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entire or 3-fid. Standard ample, suborbicular, rigid at back, 

 2-callous within, Avith a short claw ; wings oblong, eared at base ; 

 keel equalling the wings or longer, shorter than the standard, 

 incurved. Disk sheathing. Stamens monadelphous or im- 

 perfectly diadelphous. Ovary linear, multi-ovulate ; style 

 incurved, glabrous, with a terminal stigma. Legume com- 

 pressed, subfalcate, with partitions between the seeds. Seeds 

 compressed, with a Mnear scar. — Fl. Cap. ii. p. 238. 



Climbing or prostrate, tropical or subtropical herbs or undershrubs. 

 Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, the terminal leaflets subdistant. Stipules 

 small ; stipels minute or 0. Eacemes axillary, subspicate ; flowers solitary 

 or in pairs, rosy purple or white. — 2 species found near Natal, but neither 

 endemic. 



55. VIGNA, Savi. 



Calyx 2-bracteate at base, bell-shaped, 4-5-fid (the upper 

 lobes sepai-ate or connate), the lowest lobe longest. Standard 

 ample, spreading, with an arched and vaulted claw, and 2 cal- 

 lous ridges at base within ; wings oblong, produced at base or 

 eared on the claw ; keel not twisted, inflexed or rostrate. 

 Stamens diadelphous or monadelphous. Disk sheathing. 

 Ovary linear, several-ovuled ; style compressed and channelled 

 on one side, incurved ; stigma hooked, oblique. Legume terete 

 or compressed, subfalcate, subtorulose, with cellular partitions 

 between the seeds. Seeds subreniform, with a small strophiole. 

 —Fl. Cap. ii. p. 239. 



Twining or erect, undershrubs or herbs, natives of warm countries. Leaves 

 pinnately 3-folioled. Flowei's on long peduncles, floriferous at summit, or 

 racemose. The pods of many are eaten as " French Beans ;" V. Catjamj 

 is often cultivated for its pods. — At least 8 species in the Eastern district 

 and Natal, of which 6 are endemic. 



hQ. DOLICHOS, Linn. 



Calyx bell-shaped, 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-fid or subentire, 

 lower 3-fid. Standard spreading or incumbent, equalling the 

 keel, with 2-4-callous ridges within ; wings oblong; keel fal- 

 cate or incurved (or nearly straight), neither twisted nor bent to 

 one side. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary substipitate, several- 

 ovuled ; style channelled or terete ; stigma capitate. Legume 

 compressed, straight or falcate, 2- or several- seeded, with 

 cellular partitions between the seeds. — Fl. Cap. ii. f. 242. 



Twining or prostrate plants of warm countries. Leaves pinnately 3- 

 folioled or rarely 5-folioled, stipellate. Flowers racemose subcorymbose or 

 sohtary, 2-bracteolatc, red purple blue or white. — 11 species, of which 10 

 are endemic, chiefly Eastern. 



57. FAGELIA, Neck. 

 Calyx 5-cleft beyond the middle, the segments linear, acute, 



