210 L. LEGUMINOS2E. (J. G. Baker.) [Dolichos. 



dish or white, -f in. Pod H-2 in. by ^ f in., tipped with the hooked persistent 

 base of the style. Eoxburgh describes fully 13 cultivated varieties. 



2. D. bracteatus, Baker ; flowers large, pedicels exceeding the calyx, 

 keel broad subobtuse, pod linear many-seeded. 



Plains of CONCAN, Stocks. 



A. robust glabrous perennial twiner. Stipules % in., lanceolate, basifixed ; leaflets 

 entire, membranous, glabrous, acute or obtuse, | f ft. long, and broad, the base deltoid. 

 Racemes long-peduncled, reaching a foot or more long ; bracts minute, linear-lanceo- 

 late, deciduous ; pedicels ^- in. ; bracteoles firm, oblong or roundish, as long as the 

 calyx. Calyx \ in., glabrous ; teeth deltoid, short. Corolla reddish, 1 in. long. Pod 

 much recurved, 5-6 in. by f in., 10-12-seeded. 



STJBGEN. 2. BSacrotyloma, W. # A. Style filiform, minutely penicil- 

 late round the stigma, not bearded down the edge. Connects Phaseolece and 

 Galactiecc. 



3. D. bifiorus, Linn. ; DC. Prafr.ii.-898; leaflets entire, flowers 1-3 in 

 the axils of the leaves, calyx-teeth long setaceous, corolla yellow, pod linear 

 downy 5-6-seeded. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 313. D. uniflorus, Lam. ; DC. Prodr. 

 loe.ctt.; Wall. Cat. 5538; W. $ A. Prodr. 248. Johuia congesta, Dalz. fy 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 23. Glycine uniflora, Dalz. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 146, cum icone. 



HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and BIRMA, ascending to 3000 ft. in SIKKIM, sometimes 

 cultivated. DISTRIB. Everywhere in tropics of Old World. 



Annual, suberect (D. uniflorus} or lengthened out and twining (D. biflorus), downy, 

 rarely glabrescent. Stipules basifixed, \ in., lanceolate, scariose ; leaflets, membran- 

 ous, ovate, acute, 1-2 in. long, at first finely pilose on the faces. Flowers 1-3 toge- 

 ther, in the axils of the leaves, without a common peduncle. Calyx in., downy; 

 teeth lanceolate- setaceous, much exceeding the tuba. Corolla -^ | in. long keel nar- 

 row, obtuse, rather shorter than the standard. Pod 1^-2 in. by 5-3- in., much recurved, 

 tipped with the persistent style. 



4. D. lance olatus, Grdh. in Wall. Cat. 5547 ; leaflets entire, flowers 

 1-2 on a short common peduncle in the axils of the leaves, calyx-teeth shorter 

 than the tube, corolla reddish. 



BIRMA ; Prome hills, Wallich. 



Stems very slender, wide-twining, with only a few short adpressed hairs. Stipules 

 minute, lanceolate ; leaflets 1-1 i in. long, moderately firm, oblong, acute, with a few 

 adpressed hairs on both sides, narrowed to a rounded base. Pedicels shorter than the 

 calyx ; bracteoles ovate, persistent, rather shorter than the calyx. Calyx under ^ in., 

 silky. Corolla 3 times the calyx; petals subequal; keel distinctly incurved at the 

 tip, subobtuse. Style rather thickened upwards, so that it connects the two sections. 

 Pod unknown. 



5.' p. ciliatus, Klein; DC. Prodr. ii. 398; leaflets entire 'conspicu- 

 ously ciliated on the edge, flowers 3-6 in subsessile cymes, calyx-teeth setaceous, 

 corolla yellow, pod linear-oblong glabrous 3-4-seeded. Wall. Cat. 65f>8 ; W. 

 $ A. Prodr. 249. D. prostratus, K&nig ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 310. 



Plains of the WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. 



Soot tuberous, perennial. Stems slender, firm, clothed with short spreading deciduous 

 grey hairs. Stipules small, nervose, lanceolate, basifixed ; leaflets oblong, rounded at 

 the base, 1-3 in. long, with only a few adpressed hairs at first on the faces. Pedicels 

 shorter than the calyx ; bracteoles minute, ovate, nervose, persistent. Calyx under 

 J in. : lower teeth lanceolate-setaceous. Corolla A in. ; standard as in Clitoria, much 



