Pueraria LEGUMINOSAE-GERANIACEAE Erodium 



of Houttuyn's work, cited by Willdenow, it is recorded that this species resembles plants from 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



41. Dunbaria Wight & Arn. WM^-M (Yeh Pien Tou Shu) 



Twining herbs: Ifts. punctate beneath, ivithout stipels: fls. few, in racemes, or 

 solitary; keel distinctly beaked; lower teeth of the calyx prominent; standard not 

 auricled; stamens diadelphous: pods linear, flattened. About 15 species, eastern 

 Asia to Australia; 2 in China. (In honor of George Dunbar, 1784-1851, professor of 

 Greek at Edinburgh.) Fig. 190. 



1. Dunbaria villosa (Thunb.) Mak. {D. subrhombea (Miq.) Hemsl.) MBS. (Yeh Pien 

 Tou; Wild Dolichos). Mak. F. 402. Twining vine; fls. reddish, VIII-IX. Malaya, 

 China, northern Australia; locally in Ki., Ku., An., Che. Brush- and grass-land. 



42. Glycine Linn. M&.M (Huang Tou Shu) 

 Herbs, many twining, with 3-, 5- or 7-foliolate lvs.: fls. small, white to purple, 

 in axillary racemes; petals aboid equal, the standard not infolded: style short, beard- 

 less: pod narrow, somewhat flattened and usually constricted between the seeds. 

 About 40 species, tropical and subtropical parts of the Eastern hemisphere; 4 in China. 

 (Greek: glukus, sweet.) 



Key to the Species 



Bushy herb: lfts. broadly ovate, 8-10 cm. long: legumes at maturity 



yellowish brown, coarsely hairy, 7-8 mm. broad 1. G. soja 



Twining heib: lfts. oblong or narrowly ovate, 3-5 cm. long: legumes at 



maturity dark brown, silky pubescent, about 5 mm. broad 2. G. ussuriensis 



1. Glycine soja (L.) Sieb. & Zucc. Soy Bean WsL (Huang Tou; Yellow Bean) (G. 

 hispida (Moench) Maxim.); Soja max (L.) Piper; G. max (L.) Merr.) (B.M. 579). 

 Bushy herb, to 0.5 m.; fls. purplish, VII; fr. brown, IX. China, Japan; locally 

 in An., Ki., Ku. Cultivated, vegetable and field crop. Fig. 191. 



2. Glycine ussuriensis Regel & Maack (Ko. & KI. t. 205). Twining herb; fls. violet, 

 VII; fr. VIII-IX. Northeastern Asia; locally in Ku. Grassland and brushland. 



82. GERANIACEAE Geranium Family tl^r^f (Mang Niu Erh K'o) 



Herbs (ours), occasionally woody plants, with stipulate lvs.: fls. bisexual and 

 usually regular or nearly so; sepals and petals 5; stamens 5 or 10; pistil 3-5-lobed; 

 the 5 one- seeded carpels of the fr. separating from the base upward at maturity, but 

 remaining joined by the persistent styles. 11 genera with 640 species, in temperate 

 and subtropical regions; 3 genera and over 10 species in China. 



Key to the Genera 



Fls. regular, without spurs. 

 Lvs. pinnately cleft or dissected: anther-bearing stamens 5: recurved 



tails of the carpels bearded on the inside and often spirally twisted.. 1. Erodium 

 Lvs. palmately cleft or dissected: anther-bearing stamens usually 10: 



recurving tails of the carpels glabrous on the inside 2. Geranium 



Fls. iriegular, the calyx bearing a nectariferous spur 3. Pelargonium 



1. Erodium L'Her. Heronsbill ^HkEM (Ta Yang Hua Shu) 

 Lvs. pinnately dissected or compound: anther-bearing stamens 5: the recurved tails 



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