246 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [Dolichos. 
cles 3-6 lines long. Flowers greenish-yellow, 6 lines long. Vexillum oblong, 
incumbent, scarcely equalling the boatshaped, obtuse, scarcely falcate carina. Style 
slender, subulate, equally pubescent. Legume 2 inches long, 3 lines wide. The 
glabrous variety is very like D, biflorus, of Schimper’s Abyssinian plants. 
9. D. decumbens (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 590); stem prostrate, scabro- 
hispidulous ; leaflets thickish, immersedly veiny, with scabrous margins, 
rhombic-ovate or trowel-shaped, obtuse or acute’ ; peduncles longer than 
the leaves, corymbo-racemulose, several-flowered, pedicels equalling the 
calyx ; calyx-lobes short, broad, rounded, ciliolate ; style slender, sub- 
terete, equally pubescent ; legume tapering much at base, straight, 2-1- 
seeded, #. § Z./ 1685. E. Mey. ! Comm. R343. 
Has. Common about Capetown and Hott. Holl, £.¢ Z./ Pappe! W.H.H. Near 
Blaawberg and Piquetberg, Drege! (Herb. Th., Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
Root very thick, woody, and deeply descending. Stems many from the crown, 
trailing, 1-2 feet long. Petioles uncial, with ovato-rotund stipules and linear sti- 
. pelle. Leaflets 3-3 inch broad and long, sometimes oblate, with a cartilaginous, 
denticulate margin. Peduncles 1-2 inches long, shortly racemose, 4-8—10-flowered. 
Flowers dark blue-purple, scented like violets. Pods uncial, 4-5 lines wide. Distin- 
guished from D. hasteformis by the slender style, &c. 
10. D. faleiformis (E. Mey.! Comm. Pp. 144) ; stem voluble, hispid ; 
leaflets subrotund or rhombic-ovate, hispidulous, mucronulate, promi- 
nently 3-ribbed and veiny beneath, the lateral unequal-sided ; pedun- 
cles elongate, interruptedly racemose, pluri-flowered ; pedicels short ; 
calyx-lobes triangular, acute, puberulous ; legumes compressed, falcate 
or scymetar-shaped, glabrous, 5—6-seeded ; style glabrous, terete ; stigma 
penicillate, Zey./ No. 521. Burch. Cat. 4079. 
Has. Between Omtendo and Omsamculo, in grassy places, Drege! Vaal River, 
Burke § Zeyher! Albany, H. Hutton! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
Stem herbaceous, several feet long, trailing or climbing, somewhat angular, thinly 
hispid. Petioles 1-1} inch long. Leaflets about 12-14 lines long, 10-15 lines wide, 
rather rigid. Peduncles 6-8 inches long, flexuous. Raceme at first dense, then 
lengthening and sparsely flowered, the fl. often in pairs, purple-blue, 3—4 lines long. 
14 inch long, acute at base, septate within ; seeds dark-brown. The style 
is quite glabrous, except immediately under the stigma, where it is penicellato-barbate. 
3- CHLORYLLIS, (Sp. 11.) 
‘AL. D. Chloryllis (Harv.) ; stem procumbent or voluble,hispid ; leaf- 
lets hispid, ribbed and veiny beneath, rhomboid-ovate, subtrilobed, the 
lateral lobes very short, gibbous at the sides, all setaceo-mucronate ; 
peduncles compressed, equalling or exceeding the leaves, tortuous, densely 
racemose, many-flowered ; calyx-lobes bluntly ovate, equalling the tube ; 
vexillum oblong, incumbent, scarcely equalling the boatshaped, nearly 
straight, blunt carina; alze much shorter than the carina ; legume broadly 
oblong, 3-4-seeded. Chloryllis pratensis, E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 149. 
(ech Ea yom Schoenstrom and Caledon River, Burke & Zeyher ! 
Rather roug] y hispid with the aspect of a Phaseolus. Peduncles 2 inches long. 
Leaflets 1-14 inch long, nearly equally wide, reticulated, rather rigid, broadly cune- 
ate at base, hispid on both sides, the mucrons conspicuous, Stipules ong, rigid, 
d-flexed. Raceme 3-5 inches long, with pendulous, yellowish-green flowers. Flowers 
8-9 lines long. Vexillum straight, elliptic-oblong, folded over the other petals, auri- 
