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DoticHos Lasias L. Sp. Pi. 725. (Vo. 282r.) 
Dolicholus phaseoloides (Sw.). (Glycine phaseoloides Sw. 
Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1248.) ‘*Grows in mould and clay near 
roadsides, not climbing high, the flowers brownish-white.” 
Coroico, September 11, 1894. (Vo. 2427.) 
Doticuotus sp. (Woe. 2828 or 2478.) This is the same as Pal- 
mer 209 and Blanchet 291, which are referred to the last, but it 
appears to me distinct. 
Dolicholus ovatus sp. nov. 
Short-tomentose throughout; stems stoutish, coarsely angled; 
stipules about 7 mm. long, ovate, inequilateral, acuminate; peti- 
es 2-3 cm. long, stoutish, lightly channeled aboge: petiolules of 
the lateral ae about 3 mm. long, very stout, the blades 4-7 cm. 
long, 2:5-4.5 cm. broad, ovate, truncate or rounded at the base, 
acuminate and ae very inequilateral, thickis, the venation im- 
pressed above, prominent underneath; terminal leaflet 1-1.5 cm. 
distant from the lateral, about Se larger, proportionally 
broader, 3-nerved; peduncles about 5 mm. long; racemes 0.5-1 
dm. long; calyx-tube campanulate, 2 mm. long, 3 mm. broad; 
lower lobe 1 cm. long, lance-linear and tapering eae from the 
base to the acute point, closely folded; lateral lobes 8 mm. long, 
olate, acuminate; standard 1 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, obovate, the 
keel 1.5 mm. long, broad, obtuse, the auricles 1 mm. long, 
and rounded but el gerd sae by the sharply infolded lower 
margin; wings 9 mm. long, the claw 1.5 mm. long, the auricle 1 
mm. long, Tepecolate! obtuse, ees the body 3 mm. broad, united 
to the keel except about 2 mm. at the apex, the keel slightly 
longer; filaments united to within 2 mm. of the apex, the tenth 
distinct, the greenish, thick style equaling them, subulate, entire, 
obtusish ; legume 2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, the margins slightly 
thickened, narrowed at the base, very short-pointe ; see eep 
reddish- bro own, 4 mm. long, not quite so broad, strongly flattened. 
‘‘ Climbing slightly, in wet clayey soil; scarce; flowers yellow.” 
Coripata, March 24, 1894. (Vo. 2098.) 
Eriosema canescens sp. nov. 
escent throughout with long, soft, appressed hairs; tuberous- 
thickened root cylindrical or fusiform; stems several from a woody 
crown, 5-8 dm. high, erect, slender, simple or nearly so, angled 
above; stipules 1.5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. broad, lanceolate, attenuate, 
sub-connate; petioles 3-5 mm. long, stout and broad; terminal 
leaflet o.8-1.2 dm. long, 1-1.5 cm. broad, the lateral 6-9 cm. lon: 
leaflets ]ance-oblong, on petiolules about equaling the petioles, 
