198 L. LEGUMINOS^E. (J. G. Baker.) \_Pueraria. 



EAST HIMALAYAS and KHAS.IA MTS., temperate region, alt. 5-9000 ft.; NIPAL, 

 SIKKIM. MISHMI. 



Copiously twining, the slender firm branches clothed with short deflexed deciduous 

 hairs. Lea/lets membranous, green, with a few short hairs above, grey, densely 

 shortly downy beneath ; end one roundish, acuminate, 4-6 in. long. Eacemes -1 ft., 

 short-peduncled, moderately close ; nodes never produced into branches. Pedicels 

 - in., spreading, densely fascicled. Calyx ^ in., finely grey-silky. Corolla 

 reddish, ^ in. long ; standard in. broad, not spurred ; keel with a deep purple tip. 

 Upper stamen at last nearly free. Pod quite straight, strap-shaped, 2-3 in. by \ in., 

 quite glabrous, 4-8-seeded, turgid opposite the seeds. 



4. P. Wallichii, DC. Prodr. ii. 240 ; shrubby, stipules basifixed, flower- 

 pedicels at most equalling the calyx, calyx-teeth deltoid, corolla middle-sized, 

 pod glabrous rigid-coriaceous. DC. Mem. Leg. t. 43; Wall. Cat. 5353 ; Benth. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 124. P. composita, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5570. 



EAST HIMALAYAS, tropical region ; NIPAL, SILHET, KHASIA, MISHMI, ascending 

 to 5000 ft. BIKMA ; Taong-dong, Wallich. 



Branches slender, terete, glabrous. Leaflets membranous or subcoriaceous, green, 

 glabrescent above, grey with a few adpressed hairs beneath ; end one 4-6 in. long, 

 obovate-cuspidate, with a deltoid base. Racemes copious, | ^ ft. long, often fascicled 

 or panicled ; pedicels finely silky, densely fascicled, the nodes often lengthened out 

 into short branchlets (P. composita, Wall.). Calyx gibbous, ^ in. ; teeth obscure. 

 Corolla reddish, ^-f in. long ; limb of standard twice as long as broad, not sparred at 

 the base. Pod straight, 4-5 in. long, the sutures sometimes slightly repand. 



5. P. S traclieyi, JBaker ; herbaceous, stipules deciduous, flower-pedicels 

 nearly or quite as long as the calyx, calyx-teeth large nearly as long as the tube, 

 corolla large. 



KTJMAON, Kalimundi, alt. 7300 ft., Strachey and Winterbottom. 



Branches slender, with a few short deciduous hairs. Leaflets membranous, very 

 thin, with a few obscure adpressed hairs on both surfaces, green above, paler below ; end 

 one obovate-oblong, cuspidate, rather rounded at the base, 3-4 in. long. Flowers in a 

 long lax simple subsecund raceme, with a subglabrous rachis ; pedicels - in. Calyx 

 subglabrous, f in. long ; lower tooth lanceolate, in. long, the others much shorter. 

 Corolla reddish, |-|- in. long ; standard ^ in. broad, distinctly spurred. Pod 

 unknown. 



6. P. Thomson!, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 122 ; shrubby,, stipules 

 fixed by the centre, pedicels very short, calyx-teeth 3-4 times the tube, corolla 

 large, pod densely clothed with long silky hairs. Dolichos spicatus, Wall. Cat. 

 5557 C. D. grandifolius, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5556. 



EAST HIMALAYA, temperate region. ASSAM, Jenkins, Mrs. Mack. KHASIA, 5-7000 

 ft., Griffith, Hook. fit. and Thomson. , SILHET, Gomez. 



A climber, with slender branches, clothed with deciduous deflexed fine brownish 

 hairs. Stipules persistent, ^-f in. long- leaflets membranous, green, with a few 

 obscure adpressed hairs above, grey with dense thin hairs beneath ; end one roundish, 

 obtuse or cuspidate, 6-9 in. long, rarely faintly lobed. Eacemes close, simple, 6-9 in. 

 long. Calyx ^ in. long, densely -silky ; teeth lanceolate. Corolla reddish, half as 

 long again as the calyx j standard ^ in. broad, distinctly, spurred. Pod 4-5 in. by 

 f- in., flat, straight, membranous, 8-12-seeded. 



7. P. stricta, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, 254 ; herbaceous, 

 erect, pedicels longer than the very small calyx, pod glabrous 7-9-seeded. 



PEGU and MARTABAN, Kurz.+* 



A perennial, 2-4 ft. high, with subterete branches, tomentose when young. Leaflets 



