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GALACTTA pendula. 
Browne’s Galactia. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Yrcuminosm. | Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis 
papilonacea. Legum. 1-loc., 2-valve. 
GALACTTA. Cal. 4-dentatus, 2-bracteatus. Cor. 5-petala, petalis 
omnibus oblongis; vexillo ceteris latiore, incumbente. Stzgma obtusum. 
Legum. teres. Sem. subrotunda. Michaux bor. amer. 2. 61. 
G. pendula, foliis ternatis, racemo erecto, floribus pendulis. Persoon syn. 
"2, 302. v 
Clitoria’ Galactia. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1026. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1070. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 4. 301. i : 
Galactia foliis ovatis glabris pinnato-ternatis, spicis elongatis terminalibus. 
_ Browne jam. 298. t. 39. fig. 2. d 
Phaseolus minor lactescens, flore purpureo. Sloane jam. 1. 188. t. 114. 
. 45 tae ; ; j 
ee lactescens? orgyalis ». ultra, appressé villosus,. ramis lignosis: 
volubilibus teretibus. Fol. alterné distantia, ternata, sepé deflexa, firma ». 
duriuscula, subtits et ad jetiolos villosa, supra glabra; foliola ovato-oblonga,. 
reticulato-venosa, terminale miticum subunciale, lateralia pauld minora mu- 
cronuta; petiolus semunciam vic excedens; stipule comm. bine opposite, 
distincte petiolo, subulate, partiales aristiformes.. Racemi spicati, axillares, 
solitarit, erecti, indivisi, é fasciculis 3-plurifloris subsecundis pendulis distan- 
tits compositi, 3-4-plo longiores foliis; pedunculus strictus, filiformis, vil- 
losus, vic ramo divergens, pede cinctus bracteis 3 ? villosis de dilatata base sub- 
ulatis; pedicelli capillares breviores calyce aggregati singult bracteola breviore 
subulata muniti, recurvati villosi. Flores supinati, subunciales, penduli, recti, 
elongato-oblongi, primd vivide rubentes tandem sordide pallentes. Cal. tenuis, 
membranaceus, pallidus, tubuloso-campanulatus, 3-4-linearis, bilabiato-4-fidus, 
labio- altero 1-lobo ovato-lanceolato, majore, altero 3-lobo lobis lanceolatis, 
medio recurvato lateralibus longiore ; bast exceptus bracteolis 2 minimis lanceo- 
latis villosis appressis. Pet. e@quilonga, tenuia, tenera: vex. cuneato-oblongum, 
obtusum, triplo feré latius ales et carina, accumbens: ale recta, elongato- 
oblonge,’ lineari-anguste, obtuse, carinam complectentes; Car. bifida, recta, 
obtusa, & petalis 2 alarum exacté similibus, imo margine artim coherenti- 
bus: ‘pelacorum omnium ungues breves, vexilli brevissrmt. Fil. diadelpha,. 
alterné subbreviora, recta, superne erubescentia: anth. oblonge, breves, lute. 
Pist. rectum: germ. polyspermum, subpedicellatum?, sericeum, lineart-angus- 
tum, .compressum, utrinque wersis attenwatum : stylus albus, capillaris, 
. glaber, subassurgens: stig. apiculus mimimus. : 
_ This shrub has been described. by Sloane and Browne 
in their natural histories of Jamaica, of which island it is a 
_ native, growing. on inferior hills, where itis said to wind 
itself for the length of from 6 to. 9 feet round the nearest 
support. By the latter writer the species was made the. 
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