-234 LJEQUMINOS^, jPhaseolus. 



minute, deciduous, cordate- ovate. Leaflets 6-12 in. each way, "broadly 

 ovate-acutninate, green and glabrescent above, densely clothed beneath 

 with whitish appressed pubescence ; the lateral ones oblique. Floivers 

 in dense virgate leafless often panicled racemes ; 'pedicels very short, 

 densely fascicled ; bracts minute. Calyx ^-^ in- long, very silky ; teeth 

 subobtuse, shorter than the tube. Corolla bright blue, nearly twice the 

 calyx; standard distinctly spurred at the base ; ivings obliquely oblong ; 

 Tceel obtuse. Pod 2-3 in. long, flat, constricted between the seeds, densely 

 clothed with soft brown bristle-like hairs. 



Dehra Dun, Siwalik range, N. Oudh, Bundelkhand, Merwara. Disteib 

 From the W. Himalaya to Sikkim,up to 4,000 ft. in Kumaon ; lower hills 

 of Punjab, on Ivlt. Abu, and in the hilly tracts of Bengal and S. India. 

 The planb is leafless between November and May, and the flowers 

 appear during March and April. The large tuberous roots, called hilai- 

 hand are used medicinally, and sometimes as food. 



2. P. Wallichii, BO. in Ann. Sc. Nat 8er. I, iv (1825). 97; F.B.I. 

 ii, 193; Prain in Journ. As. Sac. Beng. LXVI (1897), 419. Dolichos frutes- 

 cens, Ham. in Don Prod. 240. 



A shrub, with slender terete glabrous branches. Stipules basifixed. 

 Leaflets mambranjus or sabcoriacejus, green and glabrescent above, grey 

 with a few appressed hairs beneath ; the end one 4-6 in. long, obovate- 

 cuspidate, with a deltoid base. Racemes copious, 3-6 in. long, often fas- 

 cicled or panicled ; pedicels about equalling the calyx, finely silky. 

 Calyx gibbous, | in. ; teeth obscure, deltoid. Corolla aboiit | in. long, 

 reddish ; stindird not spurred at the base. Pod straight, 4-5 in. long, 

 rigidly coriaceous, glabrous. 



Hardwar (Wallich). DrsTRiB. Sub-Himalayan tract from Nepal to 

 Sikkim, Khasia Hills, Sylhet, Upper Burma. 



3. P. pliaseoloides, Bent/i. in Journ Linn. Soc. IX (1867), 125. 

 F. B. I. a, 199 ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI (1897), 61. 



A slender creeper. Stems hardly woody, appressed pubescent. Leaves 6-8 

 in. long, contemporaneous with the flowers; petiole 3-i in., densely 

 clothed with spreading hairs ; stipules small, lanceolate, basifixed ; 

 leaflets 3-6 in long, membranous dull-green and sparsely hairy above 

 veivety-tomentose beneath ; base widely cuneate : apex subobtuse, with 

 an entire repand or 3-lobed margin ; stipels small, subulate. Inflores- 

 cence of long-peduncled axillary puberulous racemes of fascicled flowers; 

 bracts and fe-acteoies lanceolate appressedly bristly. Calyx 5 in, cam- 

 panulate, clothed with appressed bristly hairs ; lowest tooth lanceolate, 

 as long as the tube, the others shorter, all with setaceous tips. Corolla 

 more than twice the calyx, pale-blue and white ; standard distinctly 

 spurred at the base . Pods many, 3^ in. long, ultimately glabrescent. 

 Seeds about 16, dark brown and minutely rugulose. 



Dehra Dun and N. Oudh (Duthie). Distbib. Trop. Himalaya from 

 Garhwal eastwards, Bengal, Burma, Andaman Islands, Malay Penins. 

 and Islands and in China. 



