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Pkhak; Larnt, Kunstler hlOQ \ 10320! Wray 2000! Malacca; 

 Maingay h20\ Distuib. Ceylon ; Cbittagong ; Java. 



Very nearly relatod to the precedini^ and perhaps only a form of tLat specing. 

 At the same time the characters by which they are sepnr.ible are vei-y constHut in 

 all the specimens uf both that the writer has seen, and from the field-botanist's point 

 of view," at least, it is jnst as well to follow Mr, Bentham in separating them. 



17. PUERARIA DO. 



Twining shrubs or herbs with stipellato pinnafcely 3-foliolate leaves • 

 leaflets sometimes palmately lobed. i^/oiyers sometimes api)oariiio- befoie 

 leaves, large or small, densely fascicled, in long often compound racemes. 

 Calyx teeth long or short the two upper connate. Corolla distinctly 

 exserted ; standard usually spurred at the base equalling in lenoth tlio 

 obtuse wings and keel. Stamens more or less thoroughly monadelphous ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or nearly so, many-ovuled ; style 

 filiform much incurved beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, flattish. 

 Species about 12, mostly Indo-Chinese. 



1. PuERAiiiA PHASEOLOIDES Beuth. iu Joiirn. Linn. Soc. IX 125. 

 A slender creeper 20-30 feet long with adpiessed-pubescent slender 

 hardly woody stems, and slender twining branches clothed with spread- 

 ing greyish-brown hairs. Leaves conlemporaneous with flowers, Q-S in. 

 long; leaflets 3, membranous dull-green thinly adpressed-hiisute above 

 dark greenish-grey and densely velvety-tomentose beneath, triangular 

 ovate base wide cuneate — of lateral pair obliquely, apex subobtnse mar- 

 gin entire repand or slightly 3-iobed, sub-3-nerved at base, 3-4 in. long, 

 2-3 in. wide, petiole 3-4 in., densely clothed with spreading hairs, 

 petiolules '2 in. long; stipels small subulate weak *! in. long, stipules 

 small lanceolate basifixed. Inflorescence of long-peduncled axillary 

 racemes of fascicled flowers ; peduncle 6-8 in. and rachis puberulous • 

 racemes 4 in. long, fascicles •25--5 in. apart 4-5-fld., pedicels '2 in. 

 puberulous, bracts and bracteoles lanceolate rather rigid clothed with 

 adpressed bristly hairs, the bracteoles subpersistent. Calyx carapan- 

 ulate. 25 in. long clothed with adpressed bristly hairs, teeth unequal 

 upper broad, and lower lanceolate as long as tube and one- third laro-er 

 than lateral triangular, all setaceous at tip. Corolla pale-blue and white 

 *6 in. long, standard-limb suborbicular distinctly spurred. Pods numer- 

 ous, at first puberulous, at length glabrescent slightly recurved at the 

 tip, 3'5 in. long only '2 in. wide. Seeds about 16, '15 in. long "1 in. wide, 

 truncate at ends, dark biown, testa dull minutely rngnlose. Bak. in 

 Flor. Brit. Ind. IT, 190 (excl. syn. P. snhspicata Bth.;. DoUchos 

 phaseoluides Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 316. D. viridis Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 5559. Nenstanthns jdiaseoloidcs Benth. PI. Jnngh. 235 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 219. Phasculus deciuvus Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5612. 



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