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38 R. DE'BILIS ; plant twining, villous ; leaflets roundish, 

 almost glabrous ; petioles long ; racemes axillary, sessile, crowd- 

 ed with small flowers ; legumes short, villous. If. . ^. S, Na- 

 tive of Guinea and of the Island of St. Thomas. Flowers 

 small, yellow. 



Weak Rhynchosia. PI. tw. 



39 R. STRIA' TA ; plant twining; leaflets ovate, acuminated, 

 entire, glabrous, 3-nervod at the base ; racemes lateral, sessile ; 

 calyx 4-cleft, and is as well as the pedicels hairy ; corolla about 

 equal in length to the calyx. I/ . '"X S. Native of Sierra Leone. 

 Flowers yellow and striped with red. 



<S<nV(</-flowered Rhynchosia. PI. tw. 



40 R. BIFLORA (D. C. 1. c.) stems twining, clothed with vel- 

 vety villi; leaflets oval, acutish at both ends, reticulated above, 

 but clothed with soft velvety villi beneath ; racemes 2-flowered, 

 shorter than the petioles ; legumes ovate, mucronate, villous, 

 constricted between the seeds ; seed furnished with a thick bifid 

 arillus. O- . S. Native of the East Indies. Dolichos sca- 

 rabseoides, Roxb. hort. beng. 57. Legume 5-6 lines long and 

 3 lines broad, 2-seeded. Seeds ovate, blackish brown, separated 

 by cellular transverse membranes. 



Tn'0-floivered Rhynchosia. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1816. PI. tw. 



41 R. GARCI'NI (D. C. prod. 2. p. 388.) stems twining, clothed 

 with velvety villi : leaflets roundish-obovate, very blunt, clothed 

 with soft villi on both surfaces ; racemes shorter than the leaves; 

 legumes oblong, covered with fine velvety down, mucronate, 

 2-seeded, not constricted between the seeds. Q. ? ^- G. Na- 

 tive of Persia. Phaseolus Persicus mollis, Garcin, in herb. 

 Burm. Flowers yellow, striated. 



Garcin s Rhynchosia. PI. tw. 



42 R. ANGUSTIFOLIA (D. C. 1. c.) stems twining, terete, vil- 

 lous ; stipulas ovate, acute ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, silky ; 

 pedicels axillary, very short, 1 -flowered ; segments of the calyx 

 lanceolate ; legumes pubescent, 2-seeded. Fj . l ~*. G. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Glycine angustif61ia, Jacq. hort. 

 scho2nbr. 2. t. 231. Flowers yellow. Anthers pilose. 



Narrom-leajletled Rhynchosia. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1795. 

 Shrub tw. 



43 R. GLANDULOSA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 388.) stems twining, 

 rather angular, smooth ish ; leaflets oblong, glabrous, but full of 

 resinous dots beneath as well as the calyx ; peduncles axillary, 

 1-3-flowered, longer than the leaves. Tj . / ~*. G. Native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. Phaseolus Capensis, Burm. cap. p. 81. 

 but not of Thunb. Glycine glandulosa, Thunb. cap. prod. 131. 

 fl. cap. 591. Pedicels nearly an inch long, according to Thunb. 



Glandular Rhynchosia. Shrub tw. 



44 R. TOTTA (D. C. 1. c.) stems twining, terete, glabrous; 

 branches clothed with adpressed silky down ; leaflets ovate or 

 oblong, mucronate, rather puberulous, fringed a little at the 

 base, dotless beneath ; pedicels axillary, jointed in the middle, 

 1 -flowered, length of petioles : segments of the calyx and sti- 

 pulas subulate. Jj . ^. S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Burch, cat. pi. afr. aust. no. 2040. Glycine Totta, Thunb. fl. 

 cap. 591. Flowers yellow. 



Hottentot Rhynchosia. Shrub tw. 



45 R. MOLLISSIMA ; plant twining, very soft and hoary from 

 down; leaflets ovate-roundish, mucronate, 3-nerved at the base; 

 racemes axillary, spike-formed. 2/ . '"'. S. Native of Guinea, 

 very common among grass. Flowers small, brown. 



Very-soft Rhynchosia. PI. tw. 



46 R. HOOKE'RI ; plant pubescent ; stems twining ; leaflets 

 ovate, acute, somewhat rhomboidal, dotted ; racemes shorter 

 than the leaves ; legumes scymitar-shaped, swollen, 2-seeded. 

 "11. ^.S. Native of the West Indies. Glycine mollis, Hook, 

 exot. fl. t. 201. Flowers yellow. 



Hooker's Rhynchosia. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1824. PI. tw. 



47 R. MOLLIS (D. C. prod. 2. p. 388.) stems twining; leaflets 

 elliptic, obtuse at both ends, pubescent above but tomentose and 

 reticulately veined beneath ; pedicels 1 -flowered, one-half shorter 

 than the petioles ; legumes 3-seeded, clothed with rufous villi. 

 I/ . r \ S. Native of Guinea. Glycine mollis, Willd. spec. 3. 

 p. 1063. Lateral leaflets about an inch long, and the middle 

 one about an inch and a half long. Flowers yellow. 



Soft Rhynchosia. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1823. PI. tw. 



48 R. RIGIDULA (D. C. 1. c.) stems erect, clothed with retro- 

 grade, hoary pubescence ; leaflets linear, mucronate, pubescent, 

 and beset with resinous dots beneath; pedicels axillary, 1- 

 flowered, bent in the middle, length of petioles ; legumes rather 

 villous, oblong, 1 -seeded. J; . G. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Burch. cat. afr. aust. no. 2587. 



Sliffinh Rhynchosia. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



Cult. This genus is composed of plants of no beauty. For 

 the culture and propagation of the species see Eriosema, p. 348. 



CLXXXIV. ERIOSE'MA (from tpioc, erion, wool, and 

 avpa, sema, a standard ; in reference to the vexillum, which is 

 clothed with silky hairs). Desv. in Schlecht. Linnsca. vol. 2. 

 p. 512. 



LIN. SYST. Diadelpltia, Dccandria. Calyx 5-cleft, some- 

 what bilabiate, usually inclosing the corolla. Stamens diadel- 

 phous. Style filiform. Vexillum clothed with silky villi. 

 Legume straight, 1 -celled, 1 or few-seeded. Erect subshrubs, 

 with digitately trifoliate leaves, with the 3 leaflets rising from 

 the same dot or centre from the tip of the petiole, rarely soli- 

 tary. Racemes or fascicles of flowers axillary. Flowers yellow. 



1 E. GRANDIFLORA (Schlecht. et Cham, in Linnaea. 5. p. 588.) 

 shrubby, erect ; branches angular, somewhat trigonal ; petioles 

 very short, and are as well as the nerves and veins on the under 

 surface of the leaves clothed with silky rufous down, but the 

 calyxes and legumes are clothed with silky rufous villi ; leaves 

 and corollas covered with soft pubescence on both surfaces ; 

 leaflets oblong-elliptic, mucronate ; bracteas roundish-ovate, 

 acute, rather silky,' ciliated and bearded ; racemes terminal 

 and axillary, panicled ; legumes ovate, compressed, obliquely 

 beaked. Ij . S. Native of Mexico, near La Hacienda de la 

 Laguna. Very like E. rufa. 



Great-fiorcered Eriosema. Fl. Oct. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



2 E. RU'FA ; plant suffruticose, erect ; branches Bomewbat 

 tetragonal, clothed with rufous velvety down as well as the 

 petioles, which are very short ; leaflets 3, elliptic-oblong, clothed 

 with soft velvety down on both surfaces, but with rufous down 

 on the nerves on the under surface, which are rather prominent, 

 the odd leaflet remote from the lateral ones ; racemes many- 

 flowered, shorter than the leaves ; legumes oval, compressed, 

 mucronate, clothed with rufous villi. Jj . S. Native of New- 

 Andalusia, in humid places near Caripe, and on Cerro del Co- 

 collar. Glycine rufa, H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 423. 

 t. 574. Rhynchosia rufa, D. C. prod. 2. p. 388. 



Var. /3, macrostachyu (D. C. prod. 2. p. 388.) racemes longer 

 than the leaves. 



Rufous Eriosema. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



3 E. VIOLA'CEA; plant sufTruticose, erect ; branches and leaves 

 clothed with very short ferruginous villi ; leaflets 3, oblong- 

 linear, acute, greenish above and velvety, but clothed with rusty 

 villi beneath, the odd leaflet rather remote from the lateral ones ; 

 racemes axillary and terminal, many-flowered ; legumes ovate, 

 villous, 2-seeded. fj . S. Native of Guiana, in meadows. Cy- 

 tisus violaceus, Aubl. guian. 2. p. 766. t. 306. Crotalarialineata, 

 Lam. diet. 2. p. 200. Glycine picta, Vahl. symb. 2. p. 814. 

 Rhynchosia violacea, D. C. prod. 2. p. 388. Flowers violaceous. 



Violaceous Eriosema. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1820. Sh. 4 ft. 



4 E. DIFFU'SA : branches diffusely procumbent, tetragonal, 

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