Galactia 



LEGUMINOS^ 



59 



subsessile cluster to 3 cm. 1., with several flowers. Corolla rosy; standard 

 roundish-obovate, apex acute, ciliate ; wings shorter than the standard 

 and keel. Stamens, anthers versatile, elliptical ; uppermost filament free. 

 We have not seen a specimen from Jamaica. 



18. DIOCLEA H. B. & K, 



Twining shrubs. Flowers in small clusters springing from 

 thickenings on the elongated peduncle. Calyx campanulate, 

 silky within, with 4 segments. Standard roundish, with infolded 

 auricles at the base. Stamens united ; alternate anthers very 



Fig. 1%.—Dwdea reflexa Hook. f. 



A, Leaf X \. D, Keel X \\. 



A', Portions o( inflorescence x §. E, Stamens enclosing pistil x IJ. 



B, Standard x \\. F, Pod x *. 



C, Wing X IJ. ' 



small, sterile in D. rejlexa and in some other species, uniform in 

 other species. Pod compressed or swollen, the upper margin 

 thickened or 2-winged, with tissue between the seeds. 



Species 17, natives mostly of tropical America, of which two 

 are found also in tropical Africa. 



D. reflexa Hooh. f. in Hooh. Niger Fl. 306 (1849); Griseb. 

 Fl. Br. W. Ind. 198 ; Wils. in Beports Geolog. Jam. 277 ; Bah. 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. ii. 196 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. i. 473. Dolichos 

 filiformis Macf. Jam. i. 286 (1837) (non L.). 



"Lower hills on fences; St. Andrew," Macfadyen; Wilson \ — West 

 Indies, America, Africa, tropical Asia, New Guinea. 



