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1. Dolicholus reticulatus (Sw.) Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 53. 1900. 



Glycine reticulata Sw. Prodr. 105. 1788. 



Bhynchosia reticulata DC. Prodr. 2: 385. 1825. 



A pubescent or tomentose twining or trailing vine often 5 m. long. Leaves 

 petioled, 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, 5-lU cm. 

 long, reticulate-veined, acuminate, acute or obtvse at the apex, obtuse or rounded 

 at the base, the terminal one long-stalked, the lateral ones nearly sessile; 

 racemes several-many-flowered, shorter than the leaves; pedicels very short; 

 calyx 7-12 mm. long, deeply 4-cleft, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla 

 yellow, a little longer than the calyx-lobes; pod flat, lunate, 2-2.5 cm. long, G-9 

 mm. wide ; seeds nearly black. 



Scrub-lands, Watling's Island between Graham's Harbor and Cockburn Town : — 

 Cuba to Virgin Gorda and Grenada ; continental tropical America. Net-veined 

 Dolicholus. 



Leaflets less densely reticulate-veined than in plants from some other West Indian 

 islands, the apex obtuse. 



2. Dolicholus Swartzii Vail, Bull. Torr. Club 26: 108. 1899. 



Bhynchosia Gundlachii Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 374. 1908. 

 Bhynchosia caribaea Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 10-4. 1860. Not Glycine caribaea 

 Jacq. 1786. 



A pubescent, resinous-dotted, somewhat woody, trailing or twining vine 

 0.5-1.5 m. long, the stems slender, little branched except at the base. Stipules 

 narrowly lanceolate, about 4 mm. long, deciduous; petioles 1-3 cm. long; 

 leaflets 3, rhombic-ovate, membranous, acuminate at the apex; obtuse or sub- 

 truncate at the base, pubescent on both sides; the terminal one slender-stalked, 

 4-6 cm. long, the lateral ones short-stalked, smaller, inequilateral ; racemes few- 

 flowered, mostly shorter than the petioles or little longer; pedicels 2-4 mm. 

 long; calyx about 3 mm. long, its lobes shorter than the tube; corolla yellow, the 

 standard obovate, about 8 mm. long; pod falcate, 2-4 cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, 

 acute, pubescent; seeds red, 5-6 mm. long. 



Coppices. Great Bahama, New Providence, Cat Island. Crooked Island : — Flor- 

 ida ; Cuba. Swaetz's Dolicholus. Boxaney-beax. 



3. Dolicholus minimus (L.) Medic. Vorles. Chur. Phys. Ges. 2: 354. 17S7. 



DoUchos minimus L. Sp. PI. 726. 1753. 



Bhynchosia minima DC. Prodr. 2: 385. 1825. 



A slender, puberulent or pubescent, resinous-dotted, more or less branched 

 vine, 3-12 dm. long, trailing or twining. Stipules subulate, about 2 mm. long, 

 caducous; petioles very slender, 1-4 em. long; leaflets 3, rhombic-ovate or 

 rhombic-orbicular, obtuse or acute at the apex, obtuse at the base, the terminal 

 one slender-stalked, 1-3 em. long, the lateral ones short-stalked, smaller or as 

 large, inequilateral; racemes slender, several-flowered, mostly as long as the 

 leaves or longer; pedicels very short; calyx 2-3 mm. long, its lobes lanceolate- 

 subulate; corolla yellow; standard orbicular-obovate, retuse, 5-6 mm. long; 

 pods falcate, 10-17 mm. long, about 4 mm. wide, puberulent; seeds brown, 

 mottled. 



Waste grounds and pine-lands. Alnico. Andros. New Providciico. KitMitlifra. ("at 

 Island, Acklin's Island. Fortune Island. North Caicos and Inngua : — South Carolina 

 to Florida and Texas: throughout tiie West Indies and tropical and warm tem- 

 perate continental America ; Old World tropics. S.mall Dolicholus. 



22. PHASEOLUS L. Sp. PI. 723. 1753. 

 Vines, rarely erect herbs, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, and axillary 

 racemose flowers. Calyx 5-tootlied or 5-lobed, or the 2 upper teeth more or less 

 united. Standard orbicular, recurved, spreading or somewhat contorted ; wings 



