Strongylodon.] l. lbquminosje. (J. G. Baker.) 191 



few-ovuled, style filiform, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod oWong, turgid. 

 Seeds as large as a bean, with a hilum running more than half roimd. — Disieib. 

 Species 3, Polynesian. 



1. S. ruber, Voi/el ; Walp. Ann. iv. 559 ; A. Ch-ay Bot. Amer. Explw. 

 Expedit., 446, t. 48 ; TAwaites Enum. 89. Rhynchosia lucida, BC. Prodr. ii. 



Ceylon, near Kornegalle, 2%«;aifes.— Distrib. Polynesia. 



Stems firm, wide-t-wining, glabrous: Leaflets green, subconcolorous, glabrous, 

 membranous, the end one roundish -with, a point, 4-6 in. long. Racemes copious, ax- 

 illary, distinctly-peduncled, ^1 ft. long ; pedicels geminate from the tumid nodes, 

 filiform, drooping, J-1 in. Calyx glabrous, ^-^ in., clasped at the base by a pair of 

 short round deciduous bracteoles. Corolla bright red, 3-4 times the calyx. Pod ob- 

 long, 3 in. long, distinctly stalked, 2-seeded. 



64. GXtOKTA, Lour. 



Twining herbs, with stipellate 1-foliolate leaves, deciduous stipules and bracts. 

 Racemes with obscurely-swollen nodes. Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth elong- 

 ated, upper 2 shorter. Corolla distinctly exserted, its petals nearly equal in 

 length, both standard and wings spurred ; keel obtuse, nearly straight. Stamens 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled; style long, 

 filiform, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, turgid, septate between the 

 seeds. — Distkib. Another species reported from Oochin Ohina. 



1. G. Grabaxni, Bettth. PI. Jungh. 233; flowers in very lax fascicled 

 racemes, bracteoles a quarter as long as the calyx. Glycine Grahami, Wail. Cat 

 5513. 



Peome, WaXlioh. 



A lax climber or trailer, the slender stems -with a few adpressed hairs. Leaflet 

 subcoriaeeous, glabrous, subconcolorous, reticulato-venose, 3-6 in. long, acute, lower 

 •eordate-ovate, upper oblong-lanceolate; petiole ^l^ in. Racemes 2-3 from each 

 node, 1-3 in. long, the flowers in pairs from the distant nodes. Calyx glabrescent, 

 ^ in ; teeth all exceeding tube, lower linear, upper lanceolate. Corolla ^ in. reddish. 



2. Cr. Dalzellii, Baker ; flowers in dense usually sessile heads, bracteoles 

 as long as the calyx. Galactia simplicifolia, Dcdz. in Kew Jowrh. iii. 209 ; Dalz. 

 Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 69. 



Plains of Conoan, Dalzell, Stodks. 



A herbaceous twiner, the slender stems with a few adpressed hairs, iea^is. mem- 

 branous, with a few adpressed hairs on both sides, green above, glaucous below, ovate, • 

 acute, 2-4 in. long, lower cordate, upper rounded at the base; petiole f-lj in. 

 Flowers 6-12, in copious dense cymes. Calyx ^ in,, clothed with dense ferruginous 

 silky hairs; lower teeth lanceolate, upper deltoid. Corolla twice the calyx. Pod 

 linear, straight, hairy, 2-2j- in. long, S-lO-seeded. 



' 3. G. filicauliSf Kws in Jowm. Adat. Soo. Seng. xlii. 2, 232 ; flowers 

 axillary. 



Pegu, Ktirz. 



Voluble, slender. Leaves broad cordate-ovate, obtuse, mucronate, 1-1^ in. broad, 

 palmately nerved, thinly hirsute on' both sides ; petiole -J-f iu. Flowers small, yel- 

 low, pedicellate, cirrhoso-pedunculate. Pod slender, linear, glabrous, 1 in. long, 

 5-6-S6eded ; seeds shimng, olive-green, mottled with black. — Kurz, loe. oit. 



