240 S. Kurz — Contributions towards a [No. 4, 



Pisum, L. 



•1. P. sativum, L. sp. pi. 1026 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 321 ; Koch 

 Syn. Fl. Germ. 172 ; Schrank. Fl. Monac. III. t. 261. 



Var. a. sativum, flowers larger, white ; seeds globular or nearly so, 

 pale coloured or green. 



Var. /?. aryense. (P. arvense, L. sp. pi. 1027 ; Koch. Syn. Fl. 

 Germ. 172 ; Sturm. Deutschl. Fl. II. t. 4 ; Sibth. Fl. Grtec. t. 687 ; flowers 

 white or pale violet, the wings and keel purple ; seeds somewhat depressed 

 angular, greyish, brown- or purple-mottled. 



Hab. Var. a. Cultivated in Ava, Prome, Pegu, etc. ; var. /?. cultivated 

 in Chittagong.— Fl. Fr. CS. 



Abrus, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



Pods | — §■ as broad as long, somewhat crumpled ; seeds terete, A. precatorius. 



Pods flat and straight, 4 to 5 times as long as broud ; seeds compressed, . .A. Imvigatus. 



1. A. peecatoeius, L. Syst. 533 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 257 ; Bth. 

 Fl. Hongk. 92 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 175. 



Hab. Frequent in the mixed forests, especially the lower and upper 

 ones, but also in hedges, etc., of cultivated lands, all over Burroa, from 

 Chittagong and Ava down to Tenasserim. — Fl. Close of ES. ; Fr. CS. 



2. A. LiEViGATUS, E. Mey. Comm. PI. Afr. 263 ; Harv. Fl. Cap. II. 

 263.— (A. pulchellus, Wall. Cat. 5819 ; Baker in Fl. trop. Afr. II. 175 

 and Fl. Ind. II. 875 ; A. melanospermus, Hassk. Cat. Bog. 282 ; Mi<p Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I. 159). 



Hab. Pegu, Rangoon (Cleghorn) ; Upper Tenasserim, between 

 Chappedong and Amherst (Wall.).— Fl. Close of ES. ; Fr. CS. 



N. B. Thwaites' A. pulcliellus differs by its much larger and broader 

 seeds. 



Clitoria, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



x Corolla quite glabrous. 



Leaflets in 2 or rarely in a single pair ; bractlets roundish, C. Termtea. 



x x Standard more or less pilose outside ; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. 

 Calyx glabrous, the teeth much shorter than the tube ; bractlets only 2 — 3 lin. long, 



linear, subulate-acuminate ; flowers by twos, peduncled, C. Mariana. 



Calyx puberulous, the teeth as long as the tube ; bractlets broader and larger, nearly -| 

 as long as the calyx ; flowers by 3 — 6 clustered in the leaf-axils, .... C. Grahamii. 

 1. C. Tebnatea, L. sp. pi. 1086 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1542 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. 

 III. 321 ; Hf . Ind. Fl. II. 208. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the mixed forests, more especially the 

 savannah-forests, all over Chittagong and Ava down to Tenasserim j also 



