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Steras.frora a tuberous rootstock, twining and hirsute as \vl41 as the leaves, 

 the hairs reflexed on the branches, more appressed and scattered oti the 

 leaytis, rarely at length glabrous. Leaflets usually ovate-lanceoKite in the 

 lower leaves, narrow-lanceolate in the upper ones, 2* to 4 in. long aiul entire, 

 but varj'ing in breadth and size. Stipules cordate-lanceolate, sometimes 

 shortly auriculate. Flowers greenish-yellow, more or less tinged with purple, 

 larger than in most species, 2 to 4 together at the summit of the peduncle. 

 tal;,x 4 to 5 lines long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the tube, 

 the 2 upper ones shortly united at the base. Standard 10 or 11 lines dia- 

 meter, retlexed ; wings rather shorter, one with a long auricle at the base, the 

 other with scarcely any ; keel with a long incurved almost involute oblique 

 oeak not however forming a complete spire, and with a lateral spur on one 

 side below the beak. Stigma thick, on the inner side of the style above tlie 

 beard. Pod nearly cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 3 to 4 in. long, 

 ajout 2 Unes hroad.—F/iaseohs vexUlalus, Linn. ; Jacq. Hort. Vind. 1. 102; 

 I'ma hrta. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 637; F. tuberom, A. Eich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 



«. Australia. Sea Range and Point Pearce, F. Mueller; Albert riier, Heiine. 



vjueensland. Bustard Bay and Endeavour river. Banks and Solander ; Broad Sound, 

 *. ■' ^- Brown; Moretou Bay, Bidwill ; Piue river, Fitzalan ; Buidekin and Biiniett 

 vers f Mueller; Port Ciirtis. M'Gillivrav ; Bowen river, Bowman; Rockhaiijjitou, 

 ^''o^et^Dallachy. ^ 



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"Wales. Blue Mountains. Miss 



tugland, C. Stuart ; Macleay and Clarence rivers, Beekler. 

 th fl *P**^"^* is widely spread over tropical Asia, Africa, and America. By the obliquity of 

 e flower and Ient!;th of the beak it is intermediate iu some respects between Vigna and 

 ;,-,r ' ^^'^ ^^^ ^eou placed alternately by botanists in either of these genera or in Bo- 



liiai-her 

 in 



^'■,,!,°*^ of -S^wjo/^ojiV/ffj by E. Meyer, as appears by the extensive synonymy collected 

 the Flora BrasUiensis ' above quoted. 



2. V. lutea, A. Gray, tot. Amer. Expl. Expid. i. 454. Eathcr coarse, 



Fostratc, trailing or shortly twining, nearly glabrous or the young shoots hoary 



or silky, with centrally fixed appressed hairs. Leaflets orbicular, obovatc or 



"^ate-rhomboid, usually very obtuse, 1* to 3 in. long. Stipules short and 



^'■oad ; stipellse obtuse. Flowers yellow, like those of V. Inleola, m few 



^ usters crowded at the end of the peduncle. Calyx 1^ lines long, the lobes 



' teeth shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones united into one short and 



"foatl one. Standard above \ in. diameter or rather more; keel broad, 



^iich incurved, rather acute, but not beaked. Stigma oblong, very oblique 



"^ q»ite on the inner side of the style above the dense beard. Pod glabrous, 



J^a^ght or curved, about 3 in. long, i in. m^^.-Bolichos lukus, Swartz, 



* • Ind. Occid. iii. 1246 ; F. relma,\\&\^. Eep. i. 778 ; Harv. and Sond. 



W/* ?■ "• ^*^ (%^«^^, E. Mey.); F. anomala, Walp. Kep. i. /79 {Scy 



To ^ 



0« i^'^^*^*^^*• Victoria river, i='. il/«^//t^r. , , xt , 



Bay i/f;?vJ-^''^ Harvev's Bay, R. Brozcn ; islands along the coast down to Moretou 



» R ^.•'''^^' -P'. Mueller, Thozel, aiiJ others. 



ft"; ^' y *^i«. Saudj shoresfKingstown mid Newcastle, 7?- Brown ; Clarence river, 

 Th/' M^^^"»gs river, Beekler: Botany Bay, Banks and Solander. , . , , , 



tte ?; T"^ ^PP^a^fi to Lc not unfrequent iu maritime sands in tropical Asm and islands pf 

 ^acitio, and in Southern Africa, more rare in the W, Indies. J have not seen Swartz^ 



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