76 AKT. I.— B. HAYATA : 



DiSTRiB. Through Tropical Asia to North Australia. 

 Hab. Köshün : Garanbi, leg. T. Kawakami et G. Nakahaka, 

 (No. 864) ; Kötöshö, leg. G. Nakahaea, Mart. 1906, (No. 1059). 



Indigofera venulosa Champ. ; Walp. Ann. IV. p. 487 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Hongk. p. 77 ; Foebes et Hemsl. Ind. Fl. Sin. I p. 158. 



Hab. Byöritsu : Daitösei, leg. T. Kawaeami et U. Mori, Juli. 

 1906, (No. 1116); Horisha : Tochiköan, leg. G. Nakahaea, Aug. 

 1905, (No. 327). 



Distrib. China : Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Chekiang, Hongkong; 

 Corean Archipelago. 



Observ. a small shrub, leaves imparipinnate, 3-4-juged ; 

 pinnas remotely opposite, stipellate, ovate, apiculate, 2 cm. long, 

 1 cm. broad, dark above, whitish below ; flowers red, 1 cm. long, 

 racemose; pod linear 5 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, black, nearly 

 straight or slightly incurved. 



S^nithia Ait. 



Smithia Nagasawai Hayata sp. nov. Suffrutescens, ascendens, 

 ramis rectis gracilibus remote ramulosis, glabris tenuiter striatis, 

 fusco-rubescentibus, teretibus, ramulis giacillimis remote foliatis. 

 Folia alterna caducissima pari-pinnata, late ovata in ambitu, IJ 

 cm. longa, apice setis 3 mm. longis terminata, pinùis suboppositis, 

 5-6-jugis lineari-oblongis I cm. longis, 2J mm. latis, margine 

 remote ciliato-setulosis, apice rotundato-setulosis, (setulis f mm. 

 longis), basi valde obliquis, latere superiore acutis, latere inferiore 

 rotundato-cordatis, supra glabiis subtus ad costas remote setulosis, 

 (setuHs IJ mm. longis), petiolulis brevissimis J mm. longis, pinins 

 superioribus quam inferioribus minoribus, pinnis a se 2 mm. 

 remotis, exstipellatis ; petiolis 2-3 mm; longis, cum rhachibus 



