1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 61 



Pjcbak; Larut, Kunstler 5196! 10320! Wray 2000! Malacca; 

 Maingay 520! Distiub. Ceylon ; Chittagong ; Java. 



Very nearly related to the preceding and perhaps only a form of that specie^. 

 At the same time the characters by which they are separ;ible are very constant in 

 .all the specimens of both that the writer hns seen, and from the iield-botanist's point 

 of view, at least, it is just as well to follow Mr. Bentham in separating them. 



17. PUERARIA DC. 



Twining shrnbs or herbs with stipellate pinnately 3-foliolate leaves ; 

 leaflets sometimes palmately lobed. Flowers sometimes appearing before 

 leaves, large or small, densely fascicled, in long often compound racemes. 

 Calyx teeth long or short the two upper connate. Corolla distinctly 

 exserted ; standard usually spurred at the base equalling in length trie 

 obtuse wings and keel. Stamens more or less thoroughly monadelphous ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or nearly so, many-ovuled ; style 

 filiform much incurved beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, flattisli. 

 Species about 12, mostly Indo-Chinese. 



1. Pubparia phaseoloides Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. IX, 125. 

 A slender creeper 20-30 feet long with adpressed-pubescent slender 

 hardly woody stems, and slender twining branches clothed with spread- 

 ing greyish-brown hairs. Leaves contemporaneous with flowers, 6-8 in. 

 long; leaflets 3, membranous dull-green thinly adpressed-hiisute above, 

 dark greenish-grey aud densely velvety- tomentose beneath, triaugular 

 ovate base wide cuneate — of lateral pair obliquely, apex subobtuse mar- 

 gin entire repand or slightly 3- lobed, sub-3-nerved at base, 3-4 in. long, 

 2-3 in. wide, petiole 3-4 in., densely clothed with spreading hairs, 

 petiolules *2 in. long; stipels small subulate weak "1 in. long, stipules 

 small lanceolate basifixed. Inflorescence of long-peduncled axillary 

 racemes of fascicled flowers ; peduncle 6-8 in. and rachis puberulpus ; 

 racemes 4 in. long, fascicles '25-'5 in. apart 4-5-fld., pedicels *2 in, 

 puberulous, bracts and bracteoles lanceolate rather rigid clothed with 

 adpressed bristly hairs, the bracteoles subpersistent. Calyx cam pan - 

 ulate 25 in. long clothed with adpressed bristly hairs, teeth unequal 

 upper broad, aud lower lanceolate as long as tube and one-third larger 

 than lateral triangular, all setaceous at tip. Corolla pale-blue and white, 

 "6 in. long, standard-limb suborbicular distinctly spurred. Pods numer- 

 ous, at first puberulous, at length glabrescent slightly recurved at the 

 tip, 3*5 in. long only *2 in. wide. Seeds about 16, '15 in. long 1 in. wide, 

 truncate at ends, dark brown, testa dull minutely rugulose. Bale. iu< 

 Flor. Brit. Ind, II, 199 (excl. syu. P. subspicata Bth.j. Dolichos 

 phaseoloides Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 316. D. viridis Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 5559. Neuslanthus phaseoloides Benth. PL Jungh. 235 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 219. Fhascolus decurvus Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5612. 



