LEGUMINOSiE. 439 



68. CLEOBULIA, Mart. 



Char, fruct. Legmnm ohlongum, plano-compressum, coriaceum, exa- 

 latum, suturis haud incrassatis. Semina Diocleae. , 



1. Cleobulia multiflora, Mart. 



Cleobulia multiflora, Mart, in Herb. Bras. ; Benth. Comm. Legum. 1. c. p. 67. 



Hab. Brazil ; in the Organ Mountains, near Bio Janeiro. 



The specimen bears only the fruit, which was not before known, 

 on which account the characters are now given. The legumes appear 

 to be essentially those of Gratylia, while the seeds are those of a 

 Dioclea. The former are 2 or 2i inches long, three-fourths of an inch 

 wide, much compressed, obtuse at both ends, not stipitate, of a coria- 

 ceous texture, coated with a rusty down, two-valved, within inter- 

 cepted between the seeds by a soft cellular tissue. The sutures are 

 not perceptibly thickened, nor are there any traces of wings. Seeds 

 5 or 6, transverse, 3 lines long, oval, not much compressed, chestnut- 

 brown, with darker spots, nearly the whole length of one side occu- 

 pied by the linear hilum, from which the slender strophiole separates. 



69. DIOCLEA, H. B. K 



1. Dioclea violacea, Mart. 



Dioclea violacea, Mart, in Herb. ; Benth. Comm. Legum. 1. c. p. 69. 

 Dolichos altissimus, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 7, t. 134. 



Hab. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; on the coast near Hilo : also on 

 Kauai. (Byron's Bay, Macrae.) 



Probably introduced into the Sandwich Islands, as it is a native of 



