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Benth.). ,S7t'w. erect, a foot or more high, shrubby at base, with whitish 

 deflexed haii 7s 3-7 cm. 1. y.v/rrw.s 7-1^ cm. 1. ; peduncles 



l'5-o dm. 1. ; pedicels very short, geminate. /;. cu and bracteoles bristle- 

 like, deciduous; bracts C mm. 1., bracteoles 3 mm. 1. Calyx 4-G mm. 1. ; 

 teeth much shorter than the tube, upper triangular, lower lanceolate, 

 :>wucd. Corolla blood-coloured; standard about 1-5 cm. 1., concave, 

 narrowed at the base, pale red ; wings about twice as long as the standard, 

 deep crimson; keel whitish. Pod spreading, many-seeded, 8-10 cm. 1. 

 Seeds ellipsoidal, brown. 



The Linuean species P. latlnjroides is based on the Jamaican specimens 

 of Sloane & Browne, which have narrow leaves ; this form is distinguished 

 by Beutham as P. semierectus v. an ijiisti folia. The typical P. semierectus 

 (Plukenet in Herb. Sloane xcvii. 84 in Herb. Mus. Brit.) has ovate-elliptical 

 leaves. Both forms occur in Jamaica. Plukenet's specimen has the leaves 

 and pods of this species, and also the pods of apparently P. Mungo L., and 

 these pods of another species have been drawn in Plukenet's figure as 

 attached to the leafy twig. 



21. VIGNA Savi. 



Herbs, twining, prostrate or erect. Leaves pinnately 3-f olio- 

 late ; stipules sessile or produced at the base below the insertion 

 ( V. unguiculata} ; stipels persistent. Peduncles axillary, bearing 

 racemes or capitate umbels of flowers, the flowers springing from 

 thickenings on the rhachis. Calyx campanulate, 4 5-lobed or 

 toothed. Standard roundish, auricles folded upwards ; keel 

 incurved, not beaked, or the beak not forming a complete spiral. 

 Uppermost stamen free, the rest united ; anthers uniform. Style 

 with a row of hairs near the apex ; stigma lateral or oblique. 

 Pod straightish, subcylindrical or compressed, with a thin layer 

 of tissue in which lie the seeds. 



Species about 33, growing in the tropics. 



[Stipules produced at the base below the insertion V. unguiculata.'] 



Stipules sessile. 



Mowers crowded close together at the tip of the 



peduncle. Corolla yellow 1. V. repcns. 



Flow r er clusters more or less distant, forming a 

 raceme. Corolla purplish 



Calyx, lateral teeth triangular, not falcate 2. V. peduncularis. 



Calyx, lateral teeth lanceolate-falcate 3. V. antillanus. 



[V. ungiiieulata Walp.Rep. i. 779 (1842); stipules produced 

 at the base below the insertion.- -V. catjang Walp. in Linnsea xiii. 

 533 (1839) ; Bak. in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. il. 205. V. sinensis 

 EndL ex Hassk. PL Jav. liar. 386 (1848). Phaseolus erectus 

 major. . .semine rubro Sloane Cat. 71 & Hist. i. 183, /. 115, /. 2 

 tfe 3 (R e d P e a s). P. erectus minor semine spherico albido 

 hilo nigro Sloane Cat. 72 & Hist. i. 184, t. 117 (Gala vane es). 

 P. erectus. . .seminibus rufescentibus oblongis Browne Hist. Jam. 

 292 (Gala vane es or Red Peas). P. erectus. . .hilo nigro 

 notatis Browne loc. cit. (B lack -ey e d Pea). P. erectus... 



