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rachis, bracts, bracteoles, and calyces hirsute with elongated, scattered, 
usually appressed hairs. Flowers white, about 7 mm long, usually in 
pairs from a swollen node, each node subtended by two or three narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute, 2 to 3 mm long bracts; pedicels 2 to 3 
mm long, with a pair of bracteoles, similar to the bracts, near the apex. 
Calyx 5 mm long, the lower three teeth lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm 
long, subequal, the upper two connate for one-half their length into a 
deeply cleft lobe ( as long as the lower teeth. Standard 6 mm long, 
obovate-orbicular, rounded, clawed, not auricled or callose; wings equal- 
ling the standard, adherent to the keel and geniculate, with an oblong, 8 
mm long, 'obtuse auricle at the geniculation ; keel as long as' the other 
petals, very similar in size and shape to the wings, auricled. Stamens all 
fertile, the vexillary • one united with the rest. Ovary linear-lanceolate, 
Sessile, slightly hirsute ; style glabrous, slightly curved. Pods flat, 4 to 5 
cm long, about 5 mm wide, hirsute with scattered hairs, acuminate, 
slightly constricted between the seeds, each containing from 6 to 8, 
compressed, brown seeds about 2.5 mm long. 
Palawan, near Puerto Princesa, Bur. Sci. 295 Bermejos, January, 1906. A 
species readily recognizable by its 4-angled stems. 
2. Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9 (1865) 
125; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 199; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 
64; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 87; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 
Suppl. 67. 
1 Dolichos 'phaseoloides Roxb. FI. Ind. 3 (1832) 316. 
Pachyrhizus teres Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 580. 
Pachyrhizus montanus Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845.) 406, ed 3, 2:381. 
Dioscorea bolojonica Blanco 1. c. ed. 1 (1837) 800, ed. 2 (1845) 551, ed. 3, 
3:208. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, For. Bur. 15704 Merritt & Darling: Province of 
Tar lac, Merrill 3620: Province of Bulacan, Yoder 4® : Province of Bataan, Merrill 
154 7, 3778, For. Bur. 2340 Borden, Elmer 6719. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. 
Clemens 640- 
India to southern China, the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
3. Pueraria thunbergiana (S. & Z.) Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9 
(1865) 122; Forbes & Hemsl. 1. c. 23 (1887) 191; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
3 (1908) Bot. 410. 
Dolichos hirsutus Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2 (1794) 237, non Pueraria 
hirsuta Kurz (1873). 
Pachyrhizus thunb er g ianus S. & Z. FI. Jap. Fam. Nat. 2 (1846) 113. 
Eeustanthus chinensis Benth. FI. Hongk. (1861) 86. 
Batanes Islands, Batan , Bur. Sci. 3833 Fenix. -Babuyanes Islands, Cami- 
guin, Bur. Sci. 4116 Fenix. Luzon, Province of Benguet, Elmer 6600 : Province 
of Tayabas, Bur. Sci. 6803 Robinson: Banton, McGregor 34 7. Negros, For. Bur. 
13712, 17339 Curran. 
India to Korea and Japan, south to Formosa; possibly also in the Buru 
Archipelago. 
The specimen from Buru Island mentioned by Forbes & Hemsley may be refer- 
able to P. textilis Laut. & K. Sch., rather than to P. thunbergiana. The former 
is described as having sessile flowers, but in all the material of P. thunbergiana 
