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rachis of fascicle node-like, or nearly absent ; bracts and bractlets 

 small, striated, usually very caducous {All wanner region?). 



11. Vigna Savi.- — Flowers of Phaseolus. Standard suborbicular, 

 furnished at base with inflexed auriculate appendages ; wings falcate ; 

 keel about equal to wings, curved, either without beak or produced 

 into a curved beak (not twisted into a perfect spiral). Other characters 

 of Phaseolus. — Herbs, twining or more rarely prostrate or short 

 erect ; leaves of Phaseolus ; stipules sessile, or more rarely produced 

 below insertion; flowers 3 arranged as in Phaseolus {All hotter regions*). 



12? Voandzeia Dup.-Th. 5 — Flowers small, polygamous (of 

 Vigna) ; fertile flowers, smaller apetalous ; germen sessile pauciovu- 

 late ; style curved, bearded above ; stigma oblong introrse lateral. 

 Legume irregularly subglobose, bare within, 1 -seeded, 2-valved, 

 ripening underground. Seed subglobose; hilum oblong; embrvo fleshy, 

 thick ; radicle short, nearly or quite straight. — A creeping herb ; 6 

 leaves on long petioles, pinnately 3-foliolate, stipellate ; peduncles 

 axillary short few-flowered, recurved after anthesis ; flowers axillary 

 to small striated bracts ; bractlets conformable {Trojneal Africa). 



13. Pachyrhizus Rich. 7 — Flowers of Vigna; standard broad 

 obovate, furnished at base with inflexed auriculate appendages; 



1 Species about 20. G^ertn., Fruct,, ii. 322, 

 1. 150.— Smith, Spieil, t. 21 ; Exot. FL, t. 71; 

 Bot. Reg., t. 830. — J ACQ., Fragm., t. 55 ; Sort. 

 Vindob., t. 124. — Bot. Mag., t. 380, 896.— 

 Wight, in Hook. Bot. Misc., Suppl., t. 15. — 

 Benth., in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 113; in Mart. 

 Fl. Bras., Papil., 196, t. 51.— Harv. & Sond., 

 FL Cap., ii. 2 13— Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trap. 

 Afr., ii. 209.— Walp., Rep., i. 779 ; ii. 901 ; v. 

 539 ; Ann., i. 252 ; ii. 429 ; iv. 563. 



2 Mem. Phaseol., iii. 7.— DC, Prodr., ii. 401.— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6675.— B. H., Gen., 539, n. 223. 

 — Otoplera DC.,Mem. Lc'gum.,2id,t. 42; Prodr., 

 ii. 240. — Calic.ysthus Endl., Prodr. Fl, Norfolk., 

 90; Gen,, n. 6<i75 b. — Scglalis E. Mey., Comm. 

 PI. Afric. Austr., 141.— ? Strophostyles E. 

 Met., loc. cit., 147 (nee Ell.). — Endl., Gen., 

 n. 6674d (Phaseolus). — ? Plectrotropis Schum., 

 Beskr., 338. — Sphenostylis E. Mey., loc. cit., 

 L48.— Endl., Gen,, n. 6678. 



3 Yellowish, or more rarely purplish. 



4 Jacq., Sort. Vindob., t. 23, 67, 90, 102.— 

 AVight, Icon., i. 202.— Hook., Icon., t. 637; 

 Bot. Mag., t. 2233.— Rich. (A.), Fl. Abyss. 



Tent., t. 2.— Hart. & Sond., Fl, Cap., ii. 239.— 

 Bentu., in Mart. Fl, Bras., Pupil., 193, t. 50 ; 

 Fl, Austral., ii. 258. — Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trap. 

 Afr., ii. 202.— Walp., Rep., i. 778; v. 537; 

 Ann., ii. 427 ; iv. 562. 



5 Gen. Nov. Madagasc, 23.— DC, Mem. 

 Legum., t. 20, fig. 106; Prodr., ii. 174. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 6684.— B. H., Gen., 539, n. 224.— 

 Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Prop. Afr., ii. 207.— Cryp- 

 tolobus Spreng., Syst., iii. 152, 218 (part.). 



6 V. subterranea Ddp.-Th. — Aracliis aj) /'- 

 cana Burm., Fl. Ind., 22. — Glycine subterranea 

 L. F., Dec, 37, 1. 17. — Voandzou FlAC, Madag., 

 118. (Voandzeia should perhaps rather be con- 

 sidered a section of Vigna with short subter- 

 ranean legumes). 



' In DC, Mem. Legum., 379 ; Prodr., ii. 

 402.— Endl., Gen., a. 6679.— B. II.. Gen., 540, 

 n.225 — Caraca l>i r.-Tn., in Diet. Sc. fl .. < 

 35. — Tceniocarpum Disvx., in Ann. Sc. Nat., 

 s.'r. 1, ix. 420.— Endl., Gen., a. 6683. — Robin- 

 sia MART. & (Jal., in Bull. Ac. Brux., x. ii. 

 193.— Walp., Rep., v. 534. 



