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entire or 3-fid. Standard ample, suborbicular, rigid at back, 
2-callous within, with a short claw ; wings oblong, eared at base; 
keel equalling the wings or longer, shorter than the standard, 
incurved. Disk sheathing. Stamens monadelphous or im- 
perfectly diadelphous. Ovary linear, multi-ovulate; style 
incurved, glabrous, with a terminal stigma. Legume com- 
pressed, subfalcate, with partitions between the seeds. Seeds 
compressed, with a linear scar.— Fl. Cap. i. p. 238. 
Climbing or prostrate, tropical or subtropical herbs or undershrubs. 
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, the terminal leaflets subdistant. Stipules 
small; stipels minute or 0. Racemes axillary, subspicate ; flowers solitary 
or in pairs, rosy purple or white.—2 species found near Natal, but neither 
endemic. 
55. VIGINA, Savi. 
Calyx 2-bracteate at-base, bell-shaped, 4—5-fid (the upper 
lobes separate or connate), the lowest lobe longest. Standard 
ample, spreading, with an arched and vaulted claw, and 2 cal- 
lous ridges at base within ; wings oblong, produced at base or 
eared on the claw; keel not twisted, inflexed or rostrate. 
Stamens diadelphous or monadelphous. Disk sheathing. 
Ovary linear, several-ovuled ; style compressed and channelled 
on one side, incurved ; stigma hooked, oblique. Legume terete 
or compressed, subfalcate, subtorulose, with cellular partitions 
between the seeds. Seeds subreniform, with a small strophiole. 
—Fl, Cap. u. p. 239. 
Twining or erect, undershrubs or herbs, natives of warm countries. Leaves 
pinnately 3-folioled. Flowers on long peduncles, floriferous at summit, or 
racemose. ‘The pods of many are eaten as “ French Beans ;” V. Catjang 
is often cultivated for its pods.—At least 8 species in the Eastern district 
and Natal, of which 6 are endemic. 
56. DOLICHOS, Linn. 
Calyx bell-shaped, 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-fid or subentire, 
lower 3-fid. Standard spreading or incumbent, equalling the 
keel, with 2-4-callous ridges within ; wings oblong; keel fal- 
cate or incurved (or nearly straight), neither twisted nor bent to 
one side. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary substipitate, several- 
ovuled; style channelled or terete ; stigma capitate. Legume 
compressed, straight or falcate, 2- or several-seeded, with 
cellular partitions between the seeds.—F1. Cap. i. p. 242. 
Twining or prostrate plants of warm countries. Leaves pinnately 3- 
folioled or rarely 5-folioled, stipellate. Flowers racemose subcorymbose or 
solitary, 2-bracteolate, red purple blue or white.—11 species, of which 10 
are endemic, chiefly Eastern. 
57. FAGELIA, Neck. 
Calyx 5-cleft beyond the middle, the segments linear, acute, 
