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cyliudrica 4-5 mm. longa 3 mm. lata utroque truncata nitida fusco-purpuras- 

 centia. 



HAB. lyiukyokudo, leg. Y. MATSUDA ; Takao ; Tainan ; Bantan, (Ako). 



The present new genus is undoubtedly referable to the tribe Phaseolece,. 

 as defined by BAKER, BENTHAM and HOOKER, and TAUBEET. As the style- 

 has a hair-tuft just below the stigma on the inner side, it should be assigned 

 to the subtribe Euphaseolecc. It is near to Doliehos in the terminal stigma ;. 

 but differs from it in having a hair-tuft just below the stigma on the inner 

 side, in the tumid nodes of the racemes which are exactly like those of 

 Galadia and Pueraria, and in having nearly terete pods with septas inside. 

 It is comparable to some extents to Phaseolus, Vigna, Pueraria, Canavalia 

 and Galadia in this point or that ; from Phaseolus, it diners in the not spirally 

 recurved keel, in the terminal stigma with hair-tuft on one side below it, 

 and in the tumid nodes of the racemes ; from Vigna, in the terminal stigma 

 and in the tumid nodes of the racemes ; from Pueraria, Canavalia and' 

 G<-J'.idia, in the hair- tuft below the stigma. 



Dolichovigna rhombifolia HAYATA sp. nov. Scandentissima volubilis ;. 

 caulis teres gracilis dense villosus remote foliatus versus apiceni efoliatus.. 

 cirriformis. Folia alterna 3-foliata, foliolo terrain all rhomboideo-ovato- 

 rotuudato 3-J- cm. longo 3 cm. lato apic3 triangulari-acuto ad suunnuni aristato 

 basi late truncate vel rotundato margine integro supra subtusque teuuiter 

 pubescenti, venis venulis subtus distincte elevatis, foliolis lateralibus minoribus 

 basi valde obhquis, petiolulis 2-3 mm. longis hirsutis, stipellis subulatis 1 mni. 

 longis, petiolis commuuibus 2-3 cm. longis villosis, stipulis elougato-triaugu- 

 laribus 2 mm. longis hirsutis. Racemi breves 3-5 mm. lougi pauciflorati, 

 axillares, rhachi fasciculorum nodiformi, pedicellis 1-2 mm. lougis hirsutis, 

 bracteolis duabus basi floris dispositis triangularibus hirsutis 1 mm. lougis. 

 Calyx oblique cainpanulatus hirsutus 4 mm. lougus totiusque latus 5-lobatus, 

 lobis superioribus conuatis obtusis, lateralibus late triaugularibus 2 mm. longis 

 l mm. latis obtusis hirsutis ; lobo iufimo elongato-triangulari 3 mm. longo- 

 apice obtnso extus hirsute intus villoso. Petala 5 : vexillum late reniformi- 

 cordatum 1 cm. longum 1-|- cm. Litum apice eniargiuatum basi cordatum, 

 ungue 2 mm. lougo ; alne quadrangulariformes 6 mm. longre 3 mm. latoe, ungui- 



