1897.] D. Prain — Some additional hegummossa. 419 



2. DiOCLEA javanica Benth., PI. Jungh. 236 ; leaflets beneath dense- 

 ly softly velvety, always rather smaller. D. Fergusonii Thw. Enum. 

 412. 



Chittagong ; Kodala Hill, King's Collector ! Ceylon ; Ferguson ! 

 (Thwaites, C. P. 3817) ! Malacca ; Maingay ! Perak ; common, Kunstler ! 

 Wray ! 



Leaflets not exceeding 4 in. in length, puberulous above and always densely 

 velvety beneath. Flowers and pods as in D. reflexa, of which, as Mr. Baker thinks, 

 this may be but a form. The two are, however, so easily recognised that it seems 

 better, from the field-botanist's point of view, to keep them apart. 



72. PUERAUIA DC. 

 16. Pueraria sikkimensis Train; calyx densely silky, teeth sub- 

 obtuse shorter than the tube, bracts as long as buds, lamina of wings 

 oblique subspathulate. 



Sikkim ; Terai, Anderson ! Gamble ! G. Gammie ! Teesta valley, 

 King ! "Rungeet, 1000 feet elev., Clarke n. 27263 ! 



Stems wide-twining, young branches rusty-puberulous. Leaflets membranous, 

 very broadly rhomboid, acute, terminal 6 in. long by 7 in. wide, glabrous above, 

 very sparsely adpressed-pubescent beneath. Floivers in dense clustered racemes 

 and panicles from nodes along the stem, usually only 4-6 in. long, pedicels short 

 densely fascicled, densely rusty-tomentose as are the lanceolate bracts '25 in. long, 

 and the rachis. Calyx 3 in. long, densely rusty-tomentose. Corolla large, "75 in. 

 long, limb of standard orbicular, auriculate, *5 in. wide. Pod unknown. 



A very distinct species, nearest to P. tuberosa. but very readily distinguished by 

 its rusty instead of grey-silky pubescence, its larger bracts, and its much larger 

 flowers. 



2. Pueraria Candollei Grah. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. :— Andamans ; Coco Group, Prain ! 



4. Pueraria Wallichii DC. Add to synonyms of F. B. I. :— 

 Dolichos frutescens Ham. in Bon. Prodr. 240. 



Add to localities : — N.-W. Himalaya ; Hard war, Wallich ! 

 Dr. Wallich's 5352 C, issued by some extraordinary oversight as Pueraria 

 tuberosa, is this species. An original specimen of Dolichos frutescens, to which Dr. 

 Hamilton has himself added name and manuscript description, shows that that 

 species is Pueraria Wallichii. The writer is of the same opinion regarding P. 

 composita Grah. as is Mr. Baker, and cannot follow Mr. Kurz even to the extent of 

 making Graham's Burmese plant a variety of P. Wallichii. 



6. Pueraria Thunbergiana Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 122. 

 Pachyrhizus Thunbergianus Sieb. 8f Zucc. Fam. Nat. Fl. Japon. ii. 113. 

 Neustanthus chinensis Benth. Fl. Hongkong. 86. Pueraria Thomsoni 

 Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 122; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 198. 

 Dolichos grandifolius Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5556. D. spicatus Wall, 

 (partly) in Cat. 5557. 

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