514 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA ' 



is a magnificent specimen which is said to be a thousand years old and which covers 

 an arbor of latticed bamboo one-sixth of an acre in extent. 



Pictures of this plant %vill be found under Nos. x221, x228, x230, x240, x241 of 

 the collection of Wilson's Japanese photographs. 



Wistaria venusta Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 

 ?Wi''<trria chincnsis Bunge in Mem. Sav. Etr. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, II. 94 



{Enum. PL Chin. Bor. 20) (non De Candolle) (1833). — Turczaninow in 



Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. X. No. VII. 151 (1837). — Maximowicz in Mem. 



Sav. Etr. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, IX. 471 (Prim. Fl. Amur. Suppl.) 



(1859). — Komarov in Act. Hort. Petrop. XXII. 638 {Fl. Mansh. II) 



{Wistaria) (1904), exclud. synon. pluribus. 

 f Wistaria brachyboirys Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 161 (non Siebold 



& Zuccarini) (1886), quoad plantam Pekinensem. 

 Millctia floribunda, var. brachybotrys IVIatsumura in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XVI. 64 



(1902); Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 2, 270 (1912). 

 Wistaria brachybotrys, var. alba Miller in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. 1989 (1902). 

 Kraunhia sinensis, var. brachybotrys, forma albiflora Makino in Tokyo Bot. 



Mag. XXIV. 77 (1910). 

 Kraunhia floribunda, y brachybotrys, forma albiflora Makino in Tokyo Bot. 



Mag. XXV. 18 (1911). 



Frutex volubiUs, 2-10 m. altus; ramuli juveniles adpresse flavescenti- v. cinereo- 

 pubescentia, demum glabri. Folia decidua, 4-6-, plerumque 5-juga, petiolo incluso 

 18-35 cm. longa et 10-15 cm. lata; foliola oblongo-lanceolata v. elliptico-oblonga, 

 V. ovato-oblonga breviter acuminata, basi rotundata v. subcordata v. truncata, ter- 

 minale basi saepe late cuneatum, Integra, 6-10 cm. longa et 2.5-5 cm. lata, utrinque 

 plus minusve, supra sparsius, subtus ad venas densius adpresse villosa, nervis utrin- 

 secus 6-10 arcuatis subtus ut costa elevatis; petioluli 3-4 mm. longi, dense villosi; 

 petioli subteretes, 4-10 cm. longi ut rhachis dense adpresse villosi. Racemi penduli, 

 pedunculo brevi incluso 10-15 cm. longi; rhachis dense adpresse cinereo-villosa; , 

 pedicelli fere sub angulo recto patentes, 1.5-3.5, plerumque 2.5-3 cm. longi; calyx 

 membranaceous, fere cupuliformis, circiter 4.5 mm. altus et 8-10 nmi. diam., 

 leviter bilabiatus, lobo antico dentibus 3 subulatis, dente medio 2-2.5 mm. longo, 

 alteralibus 1-1.5 mm. longis, lobo postico truncate obsolete emarginato; corolla 

 alba, vexillo suborbiculari 2-2.5 cm. diam. apice truncate basi auriculato, ungui- 

 culo 5 mm. longo, alls oblongis unguiculo 4-5 mm. longo inclusis 1.7-2 cm. longis 

 et 9-10 mm. latis, rotundatis, basi auriculatis, carina alis breviore petahs oblongis 

 apice fere truncatis; stamina glabra, 2 cm. longa; ovarium compressum breviter 

 velutinum, stylo adscendente glabro. Legumen compressum, dense velutinum. 



JAPAN. Hondo: prov. Musashi, cultivated. Iris Garden, Kamata, April 27, 

 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6580, type; flowers); Tokyo, cultivated, H. Sakurai's 

 garden, May 21, 1913 (ex Herb. K. Sakurai); prov. Shimotsuke, Nikko, temple 

 grounds, cultivated. May 7 and May 18, 1914, E. H. Wilson (Nos. 6580% 6714); 

 prov. Yamata, Nara Park, cultivated, December 4, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 7852, 

 mature leaves, co-t}T)e). 



CHINA. Chili: " Ying-tan-ko," September 12, 1913, F. N. Meyer (No. 1299; 

 "among high scrub, apparently genuinely wild ")• 



This new species whose identity has so long been obscured is the most dis- 

 tinct of the four Wistarias of Eastern Asia. It is characterized by the per- 

 sistent velvety pubescence on both surfaces of the leaves, by its short, very broad 

 racemes, its long, stout, nearly horizontally spreading pedicels, by its very large 

 flowers, and by the subulate anterior teeth of the calyx. We have made the 



