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lanceolate about as long as the nari-owly campanulate tube. Corolla, 

 •25 in. long reddish, standard emarginate, wings overarching the slight- 

 ly shorter keel. Pod glabrous recurved linear J '5-2 in. long, '2 in. 

 broad, 8-12 seeded. Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. VITI, 265 ; Bak. in 

 Flor. Brit. Ind. IF, 184. Glycine lahialis Linn. fil. Suppl. 325 ; Roxb. 

 Flor. Ind. Ill, 318 ; W. & A. Prodr. 208 ; Wight, Tc. t. 168 ; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 222. G. parviflora UO. Prodr. II, 242 ; Wall. Cat. 5508 

 (excl. G., H.) G. dehilis DC. Prodr. II, 242. G. pallens Grab, in Wall. 

 Cat. 5518. 



Penang; Wallich bbl8\ Disteib. Throughout the tropics. 

 Var, mollis Baker (Teramnus tnollis Benth), should be looked for in the Malfvy 

 Peninsula, for though it has not yet been reported from oar area it occurs in Burma 

 where it has been collected by Wallich and by Kurz, and agnin in Java where it appears 

 to be commoner than T. lahialis proper. It is distinguished from T. lahialis by the 

 presence of spreading hairs on the stem and by the pods being strigosely hirsute 

 with long spreading hairs. Its leaflets also are densely pubescent beneath and its 

 calyx-teeth are shorter than the tube. 



16. UiocLEA H. B. K. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, stipellate. Floiocrs 

 blue or white, in elongated racemes with thickened nodes ; bracts and 

 bracteoles caducous. CaZya^-tube campanulate, teeth shorter than tube, 

 two upper quite connate. Corolla exserted ; petals about equal in ler)gth ; 

 keel incurved but not beaked, ^tamena monadelphous ; the vexillary 

 stamen free below connate with the others in the middle shorter than the 

 rest and with a perfect anther ; anthers of keel stamens (in Malay 

 species) alternately perfect and abortive. Ovary subsessile hirsute, 

 few-ovuled, style incurved beardless, stigma capitate. Pod oblong 

 turgid 1-3-seeded, flattened along the upper suture. Species 17-18, one 

 Indo-Malayan, one extending to Africa and America, tho rest tropical 

 American. 



Leaflets glabrescent beneath, larger; flowers "75 in. long; calyx 



teeth half as long as tube ... ... ... ... \, D. reflexa. 



Leaflets densely velvety beneath; flowers 1 in. long; calyx teeth 



wider one-third the length of tube ... ... ... 2. D.javanica. 



1. DiocLEA EEFLEXA Hook. f. Niger Flora 306. A strong woody 

 climber 20-30 feet long with rounded black early glabrescent branches. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate 9 in. long; leaflets 3, dull green above paler beneath, 

 subcoriaceous when young sparsely hairy on both surfaces but early 

 becoming glabrous above and glabrous except for a few adpressed hairs 

 on the nerves beneath, ovate shortly acuminate with subtruncate base 5 in. 

 long 3 in. across, petiole 4 in. long channelled above sparingly adpressed 

 hirsute; petiolales 26 in. rusty pubescent, stipels '2 in. long, subulate, 



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