78 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



to 6 cm. long, apprcssed, rusty-pubescent, pedicels about i mm. long; 

 calyx rusty-pubescent, lateral lobes ovate, as long as the tube, upper and 

 lower longer and mucronate; corolla about twice the length of the lateral 

 lobes, purple; flower 6 to 10 mm. long; vexillar stamen united for about 

 4 its length; pod compressed, glabrous, obliquely beaked, 3 to 4 cm. long; 

 seeds dark brown, smooth. The leaves and pods, under a lens are 

 sparsely hirsute. The leaves are wider than in Wright's Cuba specimen 

 in Herb. Cambridge. They do not agree altogether with the descrip- 

 tion of Dioclea galactioid.es in Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. "foliolis subtus 

 puberulis sericeis " and " legumine rufo-pubescente." 



G. Rudolphioides, (Griseb. ) Wr. in Wr. & Sauv. Fl. Cub. 

 1873. Dioclea, Griseb. PI. Wr. i. 1860. 

 Nassau ; Eleuthera ; Cat Is. ; Crooked Is. 

 G. tenuiflora, (Willd.) Wight & Arn. Prod. Fl. Ind. 

 1834. Glycine, Willd. Spec. iii. 1801. G. filiformis, 

 Benth. in Ann. Wien. ii. 1838. 

 Nassau; Watling's; Inagua. 



Canavali, Adans. Fam. 1763. Oanavalia, DC. Prod. ii. 



1825. 

 C. gladiata, (Savi) DC. 1. c. " Malocchia, Savi, Mem. 

 1825, p. 4" (ex DC. 1. c.). 

 Nassau ; Grand Cayman. 



C. obtusifolia, (Lam.) DC. 1. c. Dolichos, Lam. Diet. ii. 

 1786. 



Nassau; Eleuthera; Kingston. 



Phaseolus, L. Gen. 1737; Tourn. Inst. 1700. 

 P. semierectus, L. Mant. i. 1767. 



Nassau; Constant Springs; Kingston (R. ); Port 

 Morant; Grand Cayman; Porus. 



Vigna, Savi, Mem. Phas. iii. 1824. 

 V. luteola, (Jacq.) Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xv. 1859. 

 Phaseolus, Jacq. Hort. Vind. i. 1770. 



Kingston; Port Morant; Lucea; Grand Cayman. 



Dolichos, L. Gen. 1737. 



D. Lablab, L. Spec. 1753. 



Nassau ; Port Antonio. Cultivated and escaped. 



