LEGUMINOSiE. 277 



Lam, III. t. 608. f. 2. — Rynchosia pliaseoloides, De Cand. 

 Prod. II. 385. 



HAB. Twining on trees, on the South Side of the Island 



FL. May. 



Stem suffrutescent ; branches striated, puberulous, and under 

 the glass with minute yellow glandular dots. Leaflets apiculated, 

 nerved, reticulato-venose, minutely puberulous, and dotted with 

 minute yellow glandules beneath. Stipules small, lanceolate, 

 deciduous. Racemes numerous towards the ends of the branch- 

 lets, axillary, solitary, simple, 5-6 inches long. Flowers fusco- 

 luteoid, shortly pedicelled, distinct, sub-deflected. Common 

 peduncle angulose, puberulous, dotted with minute yellow 

 glandules. Calycine divisions lanceolate, acute ; the two upper 

 approximate ; the three inferior spreading, with the middle one 

 the largest. Standard concealing the keel and the wings, 

 emarginate at the apex, greenish-yellow striated with purplish 

 veins, externally puberulous, and minutely-glanduloso-punctate; 

 wings linear; keel subfalcate. Filaments 10, with the upper 

 one free. Ovary oblong: style length of the stamens, dilated 

 in the middle : stigma acute. Legume oblong, deflected, com- 

 pressed, attenuated at both ends, pubescent, contracted in the 

 middle, 2-seeded, when ripe ferrugineo-pubescent, dehiscent at 

 the upper suture : seeds spherical or oblong, shining, black, 

 with the hilum scarlet. 

 :x. Seeds not unlike those of the Abrus precatouius. 



4. Ryncliosia reticulata. Reticulated Hynchona, 



Stem twining angular silky-subtomentose, ^^leaflets 

 ovate bluntish reticulato-nervose 3 -nerved at the base 

 silky, racemes axillary many-flowered shorter than 

 the leaf, legumes broad pubescent. 



Glycine reticulata, Vahl, Symh. III. 88 Swartz, Prod. 105. 



— Rynchosia reticulata, De Cand. Prod. II. 385, 

 HAB. Port-Royal mountains. 

 FL. March. 



Stem suffrutescent. Leaflets (the middle one the largest) 

 rather obtuse, reticulately nerved, veined, silky, with the hairs 

 appressed. Stipules deltoid, silky ; stipels subulate. Petiole 

 3- (sub-5-) angular, silky. Racemes axillary, elongating. 

 Flowers yellow, shortly pedicelled. Calyx resinoso-punctate, 

 and silky, with minutely glanduliferous hairs ; upper lip bifid ; 

 lower deeply 3-partite, with the divisions spreading. Standard 

 roundish entire ; wings toothed; keel distinct at the base. Ovary 

 pedicelled : stigma simple, blunt. Legume compressed, beaked 

 with the remains of the style, pubescent, 2-seeded. 



