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



Hab. Common in the savannahs and in grass-land, also amongst sun- 

 ny shrubbery and in cultivated lands, all over Pegu, Arracan, and Marta- 

 ban.— Fl. Fr. DS. 



8. V. brachycarpa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1874. 185 ; Hf. 

 Ind. Fl. II. 206. 



Hab. Arracan, upper mixed forests in the Akyab District. — Fl. Fr. 

 Close of BS. 



*9. V. Sinensis, Savi Dissert. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 187. (J)oli- 

 cJws Sinensis, L. Amten. Acad. IV. 326 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 302 ; WA. 

 Prod. I. 251 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2232 ; Dolichos Tranquebaricus, Jacq. Hort. 

 Vindob. III. t. 70 ; DolicJws Catjang, L. Mart. 259 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 

 303 ; V. Catjang, Endl. ap. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 188 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 

 205). 



Hab. Generally cultivated all Over Burma and adjacent islands. — 

 Fl. Fr. DS. 



Phaseolus, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



Subg. 1. Fu-phaseolus. Stipules small, basifix and not or hardly produced down- 

 wards. 



* Pods dimidiate, oblong or linear, 2 — many-seeded. Flowers purple to lilac and 



white. 

 Flowers small, greenish white, on filiform puberulous pedicels ; calyx shallow, 2 lin. wide 



and barely a line deep ; pods falcate, 2 — 3 in. long by \ broad, glabrous, P. lunatus. 

 Flowers purplish, middling sized, on slender glabrous pedicels ; calyx about 2 lin. deep 



and nearly as wide, ribbed ; pods \\ — 2 in. long by 3 — 4 lin. broad, P. tenuicaulis. 



* * Pods neither dimidiate nor falcate, linear to narrow-linear, 4 — many-seeded. 



Flowers purple to white. 



x Bractlets oval, persistent, as long as or longer than the calyx. 

 Bacemes few-flowered ; pedicels longer than the calyx ; pods linear, 4 — 6-seeded, 



. . P. vulgaris. 

 x x Bractlets deciduous, shorter than the calyx. Flowers shortly pedi- 

 celled. 

 Corolla nearly an inch long ; calyx plain ; pods many-seeded, -J in. broad, 



. .P. adenanthus. 

 Corolla about J in. long ; calyx almost 5 -ribbed; pods many-seeded, 2 lin. broad or 



narrower, P. semierectus. 



Subg. 2. Strophostyles, Ellis. Stipules peltately attached and produced down- 

 wards. Flowers yellow or greenish yellow. Bracts very deciduous. 



* Ovary and pods glabrous. 



Prostrate or half-twining ; stipules large and leafy, about J in. long ; leaflets more 

 or less deeply lobed, , P. trilobus. 



* * Ovary pubescent to hirsute. 



Twining, the stems spreadingly hirsute ; pedicels 1 — \\ lin. long ; pods thinly and 

 shortly hirsute, p. trinervius. 



