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New or Little Known Plants of Japan. 
on the under serface, 3—13 inches long, 3—10 lines broad; petiolules about 1 line long. Racemes 
terminal, compound, pubescent, densiflorous, 2—4 inches long; bracteoles subulate, 1 line long. Flowers 
nodding, pale-yellow and greenish tinged, 4 lines long; pedicels pubescent, deflexed at the base of the 
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flower, 12 lines long. Calyx-tube urceolate-campanulate, pubescent, gibbous on the upper side, shortly 
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5—toothed, 14 lines long and broad, the upper two teeth connate. Vexillum obovate-cuneate, reflexed, 
2i lines long, 14 lines broad. Ale obliquely oblong, unguiculate, auriculate at the base, 2 lines long, 
about 1 line broad; claw abruptly bent upward, 4 line long. Carina incurved, obtuse, 3 lines long; the 
petals free, imbricated on the back, obliquely oblong, unguiculate, auriculate at the Iaise, 22> lines 
long, 12 lines broad; claw about 1 line long. SNS TO。 perigynous, cohering at the base, somewhat 
incurved, alternately longer and shorter; filaments filiform-subulate; anthers し GU2 oval, dorsifixed, 
orange-colored. Ovary shortly stipitate, linear-oblong, slightly incurved, pubescent, proves 1Z lines 
long; style subulate, 2 line long; stigma minute, terminal. Legume falcate-oblong, compressed, mem- 
branaceo-coriaceous, reticulated, pubescent, more convex on the ventral than on the dorsal suture, 
f=tiboed alone cach cide of the ventral suture, 1—3—seeded, 10-20 lites: Jena, 5-7 ines 
broad. Seeds oblong, compressed, somewhat uncinate, 3—4 lines long, 2—22 lines broad; funicle thick, 
compressed; cotyledons oblong; radicle somewhat obconical, contained in the hook of the seed.—F1. 
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July—August. 

