Dolichos.] LEGUMINOS (Harv.) : 247 
culate at base, callous within, with two shallow ridges. Ale oblong, simple, short- 
clawed. Carina straightish, slightly longer than the vexillum. Vexillary stamen 
slightly adnate in the middle. Style compressed and flattish below, subterete and 
villous toward the inflexed point. Calyx strumose at base. Legume 2-4 inches long, 
6-8 lines wide, rounded at base, subacute, with thickened sutures, scaberulous. 
LVIL FAGELIA, Neck. 
Calyx 5-cleft beyond the middle, the segments linear, acute, straight, 
the two uppermost somewhat connate. Veatllum reflexed ; carina very 
obtuse, longer than the ale. Stamens diadelphous, Ovary sessile, several- 
ovuled ; style subulate, glabrous ; stigma obtuse. Legume turgid, about 
6-seeded, constricted between the seeds, bivalve. Seeds ovate, strophio- 
late, with a linear hilum. Endl. Gen. 6685. DC. Prod. 2, p. 389. 
A twining, strong smelling suffrutex, clothed with viscid hairs. Leaves pinnately- 
trifoliolate ; the terminal remote. Racemes axillary ; flowers yellow, the carina dark- 
purple at the point. Name, in honour of some unknown botanist ? 
1. F. bituminosa (DC. |. c.); #. ¢ Z./ 1679. EH. Mey.! Comm. p. 139. 
Glycine bituminosa, Linn. sp. 1024. Lam. Ill, t. 609, f. 2. Thunb.! Fl. 
Cap.591. Bot. Reg.t.261. Fagelia flexuosa, Meisn.in Lond. Journ. 2, p.93. 
Has. Common among shrubs, &c. in the western districts. (Herb. D. Sd. Hk. &c.) § . a 
Stems several feet long, twining, woody below, viscoso-pubescent. Leaflets rhomb- unnet 
ovate, obtuse or acute, pale and gland-dotted beneath, 1-14 inch long, 3-1 inch wide. Koy 164 
Stipules ovate-acute. Peduncles long, laxly many-flowered. Bracts broadly ovate, Bs lol ; 
deciduous. Calyx-lobes much longer than the tube. Flowers 6-7 lines long, fulvous- uh oe QR. 
yellow, the apex of the carina dark-purple. Whole plant viscidly hairy. Legumes \y LY 4; 
1-14 inch long. 
LVIIL RHYNCHOSIA, Lour. 
Calyx campanulate, mostly oblique, 4—5-fid, the two upper lobes more 
or less united, the lowest longest. Petals nearly of equal length, or the 
ale shorter. Veaillum obovate or orbicular, mostly with two minute, 
inflexed auricles at base, naked or bicallous within. Ale narrow, eared 
at base ; carina broader, incurved at the apex, obtuse or subrostrate. 
Stamens 9-1 ; the vexillary filament quite free, mostly geniculate ; an- 
thers uniform. Ovary subsessile, with 2 ovules; style incurved beyond 
the middle, quite glabrous and mostly thickened above, filiform and 
often hairy at base. Legume compressed, oblique or falcate, rarely sep- 
tate within ; seeds 2-1, compressed-globose or reniform, with a lateral 
short or oblong hilum and a subcentral seed-cord. Carwnele thick or 
minute. Benth. /in Mart. Fl. Braz. xxiv. p. 199. Endl. Gen, 6692. Copis- 
ma, Orthodanum, Chrysoscias, and Hidrosia, E. Mey.! Comm. Drege. Poly- 
tropa, Presl. Sigmodostyles, Meisn. 
Voluble or herbs or suffrutices mostly spri with resin- 
ous dots, boi bape ‘he roc Ate ae temperate zones TP noth: hetagiaeas isph 
Stipules ovate or lanceolate. Leaves pinnately-trifoliolate, rarely unifoliolate. Pedun- = 
cles axillary, racemose, rarely umbellate or single-flowered. Bracts caducous. Flow- 
uniovulate. “Name from furyos, a beak ; but the carina is scarcely rostrate 
Flowers in axillary umbels or solitary, yellow. (Sp. 1-4.) 
