102 LEGUMINOSAE. [ Dioelea. 
lateral ones oblique, A i mee densely sericeous underneath. Peduncle 
flexuose, 10—15-flowered; flowers in fascicles; bracteoles ovate, obtuse, 
silky, %/s’ long. Flowers large, 2‘ long, bright yellow, with some red, 
very showy. Calyx 1%, silky, iy ‘A-cleft, the lowest lobe as long 
of the wings. Pod sessile, compressed, oblong, with numerous transverse 
lamellae, hirsute with fulvous stinging hair, usually 1I-seeded. Seed 
before. — Dolichos urens, L. — Mann, Enum. 108, and Fl. Haw. Islds. 
p. 59. — Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. p. 198. 
Maui, woods above Makawao; Hawaii, Waimea. (Gaudichaud, Remy, 
M. & B.) — 
A sates a ee America seat the W. ade to Brazil and Peru, well known as the 
Cow-iteh plan 
13. DIOCLEA, H. B. K. 
Lowest calyx-lobe the longest, the 2 upper ones connate. Standard 
orbicular or ovate, reflexed, noiea tas at the base with inflexed 
auricles. Wings obovate or oblong, free, longer than the keel, which is 
incurvyed, beaked or obtuse. Upper stamen free at the base, but united 
with the others at the middle. Ovary subsessile, 2- to many-ovuled. 
Style incurved, beardless, thickened above; stigma terminal, truncate 
r 
8 e ompressed, 
with a linear rhaphe. — Tall woody twiners with pinnately 3-foliolate 
stipellate leaves. Flowers blue or white, in fascicles on the racemose 
nodes of a thick axillary peduncle. Bracteoles at the base of the calyx, 
sagem 
t 16 paniay: chiefly natives of tropical America, two of which are also found 
in sonnel Asi 
vi soean Mart. — Benth. Annal. d. Wien. Mus. IT, 133. — Young 
4—B5!/2/ 3—3'/2', on petiolules of Qa" obtuse or apiculate, coriaceous, 
with strongly salient oblique veins, glossy above, but the veins underneath 
pubescent; the petiole 4—41/2’. Stipellae filiform, about 3”; stipules 
linear-lanceolate, 6—7. Peduncle stiff angular, 12—15/ long, “naked in 
the lower half or distantly bracteate, tomentose, its nodes short or 
somewhat elongate. Pedicels 1—2”; bracts linear-lanceolate, 6—9“, the 
lowest bifid; bracteoles ovate, 1)", “, Calyx campanulate, tomentose, 
5—6", the upper tooth broad and obtuse or emarginate, the lowest about 
the length of the tube and acute. Corolla deep blue or violet, 6—8”. 
Keel beaked, obtuse, half as long as the wings. Anthers uniform. Pod 
3—4’ long, 1'/2—2’ broad, tricarinate at the ventral suture, flattened, 
glabrate when mature. Seeds mostly 2, nearly orbicular, compressed, 
. 
9—10” in diameter, with a bony testa, the linear rhaphe extending more 
