198 ' li. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) IPueraria. 



Khasia 



SiKKIM, MiSHMI. 



Copiously twining, tho slender firm branches clothed -with short deflexed deciduous 

 hairs. Leaflets membranous, green, "with a few short hairs above, grey, densely 

 shortly downy beneath ; end one roundish, acuminate, 4-6 in. long. Bacemes ^1 ft.» 

 short-peduncled, moderately close ; nodes never produced into branches. Pedicels 

 ^-| in., spreading, densely fascicled. Calj/x | in., finely grey-silky. Corolla 

 reddish, ^ in. long ; standard ^ in. broad, not spurred ; keel with a deep purple tip. 

 Upper stmiien at last nearly free. Pod quite straight, strap-shaped, 2-3 in. by \ in.» 

 quite glabrous, 4-8-seeded, turgid opposite the seeds. 



4. P. -Wallichil, DC. Prodr. ii. 240 ; shrubby, stipules basifixed, flower- 

 pedicels at most equalling the calyx, calyx-teeth deltoid, corolla middle-sized, 

 pod glabrous rigid-coriaceous. DC, Mem, Leg. t. 48; Wall, Cat, 5353; Befnth, 

 %n Jom-n. Linn, Soc. ix. 124. P. composita, Grah. in Wall. Cat, 5570. 



East Himalayas, tropical region; Nepal, Silhet, Khasia, Mishmi, ascending 

 to 5000 ft. BiRMA ; Taong-dong, Wallich. 



Branches slender, terete, glabrous. Leaflets membranous or subcoriaceous, green, 

 glabrescent above, grey -with a few adpressed hairs beneath ; end one 4-6 in. long, 

 obo rate- cuspidate, with a deltoid base. Racemes copious, ^-^ ft. long, often fasciclea 

 or panicled ; pedicels finely silky, densely fascicled, the nodes often lengthened out 

 into short branchlets (P. composita, Wall.). Cal^x gibbous, ^ in.; teeth obscure. 

 Corolla reddish, ^-| in. long ; limb of standard twice as long as broad, not spurred at 

 the base. Pod straight, 4-o in, long, the sutures sometimes slightly repand. 



5. P. Stracbeyi, Bahet-^ herbaceous, stipules deciduous, flower-pedicels 

 nearly or qmte as long as the calyx, calyx^teeth large nearly as long as the tube, 

 corolla large. 



Ktjmaon, Kalimundi, alt. 7300 ft., Strachnj and Winterbottom, 

 Branches slender, with a few short deciduous hairs. Leaflets membranous, very 

 thin, -wdth a few obscure adpressed hairs on both surfaces, green above, paler below ;eJi" 

 one obovate-oblong, cuspidate, rather rounded at the base, 3-4 in. long. Flowers m a 

 long lax simple subsecund raceme, with a subglabrous rachis ; pedicels ^~\ in. Cdy^ 

 subglabrous, | in. long ; lower tooth lanceolate, ^ in. long, the others much s^^^^^ 

 Corolla reddish, f-|- in. long ; standard ^ in. broad, distinctly spurred. P^ 

 unknown, 



6. P. Thomsoni, Benth, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 122 ; shrubby, stipujes 

 fixed by the centre, pedicels very short, calyx-teeth 3-4 times the tube, ^^^^ 

 larore, pod densely clothed with long silky hairs. Dolichos spicatus, Wall C^f • 

 5557 C. D. grandifolius, Grah, in Wcdl. Cat. 6556. 



East Himalaya, temperate region. Assam, Je^ikins, Mrs. Mack. Khasia, 5-7000 

 ft., Griflith, Hook.JiL and Thonismi. Silhet, Gomez, . . 



_ A climber, with slender branches, clothed with deciduous deflexed fine brownis 

 hairs. Stipules persistent, ^-| in. long ; leaflets membranous, green, with a w 

 obscure adpressed hairs above, grey with dense thin hairs beneath ; end one roundis , 

 obtuse or cuspidate, 6-9 in. long, rarely faintly lobed. Racemes close, simple, ^"^^^ 

 long. Cali/x^in. long, densely silky; teeth lanceolate. Corolla reddish, ^?^ ^ 

 long again as the calyx ; standard ^ 'in. broad, distinctly spurred. PocZ 4-5 m- ^? 

 |-4 in., flat, straight, membranous, 8-12-seeded. 



7. P. stricta, Kurz in Journ. Asiat, Soc. Bmg. xlii. 2, 254; 



'baceous. 



pedicels lom^er than the very small calvx. Dod glabrous 7-9-seeded- 





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Pegu and Martaban, Kurz. - , . - . 



A perennial, 2-4 ft. high, with subterete branches, tomentose when young. Le^^ 



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