1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 49 



long glabrous. Pod decidedly compressed 4-6 in. long, 4 in. wide, *2 in. 

 thick upper suture much recurved, subtorulose between the 10-16 brown 

 or red seeds "3 in. long, *25 in. wide, with a small hilum. Bak. in Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. II, 200. P. alatus Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 ; Flor. Ind. Ill, 

 288 not of Linn. P. amarus Roxb. ex W. & A. Prodr. 244. P. rostratus 

 Wall. PI. As. Rar. I, 50, t. 63 ; Cat. 5610 ; W. & A. Prodr. 244 ; Wight, 

 Ic. t. 34. P. truxillensis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. VI, 451 ; DC. Prodr. 

 II, 392. P. senegalensis Guill. & Perr. PL Seneg. 217. 



Andamans ; N. Andaman, Heifer ! S. Andaman, King's Collector ! 

 Narcondam, growing on the boulders of the higher beach, Prain ! 

 Distrib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



A very beautiful species not yet reported from the Malay Peninsula proper and 

 not recorded by Prof. Miquel from the Malay Archipelago. It may, however, be 

 found if looked for in the sea-fences of screw-pines along the coasts, this being the 

 habitat chiefly affected by it in the Andaman group. 



§ Strophostyles Bth. & Hk. f. Stipules produced below their 

 point of insertion. 



3. Phaseolus trilobus Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. I, III, 30. A slender 

 diffuse spreading glabrous or slightly pubescent annual or perennial 

 weed with stems reaching 2-3 feet. Leaves 4 in. long ; leaflets 3 pale 

 green membranous, 3-lobed or, especially the terminal, at times entire, 

 less often 3- fid to -partite, small suborbicular *75-l in. in diam. rarely 

 oblong 1*5 in. long by 1 in. wide ; petiole long 2-3 in. usually glabrous, 

 petiolules '2 in. ; stipels ovate-acute under "1 in. ; stipules *25- 5 in. 

 long, ovate-oblong. Racemes axillary subcapitate, at ends of erect 

 stoutish peduncles 6-12 in. long, bracts ovate-acute '15-*2 in. long 

 deciduous ; pedicels *1 in. Calyx campanulate '07-*l in. yellowish- 

 green, teeth minute deltoid, bracteoles at base lanceolate longer than 

 calyx. Corolla yellow '2-25 in. long glabrous. Pod cylindric 1-2 in. 

 long, *15 in. in diam. glabrous straight or slightly recurved, 6-12 seeded. 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 ; Flor. Ind. Ill, 298 ; Wall. Cat. 5588, chiefly ; 

 W. & A. Pi odr. 246 ; Wight, Ic. t. 94 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 198. 

 Bolichos trilobus Linn. Mantiss. I, 101 ; Burm. Flor. Ind. 160, t. 50, 

 f. 1 ; DC. Prodr. II, 399. D. stipulaceus Lamk, Encyc. Meth. II, 300 



Andamans ; an introduced weed. Distrib. Northern Africa, S.-E. 

 Asia, Malay Archipelago. 



An annual crop and a perennial weed throughout its natural area. The 

 perennial form has usually more deeply lobed leaflets ; in the annual form lobed 

 and entire leaflets are generally met with in varying proportions on the same plant. 

 Though not as yet recorded from the Malay Peninsula proper, it may be expected to 

 occur there as an introduced weed. 



4. Phaseolus calcaratds Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54. A twining annual, 

 or perennial with annual pubescent rarely glabrous stems 6-10 feet long, 

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