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rachis, bracts, bracteoles, and calyces hirsute with elongated, scattered, 
usually appressed hairs. Flowers white, about 7 mm long, usually in 
pairs from a swollen node, each node subtended by two or three narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute, 2 to 3 mm long bracts; pedicels 2 to 3 
mim long, with a pair of bracteoles, similar to the bracts, near the apex. 
Calyx 5 mm long, the lower three teeth lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm 
long, subequal, the upper two connate for one-half their length into a 
deeply cleft lobe as long as the lower teeth. Standard 6 mm long, 
obovate-orbicular, rounded, clawed, not auricled or callose; wings equal- 
ling the standard, adherent to the keel and geniculate, with an oblong, 8 
mm long, obtuse auricle at the geniculation; keel as long as the other 
petals, very similar in size and shape to the wings, auricled. Stamens all 
fertile, the vexillary one united with the rest. Ovary linear-lanceolate, 
sessile, slightly hirsute; style glabrous, slightly curved. Pods flat, 4 to 5 
em long, about 5 mm wide, hirsute with scattered hairs, acuminate, 
slightly constricted between the seeds, each containing from 6 to 8, 
compressed, brown seeds about 2.5 mm long. 
PALAWAN, near Puerto Princesa, Bur. Sci. 295 Bermejos, January, 1906. A 
species readily recognizable by its 4-angled stems. 
2. Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth. in Journ, Linn. Soc. Bot. 9 (1865) 
125; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 199; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 
64; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 87; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sei. 1 (1906) 
Suppl. 67. 
Dolichos phaseoloides Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3 (1832) 316. 
Pachyrhizus teres Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 580. 
Pachyrhizus montanus Blanco 1. e. ed, 2 (1845) 406, ed 3, 2:381. 
Dioscorea bolojonica Blanco |. ¢. ed. 1 (1837) 800, ed. 2 (1845) 551, ed. 3, 
33208. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, For. Bur. 15704 Merritt & Darling: Province of 
Tarlac, Merrill 3620: Province of Bulacan, Yoder 42: Province of Bataan, Merrill 
1547, 38778, For. Bur. 2340 Borden, Elmer 6719. Minpanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. 
Clemens 640. 
India to southern China, the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
3. Pueraria thunbergiana (S. & Z.) Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9 
(1865) 122; Forbes & Hemsl. 1. ce. 23 (1887) 191; Merr. in Philip. Journ, Sci. 
3 (1908) Bot. 410. 
Dolichos hirsutus Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. 2 (1794) 237, non Pueraria 
hirsuta Kurz (1873). 
Pachyrhizus thunbergianus 8S. & Z. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. 2 (1846) 113. 
Neustanthus chinensis Benth. Fl. Hongk. (1861) 86. 
BaTANES IsLANpDs, Batan, Bur. Sei. 3833 Fénix. BABUYANES ISLANDS, Cami- 
guin, Bur. Sci. 4116 Fénix. Luzon, Province of Benguet, Hlmer 6600: Province 
of Tayabas, Bur. Sci. 6803 Robinson: BANTON, McGregor 347. Nraros, For, Bur, 
13712, 17339 Curran. 
India to Korea and Japan, south to Formosa; possibly also in the Buru 
Archipelago. 
The specimen from Buru Island mentioned by Forbes & Hemsley may be refer- 
able to P. textilis Laut. & K. Sch., rather than to P. thunbergiana. The former 
is described as having sessile flowers, but in all the material of P. thunbergiana 
