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GALACTIA pendula. 

 Browne's Galactia. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRri. 



Nat. ord, T.EGUM!NosiB. Jussieu gen. 34-5. Div- V. Cor- irregularii 

 papilonacea- Legum. l-!oc.» 2-vaIve- 



GALACTIA. CaL 4-dentatus, 2-bracteatus, Cor. 5*petala» petaliff 

 omnibus oblongis; vexillo ceteris latiore^ incumbente. Sitgma obtusum. 

 Legum, teres, Scm, subrotunda, Mickaux bor. anter, 2. 61- 



G. pendula, foliis ternatUi racemo erecto^ floribus peodulis, Persoon syn. 



2, 302. 

 Clitoria Galactia- Linn, sp. pL 2. 1026- Willd. sp, pt 3. 1070- Hort. 



Kew. ed- 2,4*, 301. 

 Galactia foliis ovatis glabris pinnato-ternatis, spicia elongatis termipalibug, 



Browne Jam, 298. t, S2,^g, 2, 

 Phaseolus minor lactescens, flore purpureo. Sloane Jam, 1* 188. <. 114. 



Frutex lactescens? orgyalis v, nltrd, appressi viUosus, rami's lignosit 



volubilibus teretibns, Fol, alterne distantia, ternata, siepe deflexay^rma v^ 



duriuscula^ subtus et ad petiolos villosa^ supra glabra; foMoXd^ ovato-ablonga^ 



reticulato-venosa^ terminate muticum subu^ictaUf lateralia paulo minora mw- 



cronaia; petiolus semunciam vix excedens; stipulae comm. bin{B opposiitPf 



distincttff petiolo, subulate, partiales aristiformes, Hacemi spicatiy axilfares^ 



solitarily erectly indivisi^ ejascictdis S'plurifloris subsecundis pendulU distan* 



tius compositiy S-^-plo longlores Jbliis ; pedunculus strictuSy ^It/brmisf vil* 



losuSi t^J^ ramo divergens, pede cinctus bractei$ 3 ? villosts de dilatata base sub' 



ulatis; pedicelti capulares breviores calyce agg^^gati singuli bracteola breviore 



subulata mtmiti^ recurvati villo&i. Flores supinatiy subunciales, penduli, recti^ 



ehngnto-oblongi^ primo vtvide rubenies tandem sordide pallentes, Cal. tenuis^ 



ftternbranaceus, pallidus, tubttlosO'Campanulatast 3'4f4i?i£arisj bilabiatO'^^dus^ 



labio altero iHobo ovatO'lanceolato, majore, altera S-lobo lobis lanceolatis^ 



medio recurvato lateralibus longiwe; bast exceptus bracteolis '2 minimis lanceo^ 



iatis villosis appressis, PeU ^quU&nga^ tenuia, tenera : vex, cuneato-oblongum^ 



cbtusuntt triplo Jeri latins mis et carina^ accumbens: alae rectie, elongato* 



oblongs, lineari-angust^f obtus^y carinam compleclentes ; car. bifidoy recia^ 



obtusa, e petalis 2 alarum exacte similibus, into margine patttm cohi^enH* 



bus7 pelaiorum omnium ungues breves, vexiUi brevtssimt, Fil. diaddpha^ 



alterne subbreviora^ recta, superne ertAescentia : anth, oblongaj breves^ lutets^ 



Pist* rectum,' germ* polyspermum, subpedicellatumfy sericeum, lineari-angut" 



iumy compressumy utrinque versHs attenuatnm: stylus albus, capiUarit^ 



glabeTf smassurgens: stig. apiculus mimimus. 



This shrub has been described by Sloane and Browne 

 in their natural histories of Jamaica, of which island it is a 

 native, growing on inferior hills, where it is said to wind 

 itself for the length of from 6 to 9 feet round the nearest 

 support. By the latter writer the species was made the 



