198 L. LEGUMINOS*. (J. G. Baker.) {Pueraria. 



East TT tmata yas and Khasia Mts., temperate region, alt. 5-9000 ft.; Nipai,, 



SiKKIM, MiSHMI. 



Copiously twining, the slender firm branches clothed with short deflexed deciduous 

 hairs. Leaflets membranous, green, with a few short hairs above, grey, densely 

 shortly downy beneath ; end one roundish, acuminate, 4-6 in. long. Baoemes ^1 ft., 

 short-peduncled, moderately close; nodes never produced into branches. Pedicels 

 ^1 in., spreading, densely fascicled. Cali/x | in., finely grey-silky. Corolla 

 reddish, | in. long ; standard J in. broad, not spurred ; keel with a deep purple tip. 

 Upper stamen at last nearly free. Pod quite straight, strap-shaped, 2-3 in. by J in., 

 quite glabrous, 4-8-seeded, turgid opposite the seeds. 



4. P. Wallicbil, DC. Prodr. ii. 240 ; shrubby, stipules basifixed, flower- 

 pedicels at most equalling the calyx, calyx-teeth deltoid, corolla middle-sized, 

 pod glabrous rigid-coriaceons. DC. Mem. Leg. t. 43 ; Wall. Cat. 6353 ^ Benth. 

 in Jaum. lAnn. Soc. ix. 124. P. composita, Grtdi. in Wall. Cat. 5570. 



East HiMALAyAs, tropical region; Nipai., Silhec, Khasia, Mishmi, ascending 

 to 5000 ft. BmMA ; Taong-dong, Wallich. 



Branches slender, terete, glabrous. Leaflets membranous or subcoriaceous, green, 

 glabrescent above, grey with a few adpressed hairs beneath ; end one 4-6 in. long, 

 obovate-cuspidate, with a deltoid base. Racemes copious, ^-^ ft. long, often fascicled 

 or panicled ; pedicels finely silky, densely fascicled, the nodes often lengthened out 

 into short branchlets (P. composita, Wall.). Cali/x gibbous, ^ in. ; teeth obscure. 

 Corolla reddish,^ ^-| in. long ; limb of standard twice as long as broad, not sparred at 

 the base. Pod straight, 4-5 in. long, the sutures sometimes slightly repand. 



5. P. Stracbeyi, Baker ; herbaceous, stipules deciduous, flower-pedicels 

 nearly or quite as long as the calyx, calyx-teeth laige nearly as long as the tube, 

 corolla large. 



KxjMAON, KaHmundi, alt. 7300 ft., Strachey and Winterbottom. 



Branches slender, with a few short deciduous hairs. Leaflets membranous, very 

 thin, with a few obscure adpressed hairs on both surfaces, green above, paler below ; end 

 one obovate-oblong, cuspidate, rather rounded at the base, 3—4 in. long. Flowers in a 

 long lax simple subsecund raceme, with a subglabrous rachis ; pedicels ^-\ in. Calyx 

 subglabrous, f in. long ; lower tooth lanceolate, ^ in. long, the others much shorter. 

 Corolla reddish, |-J in. long ; standard ^ in. broad, distinctly spurred. Pod 

 unknown. 



6. P. Tbomsoni, Benth. in Joum. lAnn. Soc. ix. 122 ; shrubby, stipules 

 fixed by the centre, pedicels very short, calyx-teeth 3-4 times the tube, corolla 

 large, pod densely clothed with long silky hairs. Dolichos spicatus, Wall. Cat. 

 5557 C. D. grandifolius, Ch-ah. in Wall. Cat. 5556. 



•East Himat.aya, temperate region. Assam, Jenkins, Mrs. Mack. Kj£ASIA, 5-7000 

 ft., Griffith, Hook. fil. and Thomson. Selhet, Gomez. 



A climber, with slender branches, clothed with deciduous deflexed fine brownish 

 hairs. Stipules persistent, J-| in. long ; leaflets membranous, green, with a few 

 obscure adpressed hairs above, grey with dense thin hairs beneath ; end one roundish, 

 obtuse or cuspidate, 6-9 in. long, rarely faintly lobed. Racemes close, simple, 6-9 in. 

 long. Calt/x ^ in. long, densely silky ; teeth lanceolate. Corolla reddish, half as 

 long again as the calyx ; standard ^ in. broad, distinctly spurred. Pod 4-5 in. by 

 f-J in., flat, straight, membranous, 8-12-seeded. 



7. P. stricta, Kurz in Joum. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, 254 ; herbaceous, 

 erect, pedicels longer than the very small calyx, pod glabrous 7-9-seeded. 



Peoh and Mabtaban, Kurz. 



A perennial, 2-4 ft. high, with subterete branches, tomentose when young. Leaflets 



