206 L. 'LEGUMINOSJB. (J. G. Baker.) [Vigna. 



Low and suberect ( V.Catiang} or tall and voluble ( V. sinensis\ always glabrous or 

 nearly so. Stipules %- in. long, attached and persistent as in Phaseolus Stropho- 

 stylis ; leaflets membranous, 3-6 in. long, acute, very variable in shape, broad or nar- 

 row ovate, or ovate-rhomboidal, with the two sides below the middle prolonged into 

 obtuse lobes. Peduncles often exceeding the leaves, 3-6-flowered ; pedicels very short. 

 Calyx glabrous, under ^ in ; teeth lanceolate or deltoid- cuspidate. Corolla yellow or 

 reddish, twice the calyx. Pod in some of the cultivated forms 1 or even 2 feet long* 

 under ^ in. broad, edible ; seeds 10 to 20. 



STJBGEN. 2. Plectrotropis. Keel prolonged into a distinct beak, so that 

 this group connects Vigna proper with Phaseolus. 



5. V. vexillata, Benth. in Mart. Fl Bras. xv. 194, t. 50, fig. 1 ; stems 

 herbaceous with a few deflexed brown hairs, leaflets membranous ovate or lan- 

 ceolate acute, flowers 2-4 at the end of long peduncles, corolla large, pod 

 slender glabrescent. Phaseolus vexillatus, Linn.'Sp. PL 101 7. P. sepiarius, Dalz. 

 in Kew Journ. li. 33 ; Bomb. Flora, 72. P. pulniensis, Wight Ic. t. 202. P. 

 angustifolius, Wall Cat. 5596. P. fusiformis. Grah. in "Wall. Cat. 5607. 

 Vigna carinalis, Benth. Bot. Sulph. SQ.DiU. Hort. Elth. ii. t. 302. 



Himalayas, from SIMLA, to KTJMAON and KHASIA, ascending to 8000 ft.. Hills of 

 WEST PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTEIB. Cosmopolitan in tropics. Cape, Australia. . 



Rodt fusiform, perennial. Stems wide-twining, glabrescent when mature. Sti- 

 pules l_i in., lanceolate, basifixed ; leaflets with few or copious adpressed brownish 

 or grey hairs, varying in shape from broad ovate to lanceolate, 2-6 in. long, always 

 acute, the base rounded. Peduncles \-\ ft. ; bracteoles setaceous. Calyx f- \ in., 

 silky ; teeth linear-lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla, reddish-purple. 1 in. or 

 more long ; standard \-\\ in. broad. Pod 3-4 in. by \ in., thinly silky at first, 

 10-15-seeded. 



VAB. Stocfcsii, Benth. ; leaflets small ovate, brown hairs of the leaves and stem 

 more abundant and persistent. Concan, Stocks. 



6. V. brachycarpa, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xliii. 2, 185 ; stems 

 herbaceous slightly hairy, .leaflf^s chartaceous linear or lanceolate-deltoid acu- 

 minate, flowers few crowded at tlie end of long peduncles, corolla small, pod 

 linear-oblong with a few long haiiv. 



ABBACAN, Kurz. 



A perennial climber, with filiform stems. Stipules 5^ in., linear-oblong, peltate ; 

 petiole 1-14 ^ n -> pil se ; leaflets 1-2 in., thinly hairy on both sides. Peduncles equal- 

 ling or exceeding .petioles ; pedicels very short. Calyv glabrous, \ in. ^ teeth broad, 

 short, acute. Corolla yellow, \ in. Pod 1 in. by| in., stiff, compressed, black, many- 

 seeded. I have seen no specimens. 



7. V. Wig-htii, Benth. MSS. ; stems woody finely grey-downy, leaflets 

 subcoriaceous small ovate subobtuse, flowers 2-3 on the end of long peduncles, 

 corolla large. Bedd. Ic. PI Ind. Or. t. 296. 



CABNATIC ; Courtallum, Wight, Thomson, 



A slender twiner, with slender sulcate glabrescent stems. Stipules minute, lan- 

 ceolate, basifixed, caducous ; leaflets glabrescent above, thinly silky below, 2-3 in. 

 1( ng. Peduncles reach 6-9 in ; pedicels very short ; bracteoles minute, setaceous. 

 Calyx | in., finely downy ; lower teeth linear, nearly as long as the tube. Corolla 

 reddish, l in. long; standard roundish, emarginate, 1^ in. broad. Pod not known. 



8. IT. doliclioides, Baker ; stems woody with short adpressed grey 

 hairs, IcuiVl^ subcoriaceous roundish cuspidate with copious adpressed bristly 

 -hairs, racemes many-flowered short-peduncled, corolla middle-sized, pod stout 



clothed with dense firm spreading grey silky hairs. Pkaseojus dolicho- 



