Puemria,] L. LEGUMINOS^;. (J. G. Baker.) 197 



A woody climber, with terete branches, at first pubescent. Leaflets subcoriaceous, 

 obtuse or acute, pubescent beneath, 4-6 in. long. Flowers in peduncled. dense 

 subspicate racemes ^-1 ft. long ; bracts linear, reflexed, silky, ^ in. long. Calyx 

 f-^ in., silky, with a pair of small obtuse bracteoles. Corolla reddish, half as long 

 again as the calyx. Pod 3-4 in. long, glabrescent, but clothed at first with adpressed 

 silky hairs. 



72. PITER ARIA, DC. 



Twining shrubs or herbs, with stipellate 3-foliolate leaves ; leaflets some- 

 times palruatifid. Flowers large or small, densely fascicled, in long often com- 

 pound racemes. Calyx-teeth long or short, the two upper connate. Corolla 

 distinctly exserted ; standard usually spurred at the base, equalling in length 

 the 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. DISTKIB. Only one 

 East Asian species not here represented. 



STJBGEN. 1. Pueraria proper. Flowers produced after the leaves fall. 

 Pod \-^ in. broad, with constrictions between the seeds that recall the articu- 

 lations of Hedysareae. 



1. P. tuberosa, DC. Prodr. ii. 240 ; calyx densely silky, teeth subobtuse 

 shorter than the tube, bracts very minute, lamina of wings oblique oblong, 

 pod clothed with weak bristles. Wall. Cat. 5352 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 205, 449 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 412 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 67 ; Benth. in Linn. Soc. Joum. 

 ix. 123. Hedysarum tuberosum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 57 ; FL Ind. iii. 363. 



WEST HIMALAYAS, tropical zone, ascending to 4000 ft. in KUMAON. Hills of 

 WESTERN PENINSULA and OBISSA. 



Eoot very large, tuberous. Stems shrubby, the branches finely grey-downy. 

 Stipules minute, deciduous, cordate-ovate ; leaflets membranous, roundish, ^-1 ft. 

 long, green, glabrescent above, densely clothed with whitish adpressed hairs beneath. 

 Flowers in dense virgate leafless often panicled racemes, reaching 6-9 in. long; 

 pedicels very short, densely fascicled. Calyx ^- in. long, densely silky. Corolla 

 bluish, not quite twice the calyx ; limb of standard orbicular, distinctly spurred. Pod 

 2-3 in. long, membranous, flat, 3-6-seeded, clothed with long grey silky bristly hairs. 



2. P. Gandollei, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5355 ; calyx subglabrous, teeth 

 acute as long as the tube, bracts exceeding the buds, lamina of wings semi- 

 circular, pod subglabrous. Benth. in Journ. Linn. Sec. ix. 123. 



PEGU, Wallich, McClelland. MOULMEIN, Lobb. 



Shrubby, with slender terete glabrous branches. Stipules in the last ; leaflets sub- 

 coriaceous, roundish, with an acute point, \~ f ft. long, both surfaces greenish, glabres- 

 cent. 'Racemes lax, virgate, panicled, reaching a foot or more long, the sulcate 

 rachises subglabrous ; pedicels i-|- in. ; bracts linear, |-|- in. long. Calyx ^-\ in., 

 clasped by a pair of minute persistent ovate bracteoles. Corolla twice the calyx ; 

 limb of standard roundish, spurred. Pod 3 in. long, few-seeded. 



STTBGEN. 2. Neustanthus, Benth. Leaflets entire, rarely faintly lobed, 

 contemporaneous with the flowers. Pod - in. broad, not constricted, 4-12- 

 seeded. 



3. P. peduncularis, Grah. in Watt. Cat. 5354 ; herbaceous, stipules 

 basifixed, flower-pedicels exceeding the calyx, calyx-teeth small deltoid, corolla 

 middle-sized, pod glabrous membranous. Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 124. 

 Neustanthus peduncularis, Benth. PL Jungh. 235. 



