Dec. l&is.j t. MA KINO.— OBSER VA TIOXS ON THE FLORA OF J A PA N. 2 -19 



Lespedeza intermixta Maki.no. =L. pilosa Sieb. et 

 Zucc. x L. sericca Miq. var. latifolia Maxim. 



Lespedeza juncea forma latissima Matsum. in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XVI. (1902), p. 71, pro parte. 



Perennial. Stems tufted, widely diffuse, ramose, very 

 slenderly elongate, scandent-like, wiry, pubescent with white 

 patent fine hairs. Leaves small, ternate, very shortly petio- 

 late; leaflets ovato-elliptical, subcuneate towards the base, very 

 shortly petiolulate, rounded or retuso-rounded and setaceo- 

 apiculate at the apex, firmly membranaceous, thinly ad- 

 pressedly pubescent and green above, adpressedly cericeo-pubes- 

 cent beneath, adpressed-ciliated ; midrib and veins prominent 

 beneath ; veins several or subnumerous (6-9 on each side), 

 erect-patent, parallel ; terminal one 4—13 mm. long, 2 1 — 1\ mm. 

 broad; petiolule 1—3 mm. long; lateral ones smaller, 3-11 mm. 

 long, 2—7 mm. broad ; petiolule i-l mm. long ; petiole gracile, 

 pubescent with erect-patent white hairs, shallowly canalic- 

 ulated in front, strict, 2—8 mm. long ; stipules 2, adpressed to 

 the stem, setaceo-subulate or subulate, sharply acuminate, 

 entire, shorter or longer than the petiole, closely longitudinally 

 veined, ciliated with erect-patent white hairs, 3-5mtn. long. 

 Raceme umbelliform, axillarj-, shortly reduncled, 2— 4-flowered, 

 shorter than leaves ; peduncle strict, erect-patent, finely pubes- 

 cent, 1—3 mm. long ; bracts minute, ovato-subulate, acuminate, 

 finely ciliated and pubescent dorsally, 1— nerved, about f— 1 mm. 

 long ; pedicels erect or erect-patent, finely pubescent, 1^—2 mm. 

 long ; bracteoles 2, lateral, apressed to the cal} T x, minute, 

 ovato-subulate, acuminate, entire, concave, ciliolated, puberulent 

 dorsally, about 1 mm. long, slightly longer than the calyx-tube. 

 Flower 8 mm. long. Calyx obconico-campanulate, 5— parted, 

 pubescent and ciliated with erect-patent hairs, about 4J-5 mm. 

 long ; tube acutish at the base ; lobes nearly 3-times as long 

 as the tube, subulate or deltoid-subulate, very sharply and 

 attenuately long-acuminate, 3-nerved, the posterior sinus more 

 shallow than the others. Petals white, stained with purple 

 above, each with a gracile unguis. Standard orbicular or 

 ovato-orbicular, rounded or subemarginate at the apex, entire, 



