Galactia. | LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) 235 
Slender, twining, tropical plants. Leaves pinnately-trifoliolate ; leaflets stipellate, 
the terminal remote. Flowers minute, on slender, axillary peduncles, in pairs or 
fascicled, or in interrupted racemes. Pedicels short, bibracteolate under the calyx. 
Name from tepapvos, soft ; because the pods and leaves are soft. 
T. labialis (Spreng. Syst. 3. p. 235); variably pubescent with re- 
flexed hairs ; leaflets ovate or oblong, obtuse or mucronate, appresso- 
pubescent or silky ; peduncles longer than the leaves, interruptedly 
many-flowered ; upper lip of the calyx deeply bifid ; vexillum narrowed 
at base; ale unidentate, longer than the obtuse carina; legume ap- 
pressedly hispid or glabrescent. Glycine labialis. Linn. Suppl. 325. G. 
parviflora, Lam, DC. 2, p. 242. G. abyssinica, and Kennedya arabica, 
Hochst. Bujacia gampsonychia, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 127. 
Has. Caffraria, by the Key R. and between Omtendo and Omsamculo, Drege! 
Natal, Gueinzius! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd.) 
Stems slender ; in our specimens rough with reflexed, fulvous, rather igid hairs, 
sometimes glabrescent. Petioles 1-2 inches long. Leaflets 1-1} inch long, $-1 
inch wide, varying from sparsely hispid to densely silky, the hairs appressed. Ra- 
cemes 3-4 inches long, the flowers minute, 2-3 together in tufts, 3-4 lines apart, 
silky pubescent or subvillous. Calyx 2 lines long, the segments subequal, the two 
upper broader, connate at base or nearly to the middle. Vexillum 3 lines long, ob- 
ovate, with a long, tapering claw. Legume 14-2 inches long, 1} line wide, linear, 
slightly falcate, with a thick, incurved style and 10-12 transverse seeds, separated 
by cellular septa. 
(Doubtful Species. 
Bujacia anonychia (E. Mey. ! Comm. 1. c.) ‘‘staminal tube entire; 
legumes subtorulose, muticous, 5-seeded ; leaflets broadly ovate, acumi- 
nate.” EH. Mey. 
Has. Among shrubs near Natal, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
LIL. GALACTIA, P. Brown. - 
Calyx bibracteate at base, 4-fid, the segments acute, nearly equal. 
Vexillum ovate or suborbicular, patent or reflexed ; ale oblong, shorter 
than the subincurved carina. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary several- 
ovuled, subsessile, Syle filiform, incurved, glabrous ; stigma small. 
Legume linear, compressed, with cellular partitions between the seeds, 
several-seeded. Endl. Gen. No. 6653. — 
Voluble or prostrate herbs or suffrutices, chiefly tropical. Leaves trifoliolate ; 
leaflets stipellate, the terminal distant. Racemes axillary, few-flowered. Flowers 
small. Name from yada, milk. 
G. tenuiflora (Wight & Arn. Prod. 1, p. 206); voluble, variably pubes- 
cent; leaflets from oval to lanceolato-oblong, glabrous and shining 
above, paler and pubescent beneath ; peduncles equalling or exceeding 
the leaves, 2—4-flowered near the summit ; calyx silky (or glabrescent) 
with linear-faleate segments, G. tenuiflora and G. villosa, W. & A. Lc. 
Copisma subsericeum, Sond. in inn. Vol. 23, p. 34. 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius! (Herb. Sd., Hk., D.) ap tae 
"A common coast plant in tropical Asia and Australia, Our specimens exactly — 
agree with the “@. villosa,” W. & A., a hairy form that gradually passes into the — 
subglabrous @. tenuiflora of the same authors. Stem 2-3 feet high, slender. . 
1-2 inches long. Stipules lanceolate, 3 lines long. Leaflets 13-2 inches lo -10 
lines wide; more or less ovate or subcordate at base. Calyx-lobes 3 lines long, 4 line 
