PuEEAEiA.] LEaUMINOS^. 233 



T. labialis, Spreng. Srjsi. Hi, 285 ; F. B. I. ii, 184. Glycine latialis 



Linn. ; Roxh. Ft. Ind. Hi, 318 ; W Sf A. Prod. 208 ; JD. ^ Q. Bomb, 



Fl- 68. 



A wide-spreading slender climber, with a few appressed hairs on the 

 stems. Leaves 2^-4| in. long-, with minute lanceolate deciduous sti- 

 pules ; stipels minute, subulate ; petiole 1-lh in. ; leaflets 3, membranous 

 or subcoriaceous, 1-2| in. long, ovate-oblong with a rounded base, 

 subacute or obtuse, glabrescent above, sparsely appressed-hairy beneath ; 

 lateral slightly smaller than the terminal. Racemes axillary, elongated, 

 lax ; perHcels solitary below, fascicled upwards ; bracts narrowly 

 lanceolate, caducous; bracteoles aimnie, subulate. Calyx-teeth subequal, 

 about as long as the tube. Corolla t eddish. Pod 1^-2 in. long, linear, 

 glabrous, recurved, 8-12-seeded. 



Siwalik range, Bundelkhand. Disteib. Punjab Plain, Bengal and south 

 to Ceylon ; also in Burma and Penang. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



Var. mollis, Bafe, in F. B. I. I. c. T. mollis, Benth. Glycine mollis, W. <^ A. 

 Prod. 209. Stems and pods clothed with longer and more spreading 

 hairs ; leaflets subcoriaceous, densely pubescent beneath ; calyx-teeth 

 shorter than the tube.— Moradabad (T. Thomson). Disteib. Bengal, 

 Burma, Java. 



22. PUERARIA, DC. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 197. 

 Twining shrubs or herbs with stipellate pinnately 3-foliolate leaves ; 

 leaflets sometimes palmately lobed. Flowers sometimes appearing 

 before tlie leaves, large or small, densely fascicled, in long often com- 

 pound racemes ; rachis swollen at the nodes. Calyx-teeth long or 

 short, the 2 upper connate. Corolla distinctly exserted ; standard 

 usually spurred at the base, equalling in length the obtuse wings and 

 keel. Stamens 1-adelphous, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or nearly 

 so, many-ovuled ; style filiform, much incurved, beardless, stigma 

 capitate. J^od linear, flattish.— Species about 12, inhabiting Trop. Asia, 

 Japan and New Guinea. 



Flowers appearing after the leaves fall, pods 



constricted between the seeds ■ . . 1. P. tuberosa. 

 Flowers appearing with the leaves, pods not 

 constricted between the seeds. 

 Branches glabrous . . . . 2. P. Wallichii. 



Branches densely clothed with spreading 

 brown hairs . . . . 3. P. phaseoloides. 



1. P. tul)erosa, DC. in Ann. 8c. Nat. 8er. I. iv. (1825), 97 ; W. Sr A 

 Prod. 205 ; Royle III. 191 ; D. <^ G. Bomb. Fl. 67 ; Brand. For. Fl. 141 ; 

 F. B. I. ii, 197 ; Watt E. D. Hedysarum tuberosum, Roxb. ; Fl. Ind. Hi, 

 363. Vern. Sural, sarrdr, sarwdla (Bijnor), ghora-bel (Merwara). 



A twining shrub with deciduous foliage, and very large tuberous roots. 

 Stems woody, tubercled, the young branches finely grey-downy. Stipules 



