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BoUclws.] L. LEGUMiNOS^, (J. G. Baker.) 211 



exceeding the wings and keel. Pod 1-U in. by i in., tipped with the hooked base of 

 the style. 



6. D. falcatus, Klein] DC, Prodr. ii. 398; leaflets entire or slightly 

 3"lobed, flowers 2-8 on a short common peduncle^ calyx-teeth deltoid, corolla 

 yellow, pod linear glabrous G-8-seeded. lioxb. FL Ind, iii. 311; XT. 8f A. 

 Prodr. 249. D. trilobatus. TFalL Cat 5641, non Linn. 



Himalayas, from Kumaon to Khasia, ascending to 7500 ft. Plains of Western 

 Peninsula and Ceylon. 



Root tuberous, perennial. Steyns wide-twining, very slender, pilose or glabrescent. 



otipuks small, lanceolate, reflexed, persistent ; leaflets membranous, 1-3 in. long, 



ovate, acute, entire or obtuse, 3-lobed, finely pilose on the faces, or nearly glabrescent. 

 P.^,/W.o 1 o:„ ... ... , .-... .._ 1 . ..„ ^^^^^, glabrous, 



nearly equal in 

 recurved. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



D. STJBCARNosrs, W, ^ A. Prodr, 249, is a plant from the Western Peninsula, 

 of which the flower is unknown and of which the place is therefore doubtful. It has 

 small ovate acute entire leaflets, many-flowered distinctly- peduncled racemes, and a 

 narrow linear nearly straight glabrous many-seeded pod 3-4 in. long. 

 , fl ^^^:'^WALis, Grah, in Wall. Cat, 5539, is another doubtful plant, of which 

 °^ flower is unknown, gathered by Wallich in Ava, which has been referred through 

 some confusion to Psophocarpits palustris, from which it totally differs. It has slender 

 ^erete woody suberect stems, with short deflexed deciduous grey pubescence, caduc- 



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'^s Stipules, membranous stipellatc leaflets with a fewadpressed bristly hairs on both 

 wes, the end one oblong subobtuse or cuspidate 4-5 in. long, many-flowered short- 

 mincled racemes and a 2-3-seeded ligulate flattish pod |-1 in. by ^in., thinly clothed 

 ^tn long adpressed grey hairs, faintly depressed between the seeds. 



78. PSOPKOCARFUS, Neck. 



Twining herbs, with large tuberous roots. Leaves 3-foliolate, stipellate ; sti- 

 ih ^^^^^^^ «'^^ove the base. Flowers rather large, lilac. Cali/x teeth shorter 

 ^an the tube, the two upper connate. Corolla much exserted, the petals equal 

 /i length; heel much incurved, but not beaked. Stamens monadelphous, the 

 St 1 ^/^^^ downwards; anthers uniform. Ovary substipitate, many-o%'uled_ ; 

 j2\^y^^^ ninch recui-Ved, flattened laterally, densely bearded round the termi- 

 vZ s^Jpua. Pod square, with a distinct wing to each angle, distinctly septate 

 "^tween the seeds.-DisTiiiB. Species 3-4, all tropical in the Old World. 



^- !•- tetragronolobus, DC Prodr. ii. 403 ; leaflets entire ovate mem- 



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much shorter than 

 Hassk PL Jav. Par. 388. 



Doliovf ' ^ ^^^'t^^' glabrous. /r. cS" -4- I'roUr. lio:^; xto^/*^. j f. ./"*-. ^i'" • -^^Y- 

 nciiospvatus, Grah. in Wall, Cat. 55i0. D. tetragonolobus, Xi/m. ; Poxb. 

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where'*""'^ and Mautahan, Wallich, perhaps only introduced. Cultivated else- 



wavlwf ^'?#^' '^"""■■il- Stems we.ik, wide-twining, glabrous. Slipulcs lanceolate each 

 glatron 1. '^^^*^™^''t ; leaflets broad, ovate, acute, 3-6 in. long, 2-6 m. broad, 

 as the 1 ^® suWeltoid. liacemcs lax ; peduncles \ ^ ft. ; pedicels gemmate, as long 

 lowest 2^'^' tracteoles ovate, ^ in. Calyx J in., glabrous; side-teeth oblong; 

 cnsDPfl T^""' <^**ltoid. Pod! 4-1 ft, by 1 in., the wings ^'\ in. broad, usually much 

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