1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 57 



Andamans ; commonly cultivated. Pangkore ; Scortechini ! Dia- 

 trib. ; common throughout the tropics in gardens and as an escape. 



2. Clitoria cajanifolia Benth. in Mart. Flor. Brasil. XV, 121. 

 A suberect undershrub with terete pilose branches. Leaves 2-3'5 in. 

 long; petiole *1 in. and rachis adpressed-pilose; leaflets terminal and 

 in 1 lateral pair lanceolate or oblanceolate obtuse subcoriaceous 2-5 in. 

 long, *75-l in. wide, glabrous above, densely grey-canescent beneath ; 

 stipules shortly triangular, pubescent, stipels subulate. Flowers axillary 

 usually 2 on a pubescont peduncle 1-1*5 in. long; bracteoles small ovate 

 or lanceolate. Calyx *75 in. long, teeth much shorter than tube. 

 Corolla 1 '5-2 in. long; standard 15 in. wide pale-violet with a dull- 

 purple centre. Pod turgid, with a rib along face of valves, 1*25 in. long, 

 *35 in. wide quite glabrous, 5-7 seeded. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 

 209. Neurocarpum cajanifolium PreslTlSymb. 17, t. 9 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 225. N. retusum Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 376. Lotus fluminensis 

 Veil. Flor. Flum. Vll, t. 152. 



Malacca and Singapore, in old clearings, common. Distrib. A 

 native of Brazil now naturalised in the localities mentioned, in Java, 

 and in Siam. 



14. Centrosema Benth. 



Twining herbs or shrubs ; stems with woody base. Leaves pin- 

 nately 3-foliolate, stipellate ; stipules persistent basifixed. Flowers very 

 large and showy with persistent bracts and large persistent bracteoles. 

 Calyx-teeth, short the upper pair connate or obsolete. Corolla much 

 exserted ; standard orbicular emarginate shortly spurred near base, 

 longer than the falcate obovate wings and the broad incurved slightly 

 shorter keel. Stamens usually diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary 

 subsessile, many-ovuled, style incurved dilated at the apex, stigma 

 terminal beardless. Pod subsessile linear flattened, 2-valved, slightly- 

 septate between the seeds, both sutures thickened and both valves 

 strongly ridged along the face parallel to the sutures. Species about 

 25, all American. 



Dr. Kuntze states {Rev. Gen. PI. I, 163) that Bradburya Raf., reduced in the 

 Index Kewensis to Wistaria, is in reality this genus, and that Rafinesque's descrip- 

 tion refers to Centrosema virginianum a species widely cultivated in Asia and now 

 quite naturalized in Java though not yet reported as an escape in our area. 



Centrosema Plumieri Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. II, 118. A large 

 climber with woody base and twining slender firm glabrous or puberulous 

 branches. Leaves 6-10 in. long; leaflets 3 papery dark green glabrous 

 above puberulous on the nerves beneath broadly ovate acute or acumi- 

 nate 3-6 in. long ; 2-5-5 in. across; petiobs 3-6 in., glabrous or puberu- 

 J. ii. 8 



