566 XLVii, LEGUMiNOSiE. [Flemtngia. 



(2) F. congesta Roxb. Hort. Beng. 56 ; Baker, I.e. ii. 288 ; 

 Prain, I.e. 43. 



Shrublet 4 to 5 ft. tall. Branchlets silky. Leaves trifoliate, 

 2"5 to 3*5 in. long; leaflets membranous, ovate acute, obliquely 

 round (terminal one cuneate) at base, puberulous above, silky 

 beneath, 3 to 5 in. long, 1*5 to 3 in. wide; petiolules '25 in. long. 

 Stipules scarious velvety, "4 in. long. Racemes dense i or more 

 in axils 2 in. long. Bracts lanceolate, '2$ in. long or less, silky. 

 Calyx "35 in. long, silky. Corolla white striped pink ; wings purple, 

 •4 in. long. Pod oblong, -5 in. long, -25 in. wide tomentose. Hah. 

 Common ; open dry country. Malacca, Bukit China ; Panchur 

 (Derry). Pahang, Pekan ; Kwala Tembeling. Bindings, Pangkor. 

 Perak, Kampong Kota (Wray) ; Temengoh. Penang, Pulau 

 Betong, etc. (Curtis). Kelantan, Kampong Kota (Gimlette), SetuI 

 and Perils. Distrih. India, Cambodia, Siam, Java. Native name : 

 Serengan. 



8. PHASEOLUS, Linn. 



Herbaceous twiners rarely sub-erect. Leaves trifoliate. Flowers 

 in axillary racemes yellow or purple. Calyx campanulate, lowest 

 tooth longer than the connate upper two. Corolla much exsert, 

 keel prolonged into a long beak ending in a spiral. Stamens 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled; 

 style filiform twisted with keel bearded beneath. Pod linear 

 (rarely oblong) sub-terete or compressed, septate. Species 60, 

 tropics. 



P. lunatus Linn. Sp. PI. 724 ; Prain, I.e. 48. The haricot bean, 

 Kachang China, Kachang Serinding, with greenish yellow flowers 

 and a pod 3 in. long, is occasionally cultivated. 



Stem twining; flowers yellow. 



Pods glabrous . . . . . . . (i) P. calcaratus 



Pods hairy . . . . . . . (2) P. Mungo 



Pods glabrous; flowers rose pink, keel yellow i in. 



long . . . . . . (3) P. adenanthus 



Sub-erect with deep purple flowers . . . . (4) P, semi-erectus 



(i) P. calcaratus Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54; Baker, in Hook. fil. 

 F.B.I, ii. 203 ; Prain, I.e. 50. 



A twining annual or perennial, pubescent 6 to 10 ft. tall. 

 Leaves 4 to 5 in. long ; leaflets 3, membranous sparsely pubescent 

 all over, ovate to lanceolate acute or acuminate, rarely faintly 

 repand, base of terminal leaflet acute, laterals truncate or lobed, 

 2 10 4 in. long, I to 2*5 in. wide; petioles 2 to 4 in. long. Stipules 

 •2 to 25 in. long, lanceolate. Racemes 75 to 1-5 in. long, on 

 peduncles 5 to 8 in. long pubescent. Flowers 2 or 3 together in 

 distant groups. Calyx •!$ in. long, teeth deltoid. Corolla yellow, 

 *5 to 75 in. long. Pod 2*5 to 3 in. long, -2 in. wide, recurved 

 glabrous. Seeds lo to 12. Hah. Open country. 



