Mucuna LEGUMINOS^ 55 



as long as the tube, the lowest narrower and a little longer. Corolla: 

 standard half as long as the wings; wings nearly 3-5 cm. 1. ; keel a little 

 longer than the wings. Pod 4-8 cm. 1., about 1-5 cm.br. Seeds 2-6, 

 transversely oblong, with a short oblong hilum, spotted, about 1 cm. 1. 



17. GALACTIA Adans. 



Twining, somewhat shrubby slender herbs. Flowers in 

 clusters in racemes or occasionally simply clustered or solitary, 

 the clusters springing from thickenings on the rhachis. Calyx- 

 segments 4, acuminate, as long as the tube to more than twice 

 as long. Uppermost stamen free, or rarely slightly united in 

 the middle with the rest ; anthers uniform, versatile. Style 

 slender, without hairs ; stigma small, terminal. Pod linear, 

 compressed ; the seeds separated by tissue. 



Species 50, growing in the tropics, especially in America. 



Corolla 2-2-5 cm. 1 1. G.pendula. 



Corolla 1 cm. 1. or less. 

 Twining or trailing vines. 



Eaceme several- or many-flowered. 



Calyx hairy, 7 mm. 1., segments twice as long as 



tube 2. G. striata. 



Calyx subglabrous, 4 mm. 1., segments as long as 



tube 5. Q. laxiflora. 



Flowers solitary or few in a raceme. 



Leaflets mostly elliptical 3. Q. uniflora. 



Leaflets mostly linear to linear-oblong 4. O. parvifolia. 



Erect shrub, 2 ft. high 6. G. Jussiseana. 



1. G. pendula Pers. Syn. ii. 302 (1807) (excl. Cajenna) ; 

 leaflets l'5-7 cm. 1., glabrous on both sides, or sometimes 

 minutely puberulous on the midrib above, and puberulous 

 beneath ; calyx sparingly puberulous, 7-8 mm. 1., lateral 

 segments about as long as the tube, the others longer ; standard 

 2-2*5 cm. 1.; pod 7-9 cm. 1., 6-9 mm. br., curved at apex, 

 puberulous. — Bot. Beg. t. 269 ; Macf. Jam. i. 254 ; Griseb. Fl. 

 Br. W. Ind. 194; Urh. Sijmh. Ant. ii. 328. G. foliis ovatis &c. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 298, t. 32, /. 2. Phaseolus minor lactescens 

 &c. Shane Cat. 71 & Hist. i. 182, t. 114,/. 4. Clitoria lactescens 

 L. Syst. ed. 10, 1172 (1759) (?). Glycine Galactia L. Syst. ed. 10, 

 1173 (1759). Clitoria Galactia L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1026 (1763). 

 Hedysarum scandens Miller Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768); Britten & 

 Bah. f. in Journ. Bot. xxxv. 231. (Fig. 17.) The type, Sloane's 

 specimen, is in Herb. Mus. Brit. There is a specimen in Herb. 

 Linn, named by Linnseus Glycine Galactia. 



■ In fl. July-Jan. ; Sloane Herb. iii. 77, 78 1 Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 

 781 Houstoun\ Shakspearl Bancroft \ Macfadyenl St. Ann, McNabl 

 Purdiel Wilson; Marchl Eggers ; J. P. 2127, Morris \ Mavis Bank, 

 Faivceit I Long Mt. road, 100 ft. ; Campbell ! Guava Ridge ; Hall's Delight ; 

 near Mocha, 2500 ft. ; near Gordon Town, 2300 ft. ; Long Mt., 800 ft. ; 



