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racliis, bracts, bractcoles, and calyces hirsute with ehjiigated, scattei-ed, 

 usuall}' appressed liairs. Flowers white, about 7 nun long, usually in 

 pairs from a swollen node, each node subtended by two or three narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute, 2 to 3 mm long bracts; pedicels 3 to 3 

 mm long, with a pair of bracteoles, similar to the bracts, near the apex. 

 Calvx 5 mm long, the lower three teeth lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm 

 long, subcqual, the upper two connate for one-half their length into a 

 deeply cleft lobe as long as the lower teeth. Standard 6 mm long, 

 obovate-orbicular, rounded, clawed, not auric-led or eallose ; wings equal- 

 ling the standard, adherent to the keel and geniculate, with an oblong, 8 

 mm long, obtuse auricle at the geniculation ; keel as long as the other 

 petals, very similar in size and shape to the Avings, auricled. Stamens all 

 fertile, the vexillary one united with the rest. Ovary linear-lanceolate, 

 sessile, slightly hirsute; style glabrous, slightly curved. Pods fiat, -i to 5 

 cm long, about 5 mm wide, hirsute with scattered hairs, acuminate, 

 slightly constricted betAveen the seeds, each containing from 6 to 8, 

 compressed, brown seeds about 2.-5 mm long. 



Palawan, near Puerto Princesa, Bur. Sci. 296 Bermejos, January, 1906. A 

 species readily recognizable by its 4-angled stems. 



2. Pueraria phaseoloides (Eoxb.) Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9 (1865) 

 125; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 199; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 

 64; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 87; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 

 Suppl. 67. 



Doliclws phaseoloides Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3 (18.32) 316. 



Pachyrhizus teres Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 580. 



Pachyrhizus montanus Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 406, ed 3, 2:381. 



Dioscorea holojonica Blanco 1. c. ed. 1 (1837) 800, ed. 2 (1845) 551. ed. 3, 

 3:208. 



Luzois-, Province of Benguet, For. Bur. lalO't Merritt & Darling: Province of 

 Tarlac, Merrill 3620: Province of Bulacan, Yoder .)2; Province of Bataan, Merrill 

 1547, 3178, For. Bur. 2340 Borden, Elmer 6719. INIindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. 

 Clemens 640. 



India to southern China, the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



3. Pueraria thunbergiana (S. & Z.) Benth. in .Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9 

 (1865) 122; Forbes & Ilenisl. 1. c. 23 (1887) 191; Merr. in Philip. .Journ. Sci. 

 3 (1908) Bot. 410. 



Dolichos hirsutus Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2 (1794) 237, non Pueraria 

 hirsuta Kurz (1873). 



Pachyrhizus thunbergiamis S. & Z. Fl. Jap. Fani. Nat. 2 (1846) 113. 



Neustanthiis chinensis Benth. Fl. Hongk. (1861) 86. 



Batanes Islands, Batan, Bur. Sci. 3833 Fenix. Babuyanes Islands, Cami- 

 guin. Bur. Sci. 4116 Fenix. Luzon, Province of Benguet, Elmer 6600: Province 

 of Tayabas, Bur. Sci. 6803 Robinson: Banton, McGregor 3'i7. Negros, For. Bur. 

 13712, 17339 Gurran. 



India to Korea and Japan, south to Formosa; possibly also in the Burn 

 Archipelago. 



The specimen from Burn Island mentioned by Forbes & Hemsley may be refer- 

 able to P. textilis Laut. & K. Sch., rather than to P. thunbergiana. The former 

 is described as having sessile flowers, but in all the material of P. thunbergiana 



