11. Pubbabia.] 43. "PAY1LI0NACEM. [12. MucChjl 



often panicled racemes. Two upper teeth of calyx connate. 

 Standard as long as the obtuse wings and keel. Pod linear, 

 flattish (usually under ^" broad). 



1. P. tuberofa, D-C: Jan tirra, S.\ Shimia batraji, Beng.; 

 Tirraj E. 



A handsome large woody climber, flowering when leaf- 

 less, with simple or branched fascicled racemes of blue-purple 

 flowers f" long. 1 Standard, wings and keel J' 7 spurred or 

 auricled. St. diadelphous (always ?).' Pod 2-3" bristly 

 (or.young densely brown hirsute), somewhat depressed between 

 the seeds. 



Chiefly on the banks of streams. Tan di forest, common, Campbell ; 

 Palamau, Gamble j Jasyur, Wood ; Parasnath. Fls. Feby.- April. Fr. rjt. 



Branches downy. Lfits. ronndish 6-12", whitish with adpreeBed hairs 

 beneath. Kaceraes 6-10" long". Fl*. dense geminate or in threes, 2-bracteo- 

 late beneath the calyx. ?7ode often with an abortive tip. Calyx brown 

 silky iV"t "> hmb spreading. Standard emarginate clawed. Ovary silky. 

 Style glabrons. Ovules abont 10. 



The tuberous root is eaten. It sometimes attains an enormous size. 

 Campbell mentions one from the Gobindpur district nearly 2 feet long and 

 2\ ft. in circumference. He also states that it is used in renal complaints 

 and to kill fish. 



13. Mueuna, Adans. 



Large twiners. L. usually stipellate. Stipules decidaong. 

 Flowers large rather leathery, black when dry, on the tumid 

 nodes of long often fascicled racemes. Calyx widely cnm- 

 panulate, two upper teeth connate, lowest longest. Standard 

 much shorter than the wings and long rostrate keel. 

 Anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile hairy. Pod leathery or 

 woody, usually covered with irri taring bristles. Prain is 

 inclined to reconstitute the following sub-genera as genera :— - 



Snbgen. 1. Zoophthalmum, P. Br. Perennial clim- 

 bers. Seeds large flat with a circumferential 

 bilum. 



Pods winged and plaited • . . . . 1. imlricata. 



1 Measured from tip of standard to keel. 



3 They axe usually described as monadelphoui* 



