Dolichos.| LEGUMINOS# ( Harv.) 245 
Has. Near the Zwartkops River, Uit., £. g Z./ Grahamstown, Colonel Bolton + 
BaD) at the Fish River and Modderfontein, Brach R., Drege! (Herb. Hk., Sd., 
ann tS 
This resembles D. decumbens, but differs in foliage and especially in the flattened 
and channelled style. Petioles $-1 inch long, stipulate and stipellate. Leaflets 4-1} 
inch long, the lowest 3-6 lines wide, the upper 4-1-2 lines. Flowers 3-5 lines long, 
blueish-purple. E. & Z.’s specimens are more luxuriant than Drege’s, but do not 
essentially differ. 
6. D. angustifolius (E. & Z.! 1687); quite glabrous, slender; stem 
suberect at base, filiform and twining upwards ; leaflets narrow-linear- 
lanceolate, very long, complicate, rigid, netted-veined and margined ; 
peduncles filiform, flexuous, scarcely exceeding the short petiole, 2-4- 
flowered ; calyx-lobes short and blunt; legumes falcate, acute at base, 
6-8-seeded, seeds brown. D. angustissimus, LE. Mey. ! Comm. p. 142. 
Has. Among shrubs by the Sunday and Zwartkops R., Uit., and Klipplaat and 
Key, Z. ¢ Z./ Same places, and Stormberg and Moojeplaats, Drege/ Magaliesberg, 
Burke and Zeyher ! (Herb. Sd., Bth., Hk., D.) 
Stems filiform, not much-branched, laxly-leafy, the upper portions twining. Peti- 
oles about uncial ; the terminal leaflet close to the pair. Leaflets 2~4 inches long, 
1-3 lines wide, either folded or open, often hook-pointed, pale-green. Peduncles 
about uncial, 2-4-flowered near the extremity, the flowers in pairs, on patent pedi- 
cels, longer than the calyx. Flowers 3 lines long, purple. Style channelled, bearded 
on the upper margin. Legumes 10-12 lines long, 2-3 wide, subacute. Some of 
Drege’s specimens of D. linearis, (c. from Klipplaat R.) belong to this species. 
7. D. linearis (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 142); quite glabrous, slender ; 
stem suberect at base, filiform and twining upwards ; leaflets linear- 
lanceolate or lanceolate, expanded, rigid, netted-veined, and margined ; 
peduncles filiform, flexuous, scarcely exceeding the short petiole, 2-4- 
flowered ; calyx-lobes deltoid, half as long as the tube ; legumes faleate, 
acute at base, 4-6-seeded, blunt ; style slender, subterete, with an en- 
circling tuft of hairs below the extremity. Zey. 525, 526. 
Van. 8. pentaphyllus; leaves 3-5-foliolate, the lateral leaflets in the latter case in 
pairs. D. pentaphyllus, E. Mey. l. ¢. Ses 
- Has. Zwartkops and Klipplaat Rivers, Glenfilling and Stormberg, Drege/ Cro- 
codile River, Aapjes R., and Thaba Unka, Burke § Zeyher / Queenstown District, 
every Wk Daal Clin poner fag ration distinguished by the style 
and the feunle ond more seca legumes. The see la generally, Sat ot always, 
expanded, not complicate, 2-3 inches long, 2-4 lines wide ; those of the lower leaves 
are often broadly lanceolate, t-14 inch long, 3-4 lines wide. Flowers asin D. angus- 
tifolius. In var. B. leaves of the ordinary form occur on the same stem as the | 
5-foliolate ones, especially on Burke and Zeyher’s specimens from Orange River. 
8. D, axillaris (E. Mey. Comm. p. 144) ; suffruticose at base, volu- 
ble, pubescent or glabrescent ; leaflets membranous, ¢lliptic-ovate, sub- 
acute ; peduncles shorter than the petiole, 1-3-flowered; calyx-lobes 
deltoid-cuspidate ; legumes straightish, broadly linear, 6—8-seeded. 
Van. a, pubescens; all parts densely and softly pubescent. 
Var. B. glaber; all parts glabrous or nearly so. 
Has. Between Omtendo and Omsamculo, and at Natal, both Drege ! 
Gueinzius ! (Herb. Hk., Bth., D., Sd.) Piercy  iagee 
Climbing among shrubs, 2 or several feet long. Petioles 13-24 inches long. Leaf- 
lets 1-14 inch long, 4-3 inch wide, thin, pale-green, not prominently veiny- Pedun- 
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