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tuse, mucronate, subglabrous above appresso-pubescent beneath. 
Stipules deltoideo-subulate, ciliated. Racemes axillary solitary, 
at first shorter than, but afterwards of nearly the same length 
as the leaf. Flowers purple, rose-coloured, 3 together, pedi- 
celled, furnished with lanceolato- subulate ciliated bracteas at 
the insertion. Calyx bibracteolated, minutely puberulous ex- 
ternally : upper lip entire, broad lanceolate ; lower 3-partite, 
with the divisions lanceolato-subulate. Standard roundish- 
oval, purple, with a green nerve running down the back exter- 
nally, and with a greenish yellow spot at the claw internally : 
wings shorter than the keel, which is in two pieces and adher- 
ing towards the apex. Stamens monadelphous : anthers white. 
Ovary terete, linear, sericeo-villous : style with the stigma 
simple. Legume falcate, compressed, with the sides at first 
densely, afterwards sparingly appresso-sericeous, many-seeded. 
3. Dolichos luteus. Yellow Seaside Bean. 
Stem twining herbaceous glabrous, leaflets ovate 
acuminate mucronate subglabrous, racemes longer 
than the leaves, legumes subcylindrical appresso-pu- 
bescent. 
D. maritimus minor repens, pedunculis longioribus, siliquis 
polyspermibus gracilibus teretibus, Broiune, 293? — D. luteus, 
Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 1246. — De Cand. Prod. II. 398. 
HAB. Common along the sea shore. 
FL. December — May. 
Herbaceous, twining, terete, glabrous. Leaflets petiolulated, 
ovate, acuminate with the apex mucronate, 3-nerved at the 
base, subglabrous. Stipules lanceolate, auriculated externally 
at the base. Peduncles axillary, longer than the leaf. Flowers 
racemed, yellow. Pedicels short. Calyx bibracteolated ; up- 
per lip entire, ovate, acute ; under lip 3-fid, with the lobes 
ovato-lanceolate, acute. Standard subrotund, subemarginate, 
sulcated and bicallose at the base ; wings oblong ; keel of two 
pieces adhering towards the apex, incurved at nearly a right 
angle. Stamens 9 and 1. Style bearded beneath towards the 
stigma, which looks downwards, with a glandulose slightly re- 
curved apicula above. Legume about 3 inches in length, sub- 
cylindrical, slightly curved, appresso-pubescent, of a blackish 
colour: seeds about 10, slightly compressed. 
The upper lip of the calyx, according to Swartz, is emargi- 
nate, and the legume is described as glabrous. I have not 
found this to be the case in any of the specimens 1 have hitherto 
met with. 
4. Dolichos unguiculatus. Hook-podded Doltchos. 
Stem twining, leaflets those of the stem broad ovate, 
