124 Legnntinosa Galega. 



G. offlcinalis grows about 4 or even 5 feet high, with lan- 

 ceolate acute leaflets and pale blue or white flowers. G. biloba 

 has the leaves bifid at the tip and pale purple flowers, and 

 G. Persica has oval or oblong mucronate glaucescent leaves 

 and white flowers. 



15. WISTARIA. 



Tall climbing deciduous shrubs with imparipinnate leaves 

 and terminal pendulous racemes of bluish flowers. The two 

 upper teeth of the calyx short and subconnate, the inferior 

 longer. Standard large. Stamens diadelphous, or the vexillary 

 united with the others at the middle. Pod elongated, twisted ; 

 valves scarcely coriaceous, dehiscent ; seeds reniform, estro- 

 phiolate. About four or five species are known, one from 

 North America and the rest from China and Japan. So named 

 in honour of an American botanist. Some of the species were 

 formerly erroneously referred to the genus Glyclne. 



1. W. Sinensis (fig. 70), syn. W. consequana. Nothing 



Pig, 70. Wistaria Sinensis. (I nat. size.) 



can exceed the beauty of this magnificent climbing shrub when 

 in full flower, towards the end of April or in the beginning of 



