866 FOUR NEW CHINESE C#SALPINIER. 
primaria foliolorumque pagina superiore ferrugineo- tomentelis, 
pinnis 8—9-jugis oblique oblongis apice rotundatis costa in arist 
haud excurrente basi cra productis saturate viridibus antia 
dense ferrugineo-tomentosis 4} lin. longis sesquilineam_latis, 
racemis amplis paniculatis, pedicellis capillaribus 5 lin. longis, 
leguminibus ... . ? 
In jugo Lo-fau- vans prov. es ena m. Sept. 1888, leg. 
rev. E. Faber. (Herb. propr. n. 2229 
This seems to me abundantly distinot as a species from P. 
indicum s Rich.!, by the much larger number of the leaflets, their 
greater thickness, darker colour, very marked obliquity at the base, 
and by their thickly tomentose under surface 
Ue IIL. Gymnocladus Williamsii.—Ramulis foliisque puberulis 
is simpliciter abrupte pinnatis 4- emery petiolo seta trilineali deter- 
minato, foliolis suboppositis tenuibus oblique oblongis setaceo- 
acuminatis basi obtusis inequaliter c erenatis tenuiter reticulatis 
ribus folio equilongis laxe multifloris, floribu ellis fili- 
formibus 2-linealibus suffultis, — ae infundibulari 2-lineari 
laciniis subulati tis 2 uilongis um pe Pa yeps: petalis 
rraciibinesa Pivienatee m. Junio, 186 soils cute Dr. 
8. W. Williams, illustris sinologus, cui pio net insignem hane 
plantam dedico. (Herb. propr. n. 12557.) 
I have only male specimens of this plant, which, by the texture 
and size nf the leaflets and the elongated ares , is much more 
nearly to G, canadensis Linn.! than to G. chinensis Baill. !, 
received my specimens, and whose own Ja apanese collections, made 
many years ago, contributed so largely to demonstrate the close rela- 
tionship between the Atlantic-American and East-Asiatic Floras. 
att ab Gleditschia Pp re ebay —_ pe er robustis com- 
positis 
rigidis oblongis rectis plano-compressis apice acutis apiculatis basi 
sensim in stipitem longiusculum attenuatis 9 poll. longis 14 poll. 
latis, seminibus pluribus haud prominulis. 
In collibus agri Shan ehaiensis, m. Octobri, 1881, coll. T. L. 
Bullock. (Herb. propr. n, 2295 
I have not seen the Pasa of this, but it. is evidently he 
distinct from G. sinensis Lam. !, by the far closer an 
extremely woody texture of the legume, which is in no way 
torulose from the pressure of the seeds on the otha and is 
gradually attenuated from a distinct seedless base into a long stalk. 
