202 LEGUMINOS.E. 



DiSTBiB. Commonly cultivated in the tropics ; perhaps a native in 

 some parts of China. 



Vigna stipulate HAY ATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 83. 

 Scandent, slender, strigose, hairs reflexed, 2 mm. long, branches of spikes 

 tomentose, liairs strigose. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate, somewhat hispid, 

 terminal leaflet rhomboid 3-lobed, trinerved, 4 cm. long, 3 cm. broad, Lateral 

 lobes same as the terminal, petioles 5 mm. long, stipellate, (stipels linear, 7 

 mm. long), stipulate, stipules auriformed, peltate, affixed at the middle, 

 radiately nerved, 1 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, acute at the apex, rounded at the 

 base. Flowers spicate, spikes terminal. Pods linear 4| cm. long, 5 mm. 

 broad, nearly 13-seeded, nigricant, valves tortuose, hairs short strigose. 

 Seeds tetragonous, augulate, 3 mm. long. 



HAB. Dakusui. 



Remarkable for its peltate stipules ; leaflets sometimes are entire but not 

 lobed. 



6. Pachyrrhizus RICH. 



Pachyrrhizus angulatus RICH, in DC. Prodr. II. p. 402; BAKER in 

 HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Iiid. II. p. 207 ; HOOK, et ABN. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 184 ; 

 FOEBKS et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin, I. p. 194 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 112 ; HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 84. 



HAB. Ako: Toko. 



DISTBIB. In the tropics ; southern China. 



OBSERV. Scandent; leaves trifoliolate, terminal leaflet broadly ovate, 

 twice as broad as long, angulate, abruptly and shortly acute, obtuse at the 

 very end, 10 cm. long, 18 cm. broad, trinerved, stipellate, pale beneath, 

 nearly glabrous, lateral leaflets nearly as the same as the terminal one, but 

 very oblique ; flowers in a terminal raceme ; flowers 2 cm. long, calyx silky- 

 pubescent. 



37. Psophocarpus NECK. 



Psophocarpus tetragonolobus DC. Prodr. II. p. 403; BAKER in 

 HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. H. p. 211 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 

 194 ; P. palustris MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 112. 



