2G0 .5.L. LEGUMlNOSiE. . [Fipa, 



specimens, but his descripliou leaves no doubt that A. Gray is right in referring his plant to 

 the present one. 



3. V. luteola, Benlh. in Mart, FL Bras. Papil 194, /. 50, /. 2. Pro- 

 stvatCj trailing or twining, often hirsute, especially when young, sometimes 

 nearly glabrous, very rarely with a few of the centrally affixed hairs of 

 V. lulta. Leaflets very variable, usually ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. 

 long, entire or slightly sinuately 3-lobed, the upper ones sometimes longer 

 and narrowerj almost always acute or acuminate. Stipules small. Flowers 

 pale-yellow, in few clusters at the end of the peduncle. Calyx scarcely 2 

 lines long, the 2 upper lobes united into one veiy short and broad one, the 

 lowest about as long as the tube. Standard 7 or 8 lines diameter; teel as 

 long as the wings, broad, much curved and rather acute, but not beaked. 

 Stigma ollonj, very oblique or quite on tlie inner side of the style above the 

 dense beard. Pod hirsute or rarely at length glabrous, nearly terete, often 

 torulose, 2 to 3 in. long, scarcely ^ in. broad. — Dolichos Inteolm, Jacq. Hort. 

 Yind. t. 90 ; Fi^na glabra and F. villpsa, Savi ; DC. Prod. ii. 401. 



Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Burdekiu river, i^. Mueller, 



N. S. "Whales. Clarence river, Wilcox, 



The species is common in tropical America and temperate N. America, chiefly near the 

 sea ; it is also in tropical Africa. I have not seen any Asiatic specimens, which leads me to 

 doubt in some measure the identification of the Australian ones. I can however detect no 

 difference between them and some of the common American forms. 



4. V. lanceolata, Be}d7i, in Mitch, Trop. Amtr, 350. Glabrous or 

 slightly pubescent, short and erect or elongated and twining, but always more 

 slender than F. luteola. Leaflets usually lanceolate, obtuse or rather acute, 

 1^ to 2 or rarely 3 in. long, entire or the terminal one hastately lohed on 

 each side at the base, the lateral ones on one side only, those of the lower 

 leaves sometimes short and ovate, in the upper ones long and linear. Flowers 

 much smaller than in V, luteola, otherwise like them, in few clusters at the 

 end of the peduncle. Calyx about 1 line long, the 2 upi)er lobes united into 

 one very short and broad oiie, the lowest not so long as the tube. Standanl 

 about 5 lines diameter, with the 2 callosities and inflexed auricles of the 

 allied species ; keel broad, much incurved, rather acute, but not beakea 

 Pod glabrous or pubescent, nearly terete, 1 to 2 in. long.— r. sukrecta, 

 Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 388. 



N, Australia. Upper Victoria river, K Mueller; to the S. of ^Vills' Creels, Bo^-^^^ 

 Expedition ; Arnhem S. Bay, R. Broivn ; Albert river, Henne. -d v nu-n' 



Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Broad Sound, S. i^^^: ' 

 Mount Owen and Mount Faraday, Mitchell; Archer's Creek, Leichhardt; Boweu nv ^ 



Bowman, 



N. S. "Wales. Between Darling river and Cooper's Creek, Nei!so7i, , , ^ 



Var. piformis. Stems long slender and twining. Leaflets all hnear or linear-lanceo _' 

 •Flowers smaUer.— Yictoria river. F, Mueller; N. coast, R. Brown; Port Essington, at 



strovg. ' ' . 



The pod in some of R. Brown's specimens, with lanceolate leaves, is much flatter than i 



the other specimens seen in fruit, hut I can detect no specific differences. 



60. DOLICHOS, Linn. 



Calyx-lobes short, the 2 upper ones united into one broad entire o'" '-^^Jj^ 

 ginatc one. Standard orbicular, recurved or spreading, with 2 iiiflfxea a 



