Dolichos. | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 243 
style channelled or terete; stigma capitate. Legwme compressed, straight 
or faleate, 2 or several-seeded, with cellular partitions between the seeds. 
Endl. Gen. 6676, Lablab, Adans. Endl. 6677. Chloryllis, HE. Mey. Endl. 
6664. : 
‘Voluble or prostrate herbs or suffrutices, common throughout the tropics and 
warmer zones of both hemispheres. Leaves shiiasily weitolialgas or rarely 5-folio- 
late, stipellate. Flowers racemose, subcorymbose or rarely solitary, bibracteolate, 
red, purple, blue, or white. The name is unexplained ; it was used by Dioscorides 
for some similar plant, or for some species of the allied genus Phaseolus (kidney-bean). 
Several have edible pods. ! 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
1. Lablab.—Upper lobe of the calyx entire. Vexillum expanded ; carina elongate, 
taper pointed, sharply bent upwards. Style laterally flattened, broad, pubescent all 
und. 
e (1) Lablab, 
2. Dolichos.—U pper lip of the calyx emarginate or bidentate. Vexillum expanded ; 
carina incurved, shortly rostrate. Style channelled or terete. (Sp. 2-10). 
Style channelled, bearded along its upper edge, or glabrous : 
Voluble. Leafl. rhomboid-ovate, silky. Lowest calyx- 
lobe very long 33 ie ca set ... (2) sericeus. 
Voluble, glabrous. Leafl. ovate-acuminate. Cal.lobes t . 
short, subequal 2 (3) gibbosus. 
Voluble. Leafi. 3-lobed-hastate, shining ; pedicels thrice 
as long as the calyx... a oe es res 
Prostrate ; Leafl. hastate-ovate or hastate-linear ; pedi- 
cels short ‘ 
(4) smilacinus. 
ee oy eee age ... (5) hasteformis. 
Voluble. Leafl. linear-lanceolate, elongate, folded ; oe 
pedune. short, 2-4-flowered me fa ... (6) angustifolius. 
Style slender, nearly terete, pubescent all round, or round the stigma, or glabrous. 
Voluble. Leafl. linear-lanceolate, expanded. Peduncle 
short, 2~4-flowared si. os 422 2 Gt (7) linearis, 
Voluble. Leafl. elliptic-ovate, membranous. Pedunc. 
very short, 1-3-flow ws. vee (8) axillaris. 
Prostrate, scabrid. Leafl. rhomb-ovate, thickish. Pe- 
dune. long, corymbose, many-flowered ... _.-- (9) decumbens. ~*~ 
Voluble, pilose. Leafl. roundish-ovate, 3nerved. Pe- : ; 
dunce. long, racemose ae. ene ces “9 a. S 
3. Chloryllis.—U: lip of the calyx entire. illum incumbent, oblong ; carina 
nearly straight, foment obtuse. Style flattish below, subterete, tapering and 
ubescent above. 
: Procumbent, roughly hispid. Pedunc. densely race- : 
mose. Fl. yellow-green... +++ i ... (11) Chloryllis. 
af LABLAB. (Sp. 1.) 
1, D. Lablab (Linn.) ; voluble ; leaflets broadly ovate or thomboid, 
membranous ; peduncles elongate, interruptedly race- 
pio iat calyx A eattédlate, its lower lobes iia 
carina angularly incurved, rostrate ; style laterally compressed, sub- 
spathulate, equally pubescent ; legume tapering at base, broadly scime- 
tar-shaped or subfaleate, the thickened sutures crispulate. Benth./ Fl. 
Brazil. xxiv. p. 198, tab. 51, 7.2. Lablab vulgaris, DC. Prod. 2, p. 4or. Be 
Mey. Comm. p. 140. fs nage 
 Gueinzius, gc. (Herb. Hk., Bth.,Sd,D.). 9 
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