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72 ILnRA OF .JAMAICA Cajanus 



Catnpbcll\ Roberts field and Resource, nine Mi-., Jlnrrisl Fl. Jam. 61G3-7, 

 G603 ; Port Antonio, Lucea, JfitcJicock. Tropical and subtropical regions. 



lib 4 to 10 or 12 ft. high, with woody trunks and branches. Lcajli-t^ 

 narrowly elliptical to lanceolate, 4-9 cm. 1. Floin r.s nearly 2 cm. 1. 

 Calys about 1 cm. 1., lowest lobe longer than the rest. Corolla yellow or 

 yellow and orange; standard about 1*7 cm. 1. and br., callus running up 

 from the claw and branching, the outer semicircular passing into the 

 auricle; wings somewhat semicircular, auricled at each side of the base, 

 with a slender claw, as long as the standard ; keel somewhat semicircular, 

 with an infolded pocket near the base, about as long as the wings. Pod 

 usually 5-seeded, 5-8 cm. 1. The " No Eye Pea " has a corolla of a 

 uniform yellow colour, whereas the"Gungo" or "Pigeon Pea " has the 

 yellow corolla blotched with orange or red, and the calyx, pods and seeds 

 are also marked with purple blotches or spots.] 



22. RHYNCHOSIA Lour. 



Herbs or undershrubs with minute yellow glands, twining in 

 Jamaican species. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaflets with 

 resinous dots underneath. Flowers solitary or geminate in 

 racemes, simple or paniculate. Calyx : upper 2 lobes more or 

 less united. Standard obovate or roundish, auricled at base. 

 Uppermost stamen free, the rest united. Stigma small, terminal. 

 Pod compressed, shortly beaked. Seeds 2 or 1. 



Species 100, natives of the tropics, some outside the tropics 

 in N. America and S. Africa. 



Pods not constricted between the seeds. 



Calyx about as long as the corolla 1. R. retieulata. 



Calyx much shorter than the corolla. 



Flowers about 6 mm. 1. Pod minutely puberulous 2. B. minima. 



Flowers about 12 rnni. 1. Pod hirsute 3. R. caribtea. 



Pods constricted between the seeds 4. li. pliaseoloidcs. 



1. R. retieulata DC. Prodr. ii. 385 (1825); calyx slightly 

 longer than the corolla, segments narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, 

 much longer than the short tube ; the upper two united beyond 

 the middle ; lateral shorter, lower longest ; pod oblong, slightly 

 narrowed at both ends ; leaflets with yellow dots beneath. Macf. 

 Jam. i. 277 ; Bentli. in Fl, Bras. xv. pt. 1, 203 ; Griseb. Fl. Br. 

 W. Ind. 190; Urb. Si/mb. Ant. iv. 307. Glycine retieulata Siv. 

 Prodr. 105 (1788) & FL Ind. Occ. 1251. 



Houstoun ! Shakspcarl Macfadyen ! Cambridge Hill, St. David, McNab ! 

 St. Cruz Mts., Purdiel Wilson I Mavis Bank, J.P. 1338, Hart I Roberts- 

 field, Morris ! Cuba, Hispaniola, Mona, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, 

 St. Jan, St. Martin, St. Bartholomew, St. Kitts, Antigua, Guadeloupe, 

 St. Vincent, S. America. 



Stem, younger angled, tomentose or villose. Leaflets variable in shape 

 and size, ovate to lanceolate or elliptical-rhomboid, softly tomeutose on 

 both sides and prominently reticulate-veined beneath, 2-9 cm. 1. Racemes 

 many-flowered, 1-8 cm. 1. Calyx ' 7-1 '1 cm. 1., tomentose or villose 

 outside. Corolla yellow ; standard obovate-elliptical, with auricles 

 infolded at the base, '6 to nearly 1 cm. 1. ; claw linear- wedge-shaped, 



