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style more or less flattened at apex ; stigma subglobose at inner face, 

 very shortly stipitate. Legume marked with transverse lines between 

 seeds, 2-valved ; cells full. Seeds transversely oblong or suborbiculate, 

 compressed ; hilum minute, oblong or elliptical. — Herbs, with habit 

 and leaves of Phaseolus ; bracts and bractlets small setaceous. Other 

 characters of Phaseolus or Vigna {Hotter regions of America and Asia}). 



14. Psophoearpus Neck/ — Flowers of Pachijrhizus ; vexillary 

 stamen free close to base, usually connate at middle with remainder 

 into a tube; ovary shortly stipitate, oo -ovulate; style thickened 

 above ovary, subulate curved beardless ; stigma terminal subglobose 

 or introrse, with a dense villous tuft. Legume 4-gonous, longitudi- 

 nally 4-winged (2 anterior, 2 posterior wings), 2-valved, stuffed within 

 between seeds. Seeds transversely oblong, compressed in turn ; 

 hilum lateral, oblong or elliptical, exarillate. Embryo very fleshy ; 

 radicle inflexed ; petioles of cotyledons forming a sheath round 

 plumule and tigella, — Twining herbs ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate 

 stipellate ; stipules membranous, produced below insertion ; flowers 3 

 in fascicled racemes ; bracts deciduous ; bractlets larger, persistent 

 for a longer time {Tropical Asia and Africa*). 



15. Galactia P. Br. 5 — Receptacle concave, lined by a disk; disk 

 crenulate, a little projecting round gyna?ceum. Calyx gamosepalous ; 

 lobes 4 (2 highest connate into one quite entire), long acuminate ; 

 lowest lobes often longer. Petals a little unequal ; standard ovate 

 or orbicular, with slightly inflexed margins, wings long obovate or 

 narrow, more or less adhering to keel ; keel equal to or a little 

 longer than wings, without beak. Stamens 10, either 2-adelphous 

 (9-1), or 1-adelphous at base and vexillary stamen connate at 

 middle with remainder; anthers uniform. Grermen sessile or sub- 

 sessile, cc-ovulate; style slender beardless; apex >tigmatiferous, 



1 Species 2. L., Spec, 420.— Lors., FL < o- 

 chinch., ii. 535 (part.), 536. — Moc. & Kiss., in 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 399, n. 34.— Benth., Fl. Bras., 

 PapiL, t. 53.— Walt., Rep., ii. 902. 



2 Flem., n. 1362.— DC, Prodr., ii. 403.— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6680.— B. H., Gen., 540, n. 

 226. — D'tesingia Endl., in Flora (1862), 117 ; 

 Atakta, i. t. 1,2; Gen., n. 6681. — Botor Adaks., 

 Fam. des PL, ii. 326. 



3 Lilac or violet, rather large or middle-«izecl. 



4 L., Spec, 1021. — Rumph., Herb. Amboin,, 



v. t. 133.— Dup.-Tii., in Diet, des So. Nat., v. 

 211.— Benth., in Mart. Fl. Bras., VapiL, 197, 

 t. 52. — Bakek, in Olio. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 

 208.— Wait.. Sep., i. 781; ii. 902. 



5 Jam., 298.— DC, Prodr., ii. 237.— Endl,, 

 Gen., n. 6653.— B. II., Gen., 535, n. 211 — 

 Setencourtia A. S. H., Voyag., i. 376. — Swi 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 3S1 (nee SPEENG.). — Odonia 

 Best., cx DC, Prodr. , ii. 239. — Heterocarpaa 

 ScHESLE, in Linnaa, xxi. 167. — Leucodiclyon 

 Dai./., in Hook. Journ., ii. 264. 



