Pueraria.] LEGUMINOSZ. 395 
lip as long as tube, lateral lobes shorter, lowest rather longer than 
the upper lip. Petals somewhat exserted; standard orbicular or 
ovate, reflexed, auriculate at the base; wings obovate or oblong, 
free from the somewhat shorter, incurved, beaked or obtuse keel. 
Stamens 10; vexillary filament free below, connate from the middle 
with the rest, its anther perfect ; anthers of the sheath uniform or 
alternately perfect and much shorter sterile. Ovary subsessile, 
2- or more-ovuled; style incurved, beardless; stigma terminal, 
capitate. Fruita linear or oblong pod, few-seeded, flattened or 
angled along the upper suture, occluded but not septate between 
the seeds. Seeds somewhat compressed; hilum short or linear; 
strophiole 0. 
517. Diochea gavantca Benth. D. ei FOR, 1. ave 
partly. (Dolichos hexandra Roxb. 
Chittago 
ong. 
A rather slender woody climber. 
242. Pueraria DC. 
twining or diffuse shrubs oF herby; ene pinnately 3-foliolate ; 
leaflets , sometimes ; stipules herbaceous, 
usually basifixed, occasionally wet attached ; stipels subulate 
Flowers purplish or blue, densely fasciculately racemose on ‘ons 
axillary peduncles, or subpaniculate near ends of branches ; rachis 
Nodose, nodes sometimes produced; bracts small, deciduous; 
bracteoles small subpersistent, or minute and caducous. Sepals 5, 
Connate in a campanulate tube; teeth short or long, the 2 upper 
connate in an entire or 2-lobed lip. Petals distinctly exserted ; 
standard ob6vate or suborbicular, auriculate at base; wings narrow, 
oblong or faleate, about as long as and adnate in the middle to the 
Straight or curved keel. Stamens 10; vexillary filament free at 
the base, connate in the middle with the rest, rarely quite free ; 
anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled; style filiform, 
hay above, beardless; stigma terminal capitate. Fruit 
“Flowers produced when the plant is leafless ; leaflets entire ; pod wide, 
flat, somewhat constricted along the sutures between the seeds, tip 
Straight :—[p. 396] 
