234 LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) [ Teramnus. 
Has. A weed, in cultivated and waste ground, throughout the colony. (Herb. 
T.C.D., &c.) 
A small, weak-growing biennial, varying in the breadth of the leaflets and in 
pubescence. Leaves subsessile ; leaflets 4-1 inch long, 2-1 line wide. Flowers pur- 
ple or blueish, or a reddish-lake, on peduncles 1 line long. Legumes 2 inches long, 
strongly compressed. This species is now naturalized throughout the temperate 
zones of both hemispheres. 
2. V. atropurpurea (Desf. Fl. Atl. 2, p- 164) ; densely villous ; stems 
4-angled ; leaflets 10-14, oblong or linear, mucronate, softly hairy, 
alternate or opposite; stipules semisagittate, often one-toothed at base; 
peduncles nearly equalling the leaves, many-flowered ; flowers secund, 
close together ; calyx-teeth bristle-shaped, pilose, longer than the tube; 
legumes oblong, compresso-turgid, densely hairy; seeds globose, black, 
the scar velvetty. DC. Prod. 2, p. 359. Vent. Hort. Cels. t. 84. Bot. Reg. 
t. 871. V. albicans, Lowe ! 
Has. Near the Capetown Observatory, Zeyher! (Herb. Sond.) 
_A native of Algeria, Madera, and the Azores ; probably a mere escape from the 
Observatory Garden. I have seen but a single Cape specimen, in Herb. Sond. ; it 
agrees in all respects with those from the Mediterranean and Azores, in Hb. T.C.D. 
Stem 2-3 feet high, sharply angular and rib-striate, much branched. Leaves sub- 
sessile, 2-3 inches long, with many pairs of leaflets, Flowers dark purple, the ale 
paler or white at base. Young pods very hirsute.; older much less so. 
L. DUMASIA, DC. 
Calyx cylindrical, obliquely truncate, entire, bibracteolate at base. 
Claws of the petals equalling the calyx ; limb of the vexillum cordate- 
oval; carina obtuse. Stamens 9-1. Ovary few-ovuled ; style filiform 
at base and apex, dilated beyond the middle. Legume attenuated at 
base, 2-valved, compressed, few-seeded, contracted between the seeds. 
DC. Prod. 2, p. 241. Endl. Gen. 6631. W. § A. Prod. 1, p. 206, 
Twining, herbaceous or suffruticose, slender plants, common in tropical Asia. 
Leaves pinnato-trifoliolate. Racemes axillary. This genus is readily known by its 
truncate, shortly tubular calyx. It is named in honour of J. i ch 
D. villosa (DC. Leg. Mem. P. 257, t. 44); stem and leaflets more or 
less pubescent or villous ; legumes villous. D, pubescens, DC. 1. c. t. 45. 
Prod. 2, P. 241. D. capensis, E, § Z.! 162 5. Burch. ! Cat. 5437. 
V ry, Variable in pubescence ; the S. African specimens glabrescens Stone doy 
younger parts retrorsely puberulous. Petioles filiform. Leaflets 
pit aes ee obtuse, subglabrous act minutely appresso-puberulent beneath, 
the leaves. Flowers 4—s lines long. Sumareh wtualling or slightly =— 
Be LI. TERAMNUS, Sw. 
: o- tubuloso-campanulate, 4—5-fid. Vesrillum obovate, with a long- 
ish claw; ale narrow-oblong, oblique ; caring shorter, oblique, obtuse. 
Stamens monadelphous, the alternate rostrate, Ovary sessile, with a 
short, thick style and capitate stigma, Legume linear, many-seeded, 
hook-pointed, septate within. Benth. Fl. Braz. AXIY, p 138. Glycine, 
sp. Auct.—Bujacia, E. Mey. Comma. p, 187, 5 me 
