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Leaves short-petioled, 2-3 in. long ; leaflets 20-40, crowded, oblong 
membranous, \ in. long, deciduous, mucronate ; stipules minute, 
lanceolate, deciduous. Racemes peduncled, dense, axillary and terminal. 
Calyx in. long, obscurely 4-toothed. Corolla under \ in. long, 
whitish. Pod oblong, rugose, an inch long, with 4-5 round seeds as 
large as a pea, which are bright scarlet, with a black spot round the 
hilum, and often used for necklaces. 
Mauritius, everywhere common in the woods , but said by Bojer to be not truly 
wild. Seychelles, common in dry waste ground in Mahe, Horne, 473 ! Rodri- 
guez, near Mathurin, Balfour ! Coin de Mire, Horne ! Everywhere in the tropics. 
Reglisse. 
2. A. pulchellus, Wall.; Thwaites, Pnum. PI. Zeyl. 91. Very near 
A. precatorius , with which it quite agrees in flowers, seeds, and general 
habit, differing only by the leaflets being fewer (10-20), and the 
pod longer, not rugose, 7-9-seeded. A. laevigatus, P. Meyer. A. 
acutifolius, Plume. 
Seychelles, in woods in Mahe, Horne! Tropical Asia, Tropical Africa, and 
Ratal. 
9. TERAMNUS, Sw. 
Calyx-tube turbinate ; teeth lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla 
little exserted ; petals about equal in length. Stamens monadelphous ; 
alternate anthers small, abortive. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled ; style 
short, curved, beardless ; stigma capitate, Pod linear, subcompressed, 
recurved, septate between the seeds. — Twining herbs with stipellate 
trifoliolate leaves and copious minute flowers in lax racemes. Distbib. 
Round the world in the tropics. Species 4. 
1. T. labialis, Spreng. Syst. ii. 235. Stems wide-climbing, peren- 
nial, thinly pilose. Leaves petioled, trifoliolate ; leaflets obscurely 
stipellate, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, 2-A in. long, subcoriaceous, 
glaucous and clothed with obscure adpressed hairs beneath ; stipules 
minute, lanceolate. Flowers in lax axillary racemes overtopping the 
leaves ; pedicels short, geminate. Calyx ± in., silky ; teeth as long as 
the tube. Corolla red, scarcely exserted. Pod linear, reflexed, glabres- 
cent, 1£ to If in long, brown; seeds 8-12. Galaetia sericea and 
diversifolia, Pojer , Sort . Maur , 92, according to our specimens. Gly- 
cine parviflora, Lam. 
Mauritius and Seychelles, spread through the islands in savannas and on the 
hillsides. Rodriguez, on the shore in one or two places, Balfour ! Round the 
world in the Tropics. 
* Psophocarpus tetragonolobus , DC. Prod. ii. 403, ( Dolichos tetra- 
gonolobus , Linn.), cultivated through Tropical Asia, the native country 
