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Living specimens of this plant were collected by Mr. Yasusada Tashiro on the islands of Oshima, 
south of the province of Osumi, in September, 1887, They have been since cultivated in the Botanic 
Garden of the Imperial University, where they are shrubs three or four feet high. 
The flowers of this plant are very like those of Cladrastis amurensis, var. Buergert, Maxim.; but the 
standard of the former is entire and not emarginate, while that of the latter is distinctly emarginate; and 
also the calyx-tube of the former is not inflated like that of the latter. The leaflets of the former are 
oval or oblong, rather acute at the base, and slightly hairy or nearly smooth, while those of the latter are 
ovate, 08 or even subcordate at the base, and silky-hairy on the under surface; moreover the leaflets 
of the former are smaller than those of the latter. The former is a shrub, while the latter is a tree 
attaining a height of forty to fifty feet. 
Plate X. Fig. 1, branch with flowers; 2, flower; 3, vertical section of flower; 4, flower with corolla 
and upper part of calyx removed; 5, pistil; 6, vertical section of the same showing the ovules; 7, ovule; 
8, stamens; 9, standard; 10, wings; 11, keel-petals; 12, calyx; 13, floral diagram; 14, legume; 15, vertical 
section of the same; 16, seed; 17, vertical section of seed; 18, embryo: 一 2 except 1, 14, 18, 16, 

New or Little Known Plants of Japan, 
