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Pueraria.] l. leguminos^. (J. G. Baker.) ' 197 



A woody climber, with terete branches, at first pubescent. Leaflets subcoriaceous, 

 ( obtuse or acute, pubescent beneath, 4-6 in. long. Flowers in peduncled dense 

 I eubspicate racemes ^-1 ft. long ; bracts linear, reflexed, silky, ^ in. long. Calyx 

 [ g-j in., silky, M'ith a pair of small obtuse bracteoles. Corolla reddish, half as long 



\ again as the calyx. Pod 3-4 in. long, glabrescent, but clothed at first with adpressed 



silky hairs. 



72. PUERARIA, DC. 



Twining shrubs or herbs^ with stipellate 3-foliolate leaves ; leaflets some- 

 toies palmatifid. Flotvers large or small, densely fascicled, in long often com- 

 pound racemes. Calyx-teeth long or short, the two upper connate. Corolla 

 ^^^^^•P^^y ^xserted ; standard usually spurred at the base, equalling in length 

 tne obtuse wings and keel. Stmnens more or less thoroughly monadelphous ; 

 autners uniform. Ovary sessile or nearly so, many-ovuled ; style filiform, much 

 ^cun^ed beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, flattish. — I)istrib. Only one 

 -t.ast Asian species not here represented. 



SuBGEN. 1. Pueraria proper. Floicers produced after the leaves fall. 

 ^ T 4~~h i^- broad, with constrictions betw^een the seeds that recall the articu- 

 lations of Hedysare^. 



, 1. P. tuberosa. DC Prodr. ii. 240 : calvx denselv silky, teeth subobtuse 



.-'y/*t jc. t. 41^5 Dah, Sf Gibs. Bomb. FL 07; Benth. in Lmn. iSoc. J 

 '^' 123. Iledysarum tuberosum, Roxb, Hort. Beng. 57 ; FL ImL in. 3G3. 



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N Peninsula and Orissa. 

 Itoot very large, tuberous. Stems shrubby, the branches finely grey-downy. 



^pules minute, deciduous, corJato-ovate ; leaflets membranous, roundish, |-1 ft. 



_ &) Rreen. P^lMbrpCAi^nf qK/^-.t« ^i^^e-^Ur M^fli^i/l \«ritli Ti4iififci>i ftr?r»rpt;siP<l hairs bf'nfinth. 



ssed hairs beneath. 

 g 6-9 in. long; 



g) green, glabrescent above, densely clothed with whitish adpresse 



ot6W5 in dense virgate leafless often panicled racemes, reachin^, ^ ^ --. - -o. 



pedicels very short, densely fascicled. Calf/x ^-^ in. long, densely silky. Corolla 



2 ^' . ' ^^^ <i"'te twice the calyx ; limb of standard orl>icular, distinctly spurred. Pod 



"*> in. long, membranous, flat, 3-6-seeded, clothed with long grey silky bristly hairs. 



' P. Candollei Grah, in Wall. C"^ .^.'^KK • i^«1vY flnbirlabrmifl. teeth 



acute as long as the tube, bracts exceedin 



cuculai 



Benth, in Joutm. Linn. Soc. ix. 123. 



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^f^^' W"««i^A, McClelland. MorrMEiN, Lohh. 



ii/irubby^ with slender terete glabrous brauches. Stipules in the last ; leaflets sub- 



cent^^*^^^^' roundish, with an acute point, |-| ft. long, both surfaces greenish, glabres- 



Qt Racemes lax, virgate, panicled, reaching a foot or more long, the sulcata 



2^^^"^ ^"^^^^-^^^^^^ \ pedicels ^4 im ; bracts linear, f-^ in. long. Col(jx ^~i in.,, 



ij^P^'i "^J a pair of minute persistent ornte bracteoles. Corolla twice the calyx; 



°^t> of standard roundish, spurred. Pod 3 in. long, few-seeded. 



_ SxTBGEN. 2. ITeustanthus, Benth. Lcailets entire, rarely faintly lobed^ 

 ^temporaneous with the flowers. Pod ^-^ in. broad, not constricted, 4- 12-- 



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lasifi ^' P®*^»<Sttlarls, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5354 ; herbaceous, stipules 

 middf ^ • flower-pedicels exceeding the calyx, calyx-teeth small deltoid, corolla 

 If- ^^®\2^d, pod glabrous membranous.' Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 124. 



, «U8tanthus peduncukris, Bmth. PL Jungh. 2^. • 



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