Galactia 



LEGUMINOS^E 



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subsessile cluster to 3 cm. 1., with several flowers. Corolla rosy; standard 

 roundish-obovate, apex acute, ciliate; wings shorter than the standard 

 and keel. Stamens, anthers versatile, elliptical ; uppermost filament free. 

 We have not seen a specimen from Jamaica. 



18. DIOCLEA H. B. & K. 



Twining shrubs. Flowers in small clusters springing from 

 thickenings on the elongated peduncle. Calyx campanulate, 

 silky within, with 4 segments. Standard roundish, with infolded 

 auricles at the base. Stamens united ; alternate anthers very 



Fig. 18.Dioclea reflexa Hook. f. 



A, Leaf X . D, Keel X l\. 



A', Portions of inflorescence X . E, Stamens enclosing pistil x 1J. 



B, Standard x 1^. F, Pod X \. 

 r, Wingx l : \. 



small, sterile in D. reflexa and in some other species, uniform in 

 other species. Pod compressed or swollen, the upper margin 

 thickened or 2-winged, with tissue between the seeds. 



Species 17, natives mostly of tropical America, of which two 

 are found also in tropical Africa. 



D. reflexa Hook. f. in Hook. Niger Fl. 306 (1849); 

 FL Br. W. Lid. 198; Wils. in Eeports G>'lo,,. Jain. 277 ; Bak. 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Lid. ii. 196 ; Urb. Si/ml. Ant. /. 473. Dolichos 

 filiformis' Jf,/,/. Jn>. I. 286 (1837) (non L.). 



"Lower hills on fences; St. Andrew," Mttcfadycn ; }\'ihon\ West 

 Indies, America, Africa, tropical Asia, New Guinea. 



