Pmraria.] L. LBGiTMiNOsai. (J. G. Baker.) 199 



chartaceous, thinly clothed with adpreseed hairs on both sides ; end one orate acute, 

 2-3 in. long. Bacemes caneseent, axillary and forming a terminal panicle ; fruit- 

 pedicels J in. ; bracts small, subulate, persistent. Calyx 1 in., puberulous. Corolla 

 unknown. Pod linear, 1-lJ in. by | in., flat, pale. — I have seen no specimens. 



8. P. hlrsuta, Kurz in Jowm. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, 254 ; herbaceous, 

 twining, pedicels very short, calyx very small, pod clothed ■with few spreading 

 hairs 2-4rseeded. 



Pesu, Ktirz. ^ 



Perennial, the obtuse angles of the branches beset with retrorse adpressed hairs. 

 Leaflets chartaceous, furnished, especially below, with sparse adpressed hairs; end 

 one ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2^3^ in. long. Bacemes axillary, densely pilose, 

 usually 2-3-nate ; bracts caducous ; fruit-pedicels i in. Corolla unknown. Pdd 

 linear-oblong, ^1 in. by J in., liat, slightly torulose. — I have seen no specimens. 



9. P. bracbycarpa, Kurz in Jo/wm. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, 243 ; xliii. 

 2, 185 ; herbaceous, twining or difiiase, pedicels as long as the calyx, calyx very 

 small, pod with a few adpressed hairs 5-6-seeded. 



Pebu, Kwre. 



A perennial, with long branches, clothed on the acute angles with retrorse hairs. 

 Stipules small, lanceolate acuminate ; leaflets chartaceous, with scattered adpressed 

 hairs on both surfaces ; end one ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1^-2 in. long. Bacemes 1-2, 

 stiff, axillary, pilose ; bracts minute, subulate, persistent. Calyx j^ in., pubescent. 

 Corolla unknown. Pod linear-oblong, 1 in. by J in., pale, compressed, torulose. — I 

 have seen no specimens. 



SxTBGEK. 3. Scbizopliyllon. Leaflets tisually deeply lobed, contem- 

 paraneoua with the flowers. Pod §— J in. broad, rather turgid, recurved at the 

 tip, 10-16-seeded. 



10. P. pliaseololdes, Bemth. in Jowm. Linn. Soc. ix. 125. Dolichos 

 phaseoloides, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 316. Neustanthus subspicatus and phaseoloides, 

 Bemth. PI. Jwngh. 234, 235. Dolichos viridis, Ham. m Wall. Cat. 5559. D. 

 spicatus, Wa],l. Cat. 5557 A. B. Phaseolus decurrens, Chrah. in Wall. Cat. 5612. 

 Pueraria subspicata, Bemth. in Jowm. Linn. Soc. ix. 126. D. ficifoUus, Gfrah. in 

 Wall. Cat. 5563. 



East Himaiatas, tropical region ; Assam, Sikkim, TCttasia, Silhet, Ohittagong, 

 BiEMA, Pegu, Tbnassebim, Pbnang and Malacca. — Distrib. China, Malay isles. 



Stems wide-twining, often scarcely woody, clothed with dense spreading brown 

 hairs. Stifles small, lanceolate, basiiixed; leaflets membranous, green above, 

 thinly clothed with adpressed bristly hairs, grey and densely matted beneath ; end one 

 very va'riable in size and shape, roundish, broad ovate or rhomboidal, entire or 

 shallowly or deeply 3-lobed, 3-6 in. long. Flowers fascicled in copious long-peduncled 

 racemes ; pedicels Yeiy short ; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, strongly nerved, like 

 those of Shuteria, the latter subpersistent. Calyx J-f in. long, densely clothed with 

 adpressed bristly hairs ; lowest tooth lanceolate, as long as tube, others shorter, all 

 setaceous at the tip. Corolla reddish, twice the calyx ; blade of standard roundish, 

 distinctly spurred. Pod glabrescent, 3-4 in. long. — N. sericans, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 

 i. 218, is a form with thin adpitessed pubescence and large entire leaflets. 



Var. javanicus, Benth. (sp.) ; leaflets .small thick entire obtuse densely pubescent, 

 end one nearly as broad as long with a deltoid base. Pueraria javanica, Benth. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 125. Neustanthus javanicus, Benth. PL Jwng. 235 ;' Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. 218, t. 4 B. Pachyrhizus mollis, Hassk. Cat. Bogor. 280.— Khasia and 

 Malacca. 



