192 XLVI1. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Phaseolus. 
connate; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, multiovulate ; style in- 
crassated within the beak of the keel and twisted with it, usually longi- 
tudinally bearded upwards; stigma oblique. Pod linear or falcate, 
terete or compressed, two-valved, thinly septate between the seeds.— 
Usually climbing herbs with pinnately trifoliolate leaves. 
A large genus, principally tropical. 
Leaflets entire. 
Bl Ghee A OOd ce ee se a Ee 
Pod linear, 10-15-seeded. 
Pods flat, half an inch broad. 
Flowers in copious racemes on long peduncles . . . . . 2. P. adenanthus. 
Flowers 2-3 together on short peduncles . . . . . . . 3. P. vulgaris. 
Pods terete, under } in. thick. 
Steme robust, noticlimbing, 3) 65 dP Mungo, 
Stems slender, twining. 
Petioles 2-6 in. long, ferruginous-silky . . . . . . . 5. P. trinervius. 
Petioles under 1 in. long, glabrous . . . . . . . . 6 PB. Kirkss. 
Leaflets deeply sinustolobate.. . 5 sk ce ke ny Te PR rll 
1. P. lunatus, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 293. Stems biennial, usually 
twining, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Stipules small, lanceolate- 
subulate, not peltate. Petioles 2-3 in. long, firm, subglabrous ; leaf- 
lets 3, the central one ovate-deltoid, 3—4 in. long, 2—8 in. broad, acute, 
the lateral ones very unequal-sided, both sides subglabrous. Flowers 
in copious long- or short-stalked axillary racemes 1—4 in. long. Bracts 
minute, setaceous. Pedicels 2-3 lines long, glabrous or pubescent. 
Calyx broadly campanulate, 1-14 lines deep; teeth very short, sub- 
deltoid. Corolla violet or white, under half an inch deep. Pod 2-3 
in. long, }—} in. broad, flat, glabrous, rostrate, the upper suture slightly 
and the lower much recurved; seeds 2—4, purple or white.—P. dipunctatus, 
Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 100. 
Phd saya Guinea. Fernando Po, Vogel! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Annabon, Capt. 
Urton . 
Wile Land. Kazeh, Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Banks of Lake Nyassa, Dr. Kirk! 
Widely dispersed through the Tropics of both hemispheres. 
2. P. adenanthus, E. Meyer, Prim. Fl. Esseq. 239. Stems firm- 
herbaceous, wide-climbing, subglabrous. Stipules 2 lines deep, broad- 
ovate, erect, persistent. Petioles 2-3 in. long; leatlets 3; central 
one ovate, 3-4 in. long, lateral ones unequal-sided, the veins beneath 
slightly rufo-pubescent. Flowers 6-12 in axillary moderately dense 
racemes on peduncles exceeding the leaves. Calyx } in. deep, call 
panulate, bilabiate, the upper lip emarginate, the lower trifid, with acute 
teeth. Corolla ? in. deep, rose-red, rarely yellow, the wings equalling 
the standard. Pod 4—5 in. long, 5—6 lines broad, linear, compresse¢, 
scarcely pubescent, slightly arcuate, rostrate ; seeds 12-15.—P. seneg@ 
lensis, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. p. 217. P. truwillensis, H. B. K. Nov. 
Gen. vi. 451. Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. fase. 23, 186. P. rostratws, 
Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. i. 56, t. 63. Wight, Ic. t. 34. P. cirrhosis, 
