Dolichos.] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 211 



exceeding the wings and keel. Pod 1-1 in. by | in., tipped with the hooked base of 

 the style. 



0. X). faicatus, Klein-, DC. Prodr. ii. 398; leaflets entire or slightly 

 3-lobed, flowers 2-8 on a short common peduncle, calyx-teeth deltoid, corolla 

 yellow, pod linear glabrous 6-8-seeded. Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 311 ; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. 249. D. trilobatus. Wall Cat. 6541, non Linn. 



Himalayas, from KUMAON to KHASIA, ascending to 7500 ft. Plains of WESTERN 

 PKNINSULA and CEYLON. 



Root tuberous, perennial. Stems wide-twining, very slender, pilose or glabrescent. 

 Stipules small, lanceolate, reflexed, persistent ; leaflets membranous, 1-3 in. long, 

 ovate, acute, entire or obtuse, 3-lobed, finely pilose on the faces, or nearly glabrescent. 

 Peduncles 1-2 in. long, sometimes scarcely any; pedicels -^^ in. Calyx glabrous, 

 tender in. ; teeth very short. Corolla twice the calyx, its petals nearly equal in 

 length ; keel broad, obtuse. Pod substipitate, 2-3 in. by f in., slightly recurved. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



D. SUBCARNOSUS, W. $ A. Prodr. 249, is a plant from the Western Peninsula, 

 of which the flower is unknown and of which the place is therefore doubtful. It has 

 small ovate acute entire leaflets, many-flowered distinctly- peduncled racemes, and a 

 narrow linear nearly straight glabrous many-seeded pod 3-4 in. long. 



D. SUB^EQUALIS, Gralt. in Wall. Cat. 5539, is another doubtful plant, of which 

 the flower is unknown, gathered by Wallich in Ava, which has been referred through 

 some confusion to Psophocarpus palustris, from which it totally differs. It has slender 

 terete woody suberect stems, with short deflexed deciduous grey pubescence, caduc- 

 ous stipules, membranous stipellate leaflets with a few adpressed bristly hairs on both 

 sides, the end one oblong subobtuse or cuspidate 4-5 in. long, many-flowered short- 

 peduncled racemes and a 2-3-seeded ligulate flattish pod f-1 in. by in., thinly clothed 

 with long adpressed grey hairs, faintly depressed between the seeds. 



78. PSOPHOCARPUS, Neck. 



Twining herbs, with lar^o tuberous roots. Leaves 3-foliolate, stipellate ; sti- 

 pules fastened above the base. Floivers rather large, lilac. Calyx teeth shorter 

 than the tube, the two upper connate. Corolla much exserted, the petals equal 

 in length ; keel much incurved, but not beaked. Stamens monadelphous, the 

 upper free downwards ; anthers uniform. Ovary substipitate, many-ovuled ; 

 pfylft long, much recurved, flattened laterally, densely bearded round the termi- 

 ; ir>a. Pod square, with a distinct wing to each angle, distinctly septate 

 1 MI the seeds. DISTEIB. Species 3-4, all tropical in the Old World. 



1. P. te?a?onolo>UB f DC. Prodr. ii. 403 ; leaflets entire ovate mem- 

 bran u, -racemes few-flowered, pedicels elongated, bracteoles much shorter than 

 tin- : v'yx, pod Iarg-3 glabrous'. W. fy A. Prodr. 252; Hassk. PL Jav. Rar. 388. 

 Dolichos ovatus, Orah. in Wall. Cat. 5540. D. tetragonolobus, Linn. ; Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 305.' 



PROME and MARTABAN, Wallich, perhaps only introduced. Cultivated else- 

 where. 



Root large, annual. Stems weak, wide-twining, glabrous. Stipules lanceolate each 

 way from the attachment ; leaflets broad, ovate, acu^e, 3-6 in. long, 2-6 in. broad, 

 glabrous, base subdeltoid. Racemes lax ; peduncles ^-^ ft. ; pedicels geminate, as long 

 as the calyx ; bracteoles ovate, in. Calyx ^ in., glabrous ; side-teeth oblong ; 

 lowest shorter, deltoid. Podjj-% ft. by 1 in., the wings ^ j in. broad, usually much 

 crisped and toothed. 



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