Pueraria.'] L. LEGUMINOS&. (J. G. Baker.) 199 



chartaceous, thinly clothed with adpressed hairs on both sides ; end one ovate acute, 

 2-3 in. long. Racemes canescent, axillary and forming a terminal panicle ; fruit, 

 pedicels in. ; bracts small, subulate, persistent. Calyx 1 in., puberulous. Corolla 

 unknown. Pod linear, 1-1^ in. by | in., flat, pale. I have seen no specimens. 



8. P. hirsuta, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Seng, xlii. 2, 254 ; herbaceous, 

 twining, pedicels very short, calyx very small, pod clothed with few spreading 

 hairs 2-4-seeded. 



PEGU, Kurz. 



Perennial, the obtuse angles of the branches beset with retrorse adpressed hairs. 

 Leaflets chartaceous, furnished, especially below, with sparse adpressed hairs ; end 

 one ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 in. long. Bacemes axillary, densely pilose, 

 usually 2-3-nate ; bracts caducous ; fruit-pedicels ^ in. Corolla unknown. Pod 

 linear-oblong, -1 in. by \ in., flat, slightly torulose. I have seen no specimens. 



9. P. brachycarpa, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Seng. xlii. 2, 243 ; xliii. 

 2, 185 ; herbaceous, twining or diffuse, pedicels as long as the calyx, calyx very 

 small, pod with a few adpressed hairs 5-6-seeded. 



PEGU, Kurz. 



A perennial, with long branches, clothed on the acute angles with retrorse hairs. 

 Stipules small, lanceolate acuminate ; leaflets chartaceous, with scattered adpressed 

 hairs on both surfaces ; end one ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1^-2 in. long. Bacemes 1-2, 

 stiff, axillary, pilose ; bracts minute, subulate, persistent. Calyx -^ in., pubescent. 

 Corolla unknown. Pod. linear-oblong, 1 in. by | in., pale, compresced, torulose. I 

 have seen no specimens. 



STJBGEN. 3. Schizophyllon. Leaflets usually deeply lobed, contem- 

 paraneous with the flowers. Pod -% in. broad, rather turgid, recurved at the 

 tip, 10-15-seeded. 



10. P. phaseoloides, Senth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 125. Dolichos 

 phasecloides, Roxb. Fl. 2nd. iii. 316. Neustanthus subspicatus and phaseoloides, 

 Senth. PL Jungh. 234, 235. Dolichos viridis, Ham. in Wall. Cqt. 5559. D. 

 spicatus, Wall. Cat. 5557 A. B. Phaseolus decurrens, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5612. 

 Pueraria subspicata, Senth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 125. D. ficifolius, Grah. in 

 Wall. Cat-. 5563. 



EAST HIMALAYAS, tropical region ; ASSAM, SIKKIM, KHASIA, SILHET, CHITTAGONG, 

 BIRMA, PEGU, TEXASSERIM, PENANG and MALACCA. DISTRIB. China, Malay isles. 



Stems wide-twining, often scarcely woody, clothed with dense spreading brown 

 hairs. Stipules small, lanceolate, basifixed; leaflets membranous, green above, 

 thinly clothed with adpressed bristly hairs, grey and densely matted beneath ; end one 

 very variable in siae and shape, roundish, broad ovate or rhomboidal, entire or 

 shallowly or deeply 3-lobed, 3-6 in. long. Flowers fascicled in copious long-peduncled 

 racemes ; pedicels very short ; bracts and* bracteoles lanceolate, strongly nerved, like 

 those of Shuteria, the latter subpersistent. Calyx -f in. long, densely clothed with 

 adpressed bristly hairs ; lowest tooth lanceolate, as long as tube, others shorter, all 

 setaceous at the tip. Corolla reddish, twice the calyx ; blade of standard roundish, 

 distinctly spurred. Pod glabrescent, 3-4 in. long. N. SERICANS, Miq. Flor. 2nd. Bat. 

 \. 218, is a form -with thin adpressed pubescence and large entire leaflets. 



VAR. javanicus, Benth. (sp.) ; leaflets small thick entire obtuse densely pubescent, 

 end one nearly as broad as long with a deltoid base. Pueraria javanica, Benth. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 125. Neustanthus javanicus, Benth. PL Jung. 235 ; Miq. Fl. 2nd. 

 Bat. i. 218, t. 4 B. Pachyrhizus mollis, Hassk. Cat. Bogor. 280. Khasia and 

 Malacca. 



