p . 



Pueraria.'] l. leguminos^. (J. G. Baker.) 199 



chartaceous, thinly clothed with adpressed hairs on both sides ; end one ovate acute, 

 2-3^ in. long. Bacemes canescent. axillary and forming a terminal panicle ; fruit* 

 pedicels ^ in. ; bracts small, subulate, persistent. Calyx 1 in., puberulous. Corolla 

 unknown. Pod linear, 1-1^ in. by I in,, flat, pale. — I have seen no specimens. 



8. P. hirsuta, Kurz in Journ, Astat. Soc. Beng, xlii. 2, 254; herbaceous, 

 twining^ pedicels very short, calyx very small, pod clothed with few spreading 

 hairs 2-4-seeded. 



Pegu, Kurz. 



Perennial, the obtuse angles of the branches beset with retrorse adpressed hairs. 

 Leaflets chartaceous, furnished, especially below, with sparse adpressed hairs ; end 

 one ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2^-3^ in. long. Bacemes axillary, densely pilose, 

 usually 2-3-nate ; bracts caducous ; fruit-pedicels ^ in. Corolla unknown. Pod 

 linear-oblong, J-l in. by \ in., Hat, slightly torulose. — I have seen no specimens. 



9. P. brachycarpa, Kurz in Jau)m. Asiat Soc, Beng, xlii. 2, 243; xliii. 

 2, 185; herbaceous, twining or diliiise, pedicels as long as the calyx, calyx very 

 small, pod with a few addressed hairs 6-6-seeded. 



SXTBGEN 



ually deeply lobed, contem- 



I^raneous with the flowers. Pod ^^ in. broad, rather turgid, recurved at the 

 "P, 10-l5-8eeded. 



y ^^* ^- Pbaseoloides, Bmth. in Jomm. Linn. Soc. ix. 125. Dolichos 

 Piaseoloides, Boxb. Fl Ind. iii. 31G. Neustanthus subspicatus and phaseoloides. 



Wall 



^ Ham. in Wall Cat. 5559. D. 

 decurrens, Grah. in Wall. 



T^^!"f ^!^ subspicata, Bmth. in Jonm. Linn. Soc. ix, 125. D. ficifolius, Grah. in 

 Wall. Cat. 5503, 



Easi 



Stem 

 tairs. 



thinlv ol 



^SSAM, SiKKI 



Mai-acca. — 1 



scar 



matted 



sh n ^'Y^^^^^ in size and shape, roundish, broad ovate or rhomboidal, entire or 

 ^^auowly or deeply 3-lobed, 3-6 in. long. Flowers fascicled in copious long-peduncled 

 thn^'^^^' P^^^^^^^s very short ; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, strongly nerved, like 

 adnr ^^,^^"^^^ia, the latter subpersistent. Calyx i-| in. long, densely clothed with 

 pressed bristly hairs ; lowest tooth lanceolate, as long as tube, others shorter, all 

 i\rf\^T ^^ ^^^ ^'P- (Corolla reddish, twice tlie calyx ; blade of standard roundish, 

 i 2 fi • ^ *^P^red. Pod glabrescent, 3-4 in. long.— N. skiucans, Atiq. J* lor. Ind. Bat. 

 : », IS a form with thin adpressed pubescence and large entire leaflets. 

 end ■ ^^^'^'^^^^ Benth. (sp.); leaflets small thick entire obtuse densely pubescent, 

 Jou^K^^'^y as broad as long with a deltoid base- Pueraria javanica, Benth. in 

 Bat' o ' ^^^' ^- 125. Neustanthus javanicus, Benth. PL Jung. 235 ; Miq. Ft. Ind. 

 ilalac' ' '' ^ ^' Pachyrhizus mollis, Ha^sk. Cat. Bogor. 280,— Khasia and 



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