210 XLVI1. § PAPILIONACE (BAKER), 
Stems trailing ; flowers 2-4 together 
Two upper teeth not connate . 4 
eanots 1000 8. 60 5 es 
Flowers 1—2 together on an elongated peduncle. 
Young stems glabrous 
[ Dolichos. 
. D. rupestris. 
. D. stipulosus. 
D. Oliveri. 
. D. andongensis. 
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Young stems clothed with tawny deflexed silky hairs . 10. D. debilis. 
Flowers racemose. 
Stems slender, wide-climbing. 
Calyx-teeth acute. 
Racemes 3-4-flowered . 11. D. formosus. 
Racemes 6-8-flowered . 12. D. reticulatus. 
Calyx-teeth blunt . 13. D. stenocarpus. 
Stems suffruticose erect. 
Style not twisted. 
Leaves with the flowers. 
VOUOW ss po ee es 
Leaves after the flowers. Corolla 3 inch deep, purplish 15. 
Style much twisted at the base (§ Streptostylis, Welw. 
Corolla an inch deep, bright 
. . . 14. D. densiflorus. 
D. Dongaluta. 
mss.). 
Corolla half an inch long. Leaves thinly grey-canes- 
cent below. 
End leaflet rotundate-deltoid . 16. D. elatus. 
End leaflet ovate-lanceolate . . 17, D. pseudo-cajanus. 
Corolla an inch long. Leaves clothed beneath with 
thick shining whitish tomentum. . 18. D. splendens. 
1. D. Lablab, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1019. A wide-climbing perennial, 
with subglabrous stems. Leaflets 3, membranous, acute, glabrous 
above, nearly or quite so below ; central one ovate-deltoid, 3—6 in. long, 
broadly spathulately narrowed at the base. Flowers in fascicled lax 
racemes 3—6 in. long, on firm elongated peduncles. Calyx boda? 
campanulate, 24-3 lines long, subglabrous, with a pair of roundis 
deciduous bracteoles at the base, two upper teeth connate, the others 
shorter than the tube. “Corolla reddish or pale, 6-9 lines deep, the 
keel abruptly incurved. Pod 14—2 in. long, 7—10 lines broad, narrowe 
at the base, the upper suture nearly straight, the faces glabrescent, re 
persistently pubescent ; seeds 2-4; style flattened upwards, not twisted, 
narrowed at the base.—Bot. Mag. t. 896. Labdlad vulgaris, Savi, DC. 
Prod. ii. 401. Z. uncinatus, A. Braun in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. D. erend- 
tifructus, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 513. D. purpureus, Linn., Bot- 
Mag. t. 880. 
Upper Guinea. Niger country, Vogel! Mann! 
Nile Land. Nubia, Schweinfurth ! Abyssinia, Schimper! and others. Unyoro 
and Karagué, Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Loanda, Mossamedes, Barra do Bengo, and a form with pubes- 
cent pods in Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 
Cultivated everywhere in the Tropics. 
2. D. biflorus, L.; DC. Prod. ii. 398. Stems very wide-climbing, 
slender, slightly pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, 14-2 lines. Petioles 
6-8 lines; leatlets oblong, blunt, subglabrescent, the end one g-12 
lines long, on a petiolule 14-2 lines long; lateral ones very une ual- 
sided; stipelle minute, linear. Flowers 1-3 on very short pedicels 1 
