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tuse, mucronate, subglabrous above appresso-pubescent beneath. 

 Stipules deltoideo-subulate, ciliated. Racemes axillary solitary, 

 at first shorter than, but afterwards of nearly the same length 

 as the leaf. Flowers purple, rose-coloured, 3 together, pedi- 

 celled, furnished with lanceolate- subulate ciliated bracteas at 

 the insertion. Calyx bibracteolated, minutely puberulous ex- 

 ternally : upper lip entire, broad lanceolate ; lower 3-partite, 

 with the divisions lanceolato-subulate. Standard roundish- 

 oval, purple, with a green nerve running down the back exter- 

 nally, and with a greenish yellow spot at the claw internally : 

 Avings shorter than the keel, which is in two pieces and adher- 

 ing towards the apex. Stamens monadelphous : anthers white. 

 Ovary terete, linear, sericeo-villous : style with the stigma 

 simple. Legume falcate, compressed, with the sides at first 

 densely, afterwards sparingly appresso-sericeous, many-seeded. 



3. Dolichos luteus. Yellow Sea-side Bean. 



Stem twining herbaceous glabrous, leaflets ovate 

 acuminate mucronate subglabrous, racemes longer 

 than the leaves, legumes subcylindrical appresso-pu- 

 bescent. 



D. maritimus minor repens, pedunculis longioribus, siliquis 

 polyspermibus gracilibus teretibus, Browne, 293 ? D. luteus, 

 Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 1246. De Cand. Prod. II. 398. 



HAB. Common along the sea shore. 



FL. December May. 



Herbaceous, twining, terete, glabrous. Leaflets petiolulated, 

 ovate, acuminate with the apex mucronate, 3-nerved at the 

 base, subglabrous. Stipules lanceolate, auriculated externally 

 at the base. Peduncles axillary, longer than the leaf. Flowers 

 racemed, yellow. Pedicels short. Calyx bibracteolated ; up- 

 per lip entire, ovate, acute ; under lip 3-fid, with the lobes 

 ovato-lanceolate, acute. Standard subrotund, subemarginate, 

 sulcated and bicallose at the base ; wings oblong ; keel of two 

 pieces adhering towards the apex, incurved at nearly a right 

 angle. Stamens 9 and 1. Style bearded beneath to wards' the 

 stigma, which looks downwards, with a glandulose slightly re- 

 curved apicula above. Legume about 3 inches in length, sub- 

 cylindrical, slightly curved, appresso-pubescent, of a blackish 

 colour: seeds about 10, slightly compressed. 



The upper lip of the calyx, according to Swartz, is emargi- 

 nate, and the legume is described as glabrous. I have not 

 found this to be the case in any of the specimens 1 have hitherto 

 met with. 



4. Dolichos unguiculatus. Hook-podded Dolichos. 

 Stem twining, leaflets those of the stem broad ovate, 



