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tooth laneeolate longer than the rest but shorter than the tube, the upper two teeth 
connate; corolla much exserted, keel beaked and sometimes distinctly curved and 
laterally deflexed ;. stamens diadelphous, anthers un'form ; ovary sessile many-ovuled, 
style filiform bearded below the oblique stigma; pod thick, woody, subterete, oblong, 
villous, very markedly septate, with double partitions between the velvety seeds.— 
Species 4, Indian. : | 
The firm septate pods and the hirsute seeds mark this as one of the most natural 
and definite genera withiu the whole tribe Phaseolide. 
Key to the species. 
. Flowers large, racemes long-peduncled, lax ; pod closely velvety, keeled 
along suture but not winged ; seeds sparsely velvety :— 
Leaflets rather firmly chartaceous, hirsute on the nerves beneath ; flowers 
over 1-5 in. long ; keel with a long, laterally deflexed beak ... D. grande, 
Leaflets membranous, glabrescent ; flowers “6 in. long; keel-beak not 
deflexed ... «xà wei А vat ... D. lucens, 
Flowers small, :3 in. long or less, racemes short-peduncled, dense; 
pod softly hirsute with long hairs; seeds densely velvety; beak of 
keel not deflexed :— 
Leaflets roundish ; pod neither keeled nor winged 222 ... D. dolichoides. 
Leaflets lanceolate ; pod subquadrangular, prominently winged along the 
angles .. -— “+ oe 2. es D. tetragonum. 
DT 
PLATE 36, 
86. DYSOLOBIUM GRANDE Prain $n Journ. As, Sor. Benz. lxvi. 2. 427 (1897). 
А wide-twining woody-stemmed climber ; laves 3-foliolate, 3—5'75 dm. long, 
rachis below lateral leaflets 15—18 cm., beyond them 4 cm. long ; leaflets chartaceous, 
all roundish-cuspidate, acuminate, pubescent on nerves beneath, lateral 12—15 сш, 
long, 8—9 em. wide, base oblique, terminal 18—:2 cm. Jong, 11—12 em. wide, 
base rounded, 3-nerved at base, stipels 4 mm. long, subulate, petiolules 6 mm. long; 
racemes 9:5--4 dm. long, 20 —30-flowered, peduncles woody, terete, 15—18 cm. long; 
pedicels 4—6 mm, long, bracteoles roundish, minute, adpressed ; сауд 12 mm. long, 
finely silky ; corolla reddish-purple, standard orbicular-cordate, 2*5 em. wide, keel pro- 
duced in a narrow, laterally decurved, faleate beak 15 mm, long ; pod subcylindrie; 
woody, straight, 15—18 em. long, 2 cm. wide, deeply channelled along both 
sutures, densely velvety; seeds longer than broad, 15 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, sparsely 
velvety. Phaseolus grandis Ham. т Wall. Cat. 5602 (1830); Benth. in РІ, Jungh. 1. 
239, footnote (1855), vot Phaseolus grandis Dalz. P. velutinus буа), in Wail. Cat 
5615 (1830) ; Bak. in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 20% (1876. Canavalia grandis 
[ Wall, Mss.]; Kurz in Journ. Аз. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2. 185 (1874) and xlv. 2, 959 (1877). 
EASTERN HIMALAYA : Sikkim, lower hill forests; Anderson ! Prain! submontane forests 
of Terai; Kurz! and Duars; Prain! Assam: Goalpara, etc.; Hamilton ! Jenkins ! Masters 7 
Clarke ! Khasia, lower hill forest; Clarke ! Burma: Shan Hills; King’s Collectors ! Taoung 
Doung Міз,; Wallich !. Kachin Hills; Prain’s Collector! Cuwa: Yunnan; Anderson 7 
