510 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



JAPAN. Hondo : prov. Musashi, grounds of Yokohama Nursery Co., Kamata, 

 cultivated, April 27, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6579). 



This species is endemic in China and is not uncommon at low altitudes in west- 

 em Hupeh and in eastern Szech'uan, but is very rare in western Szech'uan. It is 

 much cultivated in gardens at Shanghai, Soo-chou, Han-chou, and other centres of 

 wealth and culture in eastern China. Fortune says it is a common wild plant on 

 the island of Chusan and elsewhere in the province of Chekiang, but there is na 

 record of it growing wild in districts north of Shanghai. In Japan, where it was 

 unknown as a cultivated plant until quite recently, it has been introduced and 

 is now cultivated by the Yokohama Nursery Company. 



This Chinese Wistaria is closely related to the Japanese W. floribtmda De Can- 

 dolle, which has been confused with it. However, the Japanese species is readily 

 distinguished by its more numerous (7-9) paii-s of leaflets, which fall earher in the 

 autumn, and by its much smaller flowers, which open two to three weeks later. 

 The Japanese is also much hardier than the Chinese species. In western Hupeh W. 

 sinensis is colloquially known as " Chiao-teng." A picture will be found under No. 

 62 of the collection of Wilson's photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western 

 China, No. 497. 



Wistaria sinensis was first introduced into England by Captain Weflbank in, 

 1816, and presented to Charles Hampden Turner of Rook's-nest, Surrey. Two years 

 later it was sent frorh Canton by John Reeves to the Chiswick Garden of the 

 Horticultural Society of London. 



The genus Wistaria is represented in eas-tern Asia by several other species and 

 garden forms, an account of which follows here. 



Wistaria sinensis, f. alba Lindley in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. IV. 221 {W. sinensis: 

 alba) (1849). 



Wistaria sinensis, var. albiflora Lemaire in III. Hort. V. t. 166 (1858). — 



Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 78 (1907). 

 Wisteria chinensis, var. alba Lavallee, Arb. Segrcz. 65 (nomen nudum) (1877). — ■ 



Bean, Trees & Shriibs Brit. Isl. 681 {Wistaria) (1914). 

 Wistaria chinensis, var. albifiora Miller in Bailey, Cyd. Am. Hort. IV. 198S 



(1902). 

 Wistaria polystachya alba Beissner, Schelle & Zabel, Handb. Laubholz^Ben. 



269 (1903). 



According to Wilson (A Naturalist in Western China, 1. 18 [1913]) this albino form 

 occurs wild near Ichang in western Hupeh. Fortune, who introduced this plant to 

 the Cliiswick Garden of the Horticultural Society of London in INIay, 1846, first 

 mentions it in his Wanderings in China, 260 (1847) as a white Glycine. 



Wistaria fioribunda De Candolle, Prodr. II. 390 (Wisteria) (1825). 



Doliehos polystachios Houttuyn, Pflanzensyst. VIIl. 563, t. 64, fig. 2 (non Lin- 

 naeus) (1782) exclud. synon. — Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 281 (polystachyos) (1784). 



Glycine fioribunda Willdenow, Spec. III. 1Q66 (1800). — Persoon, Syn. 11. 301 

 (1807). 



Doliehos japonicus Sprengel, Syst. Veg. III. 252 (1826). 



Doliehos (?) polystachyos Siebold in Ve)'h. Batav. Genoot. XIl. no. 1, 56 {Syn. 

 PI. Oecon. Jap.) (1830). 



Wisteria brachybolrys Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. I. 92, t. 45 (1839). — Spae 

 in Ann. Soc. Agric. Bot. Gand. III. 49, t. (1847). — Planchon in Fl. des Sevres, 

 IX. 61, t. 880 (Wistaria) (1853). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 44 

 (Wistaria brachybotrya) (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 232 (1867). — Tanaka, Useful 



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