139 
pubescentia. Peduncut 34-4 poll. longi, graciles, minute pubes- 
centes, apice bifidi ; divisiones 13-2 lin. longi, dense 7-10-flori. 
ci : ‘ ; 
: ta 
edentata, longiora superne puberula. Ovarium ovoidetm, 5-sul- 
catum, glabrum. Capsula star breviter 5-cornuta, 15-carinata, 
carinis 5 Blige ae puberulis 
GUIANA. Described from a living plant introduced by 
Messrs ¥ Sander & Co., of St. Albans, which flowered in August, 
9, 
333. Dioclea mt ede zy oamd vs Rolfe [Leguminosze- 
Phaseolew] ; ad violaceam, Mart., accedit, recedit legumine 
arcuato oblique corrugato véliitino-vilload: sutura superiore vix 
incrassa 
Pina hinrudl i. Stipule falcato-lanceolate, acute, hirsute, 
6-7 lin. longe. Folia trifoliata ; foliola late elliptica, abrupte et 
brevissime acuminata, utrinque breviter pilosa, 4-5 poll. longa, 
circa 10-costata, lateralia basi oblique subcordata ;_petioli pilosi, 
4-5 poll. longi ; stipelle filiformes, 2}-3 lin. longe. wuli 
3-1} ped. longi, crassiusculi, subteretes, ferragineo-velutini, 
multiflori. Bracteas non vidi. Nodi floriferi crassi. Pedicelli 
3 lin. longi, fain gio: Palit. Bracteole reniformi-orbiculate, 
ferrugineo-ve lutine. Calyzx late campanulatus, velutinus ; tubus 
in 8; lacinia superior t io brevior, lata, 
brevissime biloba, basi osa; lacinie laterales ei ll 
longiores, ovate, subacute; lacinia infima angustior, tubo 
equilonga, apice incurva, subobtusa. Petala calyx subduplo 
1 a i i icui 
anthere 5 fertiles oblong, 5 alterne Bare et effcete. Ovarium 
ed velutinum. Leguinen 6-63 poll. longum, 2} lin. fevant 
um, crasse lignosum, o ‘ate corrugatum et sparse 
reticulatum, velutino-villosum, sutura superiore vix incrassata, 
Semina 3 vel 4, nitida, hilo lineari semicincta—Mucuna ? sp., 
Micheli in Mém. Soc. Phys. et Hist. Nat. Genéve, xxviii., p. 26. 
TROPICAL AMERICA. Trinidad: Cangrehal, St, Annes, Hart, 
6406. Brazil: Martius. Paraguay: Assomption, Gibert, 9; 
Balansa, 1858a (ex Micheli). 
A remarkable species whose fruits have long been known, and 
supposed to belong toa Mucuna, but the receipt of lg 
material from Mr. Hart enables them to be referred to thei 
proper systematic position. 
Sophora CBusophora) Bakeri, C. B. Clarke ex Baker 
(Legu: nose-Sophorez ad 8. hoptaph yllam, Linn., accedit ; 
eonit 1 foliolis 13-15 obbnaia, floribus majoribus, pedicellis calyce 
floriferis brevioribus. 
