512 nURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD mODUCTIONS. 



* * Tirining or prostrate herbs or under sJiruhs. Flowers purplish blue. 



X Pods narrowly linear, li-3 inches long b>j 2 lines broad, many-seeded. 



° Bracts deciduous. Branchlets terete or nearhj so. Leaflets often lobed. 



Extensive twiners {Schizophi/llon, Baker). 



P. THASEOLOIDES, Hoxb. PfgU. 



Culyx about 2A lines long, the lobes acuminate. Corolla about 5 lines long. 

 P. siTBsriCATA, Bth. Arakan, Pegu, and Tenasserim. 



Calyx about 4 lines long, the lobes subulate-acuminate. Corolla |- inch long. 



°° Bracts persistent. Branchlets somewhat angular. 

 Prostrate or twining perennial herbs. 



P. ANAEAPTiSTA, Kz. Both Varieties frequent in the upper mixed forests of 



tlie Pegu Eange ; also Khakyen Hills. 

 Pods long, but thinly hirsute. 



var. a gentiina. Branches, petioles, etc., spreading tawny hirsute. Pods 

 similarly hirsute ■«'hile um-ipe. Flowers purple. 



var. (3 glabrescens. Branches, petioles, and also the pods thinly appressed 

 hirsute, the last shorter and almost glabrescent. Flowers pale lilac, violet at the tips. 



var. ji may be distinct, and stands in a similar relation to the normal form as 

 P. Candolliii does to P. tuberosa. The species is also common in Sikkim (Kurz). 



X X Pods oblong to linear-oblong, J-1 inch long by 25-85 lines broad, flat or turose. 

 Branchlets sharply angular, retrorsely pubescent on the angles. 



P. niBsuTA, Kz. Pegu Eaiigc up to 3000 feet. 



Pods flat, sjiaringly but long and spreadingly hii'sute, 2-4-seeded. Calyx small. 



P. BRACnYCARPA, Kz. Pcgu Pauge. 



Pods torose, shortly and sparingly appressed hirsute, 5-C-seeded. Calyx nearly 

 a line long. 



+ + Xodes of inflorescence not tumid. Stipules and bracts minute, deciduous. 



Teeamxts, Sprengel. 



Calyx-teeth free. Alternate anthers abortive. 



* Pods more or less torose, tawny hirsute. 



T. MOLLIS, Bth. Pegu Range. 



Glycine delilis, Eoxb. 



Seeds opaque. Inflorescence and young branches spreatlingly tawny pilose. 

 Calyx-teeth as long as the tube. 



* * Pods glabrous to the naked eye. 

 X Flowers in racemes. 

 T. (Gltcixe) labialis, L. Chittagong and Arakan. 



Eaccmcs appressed silk-hairy. Calyx-teeth as long as the tube. Seeds glossy. 

 Leaflets up to l-J- inch long, not acuminate. 



T. Wallichii. Promo Hills. 



Besmodium Pottleri, apud Baker. 



Pacemes long-peduncled, almost glabrous. Leaflets obovate, retuse. 



The few specimens seen by mc are imperfect, but the terete stems, and more 

 especially the large peculiar peltately adnate stipules at once remove it from 

 Besmodium Pottleri, with which Baker identifies the plant (Kurz). 



T. flexilis, Bth. All over Burma. 



Eacemes appressed silk-haiiy. Calyx-teetli shorter than the calyx-tube. Seeds 

 quite opaque. Leaves 2-4 inches long, acuminate. 



