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pubescent beneath, the veinlets raised. Flowers in very lax 4—8-flowered 
racemes on firm slender peduncles 2-4 in. long. Bracts small, rigid, 
deciduous. Calyx } in. long, thinly silky; teeth lanceolate acuminate, 
reaching more than half down. Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. Pod 
2 in. long, slightly curved, 7—8-seeded.—Harv. Fl. Cap. 11.230. G. vil- 
losa, Wight et Arn.l.c. Copisma subsericeum, Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 34. 
G. mucronata, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 38. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Peters! 
Also a plant of the Cape, the Mascarene isles, and East Indies. 
60. DIOCLEA, H.B.K.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 536. 
Calyx with the two upper teeth connate, the lateral ones small, the 
lowest longer. Standard orbicular, reflexed, the base with a pair of 
inflexed auricles; wings obovate or oblong, free, rather longer than 
the keel; keel incurved, subrostrate. Upper stamen free at the base, 
connate with the others at the middle, anthers uniform, the alternate 
ones in our species small and abortive. Ovary subsessile, bi- or multi- 
ovulate; style incurved, beardless, dilated upwards; stigma truncate, 
terminal. Pod linear, oblong, compressed, nearly flat, coriaceous, 
eeted, upper suture dilated, septate between the seeds,—Twining 
shrubs. 
A moderately small genus, almost entirely Tropical American. 
l. D. reflexa, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 306. Stems woody, climbing to a 
height of 20 ft., terete, clothed with long spreading fine deciduous 
yellowish-orey hairs. Stipules 4—3 in. long, scariose, peltate. Petioles 
~-3 in. long’; leaflets 3, stipellate, central one obovate-oblong, 4-6 
in. long; base rounded, the apex cuspidate; lateral ones similar, sub- 
coriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly and deciduously silky. 
lowers in moderately dense racemes 4—6 in. long, on firm peduncles 
often as long. Bracts } in. long, lanceolate or linear. Pedicels 4 in. 
long with a pair of short rounded bracteoles at the apex. Calyx 3 in. 
deep, tawny silky, upper lip blunt, emarginate, lower with central tooth 
anceolate, reaching halfway down, the others deltoid. Corolla red, 
half as long again as the calyx. Pod coriaceous, broad-oblong, 3-4 in. 
long, 2 in. broad, densely clothed with yellowish-grey silky hairs when 
young, 1—2-seeded.—Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xxiv. 162. Dolichos 
cortaceus, Graham in Wall. Cat. No. 5562. 
Upper Guinea. (Guinea proper, Vogel! Mann! 
Po, Vogel! Barter! 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
A plant of both Tropical Asia and America. 
Prince’s island and Fernando 
61. CANAVALIA, Adans.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 537. 
Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip large, truncate or bifid, the lower one 
shorter, entire or trifid. Standard large, suborbicular, reflexed, with 
