124 Leguminose—Galega. 
(+. officinalis 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. Pérsica 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 Glycine. 
1. W. Sinénsis (fig. 70), syn. W. consequana.—Nothing 
Fig, 70. Wistaria Sinensis. (} 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 
