Yigna?\ xlvii. § papilionace/E (baker). 207 



■a line long, glabrous. Calyx campanulate, glabrous, \ in. deer* ; teetli 

 very short, subdeltoid, the upper ones connate. Corolla yellowish- 

 green, half an inch deep. Pod 2-3 in. long, curved, glabrous, subterete, 

 \ in. thick, slightly torulose when mature, 4-6-seeded.— Scytalis anomala, 

 Vogel in Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. 19, suppl. i. 32. V. anomala 

 "Walp. Rep. i. 779. V. retusa, Walp. Rep. i. 778. Harv. Fl. Cap. ii! 

 242. Scytalis retusa, E. Meyer, Comm. 147. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk ! 



Also a plant of Tropical Asia, Australia, Polynesia, America, and the Cape. 



65. VOANDZEIA, Thouars ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 539. 



Calyx minute, campanulate, with five subequal teeth reaching half- 

 way down. Standard obovate, the base appendiculate, with small inflexed 

 auricles ; wings oblanceolate, as long as the standard ; keel boatshaped, 

 not rostrate. Stamens diadelphous; anthers roundish. Ovary sub- 

 sessile, 1-2 ovulate ; style incurved, bearded upwards; stigma slightly 

 oblique. Pod ripening beneath the ground, roundish, 1-2- seeded. 



A single species. 



1. V. subterranea, Thouars; DC. Prod. ii. 474. Petioles slender, 

 4-8 in. long, arising from a wide-creeping pubescent rhizome ; leaflets 

 3, oblong or lanceolate, lj— 3 in. long by half or quarter as broad, botli 

 sides glabrous or the lower finely bristly on the nerves ; petiolules 6-9 

 lines long ; stipellse minute, blunt. Peduncles flexuous, bearing 1-3 

 flowers, at first 2-6 lines long, cernuous. Calyx a line deep. Corolla 

 yellow, 3-4 lines long, often abortive. Peduncle becoming elongated 

 and deflexed, so as to thrust the ovary into the soil, where it becomes a 

 tuber-like pod, half an inch or more long, containing one or two small 

 yellow mottled seeds. — Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 254. 



Cultivated all through Tropical Africa. The native country not clearly known. 



66. PACHYKHIZUS, Rich. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 540. 



Calyx with the two upper teeth subconnate, the others equal, lanceo- 

 late. Standard broad-obovate, appendiculate at the base with inflexed 

 auricles ; wings oblong, falcate ; keel incurved, obtuse, equalling the 

 wings. Stamens diadelphous or monadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary 

 subsessile, multiovulate ; style moderately thick, the apex subinvolute, 

 flattened on the inner side; stigma globose, oblique. Pod linear, sub- 

 compressed, depressed transversely between the seeds and septate within. 

 — Climbing herbs. 



Two or perhaps three species, one of which inhabits Mexico. 



Stamens diadelphous ; bracts setaceous 1. P. avgulatus. 



Stamens monadelphous ; bracts lanceolate 2. P. orbicularis. 



