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‘euminated, as long as the petiolé: stipules lanceolate, acute, ade 
nate below the middle: peduncles shorter than the petiole, 2-3- 
‘flowered at. the apex: legumes quite sniooth, 9-10-seeded; seeds 
‘truncate at both ends: flowers small, yellow. 
‘Com#on in the South Concan. 
(16) P. cranvis. (Dalz. ) 
Tdent. “Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 72. 
_Srzc. Car. Erett, 4-5 feet in height: stem herbaceous, pip= 
‘ed, 5-angled, clothed with brown reversed bristly hairs: leaves pins 
nately trifoliolate, very laige: stipules very large, leafy, adnate, 
lower part 2-lobed; leaflets sprinkled with small bristles, lateral 
‘ones 2-lobed, terminal one deeply 3=lobed; lobes ovate, shortly 
and bluntly acuminated: peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than 
the leaf, covered with reilexed bristles, many-flowered at the apex : 
flowers smallish, pale yellow, with large oval bracts below the 
calyx: ‘legumes cylindric, térolose, ‘obtuse at the apex, thickish, 
covered with black biistles. 
High Ghauts East of Bombay. 
(17) B. Putwiensts. (R. W.) 
Ydent, Wiglit’s Feoh. vol. I: No. 11. 
Engrav. Wight's Icon, t. 202. 
_ Sprzc.Cuar. Root tuberous: stems procambent, diffuse, hairy : 
leaves trifoliolate, hairy; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acute: stipules 
‘small, lanceolate, attached by the base: peduncles very long, as- 
cending, curved, 1-flowered : legume cylindrical, somewhat clavate, 
tapéting towards the point, hairy: flowers large. 
_ Pulney Hills, creeping among long grass, at an elevation of about 
6,000 feet. 
GENUS EXVII. DOLICHOS. 
Diadelphia Detandria. Sex: Sysi : 
_ Deriv. From Dolichos, long, in reference to the long twining 
‘stems. 7 : 
_ Gen. Cuan. Herbs or undershrubs, usually twinitig: Jeaves 
pinnately trifoliolate: flowers axillary: calyx campariulate, more 
‘or less 2-lipped, the upper lip emarginate or 9-cleft, the under 3- 
partite, with the middle segment longer than the others: coroHa 
papilionaceous: vexillum furnished near'the base with about 2-4 
‘callosities: wings oblong, obtuse : keel falcate or inéurved, neither 
“twisted nor bent to one side: legume more or less furnished with 
partitions between the seeds; seeds oval, more or less compressed. 
