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WISTERIA chinensis.
Chinese Wisteria.
Natural Order. L eo vm iso sm . DC. prodr. 2. p.99.
Subordo I. P a p ILIONACEM T r ib u sY . P h a s e o l e « . Corolla
papilionacea. Stamina monadelpha aut smpiùs diadelpha
(9 et 1). Legumen polyspermum dehiscens continunni membranis
cellulosis transversis inter semina sitis smpè subdivisum non verè
articulatum. Radicala super loborum commissuram inflexa. Cotyledones
crass® per germinationera immutai® aut in folia crassa vix
stomatibus donata convers®, extrà terram et s®piùs extra spermo-
dermium exsert®. Folia primordialia opposita ! omnium lolmla
numero imparia s®piùs pinnatim, rariùs palmatim disposila. DC.
prodr. 2. p. 381. i i •
W IS T E R IA . CaZ^a; campanulato-subbuabiatus, labii superioris
dentibus 2 brevibns, inforioris lobis 3 subulatis. CoroZZo papiliima-
cea, vexillo bicalloso, alis carinà conformibus, carinà bicipiti. Stamina
diadelpha. Tubulus nectarifer ovarii slipitem cingens. Legumen
substipitatum coriaceum bivalve 1-loculare seminibns subtoru-
losum.—Frutex scandens. Folia impari-pinnata exstipulata. Racemi
terminates. Flores eceruleo tilacini, juniores bracteis deciduis amen-
taceiscincti, adulti ebracteati. DC. 1. c. p. 389, 390.
W . chinensis, alis 1-auriculatis, ovario villoso. DC. prodr. 2. p. 390.
Glycine chinensis. Sims Botan. magaz. t. 2083.
Glycine sinensis. Botan. regist. t. 650. Lodd. bot. cab. t. 773.
Stem shrubby, climbing, extending to a great length:
young branches pubescent. Leaves pinnate: leaflets opposite,
2 to 5 pair, terminated with an odd one, petiolate, oblongly
ovate, acuminate, thinly clothed with prostrate hairs
on both sides, penninerved and reticulately veined, margins
fringed with a short dense pubescence; the partial footstalks
short, densely pubescent, producing a bristle-form
stipule-like appendage at the base of each, which is very
hairy and fringed. Petioles long, pubescent, striate, slightly
furrowed on the upper side, very much swollen at the base.
Racemes terminal, drooping, many-flowered. Flowers
large and handsome, fragrant. Peduncle slightly angular,
densely pubescent. Bractes lanceolate, taper-pointed, pubescent
and fringed, deciduous and membranaceous. Pedi-
cles slender, drooping, thickly clothed with unequal short
woolly hairs. Calyx short, bell-shaped, twp-lipped, inflated
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