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distinet ; the leaflets in that plant however are broader, the keel rather dif- 
ferent, the flowers more approximated, and the legumes nearly horizontal. 
$ 2. Stipules adnate (produced and free at the base): legume cylindrical — 
Strophostyles, Elliott. 
+ Twining. 
753. (8) P. calcaratus (Roxb. :) biennial, twining, villous: leaflets ovate, 
somewhat 3-lobed: stipules lanceolate, adnate: racemes somewhat erect, 
longer than the leaves ; the floriferous part elongated: bracteas lanceolate, 
caducous: pedicels in pairs, with an intermediate gland: bracteoles some- 
what permanent: keel with a remarkably long horn: legumes pendulous, 
cylindric, slender, nearly straight, glabrous: seeds 6-7, glabrous, nearly cy- 
lindrical.— Road. fl. Ind. 3. p. 289; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1602; Wall.! L. n. 
5611. Mysore. he 
Found by Heyne in a cultivated state in Mysore. 
*754. (9) P. furinosus (Linn.:) twining: leaflets ovate-rhomboid, acute 
somewhat 3-lobed: peduncles slightly longer than the petiole : flowers near- 
ly capitate: legumes terete, not torulose: seeds cylindrical, truncated at 
both ends, covered with a mealy tomentum.—Linn. sp. p. 1017 ; DC. prod. 
2. p. 395 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 254. 
755. (10) P. trinervius (Heyne:) twining: branches and petioles covered 
with long spreading or deflexed hairs : leaflets of rather a hard texture, ovate, 
acuminated, somewhat obtusely deltoid or lobed at the base ; young ones co- 
vered on both sides with copious adpressed long shining hairs, densely ci- 
liated with short brownish hairs; old ones sprinkled with harsh adpressed 
hairs: stipules oblong-lanceolate, attached below the middle: peduneles 
elongated, straight, slightly hairy, much longer than the leaves ; flowers form- 
ing a kind of cylindrical head : legume horizontal, cylindrical, hairy.— Heyne! 
in Wall.! L. n. 5603; Wight! cat. n. 731—Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 37. 
4- 4- Not twining. s 
756. (11) P. Mungo (Linn. :) annual, nearly erect, somewhat flexuose, 
ry: leaflets broadly-ovate or rhomboid, entire, acute or acuminated: sti- 
pules oblong-lanceolate, attached below their middle: peduncles at first 
shorter, afterwards longer than the petioles: flowers forming a kind of cylin- 
drical head : bracteas and bracteoles lanceolate, caducous: keel twisted to 
the left, with a short horn or spur near the base on the left side: legume ho- 
rizontal, cylindrical, somewhat slender (2-23 inches long, and 13 line broad), 
> 6-15-seeded ; seeds with numerous close longitudinal strive—Linn. 
mant. p. 101 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 894; Spr. syst. 3. p. 255; Roxb. ff. viens 3. 
P. 292 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 273; Wall.! L. n. 5589 (partly) ; Wight ! eat. 
^. 995.—P. hirtus, Retz obs. 3. p. 38.—P. Max, Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 295; in 
E. I. C. mus. tab. 274.—Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 50. ee 
, Roxburgh states that his P. Maz differs only in being more branched, an 
in the colour of the seed being black, and not green as in his P. Mungo. 
t P. Maz of Linnæus may have been it is difficult to decide: the syno- 
nym of Hernandez is now P. Hernandesii of Savi; that of Rumphius is ge- 
herally also excluded: the specimen of the Flora Zeylanica in Hermann’s 
herbarium is not in flower ; it is very hairy all over, but does not appear a: 
if it were an erect plant. |. cdd 
757. (12) P. Wightii (Grah.:) diffuse, flexuose, hairy: leaflets broadly 
ovate or rhomboid, acuminated, entire or 3-lobed ; the terminal lobe acumi- 
Dated, much longer than the others: stipules oblon -lanceolate, attached 
low their middle : peduncles elongated, about the ength of the leaves: 
wers few, capitate: keel twisted to the left, with a short horn near the 
_ base on the left side : legumes hairy, cylindrical, slender (about a line broad, 
