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# V. sinensis, Endl. (Dolichos sinensis, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 399,) 
universally cultivated in the tropical zone, is frequent in waste and cul- 
tivated ground in the Seychelles. It is a glabrous twining or suberect 
annual, with persistent lanceolate striated stipules, large long-petioled 
membranous trifoliolate leaves, the end leaflet ovate cuspidate with a 
slight rhomboid tendency, flowers 6-12 in corymbose racemes with per- 
sistent bracts resembling the stipules, calyx £ in. long with deltoid- 
acuminate teeth, corolla large red or yellow, pod cylindrical glabrous \- 
1 ft. long 10-15 seeded. 
1. V. lutea, A. Gray,Bot. Amer. Expl. Expedit. i. 454. A glabrous 
perennial twiner. Leaves petioled, trifoliolate, stipellate ; leaflets 
rather fleshy, oblong or obovate, 3-4 in. long, obtuse, entire; stipules 
small, lanceolate. Flowers few, in corymbose long-peduncled axillary 
racemes : pedicels short, unequal. Calyx in. long ; teeth short, del- 
toid. Corolla \ in. long, yellowish. Pod 2-3 in. long, glabrous, terete, 
reflexed, rather torulose, turning black. Seeds 6-8, oblong, brown, the 
size of a pea. Y. anomala and retusa, Walpers. 
Seychelles, on the shores of Praslin and Curieuse, Horne ! Trop. Africa, Natal, 
Australia, America. 
17. GALACTIA, P. Br. 
Calyx-tube short ; teeth long, lanceolate, the two upper connate. 
Corolla little exserted, its petals nearly equal in length ; keel obtuse. 
Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, with few 
ovules : style long, filiform, beardless ; stigma capitate. Pod flat, 
linear. — Twining herbs, with trifoliolate leaves and middle-sized flowers 
in racemes with slightly tumid nodes. Distrib. Species 45, mostly 
tropical American. 
1. G. tenuiflora, W. and A: Prod. 206. A perennial twiner, with 
slender stems clothed with short dense pubescence. Stipules minute, 
linear, persistent ; petioles 1-1^ in. long, pilose like the branches ; leaf- 
lets 3, oblong, obtuse, 1-lf in. long, sometimes emarginate, rather firm 
in texture, clothed thinly above, densely below, with short whitish pu- 
bescence. Flowers few, in condensed peduncled axillary racemes. 
Calyx iin. long, silky ; teeth deep, lanceolate. Corolla reddish, little 
exserted. Pod in. long, flat, glabrous. Seeds 4-5. G. villosa. 
W. and A. Prod. 207. 
Mauritius, on Coin de Mire Island, Horne ! Also from Australia to Natal. 
18. RHYNCHOSIA, Lour. 
Calyx tube campanulate ; upper teeth more or less connate. Corolla 
papilionaceous ; standard round or obovate-unguiculate ; wings narrow; 
keel incurved at the tip. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary 
subsessile, 2-ovuled ; style incurved at the top ; stigma capitate. Pod 
