244 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Dolichos. 
into South America. Plant glabrous or nearly so, extensively climbing. Petioles 
2-3 inches long. Leaflets 14-2 inches long, 2 inches broad, thin, full green, finely 
veiny. Stipellz subulate. Peduncles to-12 inches long ; the rachis flexuous, and 
subdistantly nodulose, emitting 2 or more flowers from each node. Bracteoles sub- 
orbicular, striate, equalling the calyx-tube. Corolla purple or white, the vexillum 
reflexed, and the long, rostrate carina upturned like that of a Crotalaria. Legume 
curled along the margin. 
2. DOLICHOS. (Sp. 2-10,) 
2. D. sericeus (E. Mey. Comm. p. 141); “stem voluble, retrorsely 
silky-hirsute ; leaflets subrhomboid-ovate, the lateral ones unequal- 
sided, silky-pubescent on both surfaces ; racemes 2—4-flowered, the pedun- 
cle about equalling the leaf; carinal segment of the calyx thrice as long 
as the lateral and narrower ; legumes subfalcate, glabrous, many-seeded. 
Has. Omsamwubo, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
3. D. gibbosus (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 590) ; nearly glabrous, suffruti- 
cose, voluble ; leaflets ovate-acuminate, paler beneath, the terminal gib- 
bous at each side, the lateral oblique, gibbous on the lower margin ; 
peduncles longer than the leaves, shortly and densely racemose near the 
summit ; rigid, incurved, the rachis and pedicels retro-hispid; calyx- 
lobes very short and broad, ciliate ; legumes falcate, 4—-6-seeded, seeds 
blackish. DC. Prod. 2, p. 400. E. & Z.! 1683. E. Mey. Comm. Drege, p. 
141. Zey.! 2413. D. Benthami, Meisn. ? Lond. Journ. 2, D. 95. 
Var. 8. uniflorus; peduncles single-flowered. D. capensis, Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 59°. 
Has. Climbing among shrubs on hillsi . 
(Herb. Th. ey ng hillsides, from Capetown to Cafferland, common. 
Stem woody below, several feet long, branching, the younger portions thinly 
pubescent, becoming glabrous. Petioles 1-3 inches long, stipulate and stipellate. 
Leaflets 14-23 inches long, 1-14 broad, swelling out at base, thence tapering to an 
acute point, thin and membranous ; the petiolules retro-hispid. Peduncles 3-12 
inches long. Flowers bright purple, 5~7 lines long. Style channelled, bearded along 
its upper margin. Legume about 2 inches long, acute at base, subacute and tipped 
with the persistent style. The original specimen of D. capensis. Thunb.! in Herb. 
Upsal. is evidently a depauperated state of this common plant, with the raceme re- 
duced to a single flower, 
_ 4 D. smilacinus Mey. ! Comm. p. 142) ; “stem filiform, voluble, 
glabrescent ; Fea ea bet, Seneac shining, the middle 
lobe lanceolate, acute, the lateral lobes short and obtuse ; racemes 4—-6- 
flowered, little longer than the leaf ; pedicels thrice as long as the calyx ; 
calyx-segments minutely ciliate,” 
: = Outiniquabergen, near Roodemuur, on grassy and stony hills 1500~2000f. 
_5. D. hasteeformis (E. Mey.! Comm, p. 142) ; stem prostrate, scabro- 
hispidulous ; leaflets thickish, iiniee. ae Pesca i sii the 
lowermost hastate-ovate, the uppermost hastato-linear, the intermediate 
obsoletely lobed at base 3 peduncles longer than the leaves, subumbel- 
lately 3-6-flowered, pedicels about equalling the calyx ; calyx-lobes 
its upper side ; legumes straightish, glabrous, 2 seeded. H. Mey. l.c. 
D. Capensis, EB. & Z.! 1684, non Theb 2 poe = 
