36 PAPILIONACEiE 



SHUTERIA. F.B.I. 50 LVi. 



Slender herbs with pinnately tri-foliate leaves, 

 racemes of flowers, and flat curved pods. 

 Species under 10, Indian and Tropical Africa. 



Shuteria vcstita W. & A.\ F.B.L ii 181, LVI I. A 

 slender twining herb, with ovate mucronate leaflets, and 

 purplish red flowers. Seeds brown, t. 315. 



Nilgiris and Pulneys : 2,000 to 6,000 feet. 

 Gen. Dist. Sikkim and Khasia to South India and Ceylon. 



DUMASIA. 

 Dumasia villosa DC; Vol. I page 118, t. 316. 



PHASEOLUS. VOL. i, p. 119. 



Add to the description of the genus, stigma oblique. 



Phaseolus sublobatus Roxh. ; Vol. I p. 119, under 

 name P. trinervius Heyne. 



Phaseolus calcaratus Roxb. ; F.B.I, ii 203, LXXIII 12. 

 Similar in habit to the last species, but the leaflets 2 to 4 

 inches broadly ovate, acuminate, scarcely ever lobed, 

 and pods glabrous. Flowers yellow. 



Nilgiri and Pulney Hills, to 7,000 feet, 



Gen. Dist. Himalayas to Ceylon. 



VIGNA. F.B.I. 50 LXXIV. 



Twining plants with the characters of Phaseolus but 

 the keel not spirally twisted. 

 Species about 50. 



Vigna vexillata Benth. ; F.B.L ii 206, LXXIV 5. Lealf- 

 lets ovate or lanceolate, acute. Flowers I inch or more, 

 reddish purple, 2 to 4 together on a long peduncle. 

 Calyx strigosely hirsute. Pod 3 to 4 inches by 54 inch 

 with blackish hairs, with 10 to 15 seeds. 



Nilgiris and Pulney Hills, up to 7,000 feet. [G.F.M.FJ] 



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