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at or near the end. Pedicels very short. Bracteoles shorter than the calyx and 
very deciduous. Flowers rather large, mixed purplish or pink and white or the 
standard yellowish. Calyx upper lobes short, very broad and obtuse, the lowest 
narrow acute and as long as or longer than the tube. Standard and wings nearly 
lin. long; keel forming 2 or 3 coils. Pod flattened, straight or falcate, attaining 
3 or 4in. in length and nearly -J-in. in breadth. — P. rostratus, Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 
56, t. 63 ; Wight, Ic. t. 34. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, It. Brown : Bustard Bay, Endeavour River, &c., 
Banks and Solander ; Port Curtis and Barnard Island, M'Gillivray. 
The species is frequently sent to Europe as indigenous in collections from almost all tropical 
countries, but it is also frequently cultivated. The numerous synonyms, as far as ascertained, 
are quoted in Mart. FI. Bras. Papil. 186. — Benth. 
3. P. Mungo (Indian name), Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 395 ; Benth. FI. Anstr. 
ii. 257. “ Komin,” Rockhampton, “Kadolo,” Cleveland Bay, Thozet. More or 
less hirsute, the hairs reflexed on the branches, appressed on the leaves, the 
Australian specimens elongated and twining, but, like P. vulgaris, it is more 
generally cultivated as dwarf and erect. Leaflets mostly ovate, acute or 
acuminate, entire or minutely 3-lobed, the lateral ones very oblique, 2 to Sin. 
long. Stipules rather large, oblong, produced below their insertion so as to 
appear peltate. Flowers rather small, pale yellow, in 2 or 3 clusters at the end 
of the peduncle or rarely more .numerous in a somewhat elongated raceme. 
Bracteoles small and very deciduous. Calyx 2 upper lobes very short and broad, 
the lowest nearly as long as the tube and acute. Keel spirally twisted to one 
side, with a spur near the base of the lamina on the same side only. Pods 
spreading or reflexed, cylindrical when ripe, 2 to 3in. long, scarcely 3 lines broad, 
hirsute or rarely glabrous. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander; Gould Island, M'Gillivray ; limestone hills, 
Leichhardt; Bowen River, Bowman ; Rockhampton, Dallachy. 
The Australian specimens belong chiefly to the slender twining form, which includes P, 
radiatus, Roxb.. or P. Pioxbnrghii, W. and Arn. Prod. 246, and P. trinervins , Heyne, W. and Am. 
Prod. 245. This, like the erect form, including P. Max, Linn., as well as P. Mungo, appears to 
be very abundant, wild or cultivated, in tropical Asia, but not in America. — Benth. 
Roots, after being baked, eaten. — Thozet. 
4. P. semierectus (slightly erect), Linn.: DC. Prod. ii. 396 ; Baker in Hook. 
FI. Brit. Ind. ii. 201. A shrubby often straggling plant, the branches suberect, 
terete, clothed with long deciduous deflexed hairs. Stipules J to nearly Jin. long, 
lanceolate-setaceous. Leaflets entire, membranous, soon glabrescent, thicker 
than in most of the species, the end one ovate, entire, acute or subobtuse, 2 to 
3in. long, usually deltoid at the base. Peduncles reaching 1ft. and racemes 
Jft. long ; pedicels very short, geminate. Bracteoles setaceous. Calyx tubuloso- 
campanulate with aristate teeth, under Jin. long, split open by the pod. Corolla 
deep-purple and white, 3 or 4 times longer than the calyx. Pod 3 to 4in. 
long, glabrous, rather recurved, many-seeded. — P. psoraleoides, W. and A. Prod. 
244 ; Wight Ic. t. 249. 
Hab.: Found in many parts of India, tropical America, Malaya, and naturalised in Queensland. 
61. VIGNA, Savi. 
(After Dominie Vigna.) 
(Scytalis and Strophostyles, E. Mey.; Plectrotropis, Schum.) 
Calyx 2 upper lobes united into one, or more or less distinct. Standard broad, 
spreading ; wings obliquely obovate, adhering to the keel ; keel incurved, either 
obtuse or with an obliquely incurved beak, not forming a complete spire. Upper 
stamen free, the others united ; anthers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, with 
several ovules ; style thickened upwards and longitudinally bearded on the inner 
