1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosce. 431- 



part of Kurz'a Vigna sinensis (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. pt. 2. 248), part of his Phaseo- 

 lus adenanthus (loc. cit. 249), part of his Lablab vulgaris (loc. cit. 250) and, along with 

 Kurz n. 2545, some part of Mr. Kurz's Ganavalia lucens. 



The pods are not like those of any other Indian Dolichos but recall those of a 

 Clitoria or an Apios. 



Considering how unsatisfactorily, even in the most authoritative works on the 

 order, the various genera of Phaseolidse have been limited, the writer prefers at 

 present to leave the species, as Mr. Baker has left it, in Dolichos. 



70. ATYLOSIA W. & A. 



Subgex. 1. Atylia Bth. 



1. Atylosia Candollei W. 8f A. 



Atylosia major W. & A., reduced by Mr. Baker to A. Candollei, is a very distinct 

 plant and is quite deserving of at least the rank of a variety. 



2. Atylosia geminiflora Dalz. 



This plant was unfortunately unknown to Mr. Baker; an examination of 

 Dalzell's type specimens shows that the plant is not an Atylia at all, but that 

 it is simply Mr. Bentham's A. platycarpa, a species of § Rhynchosioides, which 

 section, by the way, the F. B. I. does not recognise. This section Rhynchosioides is, 

 however, an extremely natural one ; it includes the two species A. elongata and A. 

 platycarpa. These species in the Flora of British India are separated by a wide inter- 

 val, and their natural affinity is not alluded to. The treatment the section has 

 received at the hands of Mr. Taubert in Engler's NatiLrlichen Pflanzenfamilien is 1 

 even more disconcerting. There, only one of the two species is admitted into 

 the section, and Mr. Taubert does not tell us which of the two it is that he excludes. 



4. Atylosia sericea Benth. 



Add to localities of the F. B. I. : — Rajputana ; Abu, King ! Duthie ! 



5. Atylosia mollis Benth. 



Under this name Mr. Bentham has included two very distinct species, the 



diagnosis of the two being as follows : — 



Leaves beneath densely uniformly grey-downy not reticulate, end- 

 leaflet much longer than broad ; flowers over 1 in. long ; pod 

 2 in. long, '3 in. wide, 8-10-seeded, transverse depressions 

 between seeds at right angles to the sutures, longer diameter 

 of seeds across the pod ... ... ... ...A. mollis. 



Leaves beneath more sparsely brown-pubescent, strongly reticu- 

 late, end-leaflet hardly longer than broad ; flowers '75 in. long ; 

 pod 1-1*25 in. long, '6 in. wide, 3-5-seeded, transverse depres- 

 sions between seeds oblique, longer diameter of seeds parallel 

 to.the sutures ... ... ... ... ... A. crassa. 



In the Calcutta Herbarium the writer has analysed specimens of ten gatherings 



of A. mollis and thirty-nine gatherings of A. crassa, but has failed to find any 



intermediate state. 



The distribution of the two species is quite distinct also. A. mollis is confined 



to the Himalayas from 2000 feet upwards ; A. crassa does not enter the Himalaya 



proper though it extends from the foot of that range through the greater part of 



