc. XXIII. 182 (pro parte, 



non Bunge) (1887). 

 Lespedeza floribunda, var. alopecuroides Franchet, PI. Delavay., 169 (1889). 

 Lespedeza fasciculiflora Franchet, 1. c. (1889). 

 Lespedeza bicolor Prain in Jour. As. Soc. Bengal. LXVI. 377 (non Turcza- 



ninow) (1897). 



Western Hupeh: grassy places around Ichang, alt. 30-600 m., 

 July 1907 (No. 3491; shrub, 0.30-1 m. high, flowers purple). 

 Chihli : Hills near Nankow, October 5, 1905, J. G. Jack. 



Lespedeza floribunda, var. alopecuroides Franchet is identical with the t3^pe of 

 Bunge showing only a denser fohage and shorter racemes. Lespedeza fasciculiflora 

 Franchet, based on No. 1976 of Delavay, is a small prostrate plant with leaflets a 

 little shorter and broader, and with narrower bracteoles, but in calyx and corolla and 

 in the nerves of the leaflets identical with L. floribunda. There being no fruit it 

 seems impossible on such unimportant differences to separate as a species or even 

 as a variety, these specimens from L. floribunda. Lespedeza fasciculiflora seems 

 to me only a depauperate prostrate form of L. floribunda. 



Lespedeza sericea Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 49 (1867); 

 Prol. Fl. Jap. 237 (1867). — Baker in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. II. 

 142 (1879). — Prain in Jour. As. Soc. Bengal. LXVI. 374 (1897). 



Hedysarum sericeum Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 287 (err. tjT). 289) (1784). 

 Anthyllis cuneata Dumont de Courset, Bot. Cult. ed. 2, VI. 100 (1811). 

 Aspalathus cuneata D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 246 (1824). 

 Lespedeza juncea De Candolle, Prodr. II. 348 (pro parte) (1825). — Turc- 



zaninow, Fl. Baical.-Dahur. I. 340 (1842-45). — Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 



230 (non Persoon) (1855). 

 Lespedeza eriocarpa Walhch, Cat. No. 5743 C?, Df, E (nomen nudum) (1831). — 



G. Don, Gen. Syst. II. 307 (non De Candolle) (1832). 

 Lespedeza cuneata G. Don, Gen. Syst. II. 307 (1832). — Bentham in Hooker, 



Jour. Bot. & Kew. Card. Misc. IV. 47 (1852); Fl. Hongk. 85 (1861); Fl. 



Austral. II. 240 (1864). 

 Hedysarum junceum Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. ed. 2, III. 362 (non Linnaeus f.) 



(1832). 



