402 D. Pram — Some additional Leguminosce. [No. 2, 



Prain ! Manipur ; Watt ! Burma ; Poneshee, J. Anderson ! North Shan 

 States, Gatacre ! South Shan States, King's Collectors ! Karen Hills, 

 Brandis! Pegu, Kurz! Tenasserim; on Moolyet, 5000 feet, Gallatly ! 

 Distrib. Java {Kurz 1103 !) 



The specimens from all these localities and from those mentioned in the Flora 

 of British India agree exactly. 



Var. glabrata Bak. ; (8. glabrata W. & A.) is hardly distinguishable as a 

 variety. Its calyx, even in Wight's original authentic examples, is not at all glabres- 

 cent, and the leaflets, though elsewhere glabrous, have a few hairs on the main- 

 nerves beneath. None of Simons' Khasia specimens at Calcutta belong to this 

 variety; of sixteen different gatherings from the Assam Hills preserved in Herb. 

 Calcutta, every specimen belongs to typical 8. vestita. 



The two other varieties of the F. B. I. are founded on plants that are 

 specifically quite distinct from S. vestita. 



lb. Shuteria densiflora Bentli. in PI. Jungh. 232. S. vestita var. 

 deusiflora Bak. in Flor. Brit Ind. ii. 182. 



Garhwal ; Kumaon ; Nepal. C. India ; Pachmarhi, Duthie ! 



This species is very distinct from 8. vestita, to which it has been reduced in 

 the Flora of British India. It is easily recognised by its glabrous pods and by the 

 more horizontal, early-forking secondary nerves of its larger leaflets. 



2. Shuteria hirstjta Bak. Amphicarpsea ferruerinea Herb. Ind. 

 Or. H. f. 8f T. not of Benth. Pueraria anabaptista Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Be,,g. xlv. pt. 2. 253. 



Substitute for localities of F. B. I. : — 



Sikkim; very common, Hooker ! Anderson! Clarke! Gamble! Boo- 

 tan ; Clarke ! Khasia ; fide Baker in F. B. I. Burma ; Chin Hills, King's 

 Collectors ! near Bhamo, J. Anderson ! Shan Hills, Collett ! Fulton ! 

 King's Collectors ! Pegu, Kurz ! Karen Hills, Mason ! Tenasserim ; at 

 Lathorgee, 2500 feet, Gallatly ! Distrib. Sumatra (Forbes n. 1240 !) 



Mr. Kurz has distinguished two varieties which differ from each other exactly 

 as 8huteria vestita proper and its var. glabrata do from each other, and are therefore 

 hardly worthy of being distinguished. The writer, to avoid confusion, here follows 

 the F. B. I. in keeping this species in Shuteria, to which it is referred on account 

 of the axillary stamen being quite free from the others But with the exception of 

 this single character the plant is altogether a Pueraria, and as the definition of 

 Pueraria in the Genera Plantarum admits species exhibiting this character, it will 

 no doubt ultimately be necessary to readopt the view held by Mr. Kurz. 



3. Shuteria ferruginea Bak. 



This has recently been collected again in Nepal by Dr. Scully, and an examina- 

 tion of his and Dr. Wallich's original specimens leads the writer to think that Mr. 

 Baker's view as to its generic position may be correct ; Mr. Kurz, however, did 

 not assent to it. There appear to be two varieties : — 



a. typica ; bracts deciduous. S. ferruginea Bak in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 182. 

 Nepal ; on Sheopore, Wallich n. 5516 ! Scully n. 12] ! Sikkim ; Kurz ! 



