206 i^- LEGTJMiNOS.^. (J. G. Baker.) [Vigna, 



Low and iiuhbTQQt {V.Catiang) or tall and Yolnble ( K si7iensis\ always glahrous or 

 nearly so. Stipules ^^ in. long, attached and persistent as in Phaseolus § Strofh- 

 stylis\ leaflets membranous, 3-6 in. long, acute, very variable in shape, broad or nar- 

 row ovate, or ovate-rhomboidal, with the two sides below the middle prolonged into 

 obtuse lobes. Peduncles often exceeding the leaves, 3-6-flowered ; pedicels very short. 

 Calyx glabrous, under 1 in ; teeth lanceolate or deltoid- cuspidate. Corolla yellow or 

 reddish, twice the calyx. Pod in some of the cultivated forms 1 or even 2 feet long, 

 under ^ in. broad, edible ; seeds 10 to 20. 



SxTBGEN. 2. Plectrotropis. Keel prolonged into a distinct beak, so that 

 this group connects Vif/na p7*opej' with Phaseohis, 



Mart 



stems 



5. V. vexillata, Benth. %n 

 herbaceous with a few deflexed brown liairs, leaflets membranous ovate or laB- 

 ceolate acute, flowers 2-4 at the end of lonp: peduncles, corolla large, p^ 

 slender glabre^^cent. Phaseolus vexillatus, Xmw. Sp, PL 1017. P. sepiarlns, Dfl^fc- 

 in Keto Joiirn. ii. 33 ; Bomb, Flora, 72. P. pulniensis, Wtf/ht Ic. t. 202. ^• 

 a,noTistifolius, Wall Cat 5596. P. fusiforrais, Groh. in 'Wall Cat 5607. 



iQTia 



■DHL Ilort Elth, ii. t. 302. 



Himalayas, from S1M1.A to Kitmaon and Khasia, ascending to 8000 ft.. Hius 

 West Pknixstjla and Ceyxon. — Distrib. Cosmopolitan in tropics. Cape, Austraha. 



Boot fusiform, perennial. Stems wide-t-winin^, glabrescent when matnre. «"' 

 pules ^-\ in., lanceolate, basifixed ; leaflets with few or copious adpressed hro-ffuis 

 or ^ey hairs, varying in shape from broad ovate to lanceolate, 2-6 in. long, always 

 acute, the base rounded. Peduncles \-l ft, ; bracteoles setaceous. Calyx ^\^^" 

 silky ; teeth linear-lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla reddish-purple. 1 i^- ^^ 

 more long ; sUndard 1-1:^ in. broad. Pod 3-4 in. by \ in., thinly silky at tirst, 

 10-15-seeded. 



Var. SfocJcsH, Eenth. ; leaflets small ovate, brown hairs of the leaves and stem 

 more abundant and persistent. Concan, Stocks. 



6. V. bracliycarpa, Kurz in Journ, Asiat Soc. Beng. xliii. 2, 185 ; sterns 

 herbaceoiLs slightly hairy, leaflets chartaceous linear or lanceolate-deltoid ae^ 

 minate^ flowers few crowded at the end of long peduncles, corolla small? p^ 

 linear-oblong with a few long hairs. 



Arkacax, K:urz. 



A perennial climber, with filiform stems. Stipules ^^ in., linear-oblong, peltate* 

 petiole 1-1^ in., pilose ; leaflets 1-2 in., thinly hairy on both sides. Pedinicks eqii^' 

 ling or exceeding petioles ; pedicels very short. Calyx glabroiis, ^ in. ; teeth bro » 

 short, acute. 09ro^/a yellow, ^ in. Pod 1 in. by J in., stiff, compressed, black, ma^J 

 seeded. I have seen no specimens. 



7. V. Wiffhtil 



irrev-downy 



leaflets 



siibcoriaceous small ovate subobtiise, flowers 2-3 on the end of long pedunc 



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corolla large. Brdd. Ic, PL ImL Or, t. 296. 



Carnatic ; Courtallum, Wight^ Thomson, _ . -, 



A slender t^\*inor, ^vlth slender sulcate glabrescent stems. Siipnfcs minute, 

 ceolate» basifixed, caducous ; leaflets glabrescent above, thinly silky below, 2- ' 

 1( ng. Pedunclrs roAXch. 6-0 in; pedicels very short; bracteoles minute, ^^'^^^ j]^ 

 (^flry.r § in., finely duwny; lower teeth linear, nearly as long as the tube, t/^l" 

 reddish, 1^ in. long; standard roundish, emarginatc, 1-^ in. broad. Pod not kno 



8. V. dollclioides, Baher ; 



trreT 



_ - , - roundish cu^pida+e with copions adpressed ""^ 



hairs, racemes many-flowered sliort-peduncledj corolla middle-sized, P^ ,? j,^ 

 &!iort clothed with dense firm spreading grey silky hairs. Phaseolus dolic 



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