MATEKIALS POR A FLORA OF FORMOSA. /5 



Indigofera Kotœnsis Hayata sp. nov. Suffriitex, ramis fulvo- 

 cinerascentibus lenticellis dispersis, ramiilis rectis subtetragonis 

 vol subteretibus, paiice pubescentibus, vel sub-glabratis, remote 

 foliatis. Folia imparipinnata, ambitu oblongo-linearia, 18 cm. longa, 

 8 cm. lata, tenuiter pubecentia, foliolis lateralibus gequilongis utraque 

 latere 5-6, oppositis, foliolo terminal! eonformibus, oblongis 5J cm. 

 longis, 2 cm. latis, apice obtusis ad summmii breve aristatis, basi 

 obtusis, integerrimis tenuiter chartaceis, vel membranaceis, venis 

 supra tenuiter elevatis, subtus inconspicuis, supra depressopubescen- 

 tibus, petiolulis 3 mm. longis, petiolis 2 cm. longis, cum rhacliis 

 supra canaliculatis, glandulosis, foliolo terminali quam lateralibus 

 majore. Eacemi terminales vel axillares 8 cm. longi, dense florati, 

 (pedunculis 1 cm. longis), bracteis ad pulvinos pedicellorum minute 

 ciliato-dentes reductis, ad pedicellis 3 mm. longis. Flores mm. 

 longi, pubescentes. Calyx late campanulatus, valde obliquus, latere 

 superiore 1^ mm. longus, latere inferiore 3 mm. longus, 6-dentatus. 

 Vexillum rotundatum apice rotundatum 1 1 mm. longum 7 J mm. latum 

 basi late truncato-obtusum. Alse angustatœ 9 mm. longae, 2 mm. latee 

 basi dorso carinataa. Carina late cultriformis, 9 mm. longa, 3^ mm. 

 lata, apice obtusa, basi late truncata. Ovarium glabrum. 



Hab. Kötöshö, leg. T. Kawakami et Cr. Nakahaea, 1906, Mart. 

 (No. 1063). 



Near Indigofera atropurpurea Eoxb. ; but differs from it by 

 slightly curved pod and very short bracts reduced to ciliate teeth. 

 The bracts of /. atropurpurea arc very long, and exceed flower- 

 buds in length. 



Indigofera trifoliata Linn. ; IIook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. II p. 96 ; 

 Hance in -lourn. l^ot. (1879), p. 105 ; WiCxHI Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 314; 

 Forbes et Hemsl. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 137. 



