74 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Bhynchoda 



Stem angled, puberulous or glabrescent. Leaflets small, ovate-rhom- 

 boid, puberulous, rarely tomentose, 1-5-2 -5 (1-3) cm. 1. Flowers distant, 

 yellow. Calyx 3 "3-4 -5 mm. 1. Standard about -6 cm. 1., veined witb 

 red or purple, obovate with auricles at base slightly inflexed, claw wedge- 

 shaped, about 1"3 mm. 1. ; wings shorter than the keel (claw 1'5 mm. 1.), 

 narrowly oblong, truncate at base ; keel oblong-elliptical, rounded at 

 apex, truncate-wedge-shaped at base, about as long as the standard and 

 twice as broad as the wings, claw about2 mm. 1. Pod minutely puberulous, 

 2-seeded, 1-3-1-7 cm. 1., •4--5 cm. br. Seeds ellipsoidal, slightly indented 

 on one side, black, 2 "5-3 mm. in diam. 



3. R. earibsea DC. Prodr. ii. 384 ; calyx about one-third to 

 one-half as long as the corolla, upper 2 segments triangular, 

 acute, lateral • ovate, acuminate, a little longer than the upper, 

 lower segment lanceolate from a broad base, aristate, longer than 

 the lateral ; standard obcordate ; \*^ings with claw-like auricle ; 

 pod hirsute ; leaflets with yellow glandular dots beneath. — Macf. 

 Jam. i. 275. Glycine caribrea Jacq. Collect, i. 66 (1786) & Ic. 

 PI. Bar. t. 146 ; Bot. Beg. t. 275. 



There is in Herb. Mus. Brit, a description of this species 

 from a garden plant by Solander (MSS. xv. 239), and also a 

 specimen labelled " Hort. Kew. 1779." Jacquin's description is 

 of a plant raised from seed brought by him " ex insulis 

 Caribseis," and presumably the figure in Ic. PI. Rar. is of the 

 same plant. The Bot. Reg. states " the plant from which the 

 drawing has been taken was raised from Jamaican seed." 

 Macfadyen gives as its habitat, " on fences, neighbourhood of 

 Bath." We have not seen a specimen collected in Jamaica. 



Stem pubescent or glabrate. Leaflets small, rhomboid, acute or acu- 

 minate, puberulous with scattered hairs on the upper surface, puberulous 

 on the nerves and veins beneath, l'5-3 cm. 1. Flowers "about half an 

 inch long, deep yellow" (Bot. Reg. t. 275). Standard with purplish 

 streaks, auriculate ; keel purplish at the apex. Pod 2-5-3 cm, l.,!scimitar- 

 shaped, with glandular dots. 



4. R. phaseoloides BC. Prodr. ii. 385 (1825) ; calyx about 

 one-third to one-half as long as the corolla, segments about as 

 long as the tube, upper and lateral triangular, lower awl-shaped ; 

 pod constricted between the seeds, about 1 cm. br. ; leaflets with 

 orange-yellow dots beneath.- — Macf. Jam. i. 276 ; Benth. loc. cit. 

 t. 54, /. i. ; Griseh. loc. cit. ; Urb. loc. cit. Glycine sylvestre 

 scandens &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 298. G. phaseoloides Sw. Prodr. 

 105 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1248. 



Decoy, St. Mary, Browne ; Wright ! Masson I Swartz ! Bancroft I 

 Macfadyen ! St. Mary, McNab ! Purdie ! Wilson ! Moneague, Prior 1 

 J. P. 872, Morris I Chester Vale, 3000 ft. ; Knapdale, near Browns Town, 

 1000 ft. ; Mt. Diabolo ; near Troy, 2000 ft. ; Harris I Fl. Jam. 5636, 5875, 

 7093, 8494, 8775.— West Indies, Central and South America. 



Stem trailing, sometimes growing to a length of 18 ft., subterete, 

 tomentose-puberulous or glabrescent. Leaflets broadly ovate to rhomboid, 

 acuminate, glabrous on upper surface, puberulous or minutely tomentose 



