46. LEGUHINOS.E : PAPILIONACE.E. 191 



Neustanthus phaseoloides, Benth. PI. Jungh. i. p. 235, et in Fl. Hongh 

 p. 86 ; Walp. Ann. iv. p. 556. 



Dolichos phaseoloides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. hi. p. 316. 



Pachyrhizus trilobus, DC. Prodr. ii. p. 402; Hook, et Am. Bot. Beech. 

 Voy. p. 184. 



China : without locality (Millett ! ParJces !) ; Hongkong 

 (Champion I Lamontl). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kevv. 

 Widely diffused in tropical Asia. 



2. Pueraria Thunbergiana, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 p. 122 ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 259, et in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xiii. p. 102 ; Maxim. Fl. As. Or. Fragm. p. 9 ; Franch. in 

 Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. p. 213; Bretschn. Early 

 Res. pp. 14 et 28. 



Pachyrhizus Thunbergianus, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. ii. 

 p. 113. 



Neustanthus chinensis, Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 86 ; Miq. in Journ. de Bot. 

 Neerl. i. p. 123. 



Pueraria sp., Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. 1876, p. 207. 



Pachyrhizus trilobus, DC? Maxim. Ind. Fl. Pek. in Prim. Fl. Amur. 

 p. 471. 



China: without locality (Millett I Fortune, 22!); Chihli: 

 uear Peking (Tatarinow Sf Bretschneider ex Maximowicz) ; Shan- 

 tung : Chefoo (Fauvel ex Franchet) ; Chekiang : without 

 locality (Staunton I), Chusan (Jacob I); Kiangsi : Kiukiang 

 (Shearer I); Formosa (Oldham, 178!); Hupeh : Ichang (A. 

 Henry I); Kwangtung: Lofaushan (Ford !) ; Hongkong (Har- 

 landl); Corea : Chemulpo (Carles I), in various localities (Ferry !). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Common in Japan ; and there is a specimen at Kew from the 

 Buru Archipelago, which is probably this species. The speci- 

 mens from the Corea and Formosa are very different in aspect, 

 foliage, and length of the calyx-lobes ; but they are connected by 

 intermediate forms from Hougkong, Kiukiang, &c. 



This plant furnishes the Ko-pou fibre, which is manufactured 

 into a fabric used for underclothing in summer, and said to be 

 very comfortable, as it does not cling to the skin. The anatomy 

 and histology of the plant have been very fully elaborated by Dr. 

 C. Avetta in the ' Annuario del E. Iustituto Botanico di Roma,' 

 1885, pp. 201-222, tt. 17-19. 



Among the unpublished documents at Kew relating to this 

 plant is a most interesting report on its fibre and the cloth made 



