LEGUMINOS^. CLXXXIIL Rhynchosia. CLXXXIV. Eriosema, 



347 



38 R. de'bii-is; plant twining, villous ; leaflets roundish, 

 almost glabrous ; petioles long ; racemes axillary, sessile, crowd- 

 ed with small flowers ; legumes short, villous. 1/ . '^. S. Na- 



47 R. MOLLIS (D. C. prod. 2. p. 388.) stems twining; leaflets 

 elliptic, obtuse at both ends, pubescent above but tomentose and 

 reticulately veined beneath ; pedicels 1 -flowered, one-half shorter 



tive of Guinea and of the Island of St. Thomas. Flowers than the petioles ; legumes 3-seeded, clothed with rufous villi. 



Native of Sierra Leone. 



small, yellow. 



Weak Rhynchosia. PI. tw. 



39 R. striata; plant twining; leaflets ovate, acuminated, 

 entire, glabrous, 3-nerved at the base ; racemes lateral, sessile ; 

 calyx 4-cleft, and is as well as the pedi< 

 equal in length to the calyx. 7/ . '^. S. 

 Flowers yellow and striped with red. 



Striated-Roweved Rhynchosia. PI. tw. 



40 R. bifl6ra (D. C. 1. c.) stems twining, clothed with vel- 

 vety villi; leaflets oval, acutish at both ends, reticulated above, 

 but clothed with soft velvety villi beneath ; racemes 2-flowered, 

 shorter than the petioles ; legumes ovate, mucronate, villous, 

 constricted between the seeds ; seed furnished with a thick bifid 

 arillus. ©. '^. S. Native of the East Indies. Dolichos sea- 

 rabaeoides, Roxb. hort. beng. 57. Legume 5-6 lines long and 

 3 lines broad, 2-seeded. Seeds ovate, blackish brown, separated 

 by cellular transverse membranes. 



1/ . '^. S. Native of Guinea. Glycine mollis, Willd. spec. S. 

 p. 1063. Lateral leaflets about an inch long, and the middle 

 one about an inch and a half long. Flowers yellow. 



Soft Rhynchosia. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1823. 



PI. tw. 



'flowered 



48 R. RiGiDULA (D. C. 1. c.) stems erect, clothed with retro- 

 grade, hoary pubescence ; leaflets linear, mucronate, pubescent, 

 and beset with resinous dots beneath; pedicels axillary, 1- 

 flowered, bent in the middle, length of petioles; legumes rather 

 villous, oblong, 1-seeded. ^ . G. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Burch. cat. afr. aust. no. 2587. 



Stiffish Rhynchosia. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



Cult. This genus is composed of plants of no beauty. 

 the culture and propagation of the species see Eriosemay p. 348. 



CLXXXIV. ERIOSFMA (from eptov, erion, wool, and 

 arifia, sema, a standard ; in reference to the vexillum, which is 

 clothed with silky hairs). Desv. in Schlecht. Linnaea. vol. 2. 



For 



Clt. 1816. Pl.tw. 



p. 512. 

 Lin. syst. 



FL Jul. Aug. 



41 R. Garci'ni (D, C. prod. 2. p. 388.) stems twining, clothed 

 with velvety villi : leaflets roundish-obovate, very blunt, clothed 

 with soft villi on both surfaces ; racemes shorter than the leaves; 



legumes oblong, covered with fine velvety down, mucronate, ^ ,, . • • /• 



2-seeded, not constricted between the seeds. ©. ? ^. G. Na- with digitately trifoliate leaves, with the 3 leaflets rismg from 

 tive of Persia. Phaseolus Persicus mollis, Garcin, in herb. the same dot or centre from the tip of the petiole, rarely soli- 

 tary. Racemes or fascicles of flowers axillary. Flowers yellow. 

 1 E. GRANDiFLORA (Schlecht. ct Cham, in Linnaea. 5. p. 588.) 



Diadelphia, Decdndrla. Calyx 5-cleft, some- 

 what bilabiate, usually inclosing the corolla. Stamens diadel- 

 phous. Style filiform. Vexillum clothed with silky villi. 

 Legume straight, 1 -celled, 1 or few-seeded. — Erect subshrubs. 



Burm. Flowers yellow, striated. 

 Garcin's Rhvnchosia. PI. tw. . - . , 



42 R. ANGusTiFOLiA (D. C. 1. c.) stcms twiuiug, terete, vil- shrubby, erect ; branches angular, somewhat trigonal ; petioles 

 lous; stipulas ovate, acute; leaflets linear-lanceolate, silky; very short, and are as well as the nerves and vems on the under 



' surface of the leaves clothed with silky rufous down, but the 



calyxes and legumes are clothed with silky rufous villi ; leaves 

 and corollas covered with soft pubescence on both surfaces ; 

 leaflets oblong-elliptic, mucronate ; bracteas roundish-ovate, 

 acute, rather silky, ciliated and bearded; racemes terminal 

 and axillary, panicled ; legumes ovate, compressed, obliquely 

 beaked. ^ • S. Native of Mexico, near La Hacienda de la 



Laguna. Very like E. tufa. 



Great-flowered Eriosema. Fl. Oct. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



2 E. ru'fa ; plant suffVuticose, erect ; branches somewhat 



pedicels axillary, very short, 1 -flowered ; segments of the calyx 

 lanceolate ; legumes pubescent, 2-seeded. Tj . ^. G. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Glycine angustifolia, Jacq. hort. 

 schanbr. 2. t. 231. Flowers yellow. Anthers pilose. 



Narrow- leafletted Rhynchosia. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1795. 

 ^nrubtw, 



^■3 R. GLANDULOSA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 388.) stems twining, 

 rather angular, smoothish ; leaflets oblong, glabrous, but full of 



resinous dots beneath as well as the calyx ; peduncles axillary, 

 l->3-flowered, longer than the leaves. ' ^ " ^.t .• . .r .i._ 

 Upe of Good Hope 

 but not of Thunb. Glycine glandulosa, Thunb. cap. prod'. 131. 



f^F' j^^' ^^^icels nearly an inch long, according to Thunb. 



44 r"-'" ^^y^'^^osia. Shrub tw. 

 br \ ^^"^ i^- C- 1- C-) stems twining, terete, glabrous ; 

 ^jj^?"^J]^s clothed with adpressed silky down ; leaflets ovate or 



v-^.cv,.. Tj.*^. G. Native of the - - ■ . - , n v, 



Phaseolus Capensis, Burm. cap. p. 81. tetragonal, clothed with rufous velvety down as well as the 



petioles, which are very short ; leaflets 3, elliptic-oblong, clothed 

 with soft velvety down on both surfaces, but with rufous down 

 on the nerves on the under surface, which are rather prominent, 

 the odd leaflet remote from the lateral ones ; racemes many- 

 flowered, shorter than the leaves ; legumes oval, compressed, 

 "oiong, mucronate, rather puberuloiis, fringed a little at the mucronate, clothed with rufous villi. ^2.8. Native of New 

 Mse, dotless beneath ; pedicels axillary, iointed in the middle, Andalusia, in humid places near Caripe, and on Cerro del Co- 

 '-flowered, length of petioles : segments of the "^alyx and sti- collar. Gly'cine rufa, H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 423. 



Pu as subulate. Tz . ^. S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope 



rlJ .Jm^^^'J*^' ^f"*- a"st- no. 2040. Glycine Totta, Thunb. fl. 

 <^ap.591. Flowers yellow. 



Hottentot Rhynchosia. Shrub tw. 



t. 574. Rhynchosia riifa, D. C. prod. 2. p. 388. 

 Far. /3, macrostachya (D. C. prod. 2. 



than the leaves. 



Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



"ottentot Rhynchosia Shrub tw - Rufous Eriosema. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



AaJ ^; ''^^^'ssima; plant twining, very soft and hoarv from 3 E.viola^cea; plant suff-ruticose, erect ; branches and leaves 



_"5 leaflets ovate-roundish. muc?onate.3-nerved at the base: clothed with very short ferrugmous villi; leaflets 3, oblong- 



^f^ 



PI. tw. 



raf.^^ .„ ovate-roundish, mucronate, 3-nerved at the base; ' . , , -, , i. . i u j •*) 



Racemes axillary, spike-formed. IZ . ^. S. Native of Guinea, linear, acute, greenish above and velvety, but clothed with rusty 

 ''I '^'"'"on among grass. Flowers small, brown. villi beneath, the odd leaflet rather ren^ote from the lateral ones ; 



r^-rw-.^A i>, . °. _. racemes axillary and terminal, many-flowered ; legumes ovate, 



villous, 2-seeded. f2 . S. Native of Guiana, in meadows. Cy- 

 tisus violaceus, Aubl. guian. 2. p. 7CG. t.306. Crotalarialineita, 

 Lam. diet. 2. p. 200. Glycine picta, Vahl. symb. 2. p. 814. 

 Rhynchosia violacea, D. C. prod. 2. p. 388. Flowers violaceous. 

 r/o/aceoM* Eriosema. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1820. Sb. 4 ft. 

 4 E. DiiFu'sA ; branches diffusely procumbent, tetragonal, 



y V 2 



46 R *'jj 'V "^""sia. xru iw. 



ovate "'^oke'ri ; plant pubescent ; stems twining ; leaflets 

 t^an tlf ^T' ^^'"^^'hat rhomboidal, dotted ; racemes shorter 

 )Z r% Q ^^^^^ ; legumes scymitar-shaped, swollen, 2-seeded. 



ein. fl Na^»ve of the West Indies. Glycine mollis. Hook. 

 **oi. fl. t. 201. "" 



Clt. 1824. Pl.tw. 



/Li . i\ • ^'lowers yellow. 

 ^^*er . Rhynchosia. Fl. July, Aug. 



