GalaCtia.} XLVII. § PAPILI0NACE2E (baker). 189 



pubescent beneath, the veinlets raised. Flowers in very lax 4-8-flowered 

 racemes on firm slender peduncles 2-4 in. long*. Bracts small, rio-id, 

 deciduous. Calyx \ in. long-, thinly silky ; teeth lanceolate acuminate', 

 reaching- more than half down. Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. Pod 

 2 in. long, slightly curved, 7-8-seeded. — Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 235. G. vil- 

 losa, Wig-ht et Am. I.e. Copisma subsericeum, Sond. in Linnaea, xxiii. 34. 

 G. mucronata, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 38. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Peters I 



Also a plant of the Cape, the Mascarene isles, and East Indies. 



60. DIOCLEA, H.B.K. j Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 536. 



Calyx with the two upper teeth connate, the lateral ones small, the 

 lowest longer. Standard orbicular, reflexed, the base with a pair of 

 inflexed auricles ; wings obovate or oblong, free, rather longer than 

 the keel ; keel incurved, subrostrate. Upper stamen free at the base, 

 connate with the others at the middle, anthers uniform, the alternate 

 ones in our species small and abortive. Ovary subsessile, bi- or multi- 

 ovulate ; style incurved, beardless, dilated upwards ; stigma truncate, 

 terminal. Pod linear, oblong, compressed, nearly flat, coriaceous, 

 2-valved, upper suture dilated, septate between the seeds. — Twining 

 shrubs. 



A moderately small genus, almost entirely Tropical American. 



1. D. reflexa, Hook.f. Fl. Nigr. 306. Stems woody, climbing to a 

 height of 20 ft., terete, clothed with long spreading fine deciduous 

 yellowish -grey hairs. Stipules |-f in. long, scariose, peltate. Petioles 

 2-3 in. long ; leaflets 3, stipellate, central one obovate-oblong, 4-6 

 in. long ; base rounded, the apex cuspidate ; lateral ones similar, sub- 

 coriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly and deciduously silky. 

 Flowers in moderately dense racemes 4-6 in. long, on firm peduncles 

 often as long. Bracts \ in. long, lanceolate or linear. Pedicels \ in. 

 long with a pair of short rounded bracteoles at the apex. Calyx § in. 

 deep, tawny silky, upper lip blunt, emarginate, lower with central tooth 

 lanceolate, reaching halfway down, the others deltoid. Corolla red, 

 half as long again as the calyx. Pod coriaceous, broad-oblong, 3-4 in. 

 long, 2 in. broad, densely clothed with yellowish-grey silky hairs when 

 young, 1-2-seeded. — Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xxiv. 162. Dolichos 

 coriaceus, Graham in Wall. Cat. No. 5562. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Vogel ! Mann ! Prince's island and Fernando 

 Po, Vogel! Barter! 



Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 

 A plant of both Tropical Asia and America. 



61. CANA VALLA, Adans. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 537. 



Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip large, truncate or bifid, the lower one 

 shorter, entire or trifld. Standard large, suborbicular, reflexed, with 



