LEGUMINOSAE. — WISTARIA 515 



Japanese cultivated plant the type, and the only fruit of this we have seen is only 

 8 cm. long. This we do not think, however, is nonual. Meyer's specimens from 

 China are in fruit, and the legumes are 16 to 22 cm. long. The leaflets, though 

 of the same shape, are rather smaller and less pubescent on the upper surface. 

 Nevertheless we feel confident that they belong to our new species, and in all prob- 

 ability the habitat of this plant is northeast China, southern Mandshuria, and 

 possibly Korea. 



Brctschneider (Hist. Europ. Bot. Discov. China, 20 [1898]) says that Dominicus 

 Parennin, a Frenchman who went to China in 1G98, and who died at Peking in 1741, 

 traveled in southern IMongolia and Mandshuria on the hunting expeditions of the 

 Emperor Kanghi. Parennin in letters gave a slight sketch of the botany of those 

 regions, and in one letter he mentions a " climbing plant," "Teng-lo," with beautiful 

 violet flowers hanging down in large bunches." We strongly suspect that this is 

 the wild type of our W. venusta and that Meyer's specimens belong to it. 



In Japan it is here and there cultivated in temple grounds under the name of 

 Shira-fudzi (White Wistaria) and in Japanese nurseries as " Wistaria sinensis, var. 

 brachybotrys " and as " W. brachybotrys." Under one or other of these names this 

 plant has been introduced to North America and to Europe and is mentioned by 

 Bean (Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isl. II. 680 [1914]) under W. brachybotrys Siebold, as a 

 doubtful albino form. From the vernacular name given (Siroo-koo Fudsi) it is 

 probable that the plant referred to W. brachybotrys by Franchet & Savatier (E?ium, 

 PI. Jap. 1. 98 [1875]) belongs here. 



A picture of this plant will be found under No. x210 of the collection of Wilson's 

 Japanese photographs. 



Wistaria japonica Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. I. 88, t. 43 (Wisteria) (1839). — 

 Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 98 (1875). — Schneider, III. Handb. 

 Laubholzk. II. 75, figs. 46 a-e, 47 a (Wisteria) (1907). 



Millctia japonica Gray in Mem. Am. Acad. VI. 386 (Bot. Jap.) (1859). — 

 Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 44 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 232 (1867).— 

 Tanaka, Usefid PI. Jap. t. 610 (1891). — Matsumura in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 

 XVI. 64 (1902); Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 2, 271 (1913). 



Phaseolodes japonicum O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. I. 201 (1891). 



Kraunhia japonica Taubert in Engler & Prantl, Pjlanzenfam. III. abt. 3, 271 

 (1894). — Hayata, Vegetation Mt. Fuji, 60 (1911). 



JAPAN. Shikoku: prov. Tosa, thickets, alt. 1000 m., November 23, 1914, 

 E. H. Wilson (No. 7796). Hondo: prov. Musashi, Botanic Garden, Tokyo, cul- 

 tivated August 30, 1892, C. S. Sargent. 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Korea: Fusan, temple grounds, September 6, 

 1903, C. S. Sargent. 



Wisteria dubia Walpers (in Leop.-Carol. Akad. Naturf. Verh. XIX. suppl. 1, 324 

 [1843]; Rep. V. 536 [1845-46]), described as having sohtary, axillary subsessile 

 flowers, is an obscure plant, which certainly docs not belong to the genus Wistaria. 



