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252, LEGUMINOS AE. PsopHocarrus. — 
several times shorter than the petioles, palmately-trifoliolate. Stipules mem- 
branaceous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, erect, about as long as the petioles, 
bibracteolate about the middle, 1-flowered. Flowers purplish. 
We have not seen the fruit or the seed; we leavetit therefore;where placed by 
De Candolle, and on the supposition that by semina subrotunda, Don means some- 
what globose. The digitately trifoliolate leaves, however, and the creeping stems, 
appear to remove it far from Dolichos. 
775. (1) P. major (Don :) leaflets obovate, retuse, crenulated.— Don, prod. 
A. Nep. p. 241 ; DC. prod.2. p. 403; Spr. syst. suppl. p. 219 (char. bad); Wall. 
L. n. 5525 ; Wight! cat. n. 723. Neelgherries. 
We have seen neither Don’s nor Wallich’s specimens, so that our species 
from the Peninsula may be distinct from that from Nepal. Injours the leaflets 
are glabrous on the upper side, strigosely pubescent on the under: the pe- 
tioles, peduncles, and calyx are sprinkled with fa few soft spreading hairs: 
the habit is quite that of àn Ozalis. 
XLIX. PSOPHOCARPUS. Neck.—Botor. Adans. 
Calyx with 2 oval bracteoles at its base, urceolate, somewhat unequally bi- 
labiate: upper lip rather the largest, 2-lobed, lower 3-partite: the four up- 
per segments oval, the lowest narrower and longer than the others ; all ob- 
tuse. Corolla papilionaceous : vexillum roundish, reflexed, without callosi- 
ties; the margins of the spurs and claw inflexed : alse oblong, with a spur 
near the base; the spur attached by its middle, and parallel to the ale, the 
one segment pointing downwards, the other upwards: keel-petals distinct at 
the base. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Ovary with a very short crenu- 
late ring round its base. Style glabrous. Stigma large, woolly. Legume 
oblong, with 4 longitudinal membranaceous angles or wings, 7-8-seeded. 
Seeds roundish.—Root tuberous, annual. Stems twining, glabrous. Leaves 
pinnately trifoliolate: leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, glabrous. Sti- 
pules semisagittate. Peduncles about the length of the petioles, bearing a few 
flowers about their apex. 
“776, (1) P. tetragonolobus (DC.)— DC. prod. 2. p. 403; Wall.! L. n. 6540 
(». 204) ; Wight! cat. n. 734 —Dolichos tetra j 3 
* cat. n. 734. gonolobus, Linn.; Spr. syst. 3. 
rs .— D. ovatus, Grah. in Wall. L. n. 5540 (p. 191).—Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 
L. CANAVALIA. Adans. ; DC. 
Calyx with two roundish very caducous bracteoles at its base, tubular, un- 
equally bilabiate: upper lip much the largest, of two large rounded lobes ; 
lower small, acutely 3-toothed. Corolla papilionaceous ; vexillum roundish, 
with two large callosities near the base of the limb : hb linens: oblong, auri- 
€led and repand on the upper margin: keel faleate at a right angle, its petals 
distinct from the base to the angle. Stamens 10, monadelphous. Ovary sur- 
rounded at the base with a small crenulated cup. Stigma large, oblique; 
glabrous. Legume compressed, 3-keeled on the upper suture, mucronate, 
with cellular membranes surrounding and Separating the seeds. Seeds oval- 
oblong: hilum linear, extending along the one margin of the seed.—Herba- 
 €eous or suffrutescent plants. Branches twining. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate. - 
Stipules small, wart-like: partial stipules Setaceous, often caducous. Ra- 
cemes axillary, elongated, many-flowered. Flowers in pairs or threes on 
glandular knobs, large, purplish. 
