and common rachis 4 em. long, channelled above and closcly covored with short,
roflexed, adpressed pubescence, potiolules short, adpressed-pubescent, leaflets ovatelanceolate,
apices acute, bases cuueate, margins entire, 8—15 cm. long, 4—7 cm. wide,
chartae30us, glabrous above, adpressed-puberulous beneath, roticulatoly veined between
the 12—15 paira of rather promiaeufc secoudary neryes, midrib closely adpressedpubescent
and promiuont beneath; stipels filiform, 1-5 mm. long, stipules rigid, spinulosesetaceous,
5 mm. long, developing before the leaves, basifised, caducous; Jlomrs fascicled
on axillary racemes 30—30 cm. long, with nodiform rachis; the peduncles 5—8 cm.
long, the nodes about 4 mm. apart; bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous} ca^iia; 5 mm.
long, adpressed-pubescent, tube campanulate as long as tho teeth, the two upper teeth
uonuate in a very shortly 2-dentate upper lip, the three lower triangular of equal width
but the lateral pair rather shorter than the central; petals purplish, i-25 cm. long,
standard suborbicular retuse at apex, silky externally, 1 cm. wide, wings oblong-ovate,
slightly adherent at base to cymbiform keel; stamens 10, monadelphous, anthers
nniform; ovary sessile, many-ovuled, densely silky; style inflexed, glabrous except round
t h e capitate stigma where it is shortly sparsely penicillate; pod 8 cm. long, 8 mm.
wide, flat, coriaceous, slightly adpressed-puberulous, and faintly depressed between the
10—12, suborbicular, compressed, estrophiolate, pale-greonish, smooth seeds with ovate
hilum, 6 mm. long, and 4 mm. wide. Sc. Mem. Med. O f . India xi. 42 (1898).
UPPER BUKSIA.: Kachin Hills, 3—5000 feet elev,, at Sima, Niku, and elsewhere;
Calcutta Garden Collecior!
This species might with almost equal propriety be referred to the subti-ibo Galactiece,
especially to the section Collcea of the genus Galaotia itself where also the vexillary
stamen is connate with the remaining nine, or to the subtribe DioGhce, especially to
t h e genus Pueraria of which it exhibits most of the characters though it differs
very markedly in having 5-foliolate loaves. From both Galactia § Colima, and Pueraria
our plant, however, difíers still more markedly in having the style bearded round the
stigma after the fashion of certain of the Euphaseolem, and it seems therefore preferable
to treat, it as the typo of a distinct genus, bearing to -the other Dioclece very much
tho relationship that Clitoria bears to the rest of the ClycinecB.
PLATE 34.—Cruddasia insignis Prain. I, end o£ a branoh with axillary iaflorescence; 2, infmitescence—
0/ natural size; 3, bud; 4, flower; 5, oalyx, laid open; 8, stamin.al sheath; 7,
ovarv; 8, the same, laid open; 9, ovule—a« enlarged; 10, seed—^ natural she. Specimeas from
Sima, Kaehia Hills.
D. P.
P L A T E 35.
35. KUNSTLEEIA. KINGII Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Bong. Ixvi. 2. 110 (1897)
Natural order Leguminosa),
A very extensive climber over 100 feet long, with slender branches; bark brown
l e n t i c u l a r ; leaves 12—20 cm. long, pinnately 3.foliolato; leaflets ovate-lanceolate'
10—15 cm. long, 4—5 cm. wide, ape.x acute, bases of lateral leaflets rounded, of
central, rather t h e longer, shortly cuneóte, lateral nerves ascending, 5—6 pairs, rather
prominent Hke tlie midrib beneath, margin entire, firmly chartaceous, pale-green,
glabrous on both surfaces, petiole glabrous, 4—6 cm. long, petiolules glabrous, 2'5 mm.
long, marginally attached; ßowers in copious terminal and axillary panicles 2 0 - 3 0 cm.
long, 12—20 cm. across, rachis and branches rusty-pubescent; nodes not swollen,
pedicels solitary, pubescent, 1 mm. long ; calyx campanulate, densely pubescent, 2 mm.
long, the two upper teeth connate in a broadly deltoid lip bifid at tip, the
others triangular almost as long as the tube; corolla dark-purple, 6 mm. long,
standard ovate-oblong, entire, keel boat-shapcd the petals slightly coheiing; stamens
2-adelphou8 the upper one quite free from those of the keel-sheath and slightly
adnate at base to standard claw; anthers versatile, iiniform, free portions of filaments
alternately long and short; ovary sessile, usually 2-ovuled, style slightly
incurved, filifoi-m, stigma capitate; fod thin, flat, densely brown pubescent and distinctl
y reticulated, 5—10 cm. long, 1-5 cm. wide, 1—2-seedod ; seeds oblong, 3'25 cm.
long, 1-25 cm. wide, cotylcdons thin and leaflike, testa very dark brown, faintly
rugose externally, thinly chartaceous.
MALAYAN PJÍNINSUIJ. : Perak, at Larut, Kunsiler nn. 3830! 6870 ! 6935 V
The genus Künstlerin was founded by the writer to accommodate 5 evidently
congeneric Malayan species with the habit of Spatkoluhus and with the calyx and
almost the corolla of tliat genus. This new genus however differs from Spaiholobvs
in having its flowers solitary instead of fascicled oa tumid nodes; in having exstipollate
leaflets varving in number in different species f r om 1—7 ; in the present species
only one of tho many specimens seut by Künstler had a leaf with a solitary leaflet
all tlie other leaves boing 3.foHolate. Another point of difference between Kumtleria
and Spathololvs is that tlie pods of the former are quite indehiscent with the seeds
situated centrally and not tern)inaily; in this respect therefore Kunsileria is not distinguishable
from Lonchooarpus. From Lonchocarpus-, however, Kunsiler ¿a differs in
ha%'ivig unfascicled flowers, in having a toothed calyx and in having diadelphous
stamens. As regards inflorescence Kimileria agrees exactly with tho species of Dcrris
that constitute the section Ac/anope and agrees moreover with that group of species
in having the vexillary stamen free. But here again Eunstlcria differs in having a
•wingless pod and a toothed calyx, and in having the free stamen slightly adnate to
the standard claw. With the calyx of Spatliolohis therefore we find combined in
Kwvstleria the pod of Lonchocarpus and the inflorescence of Aganope. The genus is
dedicated to t h e memory of the late Herr H. H. Kmistler.
PLATE 35.—Kunst lei ia Kicgii Prain. 1, flowering branch ; 2, fruiting b r a n c h — o f natural
sis«; 3, calys, laid open; 4, standard; 5, 6, wings; 7, keel ; 8, stamens; 9, ovary; 10, the
same, laid open; 11, ovule—rtW enUryed; 12, pod; 13, seed'; 14, vertical section of seed-o/
natural she.
D . P .
PLATirS 36—39.
DTSOLOBIUM Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Bcng. Ixvi. 2. 425 (1897),
iiaiiiraZ order Leguminosce.
Twiner's, usually woody, with 3-foliolate stipellate leaves; flowers in copious
.xillary racemes, bracteoles inconspicuous, deciduous'; cdhjx campanulate, the lower
ANN. EOY. BOT. GÄR». CAI.C., YOL. 1 5.