CuiToRIA. LEGUMINOS. 205 
4—6-seeded : seeds 4-sided, truncated at both ends.—Linn.! sp. p. 1862 ; DC. 
prod. 2. p. 228; Spr. syst. 3. p. 276; Lam. ill. t. 626. f. 3; Rowxb.! fl. Ind. 3. 
p. 376; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 385 ; Wall.! L:n. 5450; Wight! cat. n. 862.— 
Burm. Zeyl. t. 14; Rheed. Mal. 9. t. 30. 
I. barbata, Desv. in ann. sc. nat. 9. p. 410, agrees so well in almost every 
point with our plant, that we feel almost disposed to doubt of the Brazilian 
locality, and to refer it here. 
XII. CLITORIA.  Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 609 ; Gaertn. fr. 2. t. 149. 
Calyx 5-cleft, furnished at the base with pretty large very obtuse brac- 
teoles. Vexillum large, rounded. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1), inserted 
with the corolla a little above the base (not into the bottom) of the calyx. 
Style somewhat dilated at the apex. Legume linear, compressed, straight, 
2-valved; united with the base of the style, 1-celled, many-seeded, often with 
cellular partitions between the seeds.—Climbing herbaceous plants. Leaves 
unequally pinnated: leaflets often 1-pair, more rarely 2-3-pairs, generally 
furnished with partial stipules at their base. Flowers axillary, pedicellate, 
large, white or blue or purple, often resupinate. 
641. (1) C. Ternatea (Linn. :) stem twining, pubescent: leaflets 2-3-pairs, 
oval or ovate: partial stipules setaceous: peduncles short, axillary, solitary, 
1-flowered: bracteoles large, roundish: flowers resupinate: legumes slightly 
pubescent.— Linn. ! in herb. Herm.! ; DC. prod. 2. p. 283; Spr. syst. 3. p. 
256; Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 821 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab, 408 ; Wall. ! L. n. 5344 ; 
Wight! cat. n. 870.—Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 885 Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 31. 
XIII. PUERARIA. DC. 
Calyx campanulate, with two caducous bracteoles at its base, somewhat 
2-lipped : the upper lip entire or slightly 2-toothed ; the lower trifid. Corolla 
papilionaceous : keel straight, obtuse: vexillum obovate. Stamens monadel- 
phous below the middle, the tenth often free upwards. Legume flat, com- 
pressed, attenuated at the base, pointed with the style, 2-valved, continuous 
(DC.). Seeds several .—T wining shrubs. Stipules deciduous, free from the 
petiole. Leaves trifoliolate : leaflets large, ovate, acute, reticulately veined, 
with partial stipules at their base. Racemes compound, branched. Flowers 
pedicellate, in pairs or threes. 
b. De Candolle separates this from Desmodium on account of the fruit, yet adds, 
ctus non satis notus.” We consider it doubtful as to species: the women and 
perhaps only true one, has perhaps continuous legumes, but, according to Roxburgh, 
they are much contracted between the seeds. 
, 642. (1) P. tuberosa (DC. :) root tuberous, very large : stems woody, twin- 
mg: leaflets roundish, pubescent above, beneath silky-villous: stipules cor- 
te : racemes simple or branched, the length of the leaves, from the cicatrices 
of the fallen leaves: flowers (blue) in threes: calyx 4-cleft, silky ; segments 
about equal, ovate, the upper one the broadest and almost entire : legumes 
Very hairy, linear, pointed, 2-6-seeded, much contracted between the seeds. 
— DC. prod. 2. p. 240 ; Spr. syst. suppl. p. 275 ; Wall. ! L. n. 5352.—Hedysa- 
rum tuberosum, Roxb. ! fl. Ind. 3. p. 363 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 400 ; Willd. sp. 
P. 1197.—Kadsumi, Banks, Icon. Kempf. tab. 25.—Cirears. : 
À rare species, a native of valleys far up amon the mountains. It 
owers during the hot season, at which time it is perfectly naked of leaves, 
being deciduous about the beginning of the cold season.”—Roxs, 
