218 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Bimlana. 



broad sul)gla"brous, petals suTbequal, pod clothed with fine spreading? hairs. 

 Coltea gibba, Grah, in WcdL Cat. 5572 A. Dunbaria oblonga. Am, in Nov. Act. 

 Nat. Cur. xviii. 333, 



' Hills of Mysoue and Ceylon, up to 3000 ft. 

 A woody climber, with slender terete glabrescent stems and petioles. Stipules 

 lanceolate, \-^ in. ; leaflets green on both surfaces, with a few minute decitluous hairs, 

 membranous, the end one nearly sessile, obovate-oblong, cuspidate, 3-6 in. long; 

 stipellse minute, caducous. Bacemcs few-flowered,' lax, distinctly peduncled ; pedicels 

 ^-^ in. ; bracteoles large, oblong, caducous. Cal^x ^-| in., finely downy ; lowest 

 tooth acuminate, exceeding the tube. Corolla twice the calyx; standard f in. broad; 

 keel subtruncate. Pod 1^2 in. by ^ in., straight, densely pilose at first, 4-5-seedea. 



3. D. pulchra, Benth. MSS. ; stems finely downy, stipules caducous, 

 leaflets thin twice as long as broad obscurely downy, standard exceeding the 

 wings and keel, pod clothed with tine spreading hairs. 



Lower hills of Sikkim, 1-2000 ft., HooJcfil. 



A woody climber, with slender terete glabrescent branches. Leaflets membranous, 

 green, glabrescent above, greyish-puberulent beneath, the end one oblong, narrowed 

 to a rounded base, and a long point, distinctly petioled, 3-4 in. long, stipeliate. 

 Racemes few-flowered, lax, distinctly peduncled ; pedicels ^^ in. ; bracteoles large, 

 navicular, caducous. Calyx finely downy, | in, long ; lower tooth setaceous, 2-^ 

 times the tube, the others much shorter, lanceolate. Corolla 1-1^ in. long ; limb of 

 standard round. Pod as in the last. 



SuBGEN. 2. B>h3mcolobiuiii, Benth. Cm-olla small, caducous, little 

 exserted. 



4. D. debiliSy Baker -^ stems filiform, leaflets subcoriaceous ligulate- 

 oblong obtuse 3-4 times as long as broad, flowers solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves, pod sessile glabrous. 



Khasia Mts.. alt. 4-5000 ft., Hook, fil ^ Thomson, Lobh. 



A twining herb, with very slender finely downy stems and distant nodes. Stipules 

 minute, setaceous, persistent; petiole ^-^ in.; leaflets grey-green, thinly caneseent 

 above, densely so beneath, prominently nerved, the end one short-petioled, rounded at 

 both ends, 1-1 J in. long. Pedicels as long as the calyx,' Cali/x } in., grey-dowiij; 

 teeth linear, the lowest as long as the tube. Corolla yellowish, half as long again as 

 the calyx. Pod recurved, glabrescent, 1^2 in. by ^ in., 8-10-seeded. 



5. B. conspersa, Benth. PL Jumjh. 241 ; stems filiform, leaflets mem- 

 branous round-rhomboid, flowers 1-2 together in the axils of the leaves usually 

 not peduncled, pod sessile glabrous. Dolichos conspersus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 

 5542. D. rhvnchosioides, 3Iiq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 185. D. punctatus, W- 4" ^' 

 Prodr.2^7. "D. Finlaysonianus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 55G5. Atylosia punctata, 

 Dalz. in Joiirn. Linn, Sac. xiii. 180. 



Eastern Himalayas, tropical region ; Silhet and Assam. Westkhn Pent>'S^i^' 

 Wight, Prome, Wallieh. — Distrir. Malaya, China, N. Australia. 



A twining herb, with very slender finely-downy stems. Stipules minute, hnear, 

 petiole 1 in.; leaflets thin, flexible, green, glabrescent above, pale green, obscurej 

 downy, distinctly gland-dotted beneath, not stipeliate ; end one distinctly P^^'*^^^^ 

 1-1^ in. long and broad, subacute. Pedicels very short; flowers rarely S-*! ou a sno 

 peduncle. Calyx \ in., grey-downy; lowest tooth as long as the tube. Coro 

 reddish, f-| in. ; keel distinctly beaked. Pod linear, 1^-2 in. ]>y ^ in., recurvea, 

 6-8-8eeded. — The Japanese Atylosia subrhornhea and Javan Dolichos tnincatus 

 Miquel both belong to this section of BunbariUj and are near this species. 



6. I>. podocarra, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xliii. 2, 185 ; stems 

 herbaceous, leaflets broad ovate acuminate, flowers in pairs in the axils ot 

 leaves on a very short peduncle, pod puberulous distinctly stalhed. 



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