leguminosjE. 277 
Lam. 111. t. 608. f. 2. — Rynchosia phaseoloides, De Cand. 
Prod. II. 385. 
HAB. Twining on trees, on the South Side of the Island 
FL. May. 
Stem suftrutescent ; branches striated, puberulous, and under 
the glass with minute yellow glandular dots. Leaflets apiculated, 
nerved, reticulato-venose, minutely puberulous, and dotted with 
minute yellow glandules beneath. Stipules small, lanceolate, 
deciduous. Racemes numerous towards the ends of the branch- 
lets, axillary, solitary, simple, 5-6 inches long. Flowers fusco- 
luteoid, shortly pedicelled, distinct, sub-deflected. Common 
peduncle angulose, puberulous, dotted with minute yellow 
glandules. Calycine divisions lanceolate, acute ; the two upper 
approximate ; the three inferior spreading, with the middle one 
the largest. Standard concealing the keel and the wings, 
emarginate at the apex, greenish-yellow striated with purplish 
veins, externally puberulous, and minutely-glanduloso-punctate; 
wings linear; keel subfalcate. Filaments 10, with the upper 
one free. Ovary oblong: style length of the stamens, dilated 
in the middle : stigma acute. Legume oblong, deflected, com- 
pressed, attenuated at both ends, pubescent, contracted in the 
middle, 2-seeded, when ripe ferrugineo-pubescent, dehiscent at 
the upper suture : seeds spherical or oblong, shining, black, 
with the hilum scarlet. 
Seeds not unlike those of the Abrus ruECATORius. 
4. Rynchosia reticulata. Reticulated Rynchosia. 
Stem twining angular silky-subtomentose, leaflets 
ovate bluntish reticulato-nervose 3 -nerved at the base 
silky, racemes axillary many-flowered shorter than 
the leaf, legumes broad pubescent. 
Glycine reticulata, Vahl, Symb. III. 88. — Swartz, Prod. 105. 
— Rynchosia reticulata, De Cand. Prod. II. 385. 
HAB. Port-Royal mountains. 
FL. March. 
Stem suffrutescent. Leaflets (the middle one the largest) 
rather obtuse, reticulately nerved, veined, silky, with the hairs 
appressed. Stipules deltoid, silky; stipels subulate. Petiole 
3- (sub-5-) angular, silky. Racemes axillary, elongating. 
Flowers yellow, shortly pedicelled. Calyx resinoso-punctate, 
and silky, with minutely glanduliferous hairs ; upper lip bifid ; 
lower deeply 3-partite, with the divisions spreading. Standard 
roundish entire ; wings toothed; keel distinct at the base. Ovary 
pedicelled: stigma simple, blunt. Legume compressed, beaked, 
with the remains of the style, pubescent, 2-seeded. 
