53 Materiihls for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



entire ; apex obtuse or sometimes retuse base cuneate or rounded, 2 in. 

 long, 15 in. wide ; petiole 1*5 in., glabrons ; petiolules '15 in, sparsely 

 hairy, stipels •06 in. recurved lanceolate glabrous, stipules '1 in. lanceo- 

 late basifixed. Racemes rather densely 12-20-fld. on peduncles 2-6 in, 

 long, nodes 1-2-fld., the lowest '15 in. apart ; pedicels slender puberulous 

 •2 in. long, bracts '15 in. long membranous ovate -lanceolate very early 

 deciduous. Calyx campanulate faintly puberulous *12 in. long teeth 

 short deltoid. Corolla yellow, glabrous, '5 in, long. Pod l'5-2'5 in. long 

 •4 in. wide '25 in. thick, glabrous subtorulose, seeds 4-8. V. anomala 

 Walp. Rep. I. 779. V. lutea A. Gray in Bot. Wilkes Exped. I, 452 ; 

 Bak. in Flor, Brit. Ind. II, 205. Dolichos luteics Sw. in Prodr. Veg. 

 Ind. Occ. 105 ; DO. Prodr. II. 398. Phaseolus ohovatus Grab, in Wall. 

 Cat. 5609. 



And A MANS and Nicobars ; common on all the coasts from the Coco 

 group and Narcondam south to Katschall and Kamorta. Perak ; 

 Scortechini! Bidley 8011! Malacca; Griffith! A cosmopolitan littoral 

 species. 



2. ViGNA Catjang Walp. in Linnaea XIII, 533. A suberect or 

 twining annual with glabrous stems. Leaves 4-8 in. long; leaflets 

 3 membranous pale-green ovate-rhomboid entire or slightly lobed, apex 

 acute base shortly wide-cuneate — of lateral leaflets obliquely, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, 25 in. long by 1*75 in. wide or rather larger (var. typica) 

 to 4 in. long by 3'5 in. or rather less (vAR. sinensis) ; petiole 1*5-4 in. 

 long glabrous, petiolules '15 in. long glabrous or puberulous ; stipels 

 ovate obtuse "1 in., stipules •3-' 4 in. long attached above the base, mem- 

 branous persistent ovate-lanceolate. Racemes subcapitately few-fld. on 

 peduncles usually 1-4 in. long (var. typica) sometimes 8-12 in. long 

 (vAR. sinensis) ; pedicels short (under '1 in.), bracts membranous, fixed 

 above base, deciduous. Calyx glabrous '4 in., teeth deltoid-cuspidate 

 one-third as long as tube. Corolla yellow, white, or pinkish "75 in. long. 

 Pod 4-24 in. long, •3-4 in. wide, scarcely depressed between the seeds ; 

 seeds 12-30 (in much elongated pods the spaces between the seeds are 

 greatly widened). Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 205. 



Var. typica ; suberect, leaves smaller and pods shorter. V. Catjang 

 Walp. ; Endl. ex Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 188. Dolichos Catjang Linn. 

 Mantiss. 269; DC. Prodr. II, 399; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 55 ; Flor. Ind. 

 Ill, 303 ; Wall. Cat. 5549. 



Cultivated in most of the provinces. 



Var. sinensis ; twining, leaves larger and pods longer. Yigna sinen' 



sis Endl, ex Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 386 ; Savi ex Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 



I, 187. Dolichos sinensis Linn. Cent. PL II, 28 ; Amoen. Acad. IV, 



326 ; DC. Prodr. II, 399 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 55 ; Flor. Ind. III. 302 ; 



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