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Spec. Cuar. Erect shrub: young shoots and racemes pubess 
cent; leaflets lanceolate, acute, silky-pubescent underneath: sti< 
pules sessile, erect, striated, persistent : racemes much longer than 
the leaves, with flowering part elongated: peduncle very long and 
stout: calyx 5-toothed: keel circinate: legumes pendulous, nearly 
straight, long-linear, many-seeded, pubescent; seeds slightly truns 
cated at both ends. 
Nopalry. 
(5) P. rrinervius. ( Heyne. ) 
Hdent. W. & A. prod. J. p. 245. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VIII. t. 37. 
Spec, Cuar. Twining: branches and petioles covered with 
long spreading hairs; leaflets ovate, acuminated, deltoid or lobed 
at the base, young ones very hairy, densely ciliated: stipules ob~ 
long-lanceolate, attached below the middle; peduncles elongated, 
straight, hairy, much longer than the leaves; flowers forming a 
kind of cylindrical head: legumes horizontal, cylindrical, hairy. 
Peninsula, 
(6) P. Munco. (Linn. )} 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 245.—Dec. prod. If. p. 394. 
Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 292, 
Syn. P. hirtus, Retz—P. Max, Roxb. ft. Ind. LY. p, 295, 
. Engrav. Rheede Mal, VIII. t. 50. 
Spec. C#ar. Annual, nearly erect, bairy ; leaftets broadly-ovate 
or rhomboid, entire, acute or aeuminated: stipules attached below. 
their middle: peduneles at first shorter, afterwards longer than the 
petioles; flowers forming a kind of cylindrical head, greenish-yel-~ 
low: keel twisted to the left, with a short spur near the base on the. 
left side: legume horizontal, cylindrical, hairy, 6-15-seeded; seeds 
with numerous close longitudinal streaks. ‘ 
The native place of this species is unknown. The seeds are 
known as the green gram and are cultivated by the natives, to whom, 
the gram is of much importance. The variety, P. melanospermys, 
is the black gram which is also cultivated, but not in so great a 
degree. They both flower in the cold season. 
(7) P. Wicutu. (Grah.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 245. 
Srec. Cuar. Diffuse hairy plant: leaftets broadly-ovate, acu« 
minated, entire or 3-lobed, the terminal lobe acuminated and much 
longer than the others: stipules attached below their middle: pes 
duncles elongated, about the length of the leaves: flowers few, capi. 
tate: keel twisted to the left, with a short horn near the base on 
