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210 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Dolichos: 



dish or white, ^ in. Pod H-2 in. by ^| in., tipped with the hooked persistent 

 base of the style. — Eoxburgh describes fully 13 cultivated varieties. 



2. D. bracteatus, Baker; flowers large, pedicels exceeding the calyx, 

 keel broad suhobtuse, pod linear many-seeded. 



Plains of Concan, Sioc^s. 



A robust glabrous perennial twiner. Stiptdes \ in., lanceolate, basifixed ; leaflets 

 entire, membranous, glabrous, acute or obtuse, |-| ft. long, and broad, the base deltoid. 

 Racemes long-peduncled, reaching a foot or more long; bracts minute, linear-lanceo- . 

 late, deciduous; pedicels \~^ in. ; bracteoles firm, oblong or roundish, as long ^^ ^^ 

 calyx. Calyx \ in., glabrous ; teeth deltoid, short. Corolla reddish, 1 in. long, ^od 

 much recurved, 5-6 in. by f in., 10-12-seoded. 



SuBGEN. 2. IMEacrotyloma, W. 8f A. Style filiform, minutely penicil- 

 late round the stigma, not "bearded down the edge. — Connects Fhaseolece and 

 Galactieoi. 



3. D. biflorus, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 398; leaflets entire, flowers l-^'^ 

 the axils of the leaves, calyx-teeth long setaceous, corolla yellow, pod ^-^^ 

 downy 6-6-seeded. JRoxh. FL Ind. iii. 313. D. uniflorus, Lam. ; DC. Prodr. 

 loc. ctL ; Wall. Cat 5538 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 248. Johnia congesta, Dalz.^^' 

 Gibs. Bomb. FL Suppl. 23. Glycine uniflora, Dah. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xui. 

 146, cum icone. 



Himalayas to Ceylon and Bikma, ascending to 3000 ft. in Sikkim, sometimes 

 cultivated. — Distrib. Everywhere in tropics of Old World. 



Annual, suberect (D. ■uniflorus) or lengthened out and twining {B. biflorus),Q-^^'^j^ 

 rarely glabrescent. Stipules basifixed, I in., lanceolate, scariuse ; leaflets membran- 

 ous, ovate, acute, 1-2 in. long, at first finely pilose on the faces. Flowers 1-3 toge- 

 ther, in the axils of the leaves, without a common peduncle. Calyx ^ in., do-wny , 

 teeth lanceolate- setaceous, much exceeding the tube. Corolla ^— J in. long ; keelnar 

 row, obtuse, rather shorter than the standard. Pod 1^2 in. by ^-^ in., much recurve , 

 tipped with the persistent style. 



4. D. lanceolatus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5647 ; leaflets entire, flo^^ 

 1-2 on a short common peduncle in the axils of the leaves, calyx-teeth shorte 

 than the tube, corolla reddish. 



BiRMA ; Prome hills, Wallich. . ^ 



Stems very slender, wide-twining, with only a few short adpressed hairs. ^^^^^ 

 minute, lanceolate ; leaflets 1-1 ^ in. long, moderately firm, oblong, acute, with a 

 adpressed hairs on both sides, narrowed to a rounded base. Pedicels shorter thaj^.^ 

 calyx ; bracteoles ovate, persistent, rather shorter than the calyx. Calyx under ^ ' '^ 

 silky. (7oro//a 3 times the calyx; petals subequal ; keel distinctly incurved at 

 tip. subobtuse. Style rather thickened upwards, so that it connects the two secti 

 Pod unknown. 



5. D. ciliatus, Klein-, DC. Prodr. ii. 398; leaflets entire conspicu- 

 ously ciliated on tlui edge, flowers 3~G in subsessile cymes, calyx-teeth setae*? ^ 

 corolla yellow, pod linear-oblong glabrous 3-4-3eeded. Wall. Cat. 55o»; 

 8fA. Prodr. 249. D. prostratus, A'o?/?///; Poxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 310. 



Plains of the Western Peninsula and Ceylon. ^ . i^^^^s 



Boot tuberous, perennial. Stems slender, firm, clothed witli short spreading deci ^ ^^ 

 grey hairs. Stipules small, nervose, lanceolate, basifixed ; leaflets oblong, ^*^^p j^fc 

 the base, 1-3 in. long, with only a few adpressed hairs at first on the faces. ^^ ^^^^ ,: 

 shorter than the calyx ; bracteoles minute, ovate, nervose, persistent. ^^^^.^\^S^ 

 J in. ; lower teeth lanceolate-setaceous. Corolla ^ in. ; standard as in Clltor^* . - 



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