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and common rachis 4 em. long, channelled above and closely covered with shorf, 
reflexed, adpressed pubescence, petiolules short, adpressed-pubescent, leaflets ovate- 
lanceolate, apices acute, bases cuneate, margins entire, 8—15 cm. long, 4--7 cm. wide, 
chartaczous, glabrous above, adpressed-puberulous beneath, reticulately veined between 
the 12—15 pairs of rather prominent secondary nerves, midrib closely adpressed- 
pubescent and prominent beneath; stipels filiform, 1:5 mm. long, stipules rigid, spinulose- 
setaceous, 5 mm, long, developing before the leaves, basifixed, caducous; flowers fascicled 
on axillary racemes 20—30 cm. long, with nodiform rachis; the peduncles 5—8 cm, 
long, the nodes about 4 mm. apart; bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous; calyz 5 mm. 
long, adpressed-pubescent, tube campanulate as long as the teeth, the two upper teeth 
connate in a very shortly 2-dentate upper lip, the three lower triangular of equal width 
but the lateral pair rather shorter than the central; petals purplish, 1°25 cm. long, 
standard suborbicular retuse at apex, silky externally, 1 сш. wide, wings oblong-ovate, 
slightly adherent at base to cymbiform keel; stamens 10, monadelphous, anthers 
uniform; ovary sessile, many-ovuled, densely silky; style inflexed, glabrous except round 
the capitate stigma where it is shortly sparsely penicillate; pod 8 em. long, 8 mm. 
wide, flat, coriaceous, slightly adpressed-puberulous, and faintly depressed between the 
10—12, suborbicular, compressed, estrophiolate, pale-greenish, smooth seeds with ovate 
hilum, 6 mm. long. and 4 mm. wide. Sc. Mem. Med. Of. India xi. 42 (1898). 
Upper Burma: Kachin Hills, 3—5000 feet elev., at Sima, Naku, and elsewhere; 
Calcutta Garden Collector ! 
This species might with almost equal propriety be referred to the subtribe Galactica, 
especially to the section Collæa of the genus Galactia itself where also the vexillary 
stamen is connate with the remaining nine, or to the subtribe Diocke, especially to 
the genus Pueraria of which it exhibits most of the characters though it differs 
very markedly in having 5-foliolate leaves. From both Galactia $ Collea and Pueraria 
our plant, however, differs still more markedly in having the style bearded round the 
stigma after the fashion of certain of the Huphaseolee, and. it seems therefore preferable 
to treat it as the type of a distinct genus, bearing to the other Dioclee very much 
the relationship that Clitoria bears to the rest of the Glycine. 
Prare 34,—Cruddasia insignis Prain. 1, enl of а branch with axillary inflorescence; 2, in- 
fruitescence—of natural size; З, bud; 4, flower; 5, calyx, laid open; $, staminal sheath; 7, 
ovary; 8, the same, laid open; 9, ovule—al? enlarged; 10, seed-—of natural sise. Specimens from 
Sima, Kachin Hills. 
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PLATE 35. 
35. KuwsrLERIA Кїхєп Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng, lxvi. 9. 110 (1897) 
Natural order Leguminose. 
А very extensive climber over 100 feet long, with slender branches; bark brown 
lenticular j; 4120063 12—20 cm. long, pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 
10—15 сш. long, 4—5 см. wido; apex acute, bases of lateral leaflets rounded, of 
central, rather the longer, shortly cuneate, latcral nerves ascending, 5—6 pairs, rather 
