FLORA OF TROPICAL AFRICA. FLORA eee OF TROPICAL AFRICA. BY DANIEL QUIVER, F.RS., F.LS., KEEPER OF THE HERBARIUM AND LIBRARY IN THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW, AND PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. ASSISTED BY OTHER BOTANISTS. VOL. II. LEGUOMINOSZ TO FICOIDEZ. PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF HER MAJESTY’S WORKS, LONDON : : L. REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1871. Mo. Bot. Garden, 1896s. - Earners tie LONDON: SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO,, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN, Se CET ee ee CONTENTS, Coxspectus oF THE ORDERS . Order XLVII. Suborder 1. 2. oe Order XLVIII. XLIX. Leguminose Papilionaceee . Ceesalpinieze Mimosee Rosacese Saxifragacer . . Crassulaceze . Droseracee . . Hamamelidez . Haloragez . Rhizophorese . Combretacee . . Myrtaceze . Melastomacee . . Lythracee . . Onagrarieze . Samydacee . LXL. LXIi. LXUOTI, LXIV. LXV. LXVI. LXVII. Loasacez Turneraceer . Passiflores . Cucurbitaceze Begoniaceze Cactacese Ficoidee . CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS CONTAINED IN THE SECOND VOLUME. Cuass. I. DICOTYLEDONES. Suscitass I. POLYPETALA. Conorr XI. Rosaues (continued from Vol. I. p. 4). Flowers regular or irregular, usually hermaphrodite. Stamens more or less distinctly perigynous. Styles distinct (except Bremwia). : XLVI. Leaustnos#. Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves compound or simple. Flowers irregular or regular. Stamens definite or indefinite, free or connate. Carpel solitary ; ovules 1-2-c0, attached to the ventral suture. . XLVIII. Rosacex. Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves usually alternate and stipu- late, simple or compound. Flowers regular (polygamous or dicecious in Pygeum, Bra- yera, Cliffortia). Stamens usually indefinite. Carpels 1 or more, free or consolidated with the receptacle ; ovules 1 or 2. Seeds exalbuminous. é XLIX. Saxtrracacex. Herbs or a shrub (Brexia). Leaves alternate or opposite, exstipulate. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Stamens iso- or diplostemonous ; fila- ments free. Pisti] syncarpous, digynous (or monogynous in Brexia) ; ovules 0. L. Crassutacex. Herbs, usually succulent. Leaves opposite or alternate. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Stamens iso- or diplostemonous ; filaments free or epipetalous. olan .apo- or syncarpous; carpels as many as petals, usually «-ovulate. Seeds albuminous. : LI. Drosrracex. Glandular-pilose herbs. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Ovary i-celled with 2-5 simple or bipartite styles. : LIL. Hamametme. (Myrothamnus only.) Glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite. Flowers spicate, diccious, achlamydeous. Stamens 4-8. Pistil 3-4-carpellary, multi- ovulate. : 3 LITI. Haroracex,. Herbs, often aquatic. Flowers small, hermaphrodite or uni- sexual, Petals 4, fewer or 0. Stamens definite. Ovary inferior, 1—-4-celled ; ovules solitary, or few definite, : Conorr XII. Myrrazes. Flowers regular or subregular, usually hermaphrodite. til syncarpous, inferior (or free in some Rhizophoracee) ; style 1 (4 in Anisophyllea). /y2ves simple. : ae LIV. Ruizornoracem. Usually littoral trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, stipulate alternate, exstipulate in Anisophyllea). Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx-lobes yalvate. Ovary 2-5-celled, inferior or superior. : LV. Compreracex. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate. Stamens lefiuite. Ovary inferior, 1-celled. : LVI. Myrracesx. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire. Flowers ‘regular or subregular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Stamens , perigynous. Ovary inferior, 2—5-celled; ovules 2-0. : q j LVIL. Mutasromacex. Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, usually Shea . Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Stamens usually twice as many as petals; anthers Vill CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS. usually appendaged and debiscing by pores. Ovary adnate to calyx-tube or free, 2-00 -celled, ovules indefinite (ovary 1-celled in Memecylon). j LVI. Lyruracex. Herbs, shrubs or trees. Calyx-lobes‘valvate, often alternating with intermediate or external teeth. Petals often crumpled. Stamens definite. Ovary free (except in last three genera, p. 465), 2-c0-celled ; ovules rarely definite. LIX. Onacrariz#®.. Herbs or shrubs. Flowers regular. Calyx-lobes valvate. Petals imbricate. stamens iso- or diplostemonous. Ovary inferior, 4-2-celled. Ovules indefinite or solitary, axile. me Conort XIII. Passrrtorates. Flowers regular or irregular. Stamens perigynous (or hypogynous ‘in some Passifloree). Pistil syncarpous; ovary free or adnate, 1-celled with parietal placentation, or 3-celled with axile placentation. LX. Samypacem. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, often with translucent dots or lines. Flowers small, regular, hermaphrodite. Stamens definite or indefinite. Ovary free or 4-inferior, sessile, 1-celled. : LXI. Loasacem (Kissenia). Bristly undershrub. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Petals 10, biseriate. Stamens indefinite, perigynous. Ovary inferior, 3-celled. Ovules solitary. LXI. Turneracex ( Wormskioldia). Herbs. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. _ Petals 5. Stamens 5. Ovary superior, 1-celled, ovules indefinite. LXIII. Passirtorex. Herbs, climbers with axillary tendrils, or trees. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Petals 5. Stamens 5 or ©, hypogynous or peri- gynous. Ovary free, often stipitate, l-celled with o ovules on 3 parietal placentas. Seeds albuminous. - LXIV. Cucursitace#. Usually climbing herbs with tendrils. Flowers unisexual. Petals 5 (3-6), free or connate. Stamens 3 (2-5), anther-cells straight curved or pli- cate. Ovary inferior, placentas confluent and often reflexed from the axis. : LXV. Beeontacex. Usually succulent herbs. Leaves unequal-sided. Flowers un- symmetrical, unisexual. Perianth polyphyllous of 2 or more leaves, 2 outer opposite, valvate. Stamens o. Ovary inferior, 2-3-4-celled; ovules © in projecting simple or bifid axile placentas; stigmas often spirally papillose. Conort XIV. Ficorwares. Flowers regular or nearly so, Ovary syncarpous (ex- cept Gisekia), free or wholly or partially adnate; placentation various. Embryo usually curved. LXVL. Cacracex (Rhipsalis). Fleshy shrub with elongate cylindrical (or angular) endent branches; leaves squamiform. Petals 6-10. Stamens about 20. Ovary inferior, 1-celled. LXVII. Ficorgx. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite. Sepals or calyx-lobes 4-5. Petals 0 or minute or «@. Sta- mens hypogynous or perigynous, definite or indefinite. Ovary various. Seeds albw- minous, embryo curved or peripherical. i FLORA OF TROPICAL AFRICA, Orper XLVII. LEGUMINOSZ. Flowers irregular or regular, usually hermaphrodite. Calyx gamosepalous 5-toothed or -lobed or 2 or more teeth connate, rarely polysepalous. Corolla of 5 rarely fewer petals, usually irregular and imbricate in Suborders 1 and 2, regular and valvate in 3. Stamens 10 rarely fewer or indefinite, perigynous or subhypogynous. Pistil 1- carpellary, ovary free with 1 or more ovules on the ventral suture ; style simple. Fruit a legume dehiscing by both sutures, more rarely follicular or indehiscent. Seed exalbuminous or albuminous especially in genera of Suborder 2.—Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate With few exceptions, usually stipulate, compound 1-2 -foliolate, or rarely simple. Inflorescence various. . a second largest Natural Order of flowering plants, generally distributed over the globe. Susorper I. Papriionacez. (By Mr. J, G. Baker.) Flowers irregular, rarely subregular ; hermaphrodite. Calyx gamo- sepalous 5-toothed or -lobed, or 2 upper lobes more or less connate, or bilabiate 2 upper lobes opposed to the 3 lower; rarely closed in bud and spathaceous. Corolla papilionaceous, or rarely nearly regular ; petals 5 free or adnate below to the staminal tube; posterior (standard) outside in bud, 2 lateral (wings) intermediate, 2 lower inside and usually coherent by their lower margins (keel). Stamens perigynous or sub- ~ Pogynous, 10, diadelphous monadelphous or free (in § Swartziee <). vary of the order. Embryo usually with an inflexed radicle, the cotyledons accumbent.—Herbs, shrubs, or trees, sometimes scandent. ®aves alternate, digitate or pinnate, more rarely 1-foliolate or simple. utlorescence various. Ninety-one genera of this suborder are tropical African; of these but 9 are peculiar to this Flora, Turse 1. Genistese.—Stamens 10, monadelphous, the anthers usually of two kinds. tri two-valved, not articulated. Erect herbs or shrubs, with simple or digitately Tifoliolate leaves. Leaflets entire. ube of stamens slit along the top. Seg fe with the four upper teeth more or less connate . . . . . 1. Lorononis. he tt, sg to XLVI. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). Calyx deeply five-cleft. Style straight. Pod lanceolate, inflated . Pod linear, compressed Se Se ae ho) ee Style abruptly bent near the hate co . . . . D. ARGYROLOBIUM: ba. & gs Ceoreeanee: Tube of stamens not slit along the top. Calyx-teeth much exceeding the tube. Wings connate at the apex ; keel rostrate . 4, Lupinus. Wings free ; keel obtuse RRS ee Oo Oe eee Calyx-teeth shorter than thetube . . . . .. . . . 6. ADENOCARPUS. Trise 2. Trifoliese.—Stamens 10, diadelphous (monadelphous in Ononis); anthers uniform (except in Ononis). Pod two-valved, not articulated. LHrect often annual herbs, with three sessile or stalked toothed leaflets. Stamens monadelphous; anthers dimorphous . Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Petals quite free from the staminal column. Pod usually linear, many-seeded (rarely oblong, few- seeded). Pod linear, straight Pod linear, falcate, rarely oblong, straight : Pod linear, falcate or usually spirally twisted . 3 0 7s ONONIB. 8. ParocuETus. 9, TRIGONELLA. : . . 10. Meptcaeo. Pod roundish, 1-2-seeded |... 3 So tt MERICOTUB: Petals adnate to the-staminal:tube +: 5.45 2 5. «3 12; Terroir. Trine 3. Lotese.—Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous; anthers uniform. Pod two-valved (exceptionally indehiscent), not articulated. Erect herbs or bessin epee with imparipinnate leaves and entire leaflets. Stamens monadelphous ; pod indehiscent. Pod ovoid, straight, included . (Hoel 2 he 18) eee Pod linear, falcate, exserted . . : ben . 14. HetminrHocaRrumM. Stamens diadelphous ; pod twovalved . . . . . . . . 15, Lorus. Tre 4. Galeges.— fs oc! ee Aa Ralyx-teetli very short. 3. a ke i SO Tree 5, Hedysarev.—Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous ; anthers dimor- phous or uniform. Pod articulated (except in Pseudarthria). Herbs or shrubs, usually erect, with imparipinnate or exceptionally abruptly pinnate leaves. Leaves without stipelle. Stamens diadelphous. Filaments dilated upwards. Pod echinate; leaves simple . ... . . . ~ + 30. Scorpiurus. Pod smooth; leaves pinnate . ... =... « ~ 31. ORNITHOPUS. Filaments filiform. Pod compressed laterally. Leaflets numerous; pod one-jointed . . . . . . 33. ONOBRYCHIS. Leaflets 1-3; pod. 2-3-jointed . . . . . . . « 31. TAVERNIEBA. Pod terete 5 8 Silas 2s) see ALBAGL Stamens monadelphous. Leaflets four, opposite 2 2. 2 1 8 ew eine ele 41, ARCH. eeailote three 2. Se ee Leaflets:two or 4digitate. .. 0. 0) 6. oo, 0. 0 i) i+ MB ORM Stamens diadelphous (in two sets of five each). Calyx bilabiate. Pod:much exserted 3 3. 5 She es ks OT ACRE ROMERE, Pod not exserted. Bracteoles minute. .... .. 4.3. « célice sineeds 887; Saar. Bracteoles very large . . . « - + + + + + « 89, GEISSAPSIS. Calyx five-toothed. Fod straight =. 0.6 is 6 Ow Se eee Pod cremate . os. sit ws 6 Se See Leaves stipellate. : Pod nak aetieataball PA ee Ue) 4 4d DARD AR HeIeS Pod articulated. Pod bent back, included in the calyx . . . . . . . 45, Urania. Pod compressed, straight; calyx herbaceous. . .-. . 43. Degmopium. Pod subterete, straight; calyx glumaceous . . . . . 46. ALYSICARPUS. Trive 6. Viciese.—Stamens usually diadelphous. Anthers uniform. Pod two- valved, not articulated. Scandent herbs (rarely shrubs) with abruptly pinnate leaves ending in a tendril or bristle. Leaflets entire, or in Cicer dentate. Herbs with 10 stamens. ROARS iets ee ke Ea OE Se eee Leaflets entire. Tube of stamens oblique at the mouth. . . . . . . 48. Vict. Tube of stamens truncate at the mouth . . . . . . 49. Laruyrus. Mme With 0 ateitiete 2 ok Gos wee os 2h Tre 7, Phaseolese.—Stamens diadélphous or monadelphous. Anthers usually uniform. Pod two-valved, not articulated. Scandent, rarely erect, herbs with pinnately trifoliolate leaves. Style bearded or penicillate at the apex. Keel twisted spirally. a Style hooded at the apex . . . . . .. ~~ + ~ 62. Puysostiama. Berle net honded 5 45 Sh eo a we eis . i Bee Keel not spiral, oe oblique. many-seeded, not hypogean. id ahieiiie Gaee s Me cre 64. Viena. : ween Fr come meron Ts Ne tani B + XLVIl. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). Pod 1-2-seeded, thrust below the ground to ripen . . 65. VOANDEZIA. Stigma terminal. Benois lated, permetent. . . .,. . . = . » «. « OS, Crrronis. Bracts minute, deciduous. Pod compressed, not winged. . . . . . . . . 68. Doricnos. Pod tetragonous, 4-winged . . 2. 2... 67. PsopHOCARPUS. Style glabrous. Nodes of the racemes swollen. acemes paniculate <.< 2 4. = . . . £42 7:08. NPATHOLOBUS. Racemes simple. Petals subequal. iPod 1=2-aeeded: . 5.5.0 3 Pod many-seeded. Upper lip of the calyx the longest . . . . . . 61. Canavatia. Lower lip of the calyx the longest. . : 59. GaLacTia, Standard much exceeding the. wings and keel .. . 56. Eryrarina. Standard much shorter than the wingsand keel . . . 57. Mucuna. Nodes of the racemes not swollen. Leaves not gland-dotted. Flowers large and showy... . . . . . . . . © St. CEnTRosema. Flowers minute. Bracts scariose persistent . . . . Bracts minute deciduous, me emihors tale «3s ep sw kB Geers, . . 60. DrocnEa. . fe, OS: SHUTERIAS Alternate anthers abortive . so 8 00) LER AMNUSS Leaves copiously gland-dotted. Ovules 4 or more ee tty (Cy at guy Ovules 1-2. Pod compressed. Stenistwinng 3. sk ee SS ts we 20s Slemecrede. 3... ss ae Te Ose ROOM - . . . 72, Fremneta. Trise 8. Dalbergieze.— Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous. Anthers uniform. Pod indehiscent. Erect or scandent shrubs or trees, with imparipinnate leaves and entire leaflets. Pod not drupaceous. Side-leaflets alternate. Anthers basifixed. Koa lear orobiode: . 5S gk as ss oe Re: Pod suborbicular: | we ew ws 74. BOasrarnyi.un, Anthers versatile. Calyx campanulate. Pod falcate. . . . 75. DREPANOCARPUS. Calyx turbinate. Pod suborbicular oblique . . . . 76. Prerocarpus. Side-leaflets opposite. Wings free from the keel . Wings adnate to the keel. Pod not winged . o. le. Aub se 8! 0 ease 5 Eee OBTRYOCREPOS ) ees ee Ce ae a te es ONOROORRE OE Ped WNROE Oe ea e e Pod-drupaceous, .. . . 2. ee eS ee ee Tree 9. Sophorese.—Stamens 10, free. Anthers uniform. Pod not articulated, indehiscent or two-valved. Trees or shrubs, erect or scandent, with simple or digi- tately trifoliolate or imparipinnate leaves with entire leaflets. Leaves simple. Pod sessile ; anthers shorter than filaments. Bracteoles large, persistent . . . 81. Darnousrea. Bracteoles smaller; deciduous . Cee. . 82. Bapura. Ped long-stalked; anthers exceeding filaments . . . . . 83. Levcompma.us. x XLVI, § PAPILIONACER (BAKER), Leaves digitately trifoliolate. . . . 1... . . « » 84 CAMoENsIA, Leaves imparipinnate. Corolla papilionaceous. Pod fattish, membranous. «... . =... i. OB. Chior, fod turpid moniifornm . cia} Vo. tre BGs Bopnens: Pod coriaceous, not monijiform . ... . . . + . 87. Onmosta. Petals uniform : oe Se, CADIAL Tree 10. Swartziex.— Stamens indefinite. Petals 6,1, or 0. Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple or imparipinnate. Leaflets entire. Stamens inserted at the base of the calyx. Petals 6 . Sees eee ee Poe Stamens inserted half-way up the calyx. Petals none . Se en a ee . 89. Bapntiopsis, . 90. Swarrzia. . 91. Corpyza. 1. LOTONONIS, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 476. Calyx turbinate, the four upper teeth often more or less connate. Standard oblong; keel bluntly upcurved: wings much shorter and smaller. Stamens all connate in a tube slit along the top; anthers alternately shorter and versatile, longer and basifixed. Pod linear- oblong or linear, compressed or turgid, many-seeded, continuous within. —Herbs or undershrubs with digitately trifoliolate leaves. A large genus almost confined to the Cape. Flowers subsessile in the axils of the leaves. Standard exceeding the keel . . . . . . . +. - « «Ls De tenuis. Keel exceeding the standard. Keel equalling the calyx . . . . . . - + «+ + « « 21 DL. Leobordea. Keel distinctly exserted . . . re ee ee en L. clandestina. Flowers in many-flowered congested racemes. ee pple ioliatedtisn ss 0 Rl ee eae Stipules linear . Biv Fe angolensis. 1. L. tenuis, Baker. A copiously branched diffuse annual half a foot high with slender thinly grey-silky branches. Sti ules setaceous, very minute. Leaflets linear, the central one 6—10 lines long, }-? line broad, acute, the lateral ones very much shorter, inconspicu- ously grey-silky. Flowers 1-2 on very short pedicels in the axils of the leaves. Calyx } in. long, thinly grey-silky, the five teeth dis- tinct, the lower three linear, as long as the tube, the two upper ones lanceolate, shorter. Corolla yellowish, the standard slightly exceeding the keel, which slightly exceeds the calyx. Pod linear, 5-6 lines long, 1 line broad, upceurved, turgid, slightly torulose, 21-24-seeded, inconspicuously grey-silky. Lower Guinea. Angola; Mossamedes in sandy ground by the river Beco, Dr. Welwitsch ! Very different in habit from any other species. 2. L. Leobordea, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 2, 607. Stems under six inches long, procumbent, copiously and diffusely branched, herbaceous, clothed like the rest of the plant with yellowish silky pubescence, Stipules lanceolate, } in. Petiole 4—} im. Leaflets 5, 6 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Lotononis. sessile, linear or oblanceolate, about $ in. long, § in. broad, nee slightly rounded mucronate. Flowers in sessile clusters of 2-5 each in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 2-24 lines long, between tubular and campanulate, the upper teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reaching ie half way down, the lowest setaceous. Corolla pale yellow, the about equalling the calyx. Pod linear-oblong, turgid, about equalling the calyx.—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 61; Z. platycarpos, Viv. Pl. Hgypt. dec. 4, 14; Leobordea lotoides, Delile, Frag. Pl. Arab. 23, fig. ae L. persica and spherosperma, Spach. Ann, Sc. Nat. xix. 285; Xero- carpus abyssinicus, Schweinf. Fl. AEthiop. 21; Leobordea abyssinica, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! A desert species, extending to Egypt, Persia, Beloochistan, and the Cape. 3. L. clandestina, Benth. in Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 61. A diffuse copiously di- or trichotomously branched annual with finely silky stems under a foot long. Stipules foliaceous, linear or oblanceolate, 3-4 lines long, deciduous. Petioles 8-6 lines long. Leaflets oblanceolate, silky, 4-8 lines long, bluntish with a faint mucro. Flowers 2-6 in subsessile umbels in the axils of the leaves. Pedicels very short. Calyx densely grey-silky, 4 lines long, the 4 upper teeth linear, shorter than the tube, the lowest tooth deeper linear-setaceous. Corolla yel- lowish, only the silky, densely villose keel distinctly exserted. Pod linear, 4-44 lines long, 1 line broad, turgid, straight, glabrescent, 10—12-seeded. Lower Guinea. Benguella in the sands of the seashore, Dr. Welwitsch ! South Central. In the interior near the Tropic, Chapman and Baines ! Also a Cape species. 4. L. Bainesii, Baker. Stem under a foot long, slender, procum- bent, herbaceous, irregularly branched, quite glabrous. Stipules 2-24 lines long, cordate-ovate acuminate, unequal-sided. Petioles 4 in. glabrous. Leaflets 3, sessile, linear, the central one }$~§ in. long, 4 in. broad, base narrowed, point slightly rounded mucronate, glabrous. Flowers in dense umbellate heads of 8-10 each on leaf-opposed glab- rous peduncles an inch long. Bracts inconspicuous. Calyx subsessile, infundibuliform, } in. deep, slightly silky, teeth very short, subdeltoid. Corolla reddish, three times as long as the calyx, the keel and standard subequal, the wings small and shorter. Pod not seen. South Central. In the interior near the Tropic of Capricorn, Chapman and Baines ! Belongs to the section Polylobium of Harvey. Very near the Cape L. wmbellata in general habit, bracts, and stipules, differing by its narrower leaves, want of pubescence, and very short calyx-teeth. 5. I. angolensis, Welw. mss. A copiously-branched glabrous perennial herb with trailing stems more than a foot long. Stipules Fier, 2-3 lines, moderately persistent. Petioles 3-12 lines. Leaflets 3, subsessile, oblanceolate, glabrous, the central one 6~12 lines long, Lotononis,] XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 7 bluntish with a faint mucro. Flowers 6-18 in dense racemes on leaf- opposed peduncles 6-36 lines long. Pedicels }—1 line long, with a minute linear bracteole. Calyx } in., turbinate, glabrous, the 4 upper teeth lanceolate-deltoid, shorter than the tube, the lowest narrower. Corolla pale yellow, twice the calyx, the standard ovate-acuminate, the keel-petals 1 line broad. Pod linear, compressed, 6-8 lines long, # in. broad, upeurved, glabrous, 15—20-seeded. Lower Guinea. Angola; Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! Identical with the last in general habit; differing principally in the stipules and calyx-teeth. 2. ROTHIA, Pers.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 477. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, with subequal divisions. Standard spathulate in our species ; wings narrow; keel-petals scarcely adhering to one another. Stamens united in a tube slit above; anthers small, uniform. Ovary sessile, multiovulate ; style straight glabrous; stigma capitate. Pod lanceolate, falcate, inflated, dehiscing by the upper suture.— Annual diffuse herbs. Two closely alliéd species, the other inhabiting India and Tropical Australia. The genus forms an exception to the rest of the Tribe by its uniform anthers. 1. R. hirsuta, Baker. A diffusely branched annual about half a foot high, the branches densely clothed with long silky grey pubes- cence. Petioles 3 lines, Leaflets 3, subsessile, oblanceolate, 6-9 lines long, acute, both sides silky. Flowers 2-5 on short pedicels, sessile or nearly sessile from the axils of the leaves. Calyx silky, 2-24 lines deep, the lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla whitish-violet not exserted. Pod sessile, 4 in. long, very silky, many- seeded.— Xerocarpus hirsutus, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 169. t. 44. Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet / Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Nubia, teste Bentham. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, 5500 ft. Dr. Welwitsch! 3. CROTALARIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 479. Calyx with a campanulate tube and five distinct equal or subequal teeth. Petals subequal; standard orbicular or ovate with a short claw; keel distinctly suddenly or gradually rostrate, much upeurved. pas! sessile or stalked, bi- or multi-ovulate; style abruptly bent upwards near the base, bearded along the inner side. Stamens united in a tube slit along the top; anthers dimorphous. Pod sessile or distinctly stalked, round, oblong, or linear, continuous within, turgid.—Herbs or shrubs with simple or digitately trifoliolate (in one Trop. African species multifoliolate) leaves. Flowers in racemes sometimes congested, ter- minal or leaf-opposed or rarely in the axils of the leaves. Bracts and Stipules usually minute, setaceous. A large genus spread throughout the Tropical regions of both hemispheres, with its ead-quarters in Tropical Africa. Several species extend to the Cape. 8 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). A, Leaves simple. Group 1. Simplicifoliz. Rigid copiously ss gpa mae ods 2-3-seeded . . Ss erase 1. Pods 6-8-seeded . ee ee 2. Herbs or laxly-branched undershrubs. Stems and leaves glabrous or subglabrous. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves linear. Stems terete. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx 3. Corolla three times the calyx . : 4. Stems winged. Narrowly 4-winged, leaves numerous . . . . . 5. Broadly 2-winged, leavesfew ornone . . . . - 6. Leaves oblancevlate. Flowers solitary MA ee. Te Flowera racemose .* . 1 5 « . %.- ; 5 Sh Weaves Oplonp, Scute 3... «5 2 a 4s 5 Stipules foliaceous, persistent =10: Stems and leaves conspicuously downy or silky. Corolla 15-2 times the cae Pod stalked 3 oul Pod sessile. Pod 5-6 times the calyx . a Les Pod 13 times the calyx. Pod glabrous, 8-9-seeded 5 Ry Pod pubescent, 1-2 seeded seus Corolla equalling or scarcely exceeding calyx. Pod glabrous, 12-18-seeded . « 1D. Pod silky, 2-3-seeded . = 16. B. Leaves digitately trifoliolate. Group 2. Oliganthze.—Pods round or oblong. Flowers lateral, very rarely terminal. Very diffuse annual herbs. Pods small round sessile. Glabrous, leaves subsessile . Downy, leaves stalked . . Pods short-stalked small oblong . Pods distinctly stalked, large, oblong. Silky, leaflets oblanceolate, Savtecs 2-8 together . . 20. Glabrous, leaflets linear, flowers solitary Saks A robust diffuse usually spinose annual 22a: Unarmed shrubs. Leaves subsessile, stipules 0. Pod small, hard, round, 3-4-seeded é 23. Pod oblong, 15-18-seeded . . : 1.24; Leaves distinctly-stalked, distinctly stipulate. Pubescent, leaflets oblanceolate, blunt, 4-6 lines long . . 25. Pubescent, leaflets obovate, blunt, 12-16 lines long . 22 20: Glabrous, leaflets linear, acute wiv Se + Group 3. Chrysocalycinze.— Pods peer round or, oblong. round or oblong terminal heads. Leaves sessile or subsessile. Shrubby, leaves crowded. Herbaceous, leaves scattered. Pod round, 3—4-seeded. Leaflets linear [ Crotalaria. (Of thebaica C. arenaria. C. glauca. C. spartea. C. stenoptera. C. holoptera. C. uniflora. C. retusa. C. Welwitschit. OC. verrucosa. C. Vogelit. CO. Leprieurii. C. polygaloides. C. cylindrostachys. C. calycina. C. anthyllopsis. scattered 1-4 together, Le ~ 18. « 29. « 20s C. microcarpa. C. pisicarpa. C. microphylla. C. podocarpa. C. polyclados. C. spinosa. C. cistoides. C. caudata. O. Forbesii. C. variegata. C. ervoides. Flowers in dense C. abscondita. . C. Perottetii, Crotalaria.) XLVII. § PAPILIONACEX (BAKER). 9 Leaflets oblanceolate <.. 44.40 0 3 ot a Se BO, greet: Pod oblong, 6-8-seeded. Calyx-teeth 24-3 lines broad . . 7 ww. «+ + 81. C macrocalyz. Calyxdeeth 1 line broad... 0). 0. ee eo 0 BE, ies, Leaves distinctly stalked. Fruticose or suffruticose. ? Leaflets an inch broad, densely brown-silky beneath . . 33. C. densicephala. Leaflets } inch broad, inconspicuously grey-downy . . . 34. C. nigricans. Herbaceous. Heads shortly peduncled. Leaflets 3-4 lines broad, pod 8-10-seeded . . . . . 35. C. atrorubens. Leaflets 8-12 lines broad, pod 3-4-seeded . . . . . 36. C. dumetorum. Heads sessile, very dense. ? Corolla red, pod 8-10-seeded. . . . . . « «~~. 87. C. ononoides. Corolla yellow, pod 2-seeded. . . . . « « « « « 38. OC. cephalotes. Grovr 4. Spheerocarpe.— Annuals with small round sessile few-seeded pods and small copiously racemose flowers. Racemes both lateral and terminal. : beeuots lntar, peode 4-6. 2 ee Leaflets oblanceolate, seeds 2-4. . . . . . . . - - 40. OC. spherocarpa. Racemes terminal only, not prolonged into the axils of the upper leaves. Pods distinctly stalked, pedicels cernuous . . . . . . 41. C. nutans. Pods sessile, pedicels rigidly erecto-patent. Corolla turning black, the standard densely argenteous on i: Mobtck . oo. SS 4S ee ee eee Corolla not turning black, 3 lines long, the standard gla- : brous on the back . . . . . «. - + 1. . - « 48. C. tenuerama. Corolla not turning black, 2 lines long, the standard thinly oo brown-silky onthe back. . . . . . - . « « . 44. C. hyssopifolia eRe terminal only, prolonged into the axils of the upper eaves, Leaflets of upper leaves a line or less broad. Corolla } inch long, dull greenish-yellow . . . . . . 45. C. parvula. Corolla 3-4 lines long, bright yellow, veined with red . . 46. C. erythrophleba. Leaflets of upper leaves 3-6 lines broad - + + + + . 4%. C. prolongata. Group 5. Oocarpee.—Herbs or shrubs with elongated racemes and large oblong or rounded pods, not more than twice as long as broad. Pods distinctly stalked. Fruticose. , Pod glabrous, oblong ; stems and leaves silvery . . . . 48. C. argyrea. — Pod oblong; stems finely grey-downy er . 49. C. iwantulensis. Pods densely silky. Be Pod subglobose, 4lineslong . .. . . . . ~ + 50. C. ramosissima. Pods oblong, 12-15 lines long. Leaves sessile ; stipules minute setaceous . . . . 51. C. amena. Leaves long-stalked: stipules large, adnate to the petiole . eek Ln? APA ae ee a ee OC ededata. Herbaceous. Bracts large cordate-ovate. . . .. ... . . . 53. C. orixensis Bracts minute, setaceous. . Stipules setaceous, 3-4 lineslong . . ..... . «. 54. C. versicolor. Stipules 0, or very minute. : Fod'an inching... .. «0 00, +. lai Oee ey A Pod halfan inch long, .. 2. 3... + ss.) Be . Pods subsessile or sessile. : Stipules semilunate, 3-6 lines long, persistent. 10 Herbaceous ; calyx 3-4 lines ; pods glabrescent. Pubescence of stem short, racemes terminal . - - Pubescence of stem brown, spreading, racemes lateral . Shrubby ; calyx 8-2 lines, pod velvety . : Stipules none, or very minute, setaceous, deciduous. Fistinige. Racemes distinctly peduncled . é Racemes extending into the axils of the leaves. Pod oblong, compressible, 4—6-seeded . Pod round, hard, 1-seeded Herbaceous. Calyx-teeth deltoid, equal to the tube : Calyx-teeth lanceolate, exceeding the tube. Racemes all terminal .. Racemes both lateral and terminal XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 2 Ole 58. 59. - 60. 5 il - 62. - 63. . 64. 2 60; | Crotalaria. C. goreensis. C. flexuosa. C. elata. C. orthoclada. C. virgatula. C. florida. C. Steudneri. C. maxillaris. C. senegalensis. Group 6. Cylindrocarpee.— Pod linear or linear-oblong, 12-30-seeded. (Flowers racemose, except sometimes in C. lotifolia.} Racemes terminal only or both terminal and lateral. Stem and young leaves clothed with (comparatively long) spreading hairs. Stipules setaceous, Corolla scarcely as long as the calyx . Corolla half as long again as the ake Calyx } inch long Calyx 6-9 lines long. Shrubby with obovate blunt leaflets Herbaceous with ovate acute leaflets . Stipules foliaceons, semilunate. Pod distinctly stalked ; lateral racemes numerous Pod sessile; lateral racemes few or none. Suffruticose with flowers an inch long. . A decumbent herb with flowers 4 inch long . Stems and leaves beneath shortly grey-downy. Herbaceous. Pod distinctly-stalked, 12-15 lines long, 20-30-seeded . Pod sessile, 6-7 lines Jong, 12-15-seeded Suffruticose or fruticose. Stipules foliaceous semilunate . Stipules 0 or minute setaceous. Calyx-teeth oblanceolate, spathulate cuspidate . Calyx-teeth lanceolate. Leaflets oblanceolate, 1-3 inch broad Leaflets oblong, an inch broad . Calyx-teeth deltoid . : Mature stem and leaves beneath subglabrous, Calyx-teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla 3-4 lines long. Leaflets linear, 1-4 inches long. Calyx-teeth linear ; petiole 3-3 inch Calyx-teeth deltoid mucronate ; petiole 1-2 i inches . Leaflets oblanceolate, § inch long : Corolla 6-7 lines ; leaflets linear Corolla 7-9 lines long. Pow half an Sich thtok i: . 6. ee ee sy Pod 4-3 inch thick. Keel much curved Keel little curved : Calyx-teeth equalling or exceeding the tube. Pod distinctly- stalked. . €. montana. . O. incana. . O. Grantii. ; . C. Stewartir. . C. fulgida. . ©. lachnocarpa. . CO. decumbens. . C. uncinata. . C. comosa. . C. natalitia. . C. platysepala. . C. emarginata. . C. protensa. C. zanzibarica. . C. lathyroides. ate — ~ On oe inhi. C. intermedia. . ©. ochroleuca. . C. brevidens. Crotalaria, ] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 11 Pod glabrous within. Racemes elongated, many-flowered. : Shrubby, stipules obovate, large, persistent . . 87. C. capensis. Shrubby, stipules setaceons, deciduous. . . . 88. C. striata. Herbaceous, stipules linear. ae: Leaflets 12-18 lines broad. . . . . . . 89. C. glaucifolia. Leaflets 3-6 lines broad. . . . . .. . 90. €. Lotononis. Racemes 4-6-flowered’ 2° fg 2 ot ee a MES. cyanea. Pod fall of wool within . . . . «+s «© « « + 92. O lupinoides. Pod sessile or subsessile. ; Stipules semilunate, persistent . . . . . . . « 93. OC. eylindrocarpa. Stipules linear, } eA persistent ©. 1 Oa eee: Stipules 0 or minute setaceous deciduous, Suffruticose with obovate leaflets. Petioles an inch long . . . . . . » « » . 95. G falcata. Petioles 14-3 inches long . . . . . . . « . 96. CO. fertilis. Herbaceous; leaflets oblanceolate or linear. ioe Bracts 3-4 lineslong . . . . . . ~ « 97. C. Dilloniana. Bracts very minute. : Calyx-teeth deltoid or lanceolate-acuminate 98. C. oligostachya. Calyx-teeth linear . . . . . . . ~. 99. OC. Plowdeni. Racemes all lateral. Lame Flowers 1-4, in axillary racemes or umbels. . . . . . 100. C. lotifolia. Flowers in stalked leaf-opposed racemes. Pod distinctly-stalked; flowers 3-6 in a raceme. Upper calyx-teeth 4 lines broad. 2 2 1 2. . . 101. C. platyealyz. Upper calyx-teeth J inch broad . . . . . . ~ « 102. C. Quartimana. Pod sessile ; racemes many-flowered. Fruticose, with silky leaves . . . . . . +. + « 103. C. polysperma. Herbaceous, with subglabrous leaves. ; Racemes 6-12-flowered. . . . . ~~. . « . 104. C. astragalina. Racemes 20-50-flowered . . . . - ~~ + + 105. C. pycnostachya. C. Leaves digitately 5-7-foliolate. Group 7. Multifoliolatee.—(The only tropical African spe- ee Olea) ek ihe ei ay se 3 9 « 108, OC. cleomifona. 1. C. thebaica, DC. Prod. ii. 128. Shrubby, a foot or more high, very diffuse, branches stiff, grey downy, many of the lower ones spinose. Leaves simple, sessile, oblong, coriaceous, undulated, 3-6 nes long, blunt, both sides silky. Racemes few-flowered, terminal and lateral. Calyx 2 lines, the linear teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla pale yellow, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod twice the calyx, oblong, pubescent, sessile, 2—3-seeded.—Spartium thebuicum, Delile, Fl. Aigypt. 107. t. 37. fig. 1. Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Ehrenberg, and others. Frequent in the desert lower down the river. 2. C. arenaria, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii.474, Stems shrubby, prostrate, not more than a foot long, very copiously branched, densely grey-villose. Leaves sessile, simple, oblong, 3-4 lines long 4 more than half as broad, subcoriaceous, both sides densely silky. Flowers 4—8 in lax short-stalked racemes. Calyx 2} lines deep, densely tawny- silky, teeth linear, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla pale yellow, about equalling the calyx. Pod 5—6 lines long, half as thick, 12 XLVI1. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Orotalaria. oblong, sessile, densely tawny-silky, 6-10-seeded.—C.thebaica, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 160, non DC. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Roger! Very similar to the last in general habit, but not spinose. 3. C. glauca, Willd.; DC. Prod. ii. 127. An erect glabrous annual 1-8 feet high with slender erecto-patent terete branches. Stipules se- taceous, 2-3 lines. Leaves linear, nearly sessile, 1-3 in. long, acute, mucronate, subcoriaceous, the primordial ones lanceolate. Flowers in copious 2—8-flowered very lax peduncled terminal and lateral racemes. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 3~4 lines. Calyx 3 lines, glabrous, the linear-lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla half as long again as the calyx, the standard very much recurved. Pod linear-oblong, pendulous, 6-12 lines long, 4—5 lines thick, gla- brous, distinctly stalked, 8-12-seeded.—C. acutifolia, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 829; C. genistifolia, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 389. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Niger country, Thonning! Vogel! &e. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Unyoro, in plantain-groves, and eaten by the people of Madi as spinach, Speke and Grant! Lower Guinea. Angola, in many localities, Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Dr. Kirk ! 4, C. spartea, R. Br. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. Stems slender, herbaceous, glabrous, erect, terete, 1-2 ft. high, with numerous long slender ascending branches. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. Upper leaves sessile, linear, 1-3 in. long, 1-3 lines broad, acute, sub- coriaceous, glabrous, the lowest lanceolate 5—6 lines broad. Flowers in lax 6~—12-flowered terminal racemes reaching 4-5 in. long. Pedicels 2—3 lines long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Calyx glabrous, 4 in., the lanceolate teeth equalling the tube. Corolla 4 lines, the standard purple, 2 lines broad. Pod (not seen mature) linear-oblong, glabrous, sessile, 8-9 lines long, 24 lines broad, straight, 18-20-, seeded. Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Lower Guinea. Hauilla, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch! 5. GC. stenoptera, Welw. mss. A glabrous annual copiously branched from the crown of the root with suberect simple or once- forked stems more than a foot high with a narrow wing to each of the four angles. Stipules rigid, setaceous, persistent. Leaves subsessile, linear, 1-4 in. long, 1}—6 lines broad, narrowed gradually to a mucro- nate point, subcoriaceous, pale green. Flowers 3—5 in very lax long- sapere ag subsecund terminal. racemes. Bracts linear, very minute. -edicels 3-4 lines, spreading. Calyx glabrous, 3—4 lines io nar- rowed at the base, the lanceolate acuminate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla } in. long, yellow veined with violet. Pod oblong, inflated, glabrous, } in. long, 3-4 lines broad, shortly stalked, 12—15-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch ! Crotalaria. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 13 6. C. holoptera, Welw. mss. A glabrous rigid annual branched at the crown of the root with suberect 1-3 times dichotomously forked stems with .two rigidly coriaceous wings each reaching a breadth of 2-8 lines in the centre of the main stem. Leaves very few, some- times none, oblong or oblanceolate, 18-21 lines long, 6—8 lines broad, bluntish or subacute, very conspicuously mucronate, rigidly coriaceous, pale green. Flowers 3-4 in lax long-peduncled terminal racemes. Bracts rigid, linear, very minute. Pedicels 3-4 lines long, spreading. Calyx } in. long, glabrous, cuneate at the base, the lanceolate acumi- nate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla vellow, 5-6 lines long. Pod distinctly stalked, oblong, inflated, 7-10 lines long, 5-6 lines broad, glabrous, very blunt, 10—12-seeded. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft., sparingly in sandy thickets, Dr. Welwitsch ! 7. C. uniflora, Baker. Stem herbaceous, slender, procumbent, terete, glabrous, branched copiously and diffusely. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves simple, sessile, oblanceolate, ?-{ in. long, } in. broad, mucronate, base subcuneate, glabrous. Flowers solitary on leaf-opposed slender glabrous pedicels more than an inch long, with a minute setaceous bract three-quarters of the way up. Calyx glabrous, 4 in. deep, the teeth lanceolate, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla not seen. Pod linear-oblong, 6—7 lines long, 3 lines thick, glabrous, slightly upcurved, distinctly stalked. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! 8. C. retusa, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 125. Suffruticose, subglabrous, sparingly branched. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves simple, ob- lanceolate, sessile, reaching 18—24 lines long, 6—12 lines broad, retuse, faintly mucronate, both sides subglabrous. Flowers in lax terminal racemes 4—6 in. long. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels 2—3 lines. Calyx 3-1 in., the teeth exceeding the tube, the upper ones lanceolate- deltoid, lower narrower. Corolla bright yellow, considerably exceed- ing the calyx. Pod distinctly-stalked, linear-oblong, glabrescent, 1 in. long, 4 in. thick, 15—20-seeded.— Bot. Mag. t. 2061; Bot. Reg. t. 253. fh ag Guinea. Gaboon country, Griffon du Bellay and Duparquet, teste ar ° Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Dr. Peters, Dr. Kirk! | ; A common E. Indian and Malayan species very likely only introduced with us. 9. C. Welwitschii, Baker. A low shrub with slender trailing woody subglabrous branches ascending outwards. Stipules minute, setaceous, moderately persistent. Petioles reaching an inch. Leaves simple, oblong, narrowed gradually to an acute point, glabrous, coria- ceous, the upper ones 2-3 in. long, 9-18 lines broad. Flowers 4—20 in lax long-peduncled terminal racemes reaching 6-7 in. long, 2 in. broad. Bracts lanceolate, 1}—-2 lines, acute, coriaceous, deciduous. Pedicels erecto-patent, 3-6 lines. Calyx 3 in. long, inconspicuously 14 XLVIf, § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [ Crotalaria, shortly grey-downy, the lanceolate ultimately reflexed teeth rather exceeding the tube. Corolla red, not conspicuously veined, glabrous, 9-10 lines deep, the standard 3 in. broad, the keel 1 in. deep, moderately incurved, fringed with a dense mass of grey cottony pubescence. Ovary glabrous, linear-oblong, shortly-stalked, 15—20-ovulate. Pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, at 2400-3800 ft., in sandy meadows, Dr. Welwitsch! 10. C. verrucosa, Linn. ; DC. Prod. 2,125. Stems 2—3ft. high, erect, copiously divaricately branched, thinly adpressed gy upwards. Stipules large, foliaceous, semi-lunate. Leaves nearly sessile, obovate, 2-5 in. long, by generally more than half as broad, glabrous above, thinly adpressed silky beneath when young. Flowers in lax 6—20- flowered terminal and leaf-opposed racemes on peduncles which about equal them. Bracts small, setaceous, silky. Calyx campanulate, thinly silky, } in. deep, teeth lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Standard twice as long as the calyx, greenish-white, streaked with pale-blue within; wings obovate, yellowish-white at the base, the rest deep blue; keel whitish-yellow towards the point. Pod 1-1} in. long, 4—5 lines thick, rel at the base, silky when young, glabrous when mature.—Bot. Mag. t. 3034; C. cerulea, Jacq. ce. Pl. Rar. t. 144, Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Dr. Welwitsch! Banks of the Gaboon, Mylne! Mann! Griffon du Bellay ! Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, fide Baillon. A native both of Tropical Asia and America, and the Mauritius. ll. ©. Vogelii, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 2, 561. Stems 2-3 ft. high, erect, with numerous erecto-patent branches, covered like the rest of the plant with soft spreading yellowish hairs. Leaves mode- rately close and numerous, erecto-patent, short-stalked, linear or linear- lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, 4} in. broad, mucronate, both sides downy. Flowers 6-12 in copious lax terminal and lateral racemes. Pedicels 4—4 in., slender, silky. Calyx 2 lines deep, silky, teeth reaching two- thirds of the way down, three upper ones shorter and lanceolate, two lower ones longer and linear. Bracts linear, minute. Corolla twice as long as the calyx; standard obovate, yellow, veined with purple; wings narrow, scarcely veined. Pod 3 in. long, linear-oblong, on a short stalk, deciduously silky, 8-12-seeded. ge Upper Guinea. Niger country, Stirling on the Quorra, stony soil, Barter! Vogel! Nupe, in dry 12. C. Leprieurii, Guill. et Perrott. Fl. Seneg. 168. Stem 11-2 ft. high, erect, simple, terete, shortly hairy. Leaves short-stalked simple linear-lanceolate, 4-5 in. long, hairy on both sides. Flowers in lax racemes. Calyx about a line long, silly, teeth lanceolate, nearly equal. Standard ovate-oblong, subacute, yellow, striated; wings one-half smaller, oblong, obtuse; keel rather longer, yellow. Pod $ in. long sessile, about 26-seeded.—Walp. Rep. 1, 590. : Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur. Not seen. Crotalaria. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 15 13. C. polygaloides, Welw. mss. Stem a foot, herbaceous, erect, copiously branched, densely clothed with short grey silky pu- bescence. Leaves close, subsessile, linear, erecto-patent, 9-18 lines long, 2-24 lines broad, blunt, narrowed gradually at the base, both surfaces thinly grey-silky, subglaucous beneath. Flowers 10-80 in rather close terminal racemes, the lower ones fascicled and reaching down among the leaves. Bracteoles minute, setaceous. Pedicels } in. long, thinly silky. “Calyx 2-24 lines long, finely silky, the linear teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla yellowish, half as long again as the calyx, very fugacious. Pod linear-oblong, 3—4 lines long, a line thick, glabrous when mature, slightly recurved, 8-9-seeded. Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, 1000-2400 ft., Dr. Welwitsch ! 14. C. cylindrostachys, Welw. mss. An erect annual 1-2 ft. high, with densely brown-silky stems and several erecto-patent branches overtopping the primary one. Stipules minute, setaceous, moderately persistent. Petioles 2-3 lines, densely silky. Leaves simple, oblong, 1-2 in. long, acute, faintly mucronate, persistently brown-silky on both sides. Flowers up to 40-60 in moderately dense terminal racemes 4—6 in. long, } in. broad. Bracts setaceous, 1-2 lines. Pe- dicels erecto-patent, } in. densely silky. Calyx turbinate, 14-2 lines, with two setaceous bracteoles at the base, the lanceolate teeth as long as the tube. Corolla yellow, 3 lines, the standard conspicuously veined with purple. Pod roundish-oblong, sessile, } in. long, densely clothed with a mass of bright light-brown silky hairs, 1-2-seeded. Lower Guinea. Angola; Huilla, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch! 15. ©. calycina, Schrank. ; DC. Prod. ii. 129. Herbaceous, spar- ingly branched, the whole plant clothed with long yellowish-brown silky hairs. Leaves linear, sessile, 2-3 in. long, }—} in. broad, silky beneath. Racemes lax, terminal and lateral. Bracts large foliaceous. Calyx reaching 9-12 lines long, clothed with stiff silky hairs, the teeth reaching down nearly to the base, the upper ones }—2 in. broad. Corolla sulphur-yellow, about equalling the calyx. Pod sessile, glab- rous, 12—18-seeded, about as long as the calyx. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Wile Land. Unyoro plateau, Speke and Grant! Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk! : A common E. Indian species, reaching China and North Australia. 16. C. anthyllopsis, Welw. mss. A diffuse copiously branched erect annual reaching a foot high, with densely brown-silky erecto- patent or horizontal branches. Stipules setaceous, 2-3 lines long, sub- persistent. Petiole 2-3 lines long. Leaves simple, the upper ones oblong or lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, acute, the lower ones roundish, blunt, texture between papyraceous and coriaceous, both sides densely clothed with persistent adpressed brown silky hairs. Flowers in dense 16 XLVI. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. terminal heads like those of the Chrysocalycine. Lower pedicels 2-3 lines long. Calyx 24-8 lines long, nee silky, the linear-lanceolate teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla pale yellow, slightly exceeding the calyx, the standard } in. broad, copiously streaked with urple. Pod sessile, oblong, scarcely exceeding the calyx, densely silky, 2—3-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo and Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! Habit and pod of the Chrysocalyeine, but leaves simple. 17. GC. microcarpa, Hochst. in Herb. Kotschy Nub, Stems herba- ceous, 4—6 in long, diffuse, with copious divaricating slender branches, thinly clothed with spreading brown silky hairs. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. Leaves nearly sessile, with three subsessile, ob- lanceolate leaflets; central one } in. long, 2 lines broad, mucronate, both sides slightly silky. Flowers very much scattered, in clusters of from 2—4 on a short or elongate naked or leafy peduncle. Bracts seta- ceous, silky, longer than the pedicels. Calyx } in. long, densely clothed with yellowish silky hairs, teeth lanceolate acuminate, reaching halfway down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as the calyx, petals equal, the standard } in. broad. Pod } in. long, sessile, finely silky, 4 in. thick, about 8-seeded.—Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 578, C. tri- antha, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 1190, non DC. ©, lotoides. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 157, non Benth. Maria-Antonia orientalis, Parlatore. C. Marie-Antonia, Ascher. C. doryenium. A. Rich. in Herb. Hook. B. uniflora, Steud. Flowers usually solitary. Upper Guinea. Niger country, Nupe, Barter! Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Schweinfurth! Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit ! a Central.“ In the interior, near the Tropic of Capricorn, Chapman and aines 18. C, pisicarpa, Welw. mss. A diffuse very copiously-branched annual with trailing stems 1-2 feet long densely clothed with fine grey spreading pubescence. Stipules setaceous, very minute. Petioles 4-6 lines, downy. Leaflets 3, obovate, 9-18 lines long, 6-10 lines broad, blunt with a faint mucro, sometimes slightly emarginate, both sides green, finally subglabrous. Flowers 2-4 in copious rather lax heads on leaf-opposed downy peduncles 6-9 lines long. Bracts very minute, setaceous. Calyx } in. long, very silky, the lanceolate acuminate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla yellow, twice the calyx, the roundish pointed glabrous standard 2} lines broad. Pods sessile, globose, rather oblique, } in. long, firm, turgid, at first densely grey- downy, usually 3-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, in damp pastures, Dr. Welwitsch! Very distinct. 19. ©. microphylla, Vahl; DC, Prod. ii. 134. Stems herbaceous, 6-12 in. long, densely czespitose, the branches firm, spreading, slender, grey, thinly silky. Stipules very minute, linear-lanceolate. Petioles Crotalaria. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). a about a line long. Leaflets three, sessile, obovate, 1-14 lines long by about half as broad, coriaceous, upper surface grey, glabrous, lower thinly silky. Flowers solitary or in pairs from the axils of the leaves on cernuous pedicels, about equalling the calyx, which is thinly silky, 3 in. deep, teeth lanceolate, reaching more than halfway down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Pod oblong, }—2 in. long, more than half as broad, short-stalked, glabrous, 10- to 15-seeded.— Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 573; C. pumila, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Arab. No. 788. Nile Land. Coast of Nubia, Schweinfurth! Abyssinia, teste Schweinfurth. Also Arabian and Egyptian. 20. C. podocarpa, DC. Prod. ii. 183, Stems herbaceous, erect, 1-2 feet high, with copious erecto-patent branches thinly clothed with long yellowish silky hairs, Stipules lanceolate-falcate, }—} in. long, persistent. Petioles 1-1} in. long, silky, erecto-patent. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central one 1—1$ in. long, }-3 in. broad, mucronate, both sides thinly silky. Flowers only 2—3 together in long-stalked clusters in the axils of the leaves. Bracts minute, se- taceous. Calyx silky, 3 in. deep, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as the calyx; standard 4 lines broad, not striated, glabrous; keel with a dis- tinct beak 1 in. long. Pod with a stalk half as long as the calyx, $-1 in. long, } in. thick, glabrous, 12-18 seeded.—Guill. et Perr. F'., Seneg. 166; Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 589; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1.158; C. pilifera and arvensis, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 54; C. physocarpa, Fenzl. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, to the borders of the Sahara, Perrottet! Bidjem! Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Nubia, Kotschy t Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters ! Abyssinian name, Seppere-quasot, according to Schweinfurth. 21. C. polyclados, Welw. mss. A glabrous annual, very copiously branched at the crown of the root, with diffuse slender rigid dichoto- mously-forked stems half a foot long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pe- tioles 2-4 lines. Leaflets 3, linear, dark green, glabrous, rather fleshy, acute, 6-18 lines long, a line or less broad. Flowers always solitary, usually terminal, on slender peduncles 6-18 lines long with a linear bract a little below the flower. Calyx 34}—4 lines long, the lanceolate- acuminate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx, the standard orbicular, pale blue, 4 lines broad, the keel pale yellow. Pod oblong, distinctly stalked, glabrous, 6-5 lines long, 4 lines broad, 10~12-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, at 5500 ft. Dr. Welwitsch! 22. C. spinosa, Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. 150. Stem annual only, but almost fruticose in the lower part, 6-18 in. long, the upper part covered with short grey pubescence, with copious spreading branches and usually with abundant long sharp spines downwards, — VOL, Il, 18 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. setaceous. Leaves close and numerous, petioles } in. long, slender, with three oblanceolate leaflets with a distinct notch at the apex, the central one 2-4 lines long, 1-2 lines broad, glabrous above, slightly silky beneath. Flowers much scattered, solitary or in pairs, most of them pendulous from the spines. Pedicels 1 line long. Calyx thinly al 1 in. long, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reaching halfway down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Pod sessile, oblong, 3-3 in. long, half as broad, finely pubescent, 8-10-seeded.—Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 576. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 156. Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! White Nile, Petherick! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Quartin-Dillon! Petit! Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Stewart! (A spineless variety, with much smaller and closer leaves than usual.) 23. C. cistoides, Welw. mss. A suffruticose perennial 1-2 ft. high, with numerous erecto-patent rigid slender branches, with a little im- conspicuous adpressed grey pubescence. Stipules none seen. Leaves subsessile ; leaflets 3, oblanceolate, 5-6 lines long, rigidly coriaceous, bluntish with a minute mucro, subglabrous above, finely silky beneath. Flowers 2-3 together, subsessile at the end of the branches, or a few solitary in the axils of the upper leaves. Calyx 2 lines long, finely grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla pale yellow, scarcely as long as the calyx. Pod hard, globose, 2 lines long, finely adpressed grey-silky, 3—4-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, in sandy thickets, Dr. Welwitsch ! 24. C. caudata, Welw. mss. An erect shrub 2-21 ft. high, with numerous rigid erecto-patent woody branches, clothed with incon- spicuous adpressed grey pubescence. Stipules none seen. Leaves sub- sessile ; leaflets 3, oblanceolate, 6—9 lines long, blunt with a mucro, subcoriaceous, both sides pale green with a little adpressed grey pubes- cence. Flowers 1-6 together at the end of the branches, when clus- tered not pedunculated. Pedicels 2 lines. Calyx 3—33 lines adpressed silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching much more than halfway down. Corolla yellow, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod sessile, oblong, 6-7 lines long whilst still immature, densely clothed with fine brown silky hairs, 15—18-seeded. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft., Dr. Welwitsch / 25. ©. Forbesii, Baker. Stem suffruticose, 12-18 in. long, erect, slightly branched, densely clothed throughout with fine erey down. Stipules linear, equalling the petioles, which are 2 lines long, slender, pubescent. Leaves with 8 subsessile oblanceolate leaflets. central one 4—6 lines long, both sides finely downy. Flowers solitary or in short- stalked clusters of 2-3 in the axils. Pedicel'1 line long, silky. Calyx silky, } in. long, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reaching halfway down. Corolla yellowish, twice as long as calyx; standard veined, } in. broad. Crotalaria. } XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). 19 Pod sessile, very silky, 2 in. long, half as broad, 10-12-seeded.—C. levigata 8. villosior, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 577. Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Forbes! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk / The Mascarene C. levigata, Lam., differs by its obovate leaflets, longer petiole (3 in. long), and glabrous stem, leaves, and pods. Our plant may be a variety of C. spinosa. 26. C. variegata, Welw. mss. An undershrub with very diffuse flexuose wide-trailing slender densely grey tov ty. branches 1-2 ft. long, 2-4 times forked, the uppermost branchlets divaricate with their leaves much reduced. Stipules linear, 1-2 lines. Petioles equalling or slightly exceeding the stipules. Leaflets 8, obovate, distinctly stalked, rigidly coriaceous, upper surface grey-green, glabrous, lower covered with dense close persistent brownish or grey silky pubescence, the central one 12-16 lines long, 7—9 lines broad, blunt with a faint mucro, Flowers 1—4 together in copious short-peduncled lateral and terminal umbels. Pedicels 1-2 lines, densely grey-downy. Bracts minute, linear, persistent. Calyx 23-8 lines long, densely grey-downy, the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla half as long again as the calyx, standard violet, keel and wings yellow. Pod sessile, oblong, finely grey-downy, 4—5 lines long, Wen red Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 27. C. ervoides, Welw. mss. A diffuse perfectly glabrous under- shrub with ascending slender branches 1-2 ft. long, 2-8 times dicho- tomously forked. Stipules rigid, lanceolate, foliaceous, }—} in. long, with one distinct tooth on the outer margin. Petioles 3-6 lines long. Leaflets 3, linear, rigid, acute, the central one 8—12 lines long, 1—2 lines broad, both sides green, strongly-veined. Flowers few, 1-2 to- potter on short lateral and terminal peduncles. Calyx glabrous, 3}—4 ines long, the teeth reaching more than halfway down, the upper ones lanceolate, the lower linear. Corolla pale yellow, with a tinge of violet, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod oblong, sessile, glabrous, 12-15 lines long, 6~7 lines thick, 6—8-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, in damp meadows, Dr. Welwitsch! 28. C. abscondita, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub 1-2 ft. high, with numerous ascending straight branches clothed with fine spreading soft grey or brownish hairs. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves close, humerous, erecto-patent, quite sessile; leaflets 3, lanceolate, acute, 6—9 lines long, both sides thinly clothed with hairs like those of the stem. Flowers 6-15 in very dense sessile terminal heads, scarcely pedicellate. Bracts linear, as long as the calyx. Calyx 34 lines long, densely silky, the linear teeth reaching much more than halfway down. Corolla yellowish, scarcely as long as the calyx. Pod roundish, turgid, - - Sessile, hard, densely silky, 3-3} lines long, 4—5-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 29. C. Perrottetii, DC. Prod. 2, 128. Stem herbaceous, 1—? ft., silky, branched from the base. Stipules small, linear. Leaves nearly c2 20 KLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). { Crotalaria. sessile, with 8 subsessile linear leaflets, the central one 2 in. long, } in. broad, glabrous above, beneath with adpressed silky hairs. Flowers in dense heads of 6—8 flowers, terminal on the main stem and branches. Calyx 4 lines long, the bracts linear, not half as long as the calyx, teeth lanceolate, three upper ones reaching halfway down, lower ones narrower and deeper, both tube and teeth densely clothed with bright brown silky pubescence. Corolla bright yellow, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod sessile, round, densely silky, 4-seeded.— Hey- landia Perrottetii, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iv. 267; Chrysocalyx Perrottetii, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 160, t. 48, fig. 2 Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! 30. C. gracilis, Walp. Rep. i. 591. Stems herbaceous, procum- bent, 1—2 ft., with copious spreading branches, upper part slightly silky. Stipules small, linear. Leaves nearly sessile, aah three subsessile lanceolate leaflets, 1}-2 in. long, 3—$ in. broad, blunt with a mucro, lateral ones smaller, upper surface glabrous, lower with fine adpressed silky hairs. Flowers in oblong heads of 3-4 each, terminal on the main stem and branches. Calyx in flower 4 lines long, bracts minute, setaceous, teeth lanceolate, three upper ones reaching halfway down, lower ones narrower and deeper, both tube and teeth densely clothed with bright-brown silky pubescence. Corolla yellowish tinged with red, about equalling the calyx. Pod sessile, roundish, densely silky, 4-seeded.— Chrysocalyax gracilis, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 159. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Ingram! Doubtfully distinct from the preceding. The leaflets are much broader, and only the upper part of the stem is a little silky. 31. C. macrocalyx, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 2, 572. Stem firm, herbaceous, erect or procumbent, 14-2 f¢., with copious erecto- branches, upper part clothed with short close pubescence. tipules small, linear. Leaves nearly sessile, with three subsessile leaflets, terminal one oblanceolate, 1}—2 in. long, 3-3 in. broad, blunt, retuse or mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower slightly silky. Flowers in dense rounded heads terminal on the main stem and branches. Bracteoles small, setaceous, not more than half as long as the calyx. Calyx in flower } in., in fruit 3 in. long; teeth ovate-lanceo- late, reaching three-quarters of the way down, 24-3 lines broad, both tube and teeth densely coated with short stiff silky ereyish-brown hairs. Corolla bright-yellow ; standard $—2 in. broad, slightly exceeding the calyx, the lower part marked with several dark lines radiatine from the throat. Pod roundish-oblong, sessile, densely coated with short bright brown silky pubescence; the seeds usually six.—Chrysocalya Petitiana, A. Rich. Fi. Abyss. i. 159. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Guinea proper, Barter ! Wile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! 32. C. ebenoides, Walp. Rep. i. 590. Stem herbaceous, erect, 12-18 in. high, with copious long spreading or upcurved branches, Crotalaria. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). 21 upper part densely silky, hairs bright brown, adpressed, and rather short. Stipules small, linear. Leaves nearly sessile, with three sub- sessile linear-oblong leaflets, the central one 14-2 in. long, 1-4 in. broad, bluntish with a mucro, lateral ones generally smaller, upper surface nearly glabrous, lower finely silky. Flowers in dense oblong heads terminal on the main stem and branches. Calyx in flower 4 lines long, the two bracts which are attached near the base lanceolate, half as long as the calyx; teeth lanceolate, the three upper reaching half- way down, two lower ones narrower and deeper, both tube and teeth densely clothed with long bright-brown silky pubescence. Corolla about equalling the calyx, yellow, standard } in. broad, wings rather shorter, keel much and suddenly upeurved. Pod sessile, roundish- oblong, densely silky, 6-8-seeded.— Chrysocalya ebenoides, Guill. et Pert. Fl. Seneg. 158, t. 43, fig. 1. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet! Galam and the Sahara, Heudelot ! 33. ©. densicephala, Welw. mss. An erect shrub with terete straight woody branches densely clothed with brown silky pubescence. Stipules linear, minute, deciduous. Petioles 3-6 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, the central one 18-27 lines long, 10—12 lines broad, blunt with a distinct mucro ; side ones much smaller ; texture subcoriaceous; upper surface glabrous, lower densely clothed with persistent bright brown silky hairs. Flowers 20-40 in very dense round or oblong shortly-peduncled terminal heads an inch thick. Bracts minute, seta- ceous. edicels very short. Calyx 45—5 lines, densely brown-silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla slightly exceeding calyx, turning purplish or nearly black when dried ; keel 4 in. deep, with an abrupt beak and a distinct fringe of whitish cottony pubescence along the base. Ovary oblong, densely brown-silky. Pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 34. C. nigricans, Baker. Stem firm-herbaceous, 2-3 ft. high, clothed throughout with short grey spreading or deflexed silky hairs, copiously branched, with the lower branches erecto-patent and again compound. Stipules small, linear-lanceolate. Petioles 1}—2 in. long, spreading, silky. Leaves with three subsessile oblanceolate leaflets, central one 3-2 in. long, } in. broad, mucronate, both sides thinly silky. Flowers in rounded heads terminal on the main stem and branches. Calyx nearly sessile, } in. long, bracts short, roundish or ovate-acuminate, teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down, 2-3 lines broad, oblong-acuminate. Corolla quite included, both tube and wings thinly silky, not more than } in. long, yellow, but like the es and calyx turning black when dried, the standard } in. broad, the kee ciliated on the base. Ovary densely silky. Young pods globose, sessile, very silky. Nile Land. Mininga, Speke and Grant (183)! 22 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Crotalaria, 35. CG. atrorubens, Hochst. in Herb. Kotschy, Nub. No. 265. Stem firm-herbaceous, erect, 14-3 ft. high, with copious erecto-patent branches, upper part thinly clothed with spreading bright silky hairs. Stipules small linear. Leaves nearly sessile, with three subsessile leaflets, terminal one oblanceolate, 1-1} in. long, 1-3 in. broad, obtuse or mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly clothed with ad- pressed silky pubescence. Flowers in dense rounded heads, terminal on the main stem and branches. Calyx in flower } in. long, bracts setaceous, shorter than the calyx, teeth linear, reaching three-quarters of the way down, densely coated with bright brown silky pubescence. Corolla equalling the calyx, yellow, tinged with red, the standard 2 lines broad, slightly silky on the back. Pod sessile, quite twice as long as broad, 3 in. long, silky, 8-10-seeded.—Benth. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 572; Chrysocalyx rubiginosa, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 158; Crotalaria iodina, Benth. in Lond, Journ. Bot. Le. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Guinea, Nupe, and Jeba on the Quorra, Barter! Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! 36. C. dumetorum, Baier. Stems firm-herbaceous, erect, 1-2 ft. high, densely clothed upwards with brown velvety pubescence. Stipules setaceous, very minute. Petioles 8-6 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, the central one 2-3 in. long, 8-12 lines broad, blunt with a mucro, subcoriaceous, both sides with adpressed firm short silky hairs. Heads round or oblong, 6—12-flowered, terminal, usually shortly peduncled. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels } in. Calyx 3 in. long, very silky, the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla 4 lines long, turning dark reddish-purple when dried. Pod sessile, oblong, persistently densely brown-velvety, hard, turgid, 6-7 lines long, 3—4 lines broad, 3—4-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 37. C. ononoides, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 572. Stem 1-4 ft. high, trailing or suberect, annual, firm-herbaceous, copiously branched, clothed throughout with erecto-patent bright brown silky hairs. Stipules } in. long, spreading, silky, linear-setaceous. Petioles 2-3 lines long, silky. ‘Leaves with three ‘subsessile linear-oblong leaflets, central one 1-1} in, long, 1—} in. broad, narrowed to an acute point, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly coated with fine silky hairs. Flowers in dense rounded heads at the summit of the main stem and branches, Pedicel $ in. long, very silky. Calyx very silky, 3-2 in. long, teeth linear, reaching three-quarters of the way down, all the bracts linear-setaceous and as long as the calyx. Corolla purplish- red, rather shorter than the calyx, the standard 2 lines broad, with numerous close distinct darker veins; keel yellow. Pod @ in. long, sessile, twice as long as broad, glabrous, 8~10-seeded.—C. involucrata, Soland. mss. in Herb. Brit. Mus. Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! G, Don! Wile Gand. Karagué, Speke and Grant! Crotalaria. | XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 23 Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Speke! 38. C. cephalotes, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 695. Stem simple or with several curved ascending branches, firm-herbaceous, 6-18 in. high, annual, the upper part densely silky, hairs grey, erecto- patent. Flowers in dense sessile rounded heads at the summit of ‘the main stem and branches. Leaves distant on the lower part of the stem but densely aggregated upwards. No stipules seen. Petioles } in. long, compressed and winged upwards, densely silky. Leaflets 3, quite sessile, oblanceolate, central one 1-14 in. long, 1-2 lines broad, mucronate, both sides densely clothed with yellow silky pubescence. Pedicels } in. long, silky. Calyx 14-2 lines deep, silky, teeth linear- lanceolate, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla yellow, nearly half as long again as the calyx, the keel long-beaked, much and sud- denly upcurved. Pod sessile, roundish-oblong, 1 in. long, 2-seeded, densely coated with yellowish pubescence.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 156. Upper Guinea. Niger country; Nupe, Barter! Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Petit! Madi woods, Speke and Grant! Lower Guinea. Huilla, and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 39. C. nubica, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot, ii. 581. Stem herba- ceous, 12-18 in. long, diffusely and dichotomously branched, slightly silky. Stipules minute, jeiceolits Petioles } in. long, slender, silky. Leaves with three sessile linear leaflets, the central one 1-1} in. long, ¢ in. broad, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower slightly pubes- cent. Flowers in copious fone ncalesd lax lateral racemes ultimately 3—5 in. long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 1 line long, silky. Calyx 1 line deep, finely silky, cut three-quarters of the way down ; teeth lanceolate. Conall yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Pod sessile, roundish-oblong, 2 lines long, } in. broad, finely sky 4—6- ) 8 “ye . seeded.—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 45; C. spherocarpa var. angustifolia, Hochst. Upper Guinea. Senegal, Bidjem! Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! ‘ South Central. In the interior, near the Tropic, Chapman and Baines! : Very near ©. spherocarpa, but pubescent, and the leaves narrower. A Cape species. 40. C. sphzerocarpa, Perrott. in DC. Prod. ii. 133, Stem her- aceous, a foot long, diffusely branched, glabrous. Stipules small, linear. Petioles 3 in. long, glabrous. Leaves with three sessile ob- lanceolate leaflets, central one an inch long, $~3 in. broad, mucronate, both surfaces glabrous. Flowers in copious long-stalked lateral and terminal lax racemes ultimately 3-5 ie long. Bracts minute, se- taceous. Pedicels 1 line, spreading. Calyx 1 line long, glabrous, the oe linear-lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Pod ppb Rear roundish- oblong, glabrous, } in. broad, 2 lines long, 2-4-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 167; C. polycarpa, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. it. 580. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! 24 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEZ (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. 41. C. nutans, Welw. mss. A copiously dichotomously-branched annual, 14-2 feet high with finely yellow-grey silky branches. Stipules linear, deciduous. Petioles 9-12 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, 12-18 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, blunt with a very faint mucro, glabrous above when mature, finely adpressed-silky beneath. Flowers very numerous in moderately dense terminal racemes reaching 6-8 inches long, 9-10 lines broad. Bracts minute setaceous. Pedicels 1 line long, densely silky, finally cernuous. Calyx 1 line long, densely silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla 4 lines long, bright yellow ; standard ovate, acute; keel long-beaked. Pod subglobose, 2-24 lines long, turgid, glabrescent, 2-seeded, dis- tinctly stipitate. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 49. C. filicaulis, Welw. mss. An erect annual about a foot high; stems densely finely grey-silky, very slender with a few rigid erecto- patent branches, the whole plant turning blackish when dried. Stipules 0. Petioles 1-1} line. Leaflets 3, shortly-stalked, linear, 3-6 lines long, 4-} line broad, acute, slightly grey-silky beneath. Flowers in elongated very narrow terminal racemes, up to 12—15 on the main stem. Bracts linear, very minute. Pedicels $—1 line, rigidly suberect, densely grey-silky. Calyx 1-1} line, densely grey-silky, the teeth reaching down nearly to the base, the upper lanceolate, the lower linear. - Corolla nearly twice the calyx, yellow, turning blackish when dried, the standard clothed on the back with persistent grey-silky hairs. Pod sessile, roundish, glabrescent, at first finely grey-silky, 2 lines long, 1—2-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 43. C. tenuirama, Weiw. mss. An erect annual 1-2 ft. high with very numerous slender straight erecto-patent finely grey-downy branches. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-8 lines. Leaflets 3 (uppermost leaves casually simple), oblanceolate, 3-6 lines long, blunt with a mucro, pale green above, glaucous and thinly grey-silky beneath. Flowers in terminal elongated narrow racemes, up to 12-20 on the main stems, casually but not usually prolonged into the axils of the upper leaves. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels $-1 line, finely grey-silky. Calyx } in., finely grey-silky, the lanceolate acuminate teeth equalling the tube. Corolla bright a twice the calyx, the standard streake with purple, quite glabrous on the back. Pod sessile, roundish-oblong finely silky, 1-2-seeded. : Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Very near C. hyssopifolia, We have imperfect specimens of a closely-allied plant, without frait, from Sierra Leone, Morson! and Senegambia, Heudelot ! which approaches C. hyssopifolia, by its smaller corolla and closer racemes. : 44, ©. hyssopifolia, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 55. An erect annual reaching 1}-2 ft. high with numerous ascending finely 2 or Crotalaria. } XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). grey-downy branches. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-3 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, 6-9 lines long, subglabrous, green, blunt with a mucro. Flowers in dense sessile terminal racemes up to 380—40 on the main stem. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels 1-14 line. Calyx 1 line deep, densely brown-silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx, the standard densely brown-silky on the back. Pod sessile, roundish, densely silky, 2 lines long, 2-4-seeded.—€. gracillima, Klotzsch. loc. cit. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Mininga, Speke and Grant! Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Closely allied to the Cape C. globifera, but smaller in all its parts with densely silky, usually 2-seeded pods. 45. C. parvula, Welw. mss. An erect annual under a foot high with numerous finely grey-silky spreading branches from the crown of the root. Stipules very minute, setaceous, deciduous. Petioles 14-2 lines. Leaflets 8, oblanceolate, 3-6 lines long, blunt with a distinct mucro, slightly grey-silky beneath. Flowers 6—80 in close terminal heads } in. broad prolonged into the axils of the upper leaves. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels }—1 line, finely silky. Calyx 1 line long, silky, the linear-lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla greenish- yellow, half as long again as the calyx. Pod sessile, round, } in. thick, glabrescent, at first thinly brown-silky, 2-seeded. Lower Guinea. Hauilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 46. ©. erythrophleba, Welw. mss. An erect annual reaching 2 ft. high with numerous long slender ascending branches clothed with close fine white silky pubescence. Stipules setaceous, ens minute. Petioles 2-8 lines, with a tuft of silvery hairs at the base. Leaflets 3, very narrowly oblanceolate, often laterally complicate, 3-4 lines long, 2-{ line broad, blunt with a mucro, finely argenteous principally be- neath. Flowers 6-15 in close terminal heads and much prolonged into the axils of the upper leaves. Pedicels $}—1 line densely silvery. Calyx } in. long, densely grey-silky, the mouth oblique, the teeth as long as the tube. Corolla 4 lines long, bright yellow beautifully veined with fine parallel streaks of purple, the long gradually-beaked keel ex- ceeding the standard. Ovary oblong, subsessile, finely grey-silky, 2-3- ovulate. Pod unknown. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 47. ©. prolongata, Baker. An erect sparingly-branched annual 1-2 ft. high with thick stems densely clothed with brown-silky pubes- cence. Stipules setaceous, deciduous. Petioles 9—15 lines. Leatlets 3, shortly-stalked, oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, both sides green, upper glabrescent, lower finely silky, the central one 12—18 lines long, 3-9 lines broad, blunt with a mucro which in the upper leaves 1s lengthened out and hooked. Flowers 20-50 in racemes dense and cylindrical at the end of the branches, but also laxly prolonged down ‘nto the axils of the upper leaves, Bracts minute, linear, silky. Pe- 26 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. dicels 1-1 line. Calyx } in. long, densely silky, the linear-lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla 3 lines long, reddish when dried. Pod oblong, sessile, turgid, finely silky, 2 lines long, 2-seeded. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 48. CG. argyrzea, Welw. mss. A diffuse moderately-branched_as- cending undershrub, branches silvery with close tomentum like those of Indigofera argentea. Stipules 0. Petioles 9-15 lines. Leaflets fleshy, glabrous, very glaucous, short-stalked, oblanceolate-oblong, the central one 9-15 lines long, 5-8 lines broad, blunt, emarginate. Flowers a dozen or more in a few lax short-peduncled lateral racemes. Bracts 0. Pedicels 14-2 lines silvery. Calyx 2 lines, broadly cam- pee the upper teeth lanceolate, equalling the tube, the lower inear, a little longer. Corolla } in. long, bright yellow. Pod dis- tinctly stalked, very hard, oblong, } in. long, 4 lines broad, glabrous, patos the upper suture a depression, the lower one a prominent ridge. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 49. C. ivantulensis, Welw. mss, A copiously-branched shrub 2-4 ft. high with finely grey-downy straight branchlets. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. Petioles 6—9 lines, erecto-patent. Leaflets 3, distinctly stalked, oblanceolate, blunt with a faint mucro, reaching 14-2 inches long, 6-10 lines broad, green and glabrous above, glaucous and inconspicuously grey-silky beneath. Flowers 12-20 in_ close shortly-stalked terminal (rarely lateral) racemes 15-18 lines broad. Bracts minute, linear. Pedicels 1}—8 lines, densely grey-silky. Calyx obliquely broadly campanulate, 24 lines long, densely grey-silky, the deltoid teeth not quite as long as the tube. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx, not striated, the standard glabrous on the back. Pod distinctly-stalked, oblong, 7-8 lines long, 3-34 lines broad, finely grey-silky, 8-10-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, on the shores of Lake Ivantula, Dr. Welwitsch! 50. C. ramosissima, Baker. An erect undershrub with very numerous erecto-patent stiff slender forked finely grey-downy branches. Stipules lanceolate, very minute. Petioles 9-4 lines. Leaflets 3, shortly-stalked, oblanceolate-oblong, reaching 6-12 lines long, 3-6 lines broad, blunt with a faint mucro, glabrescent above, finely grey- downy beneath. Flowers 6-12 in very numerous principally terminal lax racemes. Bracts setaceous, very minute. Bedicels 3-1 line, densely silky. Calyx } in., thinly grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth ex- ceeding the tube. Corolla bright yellow, glabrous, twice the calyx. Pod globose, distinctly stalked, 4 lines long, persistently clothed with spreading grey-silky hairs, 5—6-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 51. C. ameena, Welw. mss. A suberect shrub with numerous as- cending terete branchlets clothed with dense fine grey short pubescence- Crotalaria. ] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 27 Stipules very minute, setaceous. Leaves sessile. Leaflets 3, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, the central one reaching 18-24 lines long, 8-12 lines broad, blunt with a mucro, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above, persistently clothed beneath with short adpressed grey-silky hairs. Flowers 3-6 in copious lax sessile or shortly-peduncled terminal racemes. Bracts minute, linear. Pedicels 3—6 lines, rigidly erecto- patent, densely brown-silky. Calyx 43-5 lines, coriaceous, thinly silky, the lanceolate teeth foriet than the broadly campanulate tube. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx, pale-purplish when dried, all the petals thick in texture, densely silky on the outside. Pod shortly- — stalked, oblong, an inch long, half as broad, densely clothed with per sistent red-brown velvety pubescence, 12-15-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 52. ©. cordata, Welw. mss. A shrub 2-38 ft. high, many times dichotomously branched with very flexuose almost scandent branches clothed with adpressed grey-silky pubescence. Stipules rigidly coria- ceous, forming a wing to the petiole, reaching an inch long, 3 in. broad, obcordate, cuneately decurrent on the branch. Main petioles 12-16 lines. Leaflets 3, shortly stalked, oblanceolate, reaching 2-3 in. long, 9-12 lines broad, bluntish with a distinct mucro, subcoriaceous, pale green, elabrous above, densely clothed with adpressed persistent grey or brown silky pubescence beneath. Flowers 6—12 in moderately lax shortly-peduncled terminal racemes. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels 3-4, ultimately 6—8 lines. Calyx 4 in. long, densely adpressed- silky, the lanceolate acuminate teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla reddish when dried, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod shortly stalked, oblong, 12-15 lines long, 3 in. broad, densely persistently brown-silky, 10-12-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, sparingly in two places, Dr. Welwitsch ! 53. C. orixensis, Roxb. ; DC. Prod. ii. 131. Stems herbaceous, 6-18 in. long, prostrate or suberect, copiously branched from the base, clothed with long spreading silky hairs. Stipules small, linear-lanceo- late, spreading or decurved. Petioles 4-14 in. long, slender, silky. eaves with three sessile oblong-obovate leaflets, central one {—1} in. ong, 4 in. broad, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly silky. Flowers in copious stalked very lax lateral racemes of 3-6 flowers each. Bracts conspicuous, cordate-ovate, persistent, lower Ones sometimes } in. broad. Pedicels slender, spreading, the lowest 2 in. long. Calyx silky, } in. deep, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reach- ing three-quarters of the way down. Corolla scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod stalked, the stalk half as long as the calyx, 3-4 in. long, half as broad, glabrous, many-seeded.— Wight et Arn. Prod. i. 193; Mart. in Denk. Acad. Mun. vi. 157 t. H. Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. u. 588. ©. macropoda, Hochst., A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 157. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon. An East Indian species, well marked in the group by its peculiar raceme Persistent cordate bracts, and large 28 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. 54, C. versicolor, Baker. An erect annual 1-2 ft. high with numerous long finely grey-downy branches curving upwards from the crown of the root. Stipules setaceous, 4-3 in. long. Petioles 3-6 lines. Leaflets 3, shortly-stalked, obovate-oblong, blunt with a mucro, reaching 2-3 in. long, 12-18 lines broad, glabrescent above, finely erey-silky beneath. Flowers 6-12 in moderately lax short-peduncled lateral racemes 12-15 lines broad. Bracts setaceous, 1—1} line. Pedicels 14-2 lines, patent or cernuous, densely grey-silky. Calyx 4 in. long, coriaceous, thinly grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth ({ im. broad) reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx when expanded, reddish-blue and yellow, the standard gla- brous on the back. Pod distinctly stalked, an inch long, 6—? lines broad, inconspicuously grey-downy, 8—12-seeded. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 55. ©. Doniana, Baker. Stem firm-herbaceous, prostrate, more than « foot long, terete, finely-downy, irregularly branched. Stipules 0. Petioles an inch long, spreading, finely-downy. Leatlets 3, sessile, oblong, terminal one 13~13 in. long by about half as broad, narrowed to both ends, membranous glabrous and green on both sides. Flowers in few-flowered lax lateral racemes. Pedicels 2 lines long, silky, with small linear-setaceous bracts at the base. Corolla not seen. Pod pe above an inch long, } in. broad, glabrous, with a pedicel 4 in. ong. Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don! Resembles C. orixensis in general habit and pod, but the pedicels short and bracts minute. 56. ©. Onobrychis, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 154. Stem 12 ft. high, erect, branched, the branches downy, striated. Stipules minute. Leaves stalked, leaflets oblong-obovate or elliptical or sublanceolate, acute, silky beneath. Flowers in many-flowered elongated terminal or lateral racemes. Bracts linear. Calyx silky, teeth equal, oblong-lanceolate, acute. Corolla under } in. long, purplish, veined, the standard narrow- Pod oblong, inflated, 4 in. long, glabrous, short-stalked. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon. : 5 “Flowers in form and general aspect like those of Onobrychis sativa.” Not seen. 57. ©. goreensis, Guill. et Perrott. Fl. Seneg. i. 165. Stem herba- ceous or suffruticose, 1—3 ft. high, copiously branched, finely-pubescent throughout, branches erecto-patent deeply striated. Stipules large, lanceolate-faleate, 3-3 in. long. Petioles erecto-patent, slightly silky, 1-13 in. long. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central 1-3 in. long, }-? in. broad, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, under more or less finely silky. Flowers in sessile terminal racemose heads, those of the main stem dense 12—20-flowered, those of the branches 4—6-flowered. Bracts minute deciduous. Pedicels 1-13 lines long, silky. Calyx 3—4 lines aid very silky, the teeth lanceolate, reaching haltway down. Corolla yellow, tinged with red, twice as long as the calyx, not striated. Pod sessile, 3-2 in. long, half as thick, oblong, Crotalaria. XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 29 when young densely silky, glabrescent, 10—12-seeded.—Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 589. C. falcata, Schum, et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 335, non Vahl. C. macrostipula, Steud. A. Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 153. 8. angusti- folia, leaflets linear, not more than 2~—8 lines broad. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Boteler! Heudelot! Guinea Proper, Thonning, Don! Vogel, Barter ! Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit ! Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 8 Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Smeathmann ! Banks of the Niger, Barter! On the beach at Fernando Po, Mann! 58. C. flexuosa, Baker. Stems 12-18 in. long, herbaceous, copi- ously and diffusely branched, clothed throughout with long spreading silky hairs. Stipules 1-4 in. long, lanceolate-faleate. Petioles 1-14 in. long, spreading, silky. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central 1-14 in. long, 1=} in. broad, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly silky with long hairs. Flowers in lax 6—8-flowered lateral racemes, which about equal the peduncles. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels } in. long, cernuous. Calyx silky, 3 in. long, teeth linear or lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, the standard oblong, the keel with a long beak. Pod 3—§ in. long, not quite so thick, round-oblong, sessile, finely-silky, when young glabrescent, 8-9-seeded. South Central. In the interior near the Tropic, Chapman and Baines ! Mozamb, Distr. Zambesi land, Dr, Kirk! : General habit just that of the Cape C. obscura, DC., but the flower different and pod shorter, 59. C. elata, Welw. mss. An erect shrub 2-3 ft. high with woody finely brown-silky terete branches. Stipules linear, semilunate, 3-6 lines. Petioles 6-14 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate-oblong, 12-18 lines*long, blunt with a faint mucro, upper surface glabrous when mature, lower finely adpressed brown-silky. Flowers 3-6 together on short leaf-opposed peduncles in a lax raceme 3-4 in, long, 18-21 lines broad. Pedicels 3-4 lines. Calyx 8-9 lines long, clothed with thick brown-silky pubescence, the lanceolate teeth reaching much over half- way down, Corolla yellow, an inch long, the standard 8—9 lines broad, the keel 4 lines deep. Pod subsessile, oblong, 18-20 lines long, 8-9 lines broad, clothed with very dense bright brown silky hairs like those of the calyx. Lower Guinea. Huilla and Golunga Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 60. C. orthoclada, Welw. mss. An erect shrub with numerous Straight erecto-patent branches densely clothed with short adpressed prey pubescence. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-4 lines, adpressed to the ranches. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, reaching 12-18 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, blunt with a distinct mucro, glabrous above, finely grey- silky beneath. Flowers 6-12 in lax short-peduncled terminal racemes 8-9 lines broad. Bracts 2-3 lines, linear, silky, deciduous. Pedicels 1-1} line. Calyx 3-34 lines, densely grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth 30 XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. reaching three-quarters down. Corolla bright yellow, half as long again as the calyx, the standard silky on the back. Pod oblong, sessile, an inch long, half an inch broad, 15—20-seeded, finally black, thinly clothed with grey spreading silky hairs. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 61. C. virgatula, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. i. 56. Stems suf- fruticose, 2-8 feet high, with copious ascending curved branches, slightly downy upwards. Stipules very minute. Petioles {—} in. long, slender. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central 3—} in. long, 14-2 lines broad, mucronate or emarginate, upper surface glabrous, lower slightly silky. Flowers in lax elongated terminal racemes of 6—9 flowers and also solitary in the axils of many of the leaves. Bracts lanceolate, minute. Pedicel } in. long, finely silky. Calyx } in. long, thinly silky, the teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down, upper lanceolate acuminate, lower linear. Corolla yellowish, twice as long as the calyx, standard } in. broad, keel with a long beak. Pod sessile, silky, oblong, 4—6-seeded. Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! 62. C. florida, Welw. mss. An undershrub with very numerous rigidly erecto-patent slender deeply sulcate branches inconspicuously grey-downy when young. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-3 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, rather fleshy, rigidly coriaceous when dry, 4—6 lines long, blunt with a faint mucro, green, subglabrous when mature. Flowers very numerous in sessile terminal racemes which extend down among the leaves and form a large thyrsoid panicle. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 1—14 line, finely silky. Calyx } in. long, broadly campanulate, finely adpressed silky, the lanceolate-deltoid teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla bright yellow, 2 in. long, the obovate blunt standard 4 lines broad. Pods sessile, globose, subacute, 4 lines long, pointed, 1-seeded. Lower Guinea. Hauilla, Angola, abundant, Dr. Welwitsch ! 63. C. Steudneri, Schweinf. in Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. xviii. 651. Stem erect, a foot high, branched from the base, hispid throughout. Stipules linear-subulate, } in. long. Petioles hispid }—} in. long. Leaflets three, linear, glaucous-green, glabrous above, silky on the veins beneath, central one an inch long, } in. broad. Racemes lax- flowered, three or four times as long as the leaves. Bracts equalling the pedicels. Calyx silky, } in. deep, exceeding its pedicel, cleft half- way down, teeth deltoid. Corolla pale yellow, the long-beaked keel exceeding the standard and wings, twice as long as the calyx. Pod sessile, roundish-oblong, 4 lines long, 10—14-seeded. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Steudner. 64. C. maxillaris, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 58. Stem 2-3 ft. long, erect, suffruticose, with long suberect branches, finely downy upwards, Stipules minute, setaceous, Petioles 1-1} in, slightly silky. Crotalaria. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). 31 Leaves with three subsessile oblong leaflets, central 1-14 in. long, i broad, apex rounded mucronate, glabrous above, slightly silky below. Flowers in many-flowered elongate terminal racemes 6-12 in. long. Bracts minute setaceous. Pedicels } in. silky cernuous. Calyx } in. long, thinly silky, teeth lanceolate-cuspidate reaching more than half- way down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as calyx; standard 2 in. broad, striated, silky outside, the keel long-beaked. Pod sessile, ob- long, 2 in. long, more than half as thick, very silky, 8—12-seeded. C. carinata, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. 772 non 519; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 154 in part. Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Dr. Brownell! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 65. C. senegalensis, Buacle in DC. Prod. ii. 133, Stem herbaceous, diffuse, copiously branched, 6—18 inches long, finely downy upwards. Stipules minute, deciduous. Petioles half an inch, slender. Leaves with three sessile oblong or oblanceolate leaflets, central 1-1} in. long, 4—} in. broad, acute or rounded and mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower finely silky. Flowers in copious terminal and lateral long- stalked racemes of 10-30 flowers. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels é in, long, slender, at first erect, afterwards cernuous. Calyx slightly silky, 2 lines long, the teeth lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla bright yellow, twice as long as the calyx, the standard 3 in. broad. Pod sessile, 4—6 lines long, half as broad, finely pubescent, 10—12-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 165. Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 582. C. macilenta, Delile, Cent. Pl. Afric. 35, t. 3, fig.2. ©. remotiflora, Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 2266. C. cari- nata, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. 519 non 772. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Heudelot! Brunner! Nile Land. Nubia, Caillaud, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Lower Guinea. Loanda and Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Luabo, and Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk! Extends south to Natal (Gerrard !) and to the Cape Verde islands. 66. C. montana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 152. Stem erect, 2 ft. high, branched, clothed with long ferruginous hairs. Stipules setaceous, long, acute, silky. Petioles about equalling the obovate leaflets, which are rounded at the apex, glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath. Flowers in long-stalked 6—8-flowered lax elongate lateral and terminal racemes. tacts linear; pedicels short; calyx densely clothed with long silky: hairs, teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla scarcely equalling the calyx, aie silky on the back. Pod 2 in. long, terete, cylindrical, very 81 yi Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon. Not seen. 87. C. incana, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 132. Herbaceous, annual or fennial, erect, reaching 2-4 ft. in height, the divaricate branches clothed with fine spreading brown silky hairs. Stipules setaceous. minute. Petioles 1-2 in, Leaflets 3, obovate, blunt, reaching 12-18 32 XLVIL. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. lines long, glabrescent above, slightly silky beneath. Racemes both lateral and terminal, laxly 6—12-flowered, 2-4 in. long on peduncles 1-4 in. long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 1-1} lines, silky. Calyx } in. long, with two setaceous bracteoles at the base, clothed with spreading brown hairs, the lanceolate teeth reaching three- quarters of the way down. Corolla bright yellow, half as long again as the calyx; standard } in. broad. Pod subsessile, linear-oblong, 12-18 lines long, 3—} in. broad, turgid, clothed with fine spreading hairs like those of the stem, 20-30-seeded.—C. Schimperi, A, Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 151. Chrysocalya Schimperi, Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No, 394. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Sierra Leone, G. Don! Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! Roth! Cosmopolitan in the Tropics, but perhaps an introduction in the Old World. 68. C. Grantii, Baker. Suffruticose, the firm green terete divari- cate branches clothed with short grey fine spreading pubescence. Stipules setaceous, 2-8 lines, persistent. Petioles 1-2 inches, Leaf- lets 38, obovate, reaching 15-18 lines long, 9-10 lines broad, bluntish with a mucro, both sides green, upper glabrous, lower thinly silky. Racemes lateral and terminal, short-stalked, laxly 6—12-flowered. Pedicels } in., silky, Calyx 3—? in. long, densely clothed with long spreading brown-silky hairs, with two small lanceolate bracteoles at the base, the lanceolate teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla half as long again as the calyx; standard brown-silky on the back. Pod subsessile, linear-oblong, 18-24 lines long, 9~10 lines ae turgid, clothed with fine pale brown spreading hairs, 80—40- seeded. Nile Land. Right bank of the Nile in 5° N. lat. (as C. incana, L.), Speke and Grant ! 69. C. Stewartii, Baker. A sparingly-branched annual, 2-3 ft. high, with moderately robust branches, clothed with fine spreading greyish hairs. Stipules setaceous, persistent, 4-6 lines long. Petioles 13-2 in. Leaflets 3, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, narrowed eradually from the middle to a cuspidate point, reaching 2-24 in. long, 9—12 lines broad, membranous, both: sides with a few adpressed hairs. Racemes lax, 3-12-flowered, reaching 4—5 in. long, both terminal and lateral. Pedicels } in. Bracts 0. Calyx 6-7 lines deep, densely clothed with long oe brown-silky hairs, bibracteolate at the ase, the teeth lanceolate, 14—2 lines broad, reaching three quarters of the way down. Corolla } as long again as the calyx, purplish, the standard 3 in. broad, thinly silky on the back, the keel narrowed gradually into a long beak. Pod (only seen immature) sessile, oblong, densely brown-silky, 10—12- seeded. Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Stewart! 70, C. fulgida, Baker. An erect annual, 12-18 in. high, very copiously branched at the crown of the root; branches 2-3 times ~ forked, clothed with fine spreading grey hairs. Stipules foliaceous, Crotalaria. | XLVII, § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER), 33 semilunate, persistent, 3-3 in. long. Petioles 6-12 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, the young ones clothed like the stem, the old ones gla- brescent, blunt, with a mucro, reaching 12-15 lines long, 2-4 lines broad, Flowers 4—12, in very lax, copious, lateral and terminal, long- and-short-peduncled racemes more than an inch broad. Bracts obso- lete. Pedicels 2-8 lines, finely silky. Calyx 4 lines, with a pair of deciduous lanceolate bractlets at the base as tong as itself; teeth lanceo- late-acuminate, exceeding the tube. Corolla bright yellow, not striated, 8-9 lines long, glabrous; standard ovate, 8—9 lines broad. Ovary dis- tinctly stalked, linear, glabrescent. Pod unknown. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, in sandy deserts, Dr. Welwitsch ! 71. ©. lachnocarpa. Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. 780. Stem 3-6 ft. high, suffruticose, branched, deeply striate, densely clothed with long bright brown silky hairs. Stipules 4 in. subfalcate, acute, per- sistent. Petioles 3-1 in. long. Leaves with three oblong-obovate subsessile leaflets, central 14-83 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, both sides thinly silky. Flowers in dense usually terminal racemes, sometimes 6 in. long. Pedicels + in., very silky. Calyx 4~—3? in. long, densely tomentose, cut three quarters of the way down, upper lobes oblong- lanceolate, lower longer and narrower. ‘Corolla bright yellow, half or a third as long again as the calyx; petals very thick, standard }~3 in. broad. Pod sessile, 1-1} in. long, $ in. thick, densely clothed with close-spreading bright brown silky tomentum, 16—18-seeded. C. lach- nophora, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 151. Upper Guinea. Niger country, Nupe, Barter ! Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! and others. _ Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 72. C, decumbens, Welw. mss. Annual with trailing moderately- branched stems reaching 2 ft. long, densely clothed upwards with spreading brownish hairs. Stipules semilunate, foliaceous, 3—4 lines long. Petioles spreading, 3-6 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, the central one 12-21 lines long, subacute, mucronate, both sides green, with a few short adpressed grey hairs. Flowers 6-10, in close long- peduncled terminal heads. Bracts linear, 3-4 lines. Pedicels downy, 1j-2 lines. Calyx 3 lines, downy, the lanceolate teeth as long as the tube. Corolla twice the calyx, yellowish ; keel purplish. Ovary linear, sessile, silky, multiovulate. Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 23. C, uncinata, Welw. mss. Herbaceous, diffuse, 14-2 feet high, with finely grey-downy branches 2-3 times forked; branchlets erecto- atent. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles 6-12 lines. Leaflets 3, anceolate-o long, narrowed gradually to a mucronate point, glabrous above, faintly grey-down one the central one reaching 12-18 lines ong, 5-8 lines broad. Flowers up to 20-25 in copious lax usually terminal racemes reaching 6-8 in. long, and an inch broad. ge a VOL, 11, 34 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. line long, setaceous, persistent. Pedicels 2—3 lines, finely grey-downy. Calyx } in., finely grey-downy, the lanceolate-acuminate teeth exceed- ing the tube. Corolla 4 lines, yellow, the standard conspicuously striated with purple, the keel abruptly hooked. Pod distinctly stalked, linear, 12-15 lines long, 34-4 lines broad, finely grey-downy, gla- brescent, 20—30-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 74. C. comosa, Baker. An erect annual, 2-3 ft. high, with erect short unbranched or sparingly-branched stout sulcate stems finely brown-silky throughout. Stipules 0. Petioles 1-2 in. long. Leatlets 3, shortly-stalked, oblanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, reaching 3-4 in. long, 8-12 lines broad, blunt with a mucro, green and glabrescent above, glaucous and finely silky beneath. Flowers in very dense termi- nal heads reaching 6-9 in. long, 8-9 lines broad, comose in bud with the setaceous bracts, which are 38-4 lines long, silky and persistent. Pedicels }—1 line long, densely brown-silky. Calyx 2-24 lines, densely silky, with a setaceous bracteole at the base as long as itself, the linear teeth equalling the tube. Corolla bright yellow, nearly twice the calyx, both keel and standard very conspicuously streaked with purple. Pod Se linear-oblong, 6~7 lines long’, 24 lines broad, finely silky, 12-15- seeded. Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 75. C. natalitia, Meissn. in Hook. Lond. Journ, ii. 67. Suffruticose, erect, with numerous long erecto-patent straight finely grey-downy branches. Stipules foliaceous, persistent, semilunate, 1-3 in. Petioles 4-8 lines, erecto-patent. Leatlets 3, reaching an inch long, upper linear or oblanceolate, 2-3 lines broad, lower obovate-oblong, upper surface glabrescent, lower finely grey-downy. Flowers 6-10 in copious lax short-peduncled terminal racemes 12-15 lines broad. Bracts linear, 2-3 lines, soon falling. Pedicels 8-4 lines, erecto-patent, finely downy. Calyx 4 lines, downy, the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla twice the calyx, dull reddish in the dried plant; standard 8-9 lines broad. Ovary short-stalked, linear, glabrous, multiovulate. Pod unknown (in the Natal plant linear-oblong, 12-15 lines long, 5—6 lines broad).—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 46. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 76. C. platysepala, Hurv. Thes. Cap. t. 29. Shrubby, with finely grey-downy slender branches. Stipules minute, setaceous. ’Petioles 4-6 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, green and glabrous above finely grey- downy below, blunt with a mucro, the central one 8-9 lines long. Flowers 10—80 in lax peduncled terminal racemes, reaching 5-6 in. long, an inch broad. racts setaceous, very minute. Pedicels 13-2 lines, finely grey-downy. Calyx 2 lines, finely grey-downy, the teeth, which reach over halfway down, oblanceolate-spathulate with a distinct cusp. Corolla bright yellow, 4-44 lines, not streaked; the standard Crotalaria. | XLVII, § PAPILIONACEA (BAKER). 35 slightly downy on the back. Ovary linear, sessile, finely downy, multi- ovulate.—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 43. South Central. Banks of Lake Ngami, McCabe! 77. C. emarginata, Bojer ; Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 584. Stem erect, suffruticose, striate, densely clothed with short grey pubescence. Stipules none. Petioles 3 in., erect, silky. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, 2 in. long, }-3 in. broad, conspicuously emargi- nate, densely silky on both sides. Flowers in stalked many-flowered terminal racemes 2-3 in. long. Bracts minute. Pedicels silky, 1 line long. Calyx silky, broadly and obliquely campanulate, 2 lines deep, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, about equalling the tube. Corolla three times as long as the calyx, bright yellow, conspicuously striated, standard 4 lines broad, keel beaked and much upcurved. Ovary villose, multiovulate. Pod unknown.—C. cylindrica, A. Rich. Fl, Abyss. i. 154? Mozamb. Distr. Island of Pemba, north of Zanzibar, Bojer ! The description of the Abyssinian C. cylindrica, which I have not seen, agrees with this as far as it goes. 78. C. protensa, Welw. mss. Stems suffruticose trailing 2-4 ft. long, the outer branches ascending, slender, finely grey-silly. Stipules setaceous. Petioles 6—9 lines. Leaflets 3, oblong-lanceolate, acute, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with short adpressed grey hairs beneath, the central one 2-8 in. long, 8-12 lines broad, the uppermost leaves casually simple. Flowers 6-12 in moderately dense long-pedun- cled terminal racemes. Bracts linear, 2-3 lines. Pedicels 3—4 lines, finely grey-downy. Calyx 5 lines long, coriaceous, densely adpressed grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla bright yellow, slightly exceeding the calyx, the orbicu- lar pointed standard 4 in. broad, a little silky on the back. Ovary linear-oblong, sessile, densely brown-velvety. Pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 feet, Dr. Welwitsch ! 79. CG. zanzibarica, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 584. Stem suf- fruticose, erect, prominently striate, clothed with dense short grey pubescence. Stipules none. Petioles ? in. long, slender, spreading, pubescent. Leaves with three oblanceolate leaflets, central 14 in. long, % in. broad, point rounded slightly mucronate, upper surface dark green, glabrous, lower paler, densely but finely silky. Flowers 12-20 in lax many-flowered terminal racemes. Bractsminute. Pedicels 3 in. silky, spreading. Calyx silky on the back, the rest nearly glabrous, abliqualy campanulate, not more than } in. deep, the teeth deltoid mucronate, one-third as long as the tube. Corolla bright yellow, 3 in. long, standard 3 in. broad, the keel with a long beak. Ovary densely silky. Pod unknown. Mozmb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Bojer ! 80. CG. lathyroides, Guill. ct Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 163. Stem herba- ceous, about 2 ft. high, with copious glabrous terete ascending beamches. v2 36 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEA (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. Stipules obsolete. Petioles }-} in. long. Leaflets 3, linear, 1-1} in. long, } in. broad, both sides glabrous. Flowers in lax 6—12-tlowered racemes, terminal on the stem and branches. Pedicel about equalling the calyx, which is } in. deep, teeth linear, not reaching quite half- way down. Corolla under } in. long; standard ovate, acute, yellow, veined with reddish, keel with a long beak. Pod sessile, linear, 3 in. long, 2 lines thick, glabrous, slightly upeurved.— C. Afzelii, R. Br. mss. in Herb. Brit. Mus. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 81. CG. lanceolata, Z. Meyer. Comm. Pl. Afr. Aust. 24. Stem suf- fruticose, 2-6 ft. high, with a few long straight erecto-patent branches, upper part slightly pubescent. Stipules none. Petioles 1—2 in. long, - slender, erecto-patent, glabrous. Leaves with three linear subsessile leaflets, central 2-4 in. long, 1-3 in. broad, narrowed to both ends, mucronate, both surfaces nearly glabrous. Flowers in long-stulked lax many-fowered racemes terminal on the main stem and branches, sometimes 6 in. long, 1 in. broad. Pedicels 2 lines long. Bracts very small, ovate-mucronate. Calyx campanulate, thinly silky, } in. long, teeth deltoid-mucronate, not more than half as long as the tube. Corolla 4 in. long, petals bright yellow, striated with purple, standard 3 lines broad, keel about the same breadth with the point much up- curved. Pod cylindrical, sessile, very ny when young, 14-1} in. long, 2 lines thick, ultimately black and glabrous.—Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 585. Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 48. C. mossambicensis, Klotasch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 61 t. 10. Nile Land. Zungomero and banks of the Nile at Chopeh, Speke and Grant! Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Peters! Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! Also a plant of Mauritius, Natal, and Cape Colony. It may be ©. pallida, Aiton, DC, Prod. ii. 134. C. eleomoides, Klotzsch |.c., is apparently a form of this, with the calyx-teeth rather longer and more cuspidate than in the type. 82. C. tigrensis, Baker. A low copiously-branched shrub with woody ascending glabrous branches. Stipules obsolete. Petioles firm, 13-2 lines long. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, 5-6 lines long, 1}—2 lines broad, emarginate, subcoriaceous, glabrous. Flowers in short-stalked moderately lax 6-12-flowered terminal racemes. Pedicels 3—1 line long, thinly silky. Bracts lanceolate, very minute. Calyx broadly campanulate, } im. deep, thinly silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching nearly half down. Corolla 3 in. deep, bright yellow; the standard 3 lines broad, the keel much miceenee: Pod sessile, linear, glabrous, 8—9 lines long, } in. thick, 6—8-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 83. C. Kirkii, Baker. Stem suffruticose, erect, prominently striate, slightly adpressed Sei Riarer upwards, with a few long ascending branches. Stipules none. Petioles 1-1} in. long, straight, slightly silky. Leaves with 3 linear subsessile leaflets, central 3—4 in. lone 2-4 lines broad, mucronate, green and glabrous above, subglaucous, Crotalaria. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 37 thinly adpressed grey-silky beneath. Flowers in long-stalked terminal racemes finally 4-5 in. long. Pedicels erecto-patent, 2 lines long. Calyx broadly campanulate, membranous, glabrous, about a line deep, teeth subulate, dilated at the base, shorter than the tube. Corolla ap- parently yellowish, distinctly veined; standard } in. broad, roundish with a mucro, wings 1 in. broad, both considerably shorter than the keel, which is nearly 3 in. round at the broadest part, 6-7 lines long, narrowed gradually to a long upeurved point, the edges and the lower part of the back a little ciliated. Ovary linear, multiovulate. Pod not seen. Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk! General habit of C. lanceolata, from which it differs in calyx and corolla. 84. C. intermedia, Kotschy in Sitzungsb. Acad. Wien. 1864, 362 t. 3. An erect sparingly-branched annual 2-3 ft. high, with firm terete Straight erecto-patent subglabrous branches. Stipules 0. Petioles 1-2 in. Beats 3, shortly-stalked, linear, green, subglabrous, reaching 4—6 in. long, 3-6 lines broad. Flowers in a few very lax terminal racemes reaching 6-12 in. long, 15-18 lines broad. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels 14-2 lines, slightly grey-downy. Calyx 2 lines, broadly campanulate, subglabrous, the deltoid acuminate teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla bright yellow, 8-9 lines; the pointed standard 3 in. broad, very conspicuously veined with purple. Pod sub- sessile, linear, 14—2 in. long, 3 in. broad, glabrescent, 20—30-seeded. Wile Land. Banks of the White Nile near Gondokoro, Knoblecher. Unyoro in fallows and grassy ground, Speke and Grant ! : Lower Guinea. Gvlungo Alto, in fields of Phaseolus, Dr. Welwitsch ! We have imperfect specimens of a closely-allied plant, with a similar calyx and corolla, but with a shrubby stem and much shorter leaflets, gathered by Mr. Consul Petherick, on the White Nile. 85. C. ochroleuca, G. Don, Gard. Dict. ii. 138. Stem suffruti- cose, 2-3 ft., erect, terete, with long ascending branches. Stipules deciduous. Petioles 14 in., spreading, glabrous. Leaflets 3, linear, subsessile, 2-35 in. long, 4-5 lines broad, both sides glabrous. Flowers in moderately lax 6—12-Howered racemes terminal on the main stem and branches. Pedicel } in., with a minute bract at the base. Calyx cam- panulate, nearly } in. deep, teeth linear, not more than a quarter as long as the tube. Corolla pale yellow; standard § in. long, 2 in. broad, narrowed to a point, keel with a long beak. Pod linear-oblong, 14 in. long, 3 in. thick, glabrous, sessile. . Upper Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, G. Don in Herb. Brit. Mus.! 86. C. brevidens, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 585. Stem her- baceous, erect, striate, slightly branched, nearly glabrous. Stipules minute, setaceous or obsolete. Petioles 4—} in., glabrous, .. patent. Leaves with three subsessile linear leaflets, central 5 ong, in. broad, narrowed to both ends, mucronate, upper suriaice quite and the lower nearly glabrous. Flowers in elongate tew-flowered 38 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. nearly sessile terminal racemes. Bracts linear, minute. — Pedicels 2 lines long, at first erect. Calyx broadly campanulate, 2 lines deep, elabrous, the teeth not more than one-third as long as the tube. Corolla 83 in. long, striate, the standard roundish, more than } in. broad, the keel much less curved than usual. Pod sessile, cylindrical, 1} in. long, 1 in. thick, glabrous, many-seeded. Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! 87. C. capensis, Jacy. Hort. Vind. t. 64. Stem suffruticose, 3—4 ft. high, erect, copiously branched, the branches firm, terete, subglabrous. Stipules obovate, emarginate, deciduous, 1-3 in. long. Petioles 1-1} in. long, glabrous. Leaflets three nearly sessile obovate, central one 3—1} in. long by more than half as broad, the point rounded and mu- cronate, both ice nearly glabrous. Flowers 6-20 in lax short-stalked terminal and lateral racemes. Bracts small, linear, deciduous. Pedicels 3—4 lines, thinly silky. Calyx obliquely campanulate, $—2 in. deep, nearly glabrous, teeth reaching about halfway down, lowest lanceolate, the others broader. Corolla bright yellow, an inch deep. Pod dis- tinctly stalked, 1-14 in. long, } in. thick, finely silky when young.— Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 590. Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 46. C. arbo- rescens, Lam.; DC. Prodr. ii. 130. Nile Land. Lat. 5°S., 33°E.; altitude 3800 ft; in open forest, Speke and Grant! A common Cape species. 88. C. striata, DO. Prodr. ii. 131. Stem 1-3 ft. high, suffruti- cose, erect, the young branches slightly grey-silky. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. Petioles 14—3 in. lendlein 5, oblong or obovate- oblong, shortly-stalked, the central one reaching 2-8 inches long, 12-18 lines broad, blunt with a minute mucro, both sides green, the lower at first slightly silky. Flowers in moderately dense terminal racemes reaching 6-9 in. long, 15-18 lines broad. ‘Bracts setaceous, deciduous, 2-3 Tines long, silky. Pedicels 1-14 lines, finely-silky. Calyx } in. long, the lanceolate-acuminate teeth equalling the tube. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx. Pod linear, distinctly stalked, 12-18 lines long, 23-8 lines broad, glabrescent, about 20-seeded.—Bot. Mag. t. 8200. _C. Saltiana, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 648. C. pisiformis, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 162. C. pallida and laburnoides, Klotasch in Peters’ Mossamb, Bot. 57. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Island of St. Thomas, G. Don! Jeba on the Quorra, Barter! Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Salt! At 5°S. lat., 33° . 8800 ft. Speke and Grant ! : . ee ee Lower Guinea. Benguela, Wawra! Loanda and Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! Neeiry ity Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Dr. tewart Also a plant of Natal, the Mascarene isles, Tropical Asia, and America. 89. C, glaucifolia, Baker. Herbaceous, erect, 2-3 ft. high, with numerous erecto-patent branches, only the young ones inconspicuously Crotalaria, ] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 39 grey-pubescent. Stipules linear, 6-9 lines, persistent. Petioles reach- ing 2-21 in. Teatets 3, shortly-stalked, obovate, 14-8 in. long, 12-18 lines broad, blunt with a faint mucro, glaucous, glabrous. Flowers in lax terminal racemes reaching a foot long. Bracts minute, setaceous, deciduous. Pedicels 2—8 lines. Calyx subglabrous, 3 in. the tube very shallow, the teeth linear-lanceolate. Standard violet- blue internally, slightly exceeding the calyx; wings and keel sulphur- yellow, shorter. Ovary short-stalked, linear-oblong, thinly grey-silky. Pod unknown. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft., Dr. Welwitsch ! 90. ©. Lotononis, Welw. mss. Herbaceous, diffuse, glabrous, copiously branched, a foot or more high. Stipules 38—5 lines, setaceous, persistent. Petioles 9-15 lines. Leaflets 3, rather fleshy, glabrous, subcoriaceous when dried, lanceolate, subacute or bluntish with a mucro, reaching 18-21 lines long, the upper 4-8, the lower } in. broad. Flowers up to 12-18 in copious lax short-peduncled lateral and terminal subsecund racemes. Bracts 14 line, setaceous, seiner Pedicels 15-2 lines, glabrous, cernuous. Calyx 2 in., glabrous, the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla glabrous, reddish when dried, just equalling the calyx. Ovary short-stalked, linear, glabrous, ovules about 20. Pod unknown. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, in damp sand, Dr. Welwitsch ! 91. ©. cyanea, Buker. A perfectly glabrous erect annual under a foot high with a few open very slender branches. Stipules minute, Setaceous. Petioles 1-2 in. Leaflets 3, lanceolate, 12-21 lines long, 4-8 lines broad, subacute, those of the lower leaves shorter and blunter. Flowers 4—6 in very lax lateral and terminal distinctly- stalked racemes. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels in flower 14-2 lines, finally 3-4 lines, cernuous. Calyx 1 in., the linear teeth reach- ing down nearly to the base. Corolla whitish-green, the standard Violet, just as long as the calyx. Pod linear-oblong, with a pedicel as long as the calyx, 9-10 lines long, 3 in. broad, glabrous without and within, thin, 18—20-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, 5500 ft., in pastures, Dr. Welwitsch ! 92. C. lupinoides, Hochst. in Herb. Kotschy Nub. No. 41. Stem suf- fruticose, the branches long, spreading, curved, upper part thinly silky. Stipules none. Petioles about 1 in. long, glabrous, more Leaflets three subsessile oblong-obovate, central 1-1} in. long, 4-7 in. broad, upper surface glabrous, the lower thinly silky. Flowers in elongate many-flowered lax stalked terminal and lateral racemes, the main ones ultimately 8-12. in. long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels silky, cernuous, } in. long. Calyx slightly silky, 2-3 lines deep, teeth lan- ceolate, reaching about halfway down. Corolla bright yellow, not Striated, } in. deep. Pod short-stalked, cylindrical, much curved up- wards, 8-10 lines long, under } in. thick, silky on the outside, and 40 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. within filled with entangled fine silky hairs —Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 583. Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Schweinfurth ! Distinguished from all the other species by the pod being filled with wool, so that it is most likely the C. farcta, mentioned by name only by R. Brown in Salt’s Travels. 93. C. cylindrocarpa, DC. Prod. ii. 133. Stem suffruticose, erect, branched from the base, 14-2 ft. high, slightly downy. Stipules 1-1 in. long, erect, semilunate, persistent. Petioles spreading, 1-1} in. long. Leaflets three elliptic-oblong, pale green, scarcely pubescent beneath, narrowed towards the base and about as long as the petiole. Flowers in lateral and terminal racemes. Calyx silky, cut down to a shallow cup, teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla yellow, middle sized ; standard } in. long, oval, striate. Pod sessile, oblong-cylindrical, sub- compressed, an inch long, short-silky, 10—12-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 164. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Roger! Guinea, banks of the Gaboon, Duparquet (fide Baillon). 94. C. recta, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1083. Stems suf- fruticose, 2-3 ft. high, only thinly silky when young, soon quite gla- brous. Stipules 2-3 lines, linear, persistent. Petioles 9-12 lines. Leatlets 3, shortly-stalked, glaucous, glabrous, obovate, reaching 25-3 in. long, 12-15 lines broad, blunt with a mucro. Flowers i moderately lax terminal racemes reaching a foot long. Bracts linear, persistent, 2-3 lines. Pedicels 2-4 lines. Calyx 2 in. broadly cam- panulate, glabrous, the teeth equalling the tube, the upper ones deltoid, the lower lanceolate. Corolla } in. long, the standard exceeding the wings and keel. Pod subsessile, 18-21 lines long, 4 in. thick, turgid, glabrescent, 20—24-seeded.—Ferret et Gal. Voy. Abyss. 121, t. 10. @ simplex, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 153. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon. Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Waller! 95. C. faleata, Vahl; DC. Prodr. ii. 132. Stem fruticose, 2-3 ft. high, diffusely and divaricately branched, slightly silky upwards. Stipules none. Petioles 1 in. long. Leaflets 3, obovate subsessile, central 1-1} in. long, 3-1 in. broad, apex rounded mucronate, uppet surface glabrous, lower slightly silky in the young plant. Flowers im long-stalked lax terminal and lateral racemes. Bracts minute. Pedicels 1 line long, silky, erecto-patent. Calyx slightly silky, 1 in. long, the teeth lanceolate, reaching about halfway down, "Corolla yellow, rather more than twice as long as the calyx, keel much upeurved. Pod sessile, cylindrical, 1-1} in. long, } in. thick, very silky when young, 15—20-seeded.—Benth. in. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 585. ©. ‘striata, Schum. et Thon, Pl. Guin. 336, non DC. ? Upper Guinea. Niger country, Ansell! Vogel! More shrubby than C. striata, with shorter petioles, smaller flowers, and broader leaflets, Crotalaria. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACE® (BAKER). 41 96. C. fertilis, Delile in Ferr. et Gall. Voy. Abyss. 122,t.11. Stem suffruticose, dichotomously branched. Stipules none. Petioles 14-3 in. long. Leaflets 8, obovate, central 2-4 in. long, 14-2 in. broad. Flowers in long-stalked lax terminal racemes. Bracts nearly obsolete. Calyx broadly campanulate, cut halfway down, teeth lanceolate. Corolla as large as in C. recta, but standard narrower and more pointed and keel more distinctly rostrate. Pod sessile, glabrous, linear, 14—2 in. long, 4-8 in. thick. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Ferret and Gallinier ; and a plant gathered by Speke and Grant, in lat. 5° S., long. 33° E., probably belongs here. 97. ©. Dilloniana, Baker. A short erect subglabrous herb with only the young branches finely grey-pubescent. Stipules 0. Petioles 12-21 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, glabrous, pale green, shortly- stalked, the central one reaching 3-34 in. long, an inch broad, acute with a mucro. Flowers in dense elongated terminal racemes, finally half a foot long. Bracts 3-4 lines, setaceous, persistent. Pedicels 1-1} lines, finely silky. Calyx 4 in., bracteolate at the base, the three upper teeth linear, exceeding the tube, the lower ones shorter. Corolla yellow, slightly exceeding the calyx, the standard with many dark purple veins. Pod deflexed, sessile, linear, 9-10 lines long, 2 lines broad, finely grey-silky, slightly upeurved, 15—20-seeded.— Chrysocalyx Quartiniana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 159. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Schweinfurth! 98. C. oligostachya, Baker. An erect sparingly-branched annual 1}-2 feet high, with slender stems only very inconspicuously grey- pubescent upwards. Stipules 0. Petioles 9-15 lines. Leaflets 3, lanceolate or of the lower leaves obovate-oblong, blunt with a mucro, both sides subglabrous, reaching 14-2 in. long, the upper 3-6, the lower 8-9 lines broad. Flowers 20-50 in dense long-peduncled ter- minal racemes 7—8 lines broad. Bracts setaceous, very minute. Pedi- cels } line, finely downy. Calyx } in., campanulate, finely downy, the deltoid or lanceolate-acuminate teeth as long as the tube. Corolla } in. long, bright yellow; the round pointed glabrous standard very con- Spicuously veined with purple. Ovary linear, sessile, finely grey- downy, with 20 ovules or more. Pod unknown. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 99. C. Plowdeni, Baker. Stems herbaceous, finely grey-downy upwards. Stipules 0. Petioles 6-8 lines. Leaflets 3, subsessile, linear-ligulate, elabrescent, green, the central one 14-2 inches long: 2-4 lines broa , acute. Flowers in dense oblong-conical termina eads. Bracts minute, setaceous, persistent. Pedicels 1 line, densely stey-downy. Calyx 2 lines, finely grey-downy, the linear teeth ex- ceeding the tube. Corolla bright yellow, half as long again as the calyx, all the petals conspicuously veined with purple. Ovary linear, Sessile, finely grey-silky. Pod not seen. Wile Land, Abyssinia, Plowden! 42 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. 100. C. lotifolia, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 134. Fruticose, with straight finely grey-silky branches. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. Petioles 13-2 in., erecto-patent. Leaflets 3, obovate-oblong, elabrous above, finely grey-silky below, bluntish, emarginate or faintly mucro- nate, reaching 2—3 in. long, 12—18 lines broad. Flowers 1—4 together in the axils of many of the leaves, if more than one racemose or um- bellate. Pedicels 8-6 lines. Bracts linear, very minute. Calyx ¢ in., oe erey-silky, the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla nearly twice the calyx, yellow, faintly veined. Pod distinetly-stalked, glabrescent, 14-2 in. long, } in. broad, 12—15-seeded. Upper Guinea. Cape Coast, Dr. Vogel ! Lower Guinea. Congo, Dr. Welwitsch! A well-known very distinct West India species. 101. C. platycalyx, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 860. Stem 2 ft. high, herbaceous, erect, slightly branched, thinly silky upwards. Stipules } in. long, spreading, setaceous, persistent. Petioles 14-2 in. long, slender, erecto-patent, slightly silky. Leaflets 3, subsessile, the central one 2-2} in. long, 14 in. broad, acuminate, both sides nearly glabrous. Flowers in few-Howered lax stalked lateral racemes. Pedicel + in. long, erecto-patent, with two small lanceolate bracteoles at the base and two large ovate bracteoles below the calyx. Calyx slightly silky, 3 in. deep, teeth foliaceous, reaching three-quarters of the way down, the three lower ones lanceolate-spathulate, 2 lines broad, two upper ones nearly twice as broad, straight on the lower, broadly rounded on the upper side. Corolla yellow; keel long-beaked and much upeurved. Pod long-stalked, oblong-cylindrical, 11-1} in. long, 8 in. broad, glabrous, many-seeded.—Phyllocalyx Quartinianus, A. Rich. Fi. Abyss. i. 160, t. 34. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon. 102. C. Quartiniana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 158. Stem a foot long. herbaceous, with diffuse spreading branches, thinly clothed with spreading silky hairs. Stipules minute, setaceous. “Petiole 14 in., silky, herbaceous. Leaflets 3, subsessile broad-oblong, central 13 in. long, 3-1 in. broad, acuminate, the upper surface glabrous, lower thinly silky. Flowers in lax long-stalked lateral racemes of 3—4 flowers each. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate, g-1 in. long. Calyx 4 in. long, teeth lanceolate, foliaceous, reaching three-quarters of the way down, two upper ones % in. broad, oblique. Corolla reddish, slightly exceed- ing the calyx; standard 3 in. broad. Pod glabrous, with a pedicel din, long, 1-1} in. long, 3—4 in. thick. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon. Roth! Habit of C. oriwensis and curtipoda, but the pod longer, and flowers larger. 103. ©. polysperma, Kotschy in Schweinf. Relig, Kots. 18, t. 14. Herbaceous, densely rufo-villose. Stipules linear, 3 lines. Petioles Crotalaria. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 43 as long as the leaves. Leaflets 3, shortly-stalked, obovate-oblong, acute, mucronate, both sides silky, the central one 2 in. long. Flowers 6—8 in lax long-peduncled lateral racemes. Bracts linear, 2—3 lines. Pedicels 14-2 lines, densely silky. Calyx 6-8 lines long, with a we of small lanceolate bracteoles at the base, densely sky the lanceolate teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. ‘Corolla equalling the calyx; standard roundish, densely silky on the back. Ovary linear, sessile, silky, ovules 20 or more. Pod unknown. Wile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Von Harnier. 104. C. astragalina, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 808. Stems about a foot long’, slender, herbaceous, ae and diffusely branched, slightly silky upwards. Stipules obsolete. Petioles 3-1 in. long, erecto-patent, glabrous. Leaflets 3 subsessile oblanceolate, central 1-1} in. long, $ in. broad, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower slightly silky. Flowers in copious long-stalked dense lateral racemes of 6-12 each. Bractsminute. Pedicel 1 line, cernuous. Calyx thinly silky, } in. deep, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reaching halfway down. Corolla } in. long; standard yellow, conspicuously veined with purple, keel sharply upcurved. Pod sessile, cylindrical, 4-3 in. long, 2 lines thick, silky when young, 10~-14-seeded._—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 155. C. striata, A. Br. in Flora, 1841, 280 non DC. ©. impressa, Nees. Cat. Sem. Wrat. 1841, 3? Nile Land. Nubia, Ehrenberg (fide Schweinfurth). Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon. 105. ©. pyenostachya, Benth. in Lond. Journ, Bot. ii. 584, Stem herbaceous, 12-18 in. high, erect, simple or with several spreading branches, striate, finely silky upwards. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles } in., spreading, glabrous. Leaflets 3 sessile, oblanceolate, central 1-14 in. long, 1-3 in. broad, mucronate, both sides glabrous or nearly so. Flowers 20-50 in dense nearly sessile lateral racemes 2—3 in. long. Bracts long, setaceous, deciduous. Pedicels glabrous, very short, cernuous. Calyx campanulate, glabrous, 1 line deep, upper teeth triangular, reaching about halfway down, lower lanceolate. Corolla bright yellow, not striate, 2 lines long; standard roundish, § in. broad, keel short beaked, much upcurved. Pod subsessile, oblong- cylindrical, 3 in. long, finely downy, about 10-seeded.—C. melilotoides, Steud. A. Rich, Fl. Abyss. i. 155. hone Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Cienkowsky. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin- illon, A well-marked species, with racemes like those of Melilotus officinalis. 106. C. cleomifolia, Welw. mss. Suffruticose, 23-3 ft. high, es stout branches inconspicuously grey-silky. Stipules 0. Petioles ae lines, Leaflets 5, short-stalked, oblong or o lanceolate-oblong, gla- brous above, finely grey-silky below, the central one reaching 3-3} in. long, 12-15 lines broad, narrowed gradually to a faintly mucronate 44 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. point, the outermost pair much smaller than the other three. Flowers very numerous, in moderately dense short-peduncled terminal racemes reaching 5—6 in. long, 15-18 lines broad. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 1}—2 lines, finely grey-silky. Calyx 2}—8 lines, the lanceo- late-deltoid teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla bright uniform yellow, more than twice the calyx. Pod distinctly-stalked, linear, 15-18 lines long, 3-34 broad, at first finely downy, glabrescent, 30—40- seeded. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Very near C. striata, except in the number of leaflets. 4, LUPINUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 480. Calyx deeply 2-lipped, upper lip entire or emarginate in our species, lower slightly 3-toothed. Standard ovate, wings large, oblong, includ- ing the small upeurved rostrate keel. Stamens united in a close tube. Ovary sessile, «o -ovulate; style slender, upcurved, glabrous ; stigma bene Legume compressed, silky, septate between the seeds, 2-valved. A large genus, almost entirely American. A few annual species with digitate leaves inhabit the shores of the Mediterranean, of which one extends into Tropical Africa. 1. L. Termis, Forsk.; DC. Prodr. ii. 407. Stem 12-18 in. high, not much branched, erect, silky. Petioles 14-2 in. long, slender, erect. Leaves digitate, with 5-7 sessile oblanceolate leaflets about 1 in. long, 2-4 lines broad, the under side silky. Flowers in las 4—12-flowered sessile racemes. Calyx silky, campanulate, 3—4 lines deep, teeth reaching halfway down. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx; the standard blue round the border, white within, the wings white, the keel white with a dark blue spot. Pod 3 in. long; 3-2 in. thick, mucronate, thinly silky.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 224 Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet. Nile Land. Cultivated on the banks of the White Nile, in 15° N. lat., Speke and Grant! Nubia, Ehrenberg. Abyssinia, Schimper! Very near L. albus, L., and perhaps not distinct from it. 5. ARGYROLOBIUM, Eck. et Zeyh.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 480. Calyx deeply bilabiate, two upper teeth free in all the Tropical African species, three lower ones more or less (in one species entirely) connate. Standard suborbicular, wings free, keel slightly upeurved, not rostrate. Filaments usually but not invariably united downwards in a closed tube. Ovary sessile, linear, «% -ovulate; style upeurved, glabrous, stigma oblique. Pod linear, flattened, faintly torulose- —_Undershrabs or herbs with digitately trifoliolate leaves. A genus of moderate size, with its head-quarters at the Cape, outlying representa tives reaching India, Siberia, and Central Europe. a Argyrolobium.| —- XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEZ (BAKER). 45 A-herbaceous annual . . .>. 2+, 6s ceva. + » oh A. abyssinionm: More or less shrubby perennials. Lower hp of calyx. entire -... . . ws 4s 3 CLE es Lower lip of calyx 3-cleft. Flowers many in a head. Pedicels very short ; bracteoles setaceous . . . . 3. A. dorycnoides. Pedicels 14—4 lines long; bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Leaflets blunt, 9-12 lines long . . 4. A. Schimperianum. __ Leaflets acute, 12-18 lines long . 5. A. equinoctiale, Flowers 1-4 in lax heads. Flowers usually terminal on leafy branches . 6. A. ramosissimum. Flowers all on naked lateral peduncles . . 7. A. virgatum. Flowers solitary . 8. A. Petitianum. 1. A. abyssinicum, Jun). et Spach, Illustr. Pl. Or.i.115. Annual, herbaceous, 6-18 in. high, copiously and diffusely branched, silky up- wards. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. Petioles }—} in. long, slender, silky. Leaflets linear or oblanceolate, central }—? in. long, narrowed to both ends, the upper surface glabrous, the lower thinly silky. Flowers 1-8 in short-stalked axillary racemes. Bracts small, linear. Pedicels 1-2 lines, silky. Calyx } in. deep, silky, the lower lip cleft one-third down, the two teeth of the upper one lanceolate-acuminate. Corolla pale yellow, equalling the calyx. Pod 1-1} in. long, } in. broad, mucronate, thinly clothed with adpressed silky grey-hairs, 6—9- seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 162. 4. modestum, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1326. Tephrosia modesta, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 809, Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit! Nubia and Sennaar, Schweinfurth! 2. A. remotum, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1324. A copiously branched shrub with stiff erecto-patent subglabrous twigs. Stipules minute, linear, persistent. Petioles } in. long. Leaflets obovate, trun- cate mucronate or emarginate, 3—4 lines long, subcoriaceous, glabrous when mature, green on both sides. Flowers 2-4 terminal on stiff leafy branches. Pedicels a line long, with large ovate scariose bracteoles. Calyx 2 lines deep, thinly silky, the lower lip entire. Corolla not Seen. Pod 12-15 lines long, 2 lines broad, densely clothed with fine Spreading grey hairs.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 162. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 3. A. dorycnoides, Baker. A diffuse shrub with slender woody branches densely clothed with tawny silky hairs. Stipules setaceous, persistent, equalling the petioles, scarcely over a line long. Leaflets 3, oblong or oblanceolate, pale green, acute, subcoriaceous, clothed especially beneath with silky hairs like those of the branches ; central o—6 lines long, 23-3 lines broad. Flowers 3-12 in copious dense terminal heads. Bracteoles setaceous, persistent, exceeding the ver Short pedicels. Calyx 24 lines deep, thinly silky, two upper teet linear- anceolate, reaching more than halfway down. Coro a yellow, half as long again as the calyx; standard 2 lines broad, thinly silky on 46 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). — [ Argyrolobium. the back. Staminal tube closed. Pod (only seen immature) linear, densely silky, 8—9-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! General habit of A. Schimperianum, from which it may easily be known by its smaller subsessile flowers. 4. A. Schimperianum, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 1326. A small shrub, with long woody branches, the young ones densely clothed with brown silky pubescence. Stipules small, linear, silky, persistent. Petioles 4-1 in. long. Leaflets oblong-obovate, central {—1 in. long, 4-3 in. broad, apex rounded mucronate, the under surface thinly silky. Flowers in dense terminal heads of 3-8 flowers. Bracteoles linear, silky, equalling the silky pedicels, which are 14-2 lines long. Calyx $ in. deep, silky, lower lip cut halfway down into three linear teeth, two upper teeth shorter and lanceolate. Corolla yellow, half as long again as the calyx. Pod 12-15 lines long, 24 lines broad, densely clothed with brown silky hairs, 7—8-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1. 163; Cytisus Schimperianus, Steud. infSchimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 990. A. dasycarpum, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1826. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon. Kordofan, Cienkowsky. 5. A. equinoctiale, Welw. mss. An undershrub about a foot high with many erect slender dichotomously-forked branches densely clothed with spreading grey-brown silky hairs. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 6-7 lines, persistent. Petioles 3-8 lines. Leaflets obovate-oblong, 12-18 lines long, acute, upper surface thinly, lower more densely clothed with grey and brown silky hairs. Flowers 6—12 in close heads on leaf-opposed peduncles 1-2 in. long. Pedicels densely-silky, 2-4 lines. Bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 2-3 lines. Calyx 2 in. long, thinly silky, the two lips equal, with lanceolate teeth reaching halfway down. Corolla yellow, }$ in. long, the standard 5—6 lines broad. Ovary linear, densely silky, multiovulate. Pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 6. A. ramosissimum, Baker. A very densely branched low shrub with slender finely silky twigs. Stipules minute, setaceous, persistent. Petioles a‘line or less long. Leaflets oblong or oblanceolate, acute oF bluntish, 2-4 lines long, finely silky principally beneath. ” Flowers 1-4, mostly terminal on leafy branches, rarely on short axillary pe- duncles. Pedicels a line long, with minute setaceous bracteoles. Calyx 2-24 lines deep, bilabiate two-thirds of the way down, subglabrous, the teeth of the upper lip linear. Corolla bright yellow, nearly twice the calyx. Ovary linear, densely silky; ovules 6-8. Mature pod not seen. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! ne A. virgatum, Baker. A copiously branched shrub 13-2 feet high with very slender twigs which are finely silky when young only. Stipules 2-3 lines long, ovate-acuminate, persistent. Petiole 3—6 lines. nepereriacantiinsenncantenteennesatenes Argyrolobium.| XLVI. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 47 Leaflets oblong or oblanceolate, acute, 9-15 lines long, thinly silky principally beneath. Flowers 2-3 together on sparse naked leaf- opposed peduncles 12-18 lines long. Pedicels and silky linear bracts a line long. Calyx 24 lines deep, bilabiate two-thirds of the way down, with a few adpressed silky hairs, teeth of the upper lip linear. ‘Corolla not seen. Pod linear, 12-14 lines long, 2 lines broad, with a few ad- pressed silky hairs, pointed, 7~8-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Agrees with the Indian A. flaccidum, J. et S., in pod and general habit. 8. A. Petitianum, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 163. Shrub with branches clothed with white-silky pubescence. Petioles short. Stipules ovate- acuminate, silky, persistent. Leaflets very. small obovate, apex rounded mucronate, glaucous, upper surface dotted and slightly silky, the lower more so. Flowers solitary, terminal or axillary. Bracts lanceolate. Lower lip of the calyx with three narrow teeth, teeth of the upper lip ovate-acuminate. Corolla yellow. Pod narrow, compressed, clothed like the rest of the plant with long white silky hairs. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! This we have not seen. 6. ADENOCARPUS. DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 481. Calyx with the two upper teeth free, the lower ones more or less thoroughly connate. Petals shortly unguiculate; standard oblong or roundish ; wings oblong; keel blunt in our species. Stamens united in a closed tube ; anthers dimorphous. aca? sessile, multiovulate ; style upcurved glabrous; stigma capitate. Pod linear, compressed, densely viscous.—Silky shrubs with digitately trifoliolate leaves. A small genus, principally Mediterranean. Leaflets oblong, acute; lower lip of calyx trifid . . . . . «1. A. Mannii. | Leaflets oblanceolate ; lower lip of calyx entire . . . . . «2. A. benguellensis. l. A. Mannii, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 8. A woody shrub 5-6 feet high, with rigid erecto-patent densely brown-silky branchlets. Leaves dense, often fascicled. Petioles under a line, densely silky. Leaflets oblong, acute, coriaceous, revolute when dry, 2-3 lines long. Flowers in dense sessile terminal heads. Calyx very silky, 4 lines deep, the two upper teeth lanceolate acuminate, equal to the tube, the lower lip longer, with three setaceous teeth at the apex. Corolla scarcely half as long again as the calyx, the standard 4 lines broad. Pod 9-10 lines long, 24 lines broad, 5—6-seeded. Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, at 8-1200 feet, Mann! who also gathered @ variety with smaller leaflets and flowers on Clarence Peak, Fernando Po. 2. A. benguellensis, Welw. mss. A diffuse shrub 3 to 5 feet high, with long spreading finely grey-silky erecto-patent branches. Leaves not so dense as in the other species, but usually fascicled. | Petioles 1}-2 lines, finely grey-silky. Leaflets oblanceolate, 3-6 lines long, 48 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [ Adenocarpus. bluntish with a faint mucro, not coriaceous, both sides finely grey-silky. Flowers 2-8 in close terminal heads. Calyx turbinate, finely silky, the two upper teeth lanceolate-deltoid, as long as the tube, the lower lip entire, lanceolate, longer. Pod 10-12 lines long, } in. broad, 3—4- seeded. Lower Guinea. Benguela, rocks of the Morro de Topollo, Dr. Welwitsch! 7. ONONIS. Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 485. Calyx-tube short, lobes equal. Standard orbicular, with a short claw; wings obovate-oblong; keel incurved, rostrate. Stamens all connate in a closed tube, the alternate filaments all dilated upwards, anthers alternately shorter and versatile and longer and fastened near the base. Ovary more or less stalked, 2—co -ovulate; style incurved or inflexed, glabrous; stigma oblique or capitate. Pod oblong and turgid in our species.—Herbs or undershrubs. A large genus, with its head-quarters round the Mediterranean, of which a single species extends into our limits. 1. O. Cherleri, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 162. Stems herbaceous, slender, 4—8 in. long, copiously and diffusely branched, the whole plant viscous. Leaflets 3, obovate-cuneate, apex inciso-crenate, central one stalked. Stipules adnate, half-sagittate. Flowers copious, axillary, solitary. Calyx 1-8 in. deep, teeth narrow-linear, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla between pink and purple, like the oblong turgid pod about equalling the calyx.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 161; Sibth. et Sm. Fl. Gree. t. 677; O. parvula, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 1102. 0. recli- nata, Schweinf. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Sea near O. reclinata, from which it differs principally by its smaller flowers and poas, 8. PAROCHETUS. Hamilt.; Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 485. Calyx-teeth subequal, two upper subconnate. Petals free from the staminal tube; standard obovate with a short claw ; wings falcate ob- long; keel shorter than the wings, abruptly inflexed, subacute. Sta- mens diadelphous, filaments not dilated, and anthers subuniform. Ovar sessile, co-ovulate; style inflexed upwards, elabrous; stigma small, terminal. Pod linear, finally subturgid, obliquely arcuate two-valved. continuous within. : A single species. i: &. communis, Hamilt. ; DC. Prod. ti, 408. Rhizome slender, herbaceous, wide-creeping. Stipules } in. long, ovate, membranous. Petioles 3~4 in. long, slender, erect, slightl hairy. Leaflets 3, sub- sessile, obcordate, uniform, ? in. long, mata tithes broadot: sacle branous, nearly glabrous. Peduncles 1-flowered, arising Saki hal Parochetus. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 49 rhizome, similar to and rather longer than the petioles. Calyx 3} lines deep, glabrous, the teeth lanceolate, not reaching halfway down. Corolla pale purplish, three times as long as the calyx. Pod linear, g-l in. long, under } in. broad, acute, many-seeded. P. major, Don, lic. Bennett, Pl. Jav. Rar. t. 34. Wight, Ic. t. 483. Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Manganya Hills, Dr. Meller! Habit of Oxalis Acctosella. A native of the East Indies and Malay islands. 9. TRIGONELLA. Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 486. Calyx tubular with five subequal teeth. Petals free from the stami- nal tube, caducous; standard obovate; wings oblong; keel obtuse, very short. Stamens diadelphous; filaments not dilated; anthers uni- form. Pod linear or oblong, compressed, rostrate, often falcate, few or many-seeded.—Herbs, usually annual, with pinnately trifoliolate leaves. ven genus, with its head-quarters in the temperate regions of the Old 'Vorid, Pod linear, decidedly falcate. Flowers pessile; 1-2 torether’ 3. 6s A Flowers in dense short-stalked raceme 2. Pod oblong or linear, straight. Pod oblong, scarcely exceeding the calyx, usually 2-seeded. Flowers-sessile, 2-4 together. . “s&s «40's Be Ze opmulta. Flowers 6-12 in dense short-stalked racemes . . . . 4. J’. marginata. Pod linear-oblong, 5-6 seeded . : . 5. T. laciniata. 1. T. Foenum-grecum, /. ; D0. Prod.ii. 182. An erect subglabrous annual 1~2 ft. high. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, 8-9 lines long. Flowers Solitary or in pairs in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 3-4 lines long, teeth linear. Corolla bright yellow, under twice the calyx. Pod gla- brous, linear-falcate, long-beaked, 2-4 in. long, 10-20-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 165. Nile Land. Abyssinia, probably only cultivated, Schimper! &c.; Nubia, Kotschy! Once much cultivated as a forage plant, but now going out of use. T. Foenum-grecum. T. hamosa. 2. T. hamosa, Zinn. ; DC. Prod. ii, 183. Stems annual, herbaceous, 1 ft. or more long, diffusely branched, glabrous. Petioles $—} in. long. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, 1 in. long, truncate or emarginate, the upper half inciso-crenate, terminal one on a stalk 1-2 lines long. Flowers in copious short axillary racemes of 6-12 flowers each. Peduncles } in., ending in a weak spine at the apex. Pedicels under a line long. Calyx 4 line long, teeth very short. Corolla pale yellow, three or four times as long as the calyx. Pod linear-faleate, {-} in. long, pro- minently reticulato-rugose, about 4-seeded.—Sibth. Fl. Gree. t. 764. Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 162. 7. glabra, Thunb. Fl. Cap. 610. Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Kotschy! Dr. Bromfeld! Habit of Melilotus. Also a plant of Egypt, the Cape, and India. 3. 'T. occulta, Delile; DC. Prod. ii, 185. A very diffuse finely silky annual with stems under half a foot long. Stipules deeply — VOL. II, Mo. Bot. Garden, 1896. 50 XLVI. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER), [ Trigonella. from the apex. Leaves oblanceolate, deeply serrated, 1-3 lines long. Flowers 2-4 in sessile axillary clusters. Calyx § in. deep, the linear-setaceous teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla yellow, half as long again as the calyx. Pod elliptical, scarcely exserted, glabrous, transversely reticulated with raised veins, usually 2-seeded.—7. arguta, Vis. Pl. Egypt. 38, t. 8, fig. 1. As Land. Sennaar and Kordofan, Kotschy! Nile-bank at Ipsambul, Dr. Brom- Cla. : Egypt to N. India. 4. T. marginata, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 64. Annual, copiously branched at the crown of the root, the branches spreading, 4-6 in. long, glabrous. Lower petioles over an inch. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, 3—} in. long, toothed, glabrous. Flowers in copious capitate racemes of 6-12 each on peduncles }—} in. long. Pedicels very short. Calyx 13-2 lines lone, the subulate teeth twice as long as the tube. Pod oblong straight scarcely exceeding the calyx, glabrous, 2-seeded, Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! General habit very like that of 7. ornithopodioides, but the pod different. 5. T. laciniata, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 184. A diffuse glabrous annual with stems a foot or more long. Stipules laciniate from the apex. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, deeply serrated, 4-9 lines long. Flowers 6-12 in congested axillary racemes on peduncles 3-18 lines long. Calyx } in. deep, teeth setaceous, equalling the tube. Corolla bright yellow, nearly twice the calyx. Pod linear-oblong, straight, glabrous, transversely reticulated with raised lines, 5—6-seeded. Nile Land. Banks of the Nile near Dongola, Dr. Bromfield! An Egyptian species. 10. MEDICAGO, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 487. Calyx-tube short, with 5 subequal teeth. Corolla caducous, petals free from the staminal tube; standard obovate, keel short obtuse. Stamens diadelphous, filaments not dilated, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, usually multiovulate, style subulate, glabrous, stigma oblique. Pod usually many times spirally twisted, often muricated.— Herbs, often annual, with pinnately trifoliolate leaves. A considerable genus, with its head-quarters round the Mediterranean, to the Flora of which all our species belong. 3iennial; pod reniform, one-seeded . . Annual; pod 3—4 times spirally twisted. Pod broader than deep, not muricated Pod globose, muricated. Spines hiding the finely-veined faces. Stipules subentire 3. M. minima. Stipules laciniated tere a Spines not hiding the reticulated faces . . . . . . , . 5, M. denticula’a. Pod barrel-shaped, muricated . . 2... 1.4... . . 6 MM tentaculate 1. M. lupulina. 2. M. orbicularis. Medicago. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACE (BAKER). 51 1. M. lupulina, Zinn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 172. Stems biennial herba- ceous, 1 ft. or more long, procumbent, copiously branched, slightly downy. Stipules 1-8 in. long, toothed, the free part lanceolate acu- minate. Leaflets obovate, toothed. Flowers in long-stalked rounded heads. Pedicels short. Calyx subtubular, with lanceolate teeth. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx. Pod 1-seeded, reniform, with an incurved point, reticulate, ultimately black.—E. B. t. 971. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! All through Europe to Siberia and India; introduced in N. America. 2. M. orbicularis, All.; DC. Prod. ii. 174. Stems annual, subgla- brous, 1 ft. or more long, diffuse. Stipules short, laciniated. Petioles —3 in. long. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, toothed, $-} in. long. Pe- duncles 4-1 in. long, 2-8-flowered. Calyx 4 in. long, teeth linear. Pods 4—3 in. broad, of 38-5 spirals which grow gradually smaller up- wards, entirely spineless, the faces glabrous, prominently reticulato- rugose.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 164. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper and Quartin-Dillon. A Mediterranean species, reaching the Canaries, Syria, and Scinde. 3. M. minima, Lam.; DC. Prod. ii. 178, Stem annual, 6 in. long, diffuse, downy. Stipules with lanceolate free points, outer edge entire or slightly toothed. Petioles under 4 in. long. Leaflets obovate- cuneate, finely toothed. Flowers in short-stalked clusters of 2-4. Calyx one line long, thinly hairy, teeth linear, reaching more than half- way down. Corolla yellow, half as long again as the calyx. Pod glo- ose, with 3-5 spirals, } in. broad without the spines, the faces hidden and finely-veined.—E.B.S. t. 2635. M. greca, Horn. Hort. Hafn. 24. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 165. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! A common European and West Asian species. 4. M. laciniata, All. ; DC. Prod. ii. 180. Annual, very diffuse, the whole plant glabrous. Stipules laciniate. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, 2-4 lines long, sharply toothed. Flowers 1—2 on short peduncles. Calyx s in. deep, teeth lanceolate acuminate. Corolla bright yellow, half as long again as the calyx. Pod globose, 2 lines broad exclusive of the Spines, with 4-5 densely muricated spirals, the finely veined faces quite hidden. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schweinfurth. 2 All round the Mediterranean, and also one of the few Cape species. 5. M. denticulata, Willd.; DC. Prod. ii. 176, Stem annual, 6-12 in. long, diffuse, subglabrous. Stipules laciniated, the free aL linear. Leatlets obovate-cuneate, toothed. Peduncles an inch long, the flowers in heads of 3-6. Pedicels shorter than the calyx, which is a line long, teeth lanceolate-subulate. Corolla yellow, halt as long again as the calyx. Pod glabrous, globose, } in. broad without the spines, with 2~4 spirals, the faces reticulated with raised veins, * cast 52 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Medicago. straight, about } line long.—E.B.S. t. 2684. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1. 165. M. apiculata, Willd. lc. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit! : All the specimens we have seen in fruit belong to the var. apiculata. The species is now widely dispersed as a weed, having reached Japan, the United States, Chili, India, and New Zealand. 6. M. tentaculata, Willd.; DC. Prod. ii. 177. A diffuse glabrous annual with stems 12-18 in. long. Stipules deeply toothed along the outer edge. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, 8-6 lines long. Flowers 2-3 together, on a peduncle under 1 in. long. Calyx } in. deep, finely silky, the teeth linear. Corolla yellow, half as long again as the calyx. Pod barrel-shaped, with 4—5 spirals, each with a distinct acute keel and a row of short strong spreading spines on each side.—M. truncatu- lata, Geertn. Fruct. ii, 150. Nile Land. Abyssinia, teste Schweinfurth. A rare Mediterranean species. 11. MELILOTUS, Juss. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 487. Calyx with a campanulate tube and 5 subequal teeth. Corolla caducous, not adhering to the staminal tube ; standard obovate-oblong ; wings oblong; keel blunt, often shorter than the wings. Stamens diadelphous; filaments not dilated; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate. Pod subglobose or ovoid, subindehiscent, 1-2-seeded.—An- nuals or biennials with pinnately trifoliolate leaves with toothed leaf- lets and flowers in stalked racemes. A moderately small genus, with its head-quarters in Europe. Pods a line long, irregularly reticulato-rugose. Corolla twice as long as the subsessile calyx. toe te 2 1. DE porno Corolla three times as long as the distinctly-stalked calyx . . . 2. M. gracilis. Pods 2 lines long, marked with regular arched bars. . . . . . 3. M. abyssinica. 1. M. parviflora, Desf. ; DC. Prod. ii. 187. An erect much-branched slender glabrous annual 1-2 ft. high. Petioles 12-18 lines. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, 6—9 lines long, finely toothed. Flowers 12-30 in lax short-stalked axillary racemes. Pedicel scarcely any. Calyx } line deep, the teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla pale yellow, twice the calyx, the standard exceeding the other petals a little. Pod a line long, globose, glabrous, obscurely reticulate-rugose, 1-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 166, Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon and Petit! ea a Mediterranean species, now spread over almost the whole world as 4 weed. 2. M. gracilis, DC. Prod. ii. 188. An erect much-branched slender glabrous annual a foot or more high. Petioles 3-5 lines. Leaflets ob- lanceolate or obovate, 6—8 lines long, the upper half toothed. Flowers 6-12 in lax axillary racemes on peduncles 12-18 lines long. Pedicel nearly as long as the calyx. Calyx half a line deep, teeth lanceolate Melilotus.} XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). 58 acuminate equalling the tube. Corolla pale yellow, three times as long as the calyx, all the petals equal. Pod a line long, globose, glabrous, distinctly reticulato-rugose, 1-seeded. — MJ. neapolituna, Ten. Prod. Suppl. i. 56. Nile Land. Abyssinia (teste Schweinfurth). A common Mediterranean species.. 3. M. abyssinica, Baker. Stems 1-2 ft. high, erect, glabrous, copiously branched. Petioles 2-1 in. long; leaflets obovate-cuneate, toothed, 9-15 lines long. Flowers in copious stalked lax axillary racemes 1-2 in. long. Pedicels cernuous, equalling the calyx, which is scarcely a line long, teeth lanceolate, reaching haltway down. Corolla pale yellow, quite twice as long as the calyx, the wings and keel rather shorter than the standard. Pod sessile, glabrous, roundish with amucro, 2 lines each way, the keel thick and prominent with a channel on each side, faces marked with parallel raised transverse bars, which are a little connected by intermediate ones, the seeds two.—JW. ttalica, A. Rich, Fl. Abyss. i. 166, non Lam.; DC. ii. 188. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Parkyns! _ Pod with a keel like that of JZ. ttalica, but the bars regularly arcuate, the seeds two instead of one, and flowers much smaller. 12. TRIFOLIUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 487. Calyx-teeth subequal, two upper sometimes more or less connate. Petals adnate below to the staminal tube ; standard ovate or oblong ; wings narrow; keel shorter obtuse. Stamens diadelphous ; alternate filaments or all of them more or less dilated; anthers uniform, Ovary sessile or stalked, 1- or -pauci-ovulate, rarely multiovulate ; style hliform ; stigma capitate or oblique. Pod oblong, rarely linear-oblong ; seeds 1-2, rarely more.—Herbs with the leaflets three in all our species, toothed in all but one, sessile or faintly stalked. A large genus extending all round the North Temperate zone, stretching southward to the South Temperate zone along the mountains ; with us almost exclusively Nilotic. § Lagopus.—Calyx with an elevated hairy ring at the throat . 1. 7. arvense. Calyx without a ring of hairs at the throat. Bracts forming a distinct conspicuous whorl round the heads of flowers, §§ Vesicastrum. —Fruit-calyx accrescent, arching, mem-~- branous. : Perennial, with procumbent stems . . . +--+ +. + + z ¥ pees Annual, with erect stems: 2.6 60 8 bs oe Se he nerr. §§$ Eutriphyllum.—Fruit-calyx not accrescent. Flowers 6-12 in dense heads on long erect stems, Calyx distinctly stalked . . - + + + +e «> . 7, Sia Calyx subsessile SP be Meclld kind se ect p eran Flowers 2-3; stems very short . + - © + © © © + & de Bracts indistinct or obsolete. 54 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Trifolium. §§8§ _Lupinaster (Loxospermum, Hochst.).—Annuals, with large flowers, 1—4 to- gether, and numerous seeds. Dee en kk es eS eee Leaflets toothed. Oe er es ee ee T. calocephalum. Oalys tb-s0-nervéd. 2 6 ae T. multinerve. §S88$ Repentes.—Perennials, with a woody rootstock and procumbent stems. Leaves distinctly stalked. oe Teeth of calyx equal tothe tube. . . . . . . . 10. 7. semipilosum. Teeth of calyx shorter than the tube . . . . . . IL. TZ. Petitianum. Cea pene et . 12. T. eryptopodium. §$SS§$ Capitatee.—Annuals or perennials, with flowers in dense round or oblong heads. Standard accrescent, becoming flat and membranous . Standard shrivelling, not accrescent. Leaves subsessile ; stipules vaginant. Stipules an inch long; heads round . oe a Stipules half an inch long; heads oblong... . . . . 15. TJ. polystachywm. Leaves stalked; stems hairy, no ia OF procumbens. PAAR, SS a i ee Ruppellianum Leaves pubescent. Leaflets oblong; stemserect . . . .. . . . 17. T. bilineatum. Leaflets oblanceolate; stemstrailing. . . . . . 18. T. africanum. Leaves stalked ; stems glabrous. Stipules adnate for the lower third or quarter only . . 19. 7. alexandrinum Stipules adnate for the lower half. Calyx-teeth linear-setaceous --.. 2 4 3. . 4 202 T. subrotundum. Calyz-teoth lanceolate. 0.5. 0.0. ef BL. TT, tembenes. 1. T. arvense, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 190. Stems annual, erect, 6-12 in., copiously branched. Stipules 1—} in. long, the free points lanceolate. Petioles 1-} in. long. Leaflets linear-obovate, about 4 in. long, by } in. broad. Flowers in dense stalked oblong heads. Calyx tubular, } in. long, faintly 10-nerved, densely silky, teeth twice as long as the tube, subulate, densely ciliated with long ‘silky hairs. Corolla reddish, considerably shorter than the calyx. Pod sessile, 1-seeded.— A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 166, Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit. Agrees with the ordinary form of the European plant. 2. T. fragiferum, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 202. Perennial with cespi- tose procumbent rooting stems. Stipules semi-adnate with lanceolate gee Leaflets oblong-obovate, sessile. Heads dense, 3—4 lines sroad, with bracts which equal the subsessile calyx. Calyx 14-2 lines long, with linear teeth, becoming much dilated and “membranous. Corolla pale rose, twice the calyx. Pod included, ovoid, 1-2-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! rtin- Dill : Through Europe to Alhevigag Quartin-Dillon and Petit ! 3, 'T. Steudneri, Schweinf. in Verh. Zool.- Bot. Gesell. Wien. xviii. 652. Annual, glabrous. Stems erect, branched. Stipules with lanceolate points. Petioles an inch or more long. Leaflets linear, shortly stalked, rote in. Trifolium. ] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 55 an inch long, glabrous. Peduncles exceeding leaves. Flowers about 20 in adense head; bracts equalling the calyx. Calyx sessile, 2} lines long, becoming dilated and inflated as in 7. Sragiferum, the deltoid acu- minate teeth half as long as the tube. Corolla violet, twice as long as the calyx. Pod ovoid, 2-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Ataba, Steudner. 4. T. umbellulatum, 4. Rich. F7. Abyss.i. 172. Stem a foot high, erect, glabrous, branched from the base. Stipules membranous, lower part sheathing the stem, the free points ovate-acuminate. Leaflets elliptical, obtuse, rarely subovate, sharply toothed. Flowers in heads of 3-10, surrounded by a whorl of short blunt bracts. Calyx short- stalked, tube 10-nerved, teeth lanceolate, rather longer than the tube. Corolla bluish, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod compressed, elliptic-oblong, twice as long as tube, apiculate, 5-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon and Petit. This we have not seen. The author compares it with and considers it near 7. sub- rotundum. 5. T. Quartinianum, 4. Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 169. Stem a foot high, suberect, elabrous. Stipules 1 in. long, adnate to the petiole for the lower three-quarters, the point lanceolate. Petioles 1—2 in. long, gla- brous. Leaflets subsessile, narrow-oblong, glabrous, 14—2 in. long, 4-4 in, broad, finely toothed, blunt. Flowers ins a few long-stalked dense rounded heads, surrounded by a whorl of imbricated ovate Scariose strongly veined bracts } in. broad. Calyx subsessile, 4 lines eep, finely striated, teeth lanceolate acuminate, reaching halfway down. Corolla purple, half as long again as the calyx. Pod oblong, pointed, about equalling the calyx, 1-2-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! : In general habit and the heads of flowers resembling 7. pratense and medium. 6. T. acaule, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 587. Root thick, Woody, a foot long. Stems very short, densely cwspitose. Stipules glabrous, adnate at the base onl y, the free points setaceous. Petioles at most only equalling the ne oblanceolate leaflets, which are 98) brous, een! strongly veined, finely toothed, } in. long by half a line broad, Flowers in short-stalked clusters of 2—3 together, sometimes Solitary, clusters surrounded by lanceolate-subulate bracts, which are Considerably shorter than the pedicels, which are } in. long. Calyx } in. long, glabrous, with a few prominent nerves, the teeth lanceolate, reaching one-third of the way down. Corolla nearly twice the calyx. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! A very well-marked species. 7. "TP. Schimperi, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 173. Stems 6-12 in. long, annual erect or spreading, copiously branched. Stipules scariose, an 'nch long, the lower third sheathing the stem loosely, the point i. Setaceous. Petioles 1-1} in. long. Leaflets sessile, linear, 1-1} in. 56 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Trifolium. long, 1 line or less broad, glabrous, entire, narrowed to both ends. Peduneles an inch long. Flowers 1—3 together on very short pedicels. Calyx 2 in. long, glabrous, with 15 prominent striations, cut three- quarters of the way down, teeth linear-acuminate. Corolla rose-purple, equalling the calyx. Pod oblong, acuminate, slightly exceeding the calyx, 8-10-seeded. — Trigonella Schimperi, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 86. Loxospermum Schimperi, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 1988. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Plowden! Recedes from the rest of the genus by its entire leaflets. 8. T. calocephalum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 50. Stems annual, densely cwspitose, glabrous, diffuse, 6-12 in. long. Stipules } in. long, broad, scariose, loosely sheathing, the free points lanceolate. Petioles 1-14 in. long, slender, glabrous. Leaflets sessile, obovate- cuneate, 3-3 in. long by half as broad, glabrous, finely toothed, the apex deeply emarginate. Peduncles 2-6 in. long’, glabrous. Flowers m heads of 8-6 each. Pedicels short. Calyx $ in. deep, glabrous, faintly 10-nerved, teeth lanceolate cuspidate, reaching halfway down. Corolla ? in. long, purple, showy. Ovary multiovulate. Pod not known.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1.175. Loaospermum calocephalum, Hochst. in Flora, ° 1846, 595. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! 9. T. multinerve, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 175. Stem annual, 6-12 in. long, glabrous, dichotomously and diffusely branched. Stipules +-§ in. long, adnate about halfway, the free point subulate. Petioles 1-14 in. Leaflets sessile, oblanceolate, 3-2 in. long, 4 in. broad, pointed, upper half sharply toothed. Flowers 2-6 together, peduncles 4 in. long, pedicels very short. Calyx cylindrical, } in. long, with 15-20 fine prominent nerves, teeth linear-subulate, reaching a third of the way down, finely ciliated. Corolla large, showy, purple. Pod equalling the calyx, oblong, pointed, 7—8-seeded.—Trigonella multinervis, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. i. 175. Lowospermum multinerve, Hochst. in Flora 1846, 595. B. debilior, A. Rich; stem slender erect, 4—6 high, scarcely branched. Flowers 1—3 together, flowers and leaves smaller. A. Rich. loc. cit. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit! This and the two preceding form a group very well marked both by habit and by their many-seeded pods, on account of which they were referred by Hochstetter t? Trigonella, bid de semipilosum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 52. Rootstock woody. Stems densely cwespitose, slender, wide-creeping, finely silky. Stipules 3 in. long, the lower two-thirds adnate, the free points "lanceo- late. Petioles $—1 in., glabrous or finely silky. Leaflets rotundato- obovate, sessile, 3-4 lines long, three-quarters as broad, strongly veined, glabrous or finely silky, faintly toothed, apex rounded. Fiowers in long-stalked rounded heads of 6-12 each. Pedicels very short. Calyx 4 in. long, 10-nerved, thinly silky, the teeth lanceolate, reaching ; Trifolium. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEA: (BAKER). 57 halfway down. Corolla pale, twice as long as the calyx, Pod about equalling the calyx, oblong, silky, 1—3-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 167, Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit! Roth! Very near the European J. ceespitosum and Cape T. Burchellianum, with which it coincides in general habit and appearance. ll. T. Petitianum, 4. Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 168. Rootstock woody. Stems densely cwspitose, glabrous, wide-creeping. Stipules } in. long, adnate halfway down, the free point linear. Petioles 3-1 am Ce slender, glabrous. Leaflets sessile, obovate-cuneate, glabrous, {—} in. deep, nearly as broad, faintly toothed, the apex deeply emarginate with a rounded hollow. Flowers in long-stalked rounded heads ot 4-6 each. Pedicels a line long. Calyx 2 lines long, 10-nerved, glabrous, teeth lanceolate, not reaching more than one-third the wey down. Corolla pale, quite twice as long as the calyx. Ovules 2-8. Pod not seen. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! May be a variety of the preceding. 12. 'T. eryptopodium, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 556. Root- stock woody. Stems densely czespitose, slender, procumbent, thinly silky upwards, Stipules J in. long, membranous, the lower two-thirds sheathing the stem, the free points lanceolate-acuminate. he hearly sessile, with three sessile obovate-cuneate leaflets, central 3 va lone by nearly as broad, rigid, strongly nerved, toothed and e paoed ciliated, apex truncate or emarginate. Flowers in long-stalked close heads of 8-19 each. Peduncles an inch long, thinly silky. Calyx Sessile, 2 lines long, slightly silky, teeth lanceolate, reaching about halfway down. Corolla purplish, more than twice as long as the calyx. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. 168. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! ; ; Well marked in the group by its sessile leaves and sheathing stipules. 13. T. procumbens, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 205, Stem 6-12 in. high, annual. Stipules half adnate, the point deltoid-acuminate. Petioles equalling the obovate-cuneate leaflets, which are 3-3 in. long, the rentral one stalked. Flowers in dense: round stalked heads of 20-40. alyx pedicellate, $ line long, three lower teeth lanceolate, reaching talfway down, two upper ones much broader and shorter. _ Corolla = ines long, bright yellow, the standard finally becoming 2 lines — ; flat, Spoon-shaped, strongly veined, folded over the stalked, exserted, “seeded pod.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 176. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon. Coincides with the ordinary form of the European plant. 14; "TP, Simense, Fresen, in Flora 1839, 49. Stem herbaceous, 6-12 in, lone, dichotomously branched from ‘the base, aligney asia vent upwards, Stipules an inch long, forming a tight sheath ro 58 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Trifolium. the stem, reaching up quite to the base of the leaf, the free points lan- ceolate-setaceous. Leaflets sessile, 1-1} in. long, 1 line broad, nar- rowed to both ends, firm and subrigid, teeth sharp. Flowers in dense rounded stalked heads $—8 in. broad. Peduncles 1-2 in. long, downy. Calyx nearly sessile, } in. long, glabrous, teeth linear-subulate, reach- ing halfway down. Corolla purplish, nearly twice as long as the = gaa Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 171. Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 8000ft., Mann! Cameroon Mountains, 7000 ft. Mann! Old Calabar, Kewan! Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! and others. 15. T. polystachyum, Fresen. in Mus. Sench. ii. 50. Stem 1-2 ft. long, copiously and diffusely branched, glabrous. Stipules } in. long, reaching up to the base of the leaves and sheathing, the free poimts linear. Leaflets subsessile, oblanceolate, 12 in. long, 1 in. broad, finely sharply toothed, apex rounded or slightly pointed. Flowers in stalked oblong heads finally 6-12 lines long. Peduncles 1-2 in. long, elabrous or slightly pilose. Pedicels very short. Calyx 2-2} lines deep, 10-nerved, slightly hairy, the teeth linear-subulate, reaching halfway down, the two upper ones shorter than the rest. Corolla put- plish, about a third as long again as the calyx. Pod oblong-acuml- nate, 1—2-seeded, equalling the tube.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 167. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! and others. Lower Guinea. Angola; Huilla (a variety with a slightly longer calyx and more setaceous teeth), Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Lat. 6°°38, 8., alt. 4700 ft., Speke and Grant! 16. T. Ruppellianum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii.51. Stem erect, branched, slightly pilose. Stipules broad, veined, the free points lanceo- late, acuminate or cuspidate. _Petioles 1-1} in. long, leaflets obovate cuneate, apiculate, toothed, glabrous. Flowers in rounded stalked heads, peduncles slightly pilose, longer than the leaves. Calyx 10- nerved, glabrous, the teeth subulate, equal, slightly hairy below, 2 first a little hooked, longer than the tube, shorter than the corolla.— A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 170. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Ruppell. 17. T. bilineatum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 52. Annual, stem her baceous, erect or suberect, 1 ft. or more long, densely clothed with spreading or deflexed pale silky hairs. Stipules } in. long, half adnate, the free points lanceolate. etioles 1 in. or more, leaflets subsessile, nearly glubrous, oblong-cuneate, about 3 in. long by half as broad, the teeth and veins towards the edge very distinct. “Flowers in dens rounded heads 2 in. broad. Peduncles 1 in. or more long, pilose like the stem. Calyx subsessile, } in. long, silky, faintly 10-nerved, the teeth linear-subulate, reachin g halfway down, the lowest longer than the rest. Corolla reddish, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod ovoid, l-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 170. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Ruppell. Schimper! Plowden!? Trifolium. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 59 18. T. africanum, Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 200. Stems herbaceous, 6in. or more long, branched from the base, procumbent, clothed with dense spreading brown silky pubescence. Stipules $ in. long, half- adnate, the free points linear or lanceolate. Upper leaves nearly sessile, lower on petioles 1-2 in. long. Leaflets sessile, oblanceolate, about 4 in. long by a third as broad, distinctly toothed, slightly pilose. Flowers in dense rounded heads half an inch’ broad. Peduncles 1}—3 in. long, densely pilose. Calyx sessile, under + in. long, silky, teeth wear, reaching halfway down. Corolla purplish, slightly exceeding the calyx.—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 159. 7. hirsutum, E. Meyer non Thunb. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Roth! ape species. 19. 'T. alexandrinum, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 193. Stems glabrous, 1-2 ft. high, Stipules an inch or more long, adnate only in the lower third or quarter. Leaflets oblong or oblong-lanceolate, quite glabrous, 1-2 in, long. Flowers 20-80 in dense long-stalked finally oblong heads. Bracts Setaceous, very minute. Calyx sessile, 4 in. long, finely-silky, the setaceous teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla yellowish, twice the calyx, Pod minute, included in the calyx-tube, 1-seeded. Nile Land. Nubia Schweinfurth he species commonly grown for forage in Egypt, under the name “ Bersin.” 20. 'T, subrotundum, Steud. et Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 103, Perennial stems herbaceous, 6—12 in. long, dichotomously and diffusely branched, glabrous. Stipules 3—4 lines long, half-adnate, the ee points lanceolate acuminate. Upper leaves nearly sessile, lower 1 petioles sometimes 2-3 in. long. Leatlets sessile, obovate-cuneate, ry in. long, three-quarters as broad, glabrous, distinctly toothed. Flowers in copious dense rounded heads half an inch broad. Peduncles ~3 in. long. Pedicels }—1 line long, subtended by minute setaceous racts. Calyx 4 in. long, distinctly 10-nerved, the teeth linear-seta- ceous, reaching halfway down. Corolla half as long again as the calyx, White or purplish. Pod oblong apiculate, 2-seeded, equalling the calyx—a_ Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 172. Trigonella marginata, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 64. Upper Guinea. Clarence Peak, Fernando Po, 9000 ft., Mann ! rm with stipules 4 in. broad. ile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! and others. ultivated as forage, nnder the name of “ Mayad.” wit tad Guinea. Huilla (a form with remarkably obcordate leaflets), Dr. Wel- 8c me. tembense, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 51. Stems herbaceous, glabrous, a foot or more long, spreading, striated, copiously branched. Stipules $-3 in. long, 3-adnate, membranous, conspicuously veined, the free points ovate ’ cuspidate. Petioles 1-2 in. long, ow eaflets Sessile, obovate-cuneate, 3 in. long by half as broad, rend pothed, glabrous. Flowers in copious stalked rounded heads of 6— ®wers each. Peduncles 1-2 in. long, glabrous. Pedicels a line long, 60 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Zrifolium. Calyx } in. long, 10-nerved, glabrous, the teeth lnnceolne an or cuspidate, equalling the tube. Corolla half as long again as the calyx, purplish, the standard showy, 2 lines broad. Pod sessile, in- cluded, oblong, pointed, 2~3-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 170. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! and others. By its fewer flowers in a head and large showy corolla, this species connects the group with the Lupinasters, but the pod is different. 13. ANTHYLLIS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 488. Calyx tubular, in our species inflated in fruit, almost 2-lipped, e two upper teeth standing out before the others and subconnate. ie with a long claw, the lower ones adnate by their claws to the dap tube; standard ovate, auricled at the base; wings ovate, obtuse ; kee shorter than the wings. Stamens all connate in a closed tube ; alter- nate filaments or all dilated; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, 1-2. - ovulate ; style upcurved, ee stigma terminal, capitate. Po ovoid, mucronate, in our plant continuous within, 1-2-seeded.—Stems herbaceous or sutfruticose. A small genus, extending through Europe and round the Mediterranean. 1. A. Vulneraria, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 170. Rootstock woody. Stems herbaceous, a foot or more long. Leaves pinnate, with 2-4 oe linear-oblong leaflets on each side, the terminal one often much dilate und solitary in the root-leaves. Flowers in dense terminal heads, often two close together, surrounded by an involucre of deeply cut bifid or trifid bracts, which equal the densely silky calyx, which is sessile, 3 12. long, becoming dilated, veined and scariose as the fruit matures, upper lip triangular, slightly emarginate, three teeth of the lower one lancee” late, $ line long. Corolla red, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod 3 ™- long, short-stalked, glabrous.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 164. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! Extends from Iceland eastward to Asia Minor. 14, HELMINTHOCARPUYM, A. Rich. ; Benth. et Hook. ne Gen. Plant. i. 489. Calyx with the two upper teeth broader than the rest. Petals ut guiculate, free from the staminal tube; standard suborbicular ; witg* obovate-oblong, slightly adhering to the keel, which is obtuse and @ little u curved. Stamens all connate or the upper one finally nearly free ; alternate filaments dilated upwards; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, 2-ovulate ; style inflexed; stigma terminal. Pod linear, sub- tetragonous, circinate, coriaceous, indehiscent, transversely veme% with an imperfect dissepiment between the seeds. A single species, known only in Abyssinia. 1. H. abyssinicum, A. Rich. FI. Abyss. i, 200, t. 86. Stems het baceous, wiry, slender, copiously branched from the base, 6-12 in. long» Helminthocarpum.] XLVI. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 61 diffuse, thinly clothed with close silky pubescence. Leaves subsessile, pinnate, with a terminal leaflet and three on each side, all subsessile, oblanceolate, }-} in. long, 1-14 line broad, entire, mucronate, finely silky. Flowers in short-stalked heads from the axils of most of the leaves, 4-6 together. Pedicels shorter than the calyx, which is tubular, silky, 1 line long, the teeth deltoid. Corolla between yellow and red, twice as long as the calyx. Pod 2 lines across, the point nearly or quite brought round to the base.—Antopetitia cancellata, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No, 1108. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! 15. LOTUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 490. Calyx with a campanulate tube and five subequal teeth. Corolla caducous, free from the staminal tube; standard unguiculate, wings obovate ; keel upeurved rostrate. Stamens diadelphous; alternate filaments dilated; anthers nearly uniform. Ovary sessile « -ovulate ; style upeurved ; stigma terminal or lateral. Pod linear, straight in our species, turgid, 2-valved, septate between the seeds.—Herbs with usually five leaflets, the lowest pair like stipules. pee genus, belonging to the North and South Temperate zones of both hemi- spheres. Bracts simple. : : Calyx-teeth shorter than the tube. . . . . . « « « © 1. Z. tigrensis. Calyx-teeth exceeding the tube. Pod not much longer than the calyx, 4-6-seeded. Stem and leaves silky... 1 3. ws Stem and leaves subglabrous . . . . . Pod 4-6 times the length of the calyx, 10-12-seeded. Flowers usually 2—4 together . Gees Flowers usually solitary Bracts trifoliolate. Flowers in stalked umbels on naked axillary peduncles. Whole plant subglabrons . . . . . 1 Stem, leaves, and calyx densely grey-silky . . . . . . Flowers 1-2 together on the branches, and in 3-4-flowered Guasi-teeminal winbele <4) Si Pe Flowers all solitary, axillary, subsessile. . . . . . . .9 . LD. nubicus. . L. brachycarpus. . L. arabicus. . L. mossamedensis. of oo bo . L. corniculatus. . L. creticus. “Io 19.9) ney oF glinoides. . L. Gareini. 1. L. tigrensis, Baker. Stems herbaceous, a foot long, diffuse, thinly silky upwards. Leaflets 5, oblanceolate, subsessile, 6-8 lines long, thinly silky. Flowers 6-8 in an umbel on a downy peduncle 1 4-2 in. long. Bracts solitary, oblanceolate, 3-4 lines long. Pedicels downy, a line long. Calyx-tube campanulate, 14-2 lines deep, the teeth deltoid-cuspidate, shorter than the tube. Corolla yellow, 5 lines long. Pod linear, glabrous, 12—18-seeded ; not seen fully developed. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Tigre, Schimper! Like L. arabicus in size and general habit; different in the calyx. 2. L. nubicus, Hochst. in Kotsch. Herb. Nub. No. 311. Rootstock Woody. Stems herbaceous, 3-6 in. long, copiously branched from the 62 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [ Lotus. base, spreading, grey-silky. Leaflets 3-5, short-stalked, obovate- cuneate, 3-4 lines long by half as broad, conspicuously grey-silky. Flowers 1—4 together on peduncles shorter than the leatlets, with a short-stalked bract like a leaflet from the base of the cluster. Pedicels silky, very short. Calyx 2 lines deep, teeth linear subequal, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish yellow, slightly ex- ceeding the calyx. Pod linear-oblong, terete, 2-3 lines long, about 6-seeded. Wile Land. Banks of the White Nile, near Mussa, Kotschy / Var. 8 montanus, Baker; flower rather smaller; branches and leaves more silky, L. montanus, A. Rich. Fl, Abyss. i, 177. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon! Perhaps not distinct from Z. brachycarpus, H. and S. 3. L. brachycarpus, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 242. Rootstock woody, the stems densely ciwspitose, 12-18 inches long, spreading, wiry, glabrous or slightly silky upwards. Leaflets crowded, oblanceolate 3—3 in. long, a third as broad, thick, fleshy, glabrous or slightly silky, the stipular pair like the others. Flowers 4-6 together, in copious axillary umbels with a stalked bract like a single reduced leaflet at the base. Pedicels very short. Peduncles 1-3 in. long. Calyx 3-4 lines long, more or less silky, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reaching two-thirds of the way down, the lowest narrower and some-— times shorter than the others, Corolla reddish, a third longer than the calyx. Pod terete, glabrous, 2 in. long, 4~6-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 177. Doryenium Schimperi, Jaub. et Spach. Mlust. t. 473. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Parkyns! Abyssinian name Hamat-Jemanberri. Differs from LZ. arabicus principally in the short pod. 4. L. arabicus, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 212. Stems herbaceous, a foot or more long, copiously branched from the base, prostrate or suberect, glabrous or slightly silky. Leatlets 5, all short-stalked, obovate-cuneate, entire, {-} in. long by half as broad, pointed, both sides glabrous oF thinly silky, the stipular pair like the others. Flowers usually 2—4 to- gether, rarely solitary, on axillary peduncles 1-1 in. long with a short- stalked bract like a leaflet from the base of the cluster. Pedicels under a line long, glabrous or silky. Calyx 3-4 lines deep; teeth linear, subequal, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod $-1} in. long, 1-1} line thick, terete, glabrous, subtorulose, 10-12-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg: 162. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 177. bape a plentiful on the banks of the Senegal, Lepriew? Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Peters. ; dence dieiae i A common Egyptian species, and extending from Greece to Beloochistan. 5. I. mossamedensis, Welw. mss. A copiously branched diffuse annual with finely grey-silky stems under a foot ae Leaflets 9; Lotus. } XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 63 oblanceolate or obovate, blunt with a mucro, 6-9 lines long, glaucous, finely grey-silky, slightly fleshy. Flowers usually solitary, rarely ge- minate, on axillary peduncles 6-12 lines long. Bracts oblanceolate, usually solitary. Calyx 8-4 lines long, finely silky, the subequal linear-setaceous teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla light rose-red, equalling the calyx. Pod linear, 9-12 lines long’, 3 in. thick, glabrous, brown, not torulose, 12—15-seeded. sity Guinea. Benguela; damp sandy ground by the river Bero, Dr, Wel- witsch ! 6. L. corniculatus, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii, 214. Stem 6-18 in. long, diffusely branched, glabrous or thinly silky. Leaflets subsessile, obo- vate-cuneate, 6—9 lines long, glabrous. Flowers 4—9, in an umbel on a peduncle 1-2 in. long, with a compound bract. Pedicels a line long. Calyx } in. long, glabrous or slightly silky, the teeth lanceolate- cuspidate, reaching more than halfway down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Pod 3-1 in. long, 1 line broad, straight. A. Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 176. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit! This is the common form, which is diffused throughout Kurope, and reaches Japan and Australia. We have specimens gathered by Dr. Quartin-Dillon, like the Spanish var. glacialis of Boissier with silky stems 6 in. long, much smaller leaflets and flowers ; the latter 1-3 together, with 1 or 2 very small sessile bracts. 7. L. creticus, Linn.; DC. Prod.ii. 211. A diffuse copiously-branched perennial 1—2 ft. high, sometimes sutfruticose, the branches densely grey- silky. Leaflets 5, rather fleshy, oblanceolate-cuneate, 4—6 lines long, both sides densely erey-silky. Flowers in umbels of 4—8 on axillary peduncles 9-18 lines long. Pedicels very short. Bracts compound, equalling or shorter than the calyx. Calyx 4 lines long, densely grey-silky, the linear teeth equal to the tube. Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. Pod linear, 12-18 lines long, turgid, glabrous, 9—15-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia (teste Schweinfurth). A common Mediterranean species. 8. L. glinoides, Delile in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, vii. 286. Stems her- baceous, a foot or more long, thinly grey-silky. Leaflets 5, obovate- cuneate, 4—5 lines long, rather Heniy: glaucous, thinly grey-silky. lowers solitary or in pairs on short pedicels in the axils of the leaves, or in clusters of 3—4 as if terminal on short om! branches. Bracts trifoliolate. Calyx 4 lines long, densely silky, the linear teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod linear, glabrous, 8-9 lines long, slightly torulose, 8-10-seeded.—Walp. Rep. i. 647. Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Abyssinia (teste Schweinfurth). 9. L. Gareini, DC. Prod. ii. 212. Suffruticose, stems 6-12 in. long, twiggy and diffusely branched, clothed with adpressed grey pubescence. Leaves scattered, digitately trifoliolate. Leatlets obovate- cuneate, entire, 1-3 lines long by half as broad, tomentose. Flowers 64 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Lotus, o, shagery, the lan- ceolate teeth reaching more than three-quarters of the way down to the base. Corolla reddish, equalling the calyx, anthers not quite uniform. Pod 2 in. long, under a line thick, straight, linear, glabrous, about 6-seeded.—Ononis Aucheri, Jaub. et Spach. Illust. i. 96. Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Kotschy! A desert species, extending eastward to Scinde, with the habit of an Ononis, and re- ceding from the typical Zoti by its anthers, which are alternately fastened quite at the base, and slightly versatile. copious, sessile, solitary, axillary. Calyx j in. long 16. PSORALEA. Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 491. Calyx-teeth in our plant subequal. Petals equal or the keel shorter; standard ovate or orbicular, unguiculate; wings oblong subfaleate ; keel incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen free or more or less connate, the tube in an early stage often closed; anthers small, uniform or the alternate ones slightly different. Ovary sessile or short-stalked, l-ovulate ; style filiform, or dilated at the base, upcurved; stigma ter- minal. Pod ovate or oblong indehiscent, the pericarp adhering to the seed.—Herbs or undershrubs with glandulose-punctate leaves and 1, 3, or many pinnate leaflets, the flowers in heads or spikes or racemes, rarely solitary. A large genus, principally Cape, South American, and Australian. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, flowers in axillary racemes. A low spiny shrub Deh oe ee 1. P. plicata. An unarmed prostrate herb). 5k i ee i ws 9B obtuse Leaves simple ; flowers in dense stalked terminal heads. . . . 3. P. andongensis. 1. P. plicata, Del.; DC. Prod. ii. 221. A low shrub with striated Lelen woody stems, copious erecto-patent rigid branches and spiny ranchlets. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, the petioles 1-3? in. long, terminal leaflet {—-3 in. long, half as broad, oblong, deeply crenate, lateral ones smaller, firm, both sides coated with fine silvery pubes- cence. Flowers m copious short-stalked axillary racemes of 6-12 flowers each. Pedicels very short. Calyx tubular, 14-2 lines long, 10-nerved, silvery, the teeth deltoid, not reaching a quarter of the way down, the lower one rather narrower and deeper, the tube dilated when the fruit is produced. Corolla cream-coloured, scarcely exceeding the calyx, Pod villose, ultimately black, equalling the calyx. North Central. Banks of Lake Tschad, LZ. Vogel! Wile Land. Banks of the Nile in Nubia, Kotschy! Ehrenb Bromfield! and gathered also by Speke and Grant! y irenberg, Bromfie 2. P. obtusifolia, DC. Prod. ii, 221. A finely-silky copiously- branched prostrate perennial herb with stems 1-2 ft. lone. Petioles spreading, 6—10 lines. Leaflets 3, obovate-cuneate, rather fleshy, blunt, crenato-repand, both sides green, finely erey-silky, the centra one distinctly stalked, obscurely punctate, 6—9 lines long. Flowers 4— in copious short-stalked dense axillary spikes. Calyx 14 lines long; densely white-silky, the lanceolate teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla bright yellow, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod sessile, ovate na | Psoralea. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE® (BAKER). 6: elliptical, densely grey-silky, equalling the calyx.—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 156. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! A Cape species. 3. P. andongensis, Wel. mss. A herbaceous perennial, branched at the crown of the root with many stiff erect subsimple finely grey- downy stems a foot high. Stipules } in., lanceolate, persistent. Pe- tioles 1 line. Leaves few, simple, ovate-oblong, reaching 24-3 in. long, 15-18 lines broad, blunt, coriaceous, dull green on both sides, finely grey-silky beneath. Flowers subsessile in many dense small close round or oblong peduncled terminal heads, the lower ones with a linear bract and three setaceous bracteoles. Calyx } in., tubular, densely grey-silky, teeth linear, densely ciliated, as long as the tube. Corolla whitish, ‘slightly exceeding the calyx. Ovary densely grey- silky, subsessile. Pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 feet, Dr. Welwitsch! Habit and leaves of the Cape P. Thomii, Harv. 17. CYAMOPSIS, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 493. Calyx broad, oblique, the lowest teeth the longest. Standard ob- ovate, sessile; wings oblong, free from the keel, which is slightly up- curved, obtuse, not appendiculate. Stamens all connate in a closed tube; anthers uniform, the connective projecting so as to form an apiculus. Ovary sessile, oo-ovulate; style upcurved; stigma capitate. Pod linear, subtetragonous, cuspidate, many-seeded, 2-valved, with dissepiments between the seeds.—Erect herbs with pinnate leaves and small flowers in lax axillary racemes. Two species, the other E. Indian. 1. C. senegalensis, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 174, t. 45. Stems herbaceous, 6-12 in. long, terete, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, slightly silky. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles 3-1 in. long. “Leaflets 3—7, subsessile, linear or oblanceolate, }—1 in. long, 2-3 lines broad, thinly silky beneath., Flowers in’ short-stalked lax axillary racemes of 4-6 each. Lower pedicels 6, lorry the calyces, subtended by small linear bracts. Calyx campanulate, } in. deep, the lower teeth lanceolate, reaching halfway down, the upper broader and shorter. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx, the wings and keel exceeding the standard. Pod 1-1} in. long, 2-24 lines broad, linear, cuspidate, glabrous, horizontally striated, 6—9-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet! : Arabin Iaand. Kordofan, Kotschy! (A form with narrow linear leaves also found in abia. 18. INDIGOFERA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 494. Calyx small, oblique, campanulate or tubular, teeth equal or the lowest longer than the rest. Standard ovate or orbicular, sessile or VOL, II, F 66 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. unguiculate ; wings oblong, adhering a little to the keel; keel obtuse or acuminate, gibbous or spurred on both sides. Upper stamen free from the base, the others connate; anthers uniform, the connective forming an apiculus. Ovary sessile or nearly so, usually with several, sometimes with only one or two ovules; style glabrous; stigma capi- tate. Pod linear or oblong, rarely globose, straight or curved, terete or tetragonous or compressed, septate internally.—Herbs or shrubs of very various habit, more or less clothed with adpressed silky hairs fixed by the middle, and sometimes also with laxer pubescence. Leaves in our species simple or pinnately 3~ o-foliolate. A large genus, nearly restricted to the Tropics, except in South Africa, with a greater nuniber of species in Africa than anywhere else, not less than 200, including the Cape and Mascarene forms. § Acanthonotus, Benth. Ovary uniovulate. Pod short, falcate, subtriquetrous, the dorsal suture dilated and prickly. em GIR SS a 4 oes eae oy La L echinata, $$ Spheeridiophora, Desv. Pod small, subglobose or ovoid, 1-seeded, unarmed. Deetes tie, Mauer Bivery oe as Leaves imparipinnate, not silvery. Derihea omnes ione Su. a ee peatets 6-4,6-§ lines long 3 8 ke a ee eee RMReGE TS Se a ee a §§§ Euindigofera. Pods linear, terete or subtetragonous, 2- or many-seeded, unarmed. Group 1. Simplicifolize.— Leaves simple. Inflorescence copiously panicled. Pod terete, glabrous, 4-seeded : 6. I. paniculata. Pod subcompressed, villose, 2-seeded .. . . . 7. I. procera. Flowers 1-2, pedicellate in the axils of the leaves. Emnvee ObOWAts, iy done ks ee es BD. Baineses. Reeves linear, Pin.long 2. oO Behe Flowers in dense sessile axillary clusters . . . . . . . 10. J. cordifolia. Flowers in lax axillary racemes. Leaves linear, subsessile. Pod under an inch long, 5—6-seeded . Pod 14-2 in. long, 12-15-seeded . : Leaves oblong or lancéolate, short-stalked. Herbaceous, with copious soft spreading pubescence. Petiole 1-2 lines long; racemes 2-8-flowered . . 13. T. erythrogramma. Petiole 4 in. long; racemes 15-20-flowered . . . . 14. I. flavicans. Shrubby, with adpressed grey bristles . . . . . . . 15. LZ. Knoblecheri. Leaves obovate subsessile Pe eee . 16. I. bongensis Leaves round-obovate, stalked plete Midi oes ve LTD, maemmulariae eos ee 6 6 TLE stmplicsfolia. oe te =. 12. F. macrocarpa: Group 2. Conjugatze.— Leaflets 2, a large terminal one and a small lateral one. Leaflets suborbicular, argenteous . . . . . . . . . . 18. Z. diphylla. Leaflets oblanceolate, glabrescent . . . . 19. Z. conjugata. Grovur 3. Capitatee.— Leaves imparipinnate. Flowers in dense terminal heads. Bracts leaflike, pinnate . ge . 20. I. capitata. Bracts brvad, trifid, densely imbricated . . . - . . 24. I. strobilijera. Indigofera. | XLVII, § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). 67 Group 4, Paniculatee.— Leaves imparipinnate. Flowers in panicles. POROUS AMET = ce es eee ee Leaflets 3-7. : Benaics founccous sy a ee ee Stipules setaceous. Pod Uxuerted 2. oe oe ee ee Pod equalling the calyx 3 2. 660. 5 se oe Ora Group 5. Spinosze.— Leaves imparipinnate. Strong spiny bushes with flowers from the spines. Pod glabrous; leaflets 1-38 §..-. . . + « © « « « 26. J. spinosa. Pod coated with stalked glands; leaflets5-7 . . . . . 27. I. Rothii. Grour 6. Trichopodze.— Leaves imparipinnate. Flowers solitary or rarely gemi- nate on slender peduncles from the axils of the leaves. ' Peduncles 1-2 in. long .. . 5s ss 1s 0 ice em 1 BB. de Eotghopoda. Peduncles 6-9 lines long. Densely silky, suffruticose...... . . - «. + « « ~ 29. I. nigricans. Subglabrous, herbaceous. ee Pod oblong, 2 seeded... ss woe ke ee ee Pod linear, 6—8-seeded sis 6 Ups ite Bes die! wie Ble dhe Gps, Group 7. Sessiliflorse.—Leaves imparipinnate. Flowers in sessile clusters in the axils of the leaves. Leaflets 3-5 jugate ; pod 66-seeded.°. 2. . . . . . 5 82. I. sessiliflora. Leaflets 1-2 jugate ; pod 2-3-seeded . . . ». - + +. 38, I. trigonelloides. Grovr 8. Dissitiflorse.—Leaves imparipinnate. Flowers in lax 2-6-flowered axil- lary racemes. Racemes short, subsessile. Argentoong: leafleia 1-5 .. .. .. .- 2 2 = 1s ee + BR . arenaria, Slightly argenteous; leaflets 9-11 . . - - - + + + 85. : conemead. Gréy-villose leaflets 6.4. «feo. sie cei s+ so 86. A. orice. Racemes distinctly stalked. Suffruticose. 1 Bipules plates © 2 ee ee ie ens Stipules foliaceous .... ... . 38. 1. parvula, erbaceous, annual or biennial. Pods 4~6-seeded. Flowers in pairs’. . 0.0. se ss oie? 0 OD Ae GON Flowers 3-6 mB roceme. .. 6 6 8 ke we oe ZL aa. Pods 10—12-seeded. , Pods and stem glanduloso-setose . . . . . - ~ Al. I. viscosa. Pods and stem pilose... .......-.0.+.+ + + + 42. 0. pilosa. Pods and stem glabrescent. . Leaflets 2-4 jugate Ge ae eS ae 5 aes + Eesha Leaflets 6-Sjugate...........+ + + + + + 44 J. multyuga. Grovr 9. Stenophyllee.—Leaves imparipinnate with linear or narrowly oblanceolate leaflets. Flowers in elongated racemes, All suberect annuals, Racemes shorter than the leaves. . Loaflats 8-3 jugate =... 86 oA Meee ta ee. 3 BB pire Ta. Leaflets 5—G-jugate -.°.-°. 76. eee ee eo + 46. ZL atenophy Leaflets 9-10-jugate . . 20. 2 + o's 2 « « © + 47. D2. Peleureana, Tones Te the siting eel ol ae eas. LOWE 085 6 to ta te te a te te te nye o~ te 68 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). ~ — [Indigofera. Leaflets up to 11-13. > Pod 6-8 lines long, 5-6-seeded__. Bee ee oe D0 Heudelotic. Pod 12-18 lines long, 12- Womecded se. ss Shy DE ee Group 10. Tinctorize.—Leaves imparipinnate with obovate leaflets. Flowers im many-flowered racemes. Shrubs or herbs. Leaflets 3-5. Herbaceous ; annuals or biennials, not argenteous. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, as long as the tube. Leaflets oblanceolate . 1... ..- + + + « « « 52. J, crotalariodes. Leaflets roundish . . . « . 53. I. medicaginea. Calyx-teeth setaceons, much exceeding the tube. Stems trailing; petiole wery whott’ 4. oS oe. ES hs Onandee, Stems ascending ; petiole 6—9 lines. Leaflets usually 8, densely bristly. . . . : . I, trita. Leaflets usually 5, subglabrous. . . . . . . . 56. J. subulata. An argenteous perennial herb. Argenteous woody shrubs . . . . . . 57. I. benguellensis. Calyx-teeth linear-setaceous ; pod 3-4seeded . ... . . 58. I. inhambanensis. Calyx-teeth lanceolate ; pod PGieded 2 625s 6 ab paucifolia. Leaflets 5-9. Annual or biennial herbs, with soft spreading pubescence, and opposite leaflets. . On Or Pubescence brown; seeds 6-8 . . . . . + . « « 60. I. hirsuta.” Pubescence white ; “seeds 4-5. oo ee ss Oh 2 oepigneee Subglabrous annual with alternate leaflets overs sc. 82. 2 endece eee. var, radicans. Argenteo-canescent herbs, with alternate leaflets. Pubescence adpressed, silvery . .. . .. . « . 62. J. alternans. Pubescence cottony, short-spreading —. 63. I. maritima. Thinly grey-hispid perennials, with small opposite ‘oblanceo- late leaflets. Racemes laxly 6-12-flowered.. . . ....... 2°. . 64. I. heterocarpa. Racemes dense, 2-3 inches long net 65. I. setiflora. Thinly grey- hispid eo with small opposite oblong leaflets. 66. I. mimosoides. Shrubs with subglabrous or thinly grey- hispid branches and opposite leaflets. Racemes sessile, conical . . Racemes short- stalked, subcorymbose ic Racemes distinctly stalked, 2-4 inches long. Calyx-teeth deltoid, short. Leaflets 6-8 lines long .... .- .. .-...- acs 6: + 69. T. Binder. Leaflets 24-3 inches long. : . 70. LT. rhynchocarpa. Calyx-teeth linear-subulate, exceeding the tube. Leaflets 6-9 lines Jong Sib ws 8s , ore The Le Opaentss Leaflets 12-18 lines long . . ee ey ere Guortvaiend. Argenteous shrubs, with opposite leaflets. Pod 4-5 lines long, 2—4-seeded cies esece-s & . 73. L. semitrijuga, Pod 15-16 lines long, many-seeded . . . » . . . . 74. J. pruinosa. An argenteous shrub, with alternate leaflets. . . . . . 75. L Schimpert. Leaflets 9-15. Pods clothed with gland-tipped bristles. Suflruticose, pod 6-8-seeded . Herbaceous, pod 2—4-seeded Pods glabrous or subglabrous, not glanduloso-setose. Herbs with opposite leaflets. Pod 2-3-seeded, oblong ce Pod 15-20-seeded, linear 95 oy é: ere e+ oe 6 60s £ Coro. - « + . 68. L. subcorymbosa. es 5 4 cs 40.1. Atretiee. - + . 77. I. secundiflora. es a Se ee Be de Pereenene See es te er at Oe: Indigofera. | XLVII., § PAPILIONACE (BAKER), 69 Herbs with alternate leaflets. : Argentgous; pod 9-10-seeded .. . . . . . . « « 80. I. daleoides. Grey-pibescent; pod 2-B-seeded . . . . . i » - 81.2 enneaphylla. Subpiabrous; pod 6-Seeeded ¢-. 5 7 3 a Be, ST, endecaphylla. Suffruticose, with small opposite leaflets. Leaflets 3-4 lines long; seeds numerous , . . . . 83. I. phyllanthoides. Leaflets 6-9 lines long; seeds 1-2 . . . . . . . 84. J. subulifera. Shrubs, with opposite leaflets, and very small calyces, with short teeth. More cr less silvery, with leaves turning blackish when dried. The indigo-yielding species, Leaflets oblanceolate. ‘ Pod oblong, 2-3-seeded . . . . . . . « . 85. I. amorphoides. Pod linear, 6-S-seeded . 5 2%... + 2s 86. Z. arrecta, Leaflets obovate or oblong. Pod reflexed, sickle-shaped. Densely argenteous; leaflets usually9 . . . 87. J. argentea. Slightly argenteous; leaflets 18-17 . . . . 88. J. Anil. Pod straight. Racemes dense, subsessile. Pod 6-8-seeded . .) 6 sis 5s 6 ‘+. » 89. S. wmbonata. Pod. 8-12-seeded 4<.ee cia dos a es orthocarpa. Racemes lax, stalked . . .. .. . © « 91. T tinctoria, Not at all silvery, the leaves glabrous when mature, not turning black. i Racemes much shorter than the leaves . . . . . 92. J. emarginella. Racemes exceeding the leaves . . . . . . « ~ 93. I. macrophylla. Leaflets 15-30. : Herbaceous, subglabrous ~ 2 ss ve 8 8 8 eo 5 a eee Herbaceous, densely viscid: = 624.00. = We es 95. id, peepec niet Shrubby ; leaflets 5-6 lines long . ... . . . « « 96. L. sutherlandioides Shrubby ; leaflets 10-15 lines lone Sc ss be Oe SS$$. Amecarpus.—Pods linear, flattened, bi- or multiovulate, unarmed. Pod recurved. . Peduncle Woty shirt i. < 0c5 3.4 +45, « 4 + 98. &. Hlocnsteners Peduncle 1-2 inches Wie og Sie ee LO od straight. Pod linear, 10-12-seeded 6130400) 2 4b te Mob Pod two to three times as long as broad, 3—5-seeded. ; Leaflets linear i A eo ee S401, 4 senegalensis. Hoaflots obovate 6.x; vlipctimst of © + + oo) «AOR. 1enemes Pod 2eccded, . 2. re . 103. LZ. ervoides. 1. I. echinata, Wiild.; DC. Prod. ii. 198. Stems herbaceous, 1-2 ft. long, branched copiously from the base, and sometimes also upwards, moderately thick, 2-edged, finely pubescent. Stipules linear-setaceous. Caves simple, subsessile, elliptical or obovate, 1}—2 in. long, mucro- hate, both sides finely pubescent. Flowers in lax racemes an inch long of 6-10 flowers each from the axils of the leaves, on slender ereet peduncles about the same length. Pedicels short. Calyx campanu- ate, 3 in. deep, the setaceous subequal segments reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Pod @ in. long, ob- long-falcate cuspidate, triquetrous, 1-seeded, the upper edge entire, the ‘wo lower ones with each a double row of strong spreading oe ea Wight. et Arn. Prod, Fl, Ind. Or. 198. Acanthonotus, Benth. Fl. Nigr. 293, . » 100. ZL. aspera. 0 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Vogel! Barter! Senegambia, Heudelot! A plant of Peninsular India and Ceylon, The African plant has larger, more pubes- cent and more elliptical leaves than the Indian one, and more conspicuous stipules. 2. I. linifolia, Retz.; DC. Prod. ii. 222. Annual, 6-9 in. high, copiously and diffusely branched, branches terete, erecto-patent, slender, clothed with silvery-silky pubescence. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves sessile, simple, linear, 14-2 in. long, }—$ line broad, narrewed gradually to both ends, acute, both sides, especially the lower one, more or less densely clothed with silvery-silky pubescence. Flowers in copious close sessile axillary racemes 1—} in. long of 6—12 each. Calyx campanulate, silvery, a line deep, the teeth linear, reaching three- quarters of the way down, the two lowest much the longest. Corolla reddish, three times as long as the calyx, the standard a line broad. Pod round with an apiculus, a line thick, like the rest of the plant sil- very-white, never more than 1-seeded.—Spheridiophorum linifolium,Desv« Journ. Bot. v. iii. 125, tab. 6. S. abyssiniewm, Jaub. et Spach. Ill. t. 494. Wile Land. Nubia, Schweinfurth! Abyssinia, Schimper ! The western limit of the species, which is spread through Tropical Asia as far east as North Australia. 3. I. terminalis, Baker. Main stem woody, with dark shining purplish-brown bark, the branches copious slender erecto-patent and again branched, the ultimate branchlets slender, terete, downy, not at all silvery. Stipules linear-setaceous. Petiole }—} in. long, spreading, pilose like the branchlets. Leaflets. 3-5, obovate-oblong, } in. long, 1-1} lines broad, apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones opposite on short stalks, texture firm, both surfaces with a few adpressed strong hairs. Flowers in moderately dense oblong terminal heads, which are 1-1} in. long. Bracts linear, equalling the flowers. Calyx } in. deep, not at all silvery, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth linear, }—i line broad, distinctly ciliated. Corolla equalling the calyx. Pod ovoid, mucronate, 4 in. long, thinly silky, single-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! 4, I. congesta, Welw. mss. An undershrub with an erect almost woody stem sometimes 4 ft. high, with copious erecto-patent firm terete finely downy branches. Stipules firm, rigid, linear. Petioles spreading, {~-% in. long. Leaflets 5-7, oblong or slightly obovate, 4-3 in. long, apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones distant, opposite, nearly sessile, both sides, especially the under one, grey-greeD, and finely downy. Flowers in dense rounded axillary clusters © 12-20, aggregated towards the end of the branches with the leaves diminished to trifoliolate bracts. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which 1s 4 in. deep, the teeth linear-setaceous, subequal, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla scarlet, equalling the calyx. Pod oblong, sub- terete, not exceeding the calyx, thinly silky, single-seeded. Upper Guinea. Niger country, Onitcha, Barter 1791! Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Resembles J. pulchra in general habit, but the leaves and clusters considerably larget: Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 71 5. I. macrocalyx, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 175, t. 46. Stem herbaceous, 1-1} ft. long, decumbent or suberect, copiously branched from the base, the branches firm, slender, scarcely at all silvery. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. Petiole 4 in. long. Leaves 13-2 in. long, with 3-6 pairs of leaflets, which are oval-oblong, or slightly obovate, apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones on short stalks, both sides green and thinly coated with strong adpressed grey hairs. Flowers in dense oblong-conical terminal heads 1 in. or more long. Bracts linear, ciliated, } in. long. Calyx silvery, 2 lines deep, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth unequal, lanceolate or lanceo- late-oblong, 4—3 line broad. Corolla rose, silky on the outside, slightly shorter than the calyx. Pod roundish, pointed, } in. each way, slightly silky, 1-seeded. Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Barter! Senegambia, Perrottet! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 6. I. paniculata, Pers.; DC. Prod. ii. 222. Stem suffruticose, very much branched, the branches twiggy. Petioles shorter than the leaves, Which are simple, linear-oblong, subglabrous. Flowers in elongated terminal panicles. Pods terete, deflexed, glabrous, 4-seeded. Upper Guinea. Guinea, Vahl, in Herb. Jussieu. This I have not seen. ?. I. procera, Schum. et Thonn. ; DC. Prod. ii.222. An undershrub 4-6 ft. high, with copious slender firm twiggy striated branches, the young ones finely silky. Stipules small, setaceous. Leaves simple, linear-oblong, 1-14 in. long, } in. broad, the lower half narrowed gradually to avery short petiole, firm, both sides finely punctate, the under one grey-green and minutely downy with the midrib raised. Flowers in a ae very compound terminal panicle sometimes a foot long, with copious rigid erecto-patent branches, the bracts at the base of the lowest branches like leaves, and higher up growing smaller gradually, Flowers laxly racemose on the branchlets, the lower pedicels aline long. Calyx campanulate. slightly silky, 4 line deep, the teeth linear-setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base, the two lowest longer than the others. Corolla scarlet, three or four times as long as the calyx, the standard a line broad. Pod linear-oblong, 24-3 lines long, $ line thick, compressed, villose, 2-seeded. poner Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Guinea proper, Thonning. Vogel! rter | Lower Guinea. Ambaca and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 8. I. Bainesii, Baker. Shrubby, copiously branched, branches Woody, the ultimate branchlets subtetragonous, thinly silvery. Leaves Sessile, simple, obovate, folded together, } in. long, half as broad, mu- Cronate, texture firm, both sides slightly silvery. Flowers solitary in the axils of the crowded deciduous leaves. Pedicels equalling the calyx, Which is campanulate, thinly-silvery, about a line long, the lower teeth subulate, reaching more than halfway down, upper ones much shorter. Corolla reddish, three times as long as the calyx. Pod linear, }~ in. 72 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. long, 1 line thick, mucronate, subterete, thinly clothed with adpressed silky hairs, many-seeded. South Central. In the interior, near the Tropic of Capricorn, Baines / 9. I. tetrasperma, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 365, A suberect much branched undershrub 1-2 ft. high, with long firm slender woody branches, the upper part striated and thinly silky. Stipules minute, subulate, deciduous. Leaves nearly sessile, simple, linear, 1-1} in. long, } in. broad, apex rounded and mucronate, the texture firm, both sides scabrous, with copious strong adpressed hairs. Flowers in the axils of the leaves on suberect firm pedicels } in. long, solitary, or if in pairs only one producing seed. Calyx campanulate, minute, teeth acute. Corolla scarlet. Pod linear with a mucro, § In. long’, 1 line thick, subtetragonous, with a few short adpressed hairs, 4- seeded. Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning. Senegambia, Heudelot! ‘This was named under the impression that it was a plant briefly described under - the name of te/rasperma by Persoon (Ench. Bot. ii. 325; DC. Prodr. ii. 222); but according to Webb, who examined an’ authenticated specimen in the herbariam of Desfontaines, this latter is I. senegalensis. 10. I. cordifolia, Roth ; DC. Prod. ii. 222. Stems herbaceous, 6-9 in. long, copiously and diffusely branched, the branches slender, terete, clothed with spreading cottony pubescence. Leaves subsessile, simple, cordate-ovate, 4-3 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, pointed, the upper surface grey subglabrous, the lower clothed more or less densely with cottony pubescence like that of the stem. Flowers in dense sessile clusters of 3—6 each in the axils of most of the leaves. Calyx cottony, tubular, about 2 lines long, the teeth linear-setaceous, plumose, reaching three- quarters of the way down. Corolla red, equalling the calyx. P od oblong cuspidate, 2 lines long, under 1 line thick, cottony, 2- or some- times only 1-seeded, slightly exceeding the calyx. _ Wile Land. Nubia, Kordofan and Sennaar, Kotschy! Schweinfurth! Abys sinia, Schimper! This also is Kast Indian, Malayan, and N. Australian. 11. I. simplicifolia, Lam. ; DC. Prod. ii. 222. Stem rigidly erect, 3—4 ft. high, suttruticose, the branches firm, slender, slightly adpressed grey-silky. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves simple linear sub- sessile, 1-1} in. long, 1-1} lines broad, texture firm, both sides slightly yrey-hispid, Flowers in short subsessile 3-4-flowered racemes in the axils of the leaves. Bracts linear, pedicels short, calyx about a line deep, thinly silky, the teeth linear, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla whitish, 4-5 times the calyx, the standard silky on the back. Pod not more than an inch long, a line thick, bluntly tetragonous, vlabrous when mature, 5—6-seeded. Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Smeathmann! Afzelius! Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 12. I. macrocarpa, Leprieur, mss. Stem erect, suffruticose, 2-4 ft. high, with copious firm erecto-patent slender striated finely silky en pnenemmcRy Te Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 73 branches. Stipules small, setaceous. Leaves simple, linear, subsessile, 2-4 in. long, } in. broad, narrowed from the centre to both ends, texture firm, both sides thinly silky. Flowers in lax sessile racemes of 6-12 flowers each, which are considerably shorter than the leaves. Bracts linear, half as long as the tubular silky calyx, which is under ¢in. long, the teeth setaceous, subequal, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod straight, linear, 1$-2 in. long, 2 lines broad, compressed, with thick- ened sutures, 12—15-seeded.—Z. simplicifolia, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 173, non Lamarck. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Guinea proper, Vogel! Barter! 13. I. erythrogramma, Welm. mss. A diffuse annual or biennial with copiously branched stems a foot or less long clothed with short spreading grey pubescence. Stipules 2-4 lines, lanceolate acuminate persistent. Petiole 1-2 lines, densely grey-downy. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, reaching 2-3 in. long, 6-8 lines broad, acute or sub- acute, slightly rounded or narrowed at the base, both sides finely grey- uspid, upper dull green, lower glaucous, with the purplish parallel crecto-patent main veins distinctly marked. Flowers 2-8 together in Copious short-peduncled axillary racemes. Pedicels }—1 line. Calyx l line, densely grey-hispid, the linear-setaceous teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla bright red. Pod linear, 5-6 lines long, 3 line broad, finely grey-downy, 8—10-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Loanda, and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 14. I, flavicans, Baker. Stem herbaceous, subterete, densely clothed with spreading or deflexed yellowish-grey silky hairs. Stipules linear-falcate, silky, }-2 in. long. Petioles $ in. long, densely silky. faves simple oblong, 14-1? in. long, half as broad, the two ends nearly satink thick and both sides soft with a coating of dense grey silky pubescence. Flowers in rather lax axillary racemes of 15-20 each, 14 in, long on peduncles less than half their length. Young heads plumose. Pedicels very short. Calyx silky, 2 lines long, the teeth setaceous, subequal, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla not half as long again as the calyx, the standard round, } in. broad, the wings subspathulate, the keel shorter. Ovary linear, multiovulate. od unknown, South Central. In the interior, near the Tropic of Capricorn, Baines ! 15. I. Knoblecheri, Kotschy in Sitzungsh. Wien. Acad. 1864, 362. Stem sutfruticose, the branches and leaves clothed with adpressed grey ‘urs, Stipules linear, 2-3 lines. Leaves short-stalked, simple, lan- ceolate or oblanceolate, reaching 2-3 in. long, 3—4 lines broad, acute, arrowed to both ends, chartaceous, both sides scabrous with adpressed hairs. Racemes closely 20-30-flowered on peduncles which exceed the leaves. Pedicels 1° line. Calyx } in., scabrous, the linear teeth *xceeding the tube. Corolla bright red, twice the calyx. Pod linear, 74 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Indigofera. slightly upeurved, an inch long, a line broad, hispid, 8-10-seeded. —Schweinf. Rel. Kotschy. t. 15. Wile Land. Banks of the White Nile near Gondokoro, Knoblecher. 16. I. bongensis, Kots. et Peyr. Pl. Tinn. 8, t. 4. Stems herbaceous, slender, thinly adpressed-silky, the branches ascending. Stipules linear, } in. Jong. Leaves simple, nearly sessile, obovate, an inch long by more than half as broad, apex rounded and mucronate, the upper surface green and glabrous, lower thinly adpressed grey-silky. Flowers from the axils in 20—-80-flowered racemes 14-2 in. long on firm slender peduncles which about equal them, longer in fruit. Pedicels under a line long. Calyx campanulate, } in. deep, grey- . 8 silky, the teeth linear, reaching two-thirds of the way down. Corolla purplish, twice as long as the calyx. Pod 4—3 in. long, 1 line broad, linear, straight, silky, 6—7-seeded. Nile Land. Nubia, M. de Heuglin. Habit of J. trita and subulata, but simple-leaved. 17. I. nummularia, Welw. mss. Stems suffruticose, 13-2 ft. long, prostrate, with numerous spreading finely grey-downy branches. Sti- pules linear-setaceous, persistent, 3-4 lines. Leaves simple, rotundate- obovate, with a short distinct petiole, reaching 9-12 lines long, 7-8 lines broad, subcoriaceous, blunt with a distinct mucro, both sides green, scabrous with minute adpressed grey hairs. Flowers 4-8 10 copious moderately dense axillary racemes on slender downy peduncles which about equal them. Calyx 1 line, densely grey-hispid, teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla bright red, § ™- . Pod linear, 3-4 lines long, ¢ line thick, brown, finely grey-downy, straight, 4—5-seeded. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Very near the Cape J. ovata, Thunb. 18. I. diphylla, Vént.; DC. Prod. ii, 223. An undershrub, 14-2 ft. high, brauched copiously and diffusely, the branches firm, terete, densely clothed with fine white spreading silky pubescence. Stipules linear-setaceous, silky, spreading. Leaves nearly sessile, with two unequal leaflets, the terminal one considerably the largest, suborbicular or obovate-cuneate, $1 in. long, } in. broad, on a petiolule 13-2 lines long, the lateral one smaller, sessile, spreading, apex rounded and mucronate, texture thick, both sides more or less densely clothed with spreading silvery pubescence like that of the stem. Flowers in copious dense oblong-conical racemes 1-1} in. long, of 20-40 flowers each, nearly sessile, or on peduncles } in. long from the axils of the leaves. Bracts linear, exceeding the pedicels. Calyx campanulate, very silky, 1 in. deep, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base, the lowest the longest. Corolla rose-pink, twice as long as the calyx. Po sessile, linear, §-} in. long, very silky, detlexed, 2—3-seeded, with a barren upcurved point, nearly half as long as the fertile portion, —Guil ' et Perr., Fl. Seneg. 173; Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. 48. SAUER REPRESENT EERSTE Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). a) Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet/ and others. Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy! Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! 19. I. conjugata, Baker. Suffruticose, ultimate branches firm, subtetragonous, thinly coated with white silvery hairs. Stipules linear, lines long. Petiole } in. long, tetragonous, silky. Leaves of two oblanceolate leaflets, the terminal one on a petiolule } in. long, the blade 2-24 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, narrowed from above the centre to both ends, the lateral one similar, smaller, sessile, erecto-patent, tex- ture firm, the under surface thinly silky when young, both glabrous in the mature plant. Flowers in short-stalked lax axillary racemes ? inches lone, of more than 20 flowers each. Pedicels half as long as the campanulate calyx, which is } in. deep, cut down nearly to the base into subulate teeth, the two lowest the longest. Corolla yellowish, twice as lone as the calyx. Pods deflexed, linear mucronate, 1 in. long, I line thick, slightly silky, compressed, many-seeded. Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Petherick! 20. I. capitata, Kotschy, Pl. Binder. 16, t. 6. A shrub with an erect stem; branches copious, woody, erecto-patent, not silvery. Stipules small, linear, rigid, deciduous. Petioles spreading, firm, } in. long. Leaflets 7-9, oblanceolate, 4—3 in. long, 14-2 lines broad, the point narrowed or ratlier rounded with a sharp mucro, firm in texture, not at all silvery. Flowers in dense rounded terminal heads ?—1 in. broad. tacts pinnate witk narrow linear divisions. Calyx 3-4 lines deep, clett three-quarters of the way down, ciliated but scarcely at all silky. Corolla falling short of the calyx. Pod oblong-mucronate, 2 lines long by 1 line broad, 2-seeded, ultimately glabrous, chestnut-brown. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Old Calabar, Mylne! Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Binder! Petherick! Open ground at Madi, Speke and Grant! Lower Guinea. Congo, Capt. Burton! Dr. Welwitsch! 21. I. strobilifera, Hochst. in Kotsch. Hb. Nub. No. 256. Stem a foot or more high, herbaceous, the branches divaricate, firm, angular, clothed with loose pale brown silky pubescence. Stipules ovate-lan- ceolate, persistent, 14-2 lines broad. Petioles 2—3 lines long, spread- ing. Leatlets 5-7, oblong or oblanceolate, 4-3 in. long, 3-4 lines toad, the lateral ones opposite, sessile, pointed, both sides permanently clothed with dense pale brown, loose, silky pubescence, like that of the Stem. Flowers in dense copious terminal heads, which are 1—2 in. long Y more than half-an-inch broad, with large nearly round cordate slightly pointed bracts which entirely hide the tlowers. Peduncles 3-3 in. long. Bracts 4-2 in. broad, densely imbricated, usually deeply bifid, in ‘texture and. silkiness resembling the leaves and stipules. Flowers 1-2 together, on pedicels } in. long. Calyx } in. deep, very silky, the teeth setaceous, reaching nearly down to the base. Corolla vot more than equalling the calyx. Pod oblong, mucronate, 2-3 lines ong, 1 line thick, subterete, 2-4-seeded. — Hilemanthus strobilifer, Hochst. in Flora, 1846, 593, 76 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Indigofera. Wile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy! Cienkowsky. Banks of the White Nile, Von Harnier. » Abyssinia (teste Schweinfurth). Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Yorbes! A very distinct and remarkable species. 22. I. Brassii, Baker. Stems shrubby, copiously branched, branches densely clothed with grey spreading pubescence. Stipules 4 in. long, linear-subulate. Leaves subsessile. Leaflets 13-17, oblanceolate, 4—5 lines long, } in. broad, greyish-green, and densely clothed, espe- cially below, with strong grey pubescence. Flowers in copious panicles crowded towards the end of the branchlets. Bracts like reduced leaves, simple or trifoliolate. Calyx } in. deep, densely clothed with ferru- vinous pubescence, teeth lanceolate, reaching down to the base. Corolla reddish, equalling the calyx. Pod equalling the calyx, linear, densely ferruginous-pubescent. Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Brass! A very distinct species. 23. I. sericea, Benth. mss. Stem 1-2 ft. high, scarcely more than herbaceous, copiously branched, the branches erecto-patent, terete, clothed with fine loose pale brown silky pubescence. Stipules large, ovate or cordate acuminate. Petioles very short, erecto-patent. Leaflets 5, oblanceolate or obovate, 3-3 in. long, 2-8 lines broad, mucronate, the lateral ones opposite, distant, nearly sessile, both sides permanently clothed with dense pale brown silky pubescence. Flowers in copious panicles, crowded towards the end of the branchlets, 1-3 from each node. Calyx 4 in, deep, silky, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla red, not more than equalling the calyx. Pod linear, mucronate, } in. long, 1 line thick, finely silky, about 4-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Bidjem! Niger, Nupe, Barter! Pekoore Central. In the interior, near the Tropic of Capricorn, Chapman an aines | 24. I. pulchra, Vail; DC. Prod. ii. 230. An undershrub with at erect stem 2-5 ft. high, with copious erecto-patent firm angular branches, the silvery hairs erecto-patent, moderately thick. Stipules minute, setaceous, silky. Petiole erecto-patent, varying from 4 1 long to nearly obsolete. Leaflets 3-7, opposite, oblanceolate, 3-3 1 long, the apex rounded, mucronate, both sides, especially the under one grey-green and finely pubescent. Flowers in a copious panicle formed of terminal clusters and smaller ones on short stalks from the axils of the upper simple leaves of, the branchlets, the lower flowers sometimes solitary and nearly sessile. Calyx } in. deep, densely clothed with ferruginous silky pubescence, the teeth linear-acuminate, sub- equal, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla not mue exceeding the calyx, scarlet, silky externally. Pod oblong, mucronate, 2-24 lines long, § in. thick, finely villose, 2-seeded.—JZ. rufescens; Poiret, Encycl. Suppl. iti. 148. 2. Doryenium, Fenzl in Flora, 1344. 312. Indigofera. XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 77 Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Ingram! Guinea proper, Thonning. Barter! and others. Nile Land. Sennaar, Kotschy! Lower Guinea. Loanda, and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 25. I. bracteolata, DC. Prod. ii. 223. Stems suffruticose, 1-2 ft. long, copiously branched, trailing or suberect, the branches firm, slender, subterete, thinly clothed with fine spreading pubescence. Sti- A linear, deciduous. Petioles very short. Leaves of the main ranches with one or two pairs of leaflets and a terminal one, those of the branchlets simple, all obovate or ovate-oblong, 2-8 lines long, apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones distant and opposite, both sides grey-green and permanently clothed with adpressed silvery hairs. Flowers racemose on the branchlets with a bract like a leaflet from the base of each. Pedicels equalling the calyx. Calyx 1 line deep, silky, the teeth linear-lanceolate, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla reddish, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod scarcely exceeding the calyx, oblong mucronate, 1- or 2-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Guinea, Vogel! Barter! Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! More densely silvery than the Western speci- mens, and leaves sometimes nearly round. 26. I. spinosa, Forsk.; DC. Prod. ii. 232. A copiously branched stiff shrub with erecto-patent terete slightly argenteous woody branches and copious sharp rigid slender spines 1-1} in. long. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petiole silvery, a line long. Leaves simple or digitately trifoliolate. Leaflets 3 lines long, obovate, mucronate, firm, both sides permanently silvery. Flowers solitary from the spines, 1-6 from each on short slender pedicels. Calyx campanulate, silvery, more than 4 line deep, the teeth lanceolate acuminate, reaching halt Way down. Bracts minute setaceous. Corolla more than twice as ong as the calyx, reddish, silky on the outside. Pod linear-mucronate, 2 In. long, a line broad, argenteous when young, subtorulose, spreading, 6—-9-seeded.—Jaub. et Spach. Ilust. Pl. Orient. t. 490-1. J. spinifiora, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Arab. No. 945. Nile Land. Nubia, Ehrenberg. Abyssinia, Schimper. Petit! Also a plant of Egypt and Arabia. 27. I, Rothii, Baker. A copiously branched woody shrub with *tecto-patent terete slightly argenteous woody branches and copious sharp erecto-patent spines often 14 in. long. Stipules linear. Leat- ets 5-7, oblong or obovate, 4-2 in. long, mucronate, the lateral ones opposite, subsessile, texture firm, both sides grey and thinly silvery. Flowers from the spines, solitary or 2-4 near together on cernuous strong silvery pedicels a line long. Calyx silvery, 2 lines deep, the teeth linear, reaching more than halfway down. Corolla silky externally, twice as long as the calyx, considerably larger than the average of the genus, the standard } in. broad. Pod linear 78 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. mucronate, §—2 in. long, 4 in. thick, straight, nearly terete, densely coated with strong stalked brownish-black glands, 5- or 6-seeded. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Dr. Roth! 28. I. trichopoda, Lepr. in Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 177 t. 47. Stem herbaceous or slightly shrubby, 1-3 ft. high, erect, copiously branched, the branches slender, terete, finely downy. Stipules minute, linear. Petioles 1-2 in. long, erecto-patent. Leatlets 7-9, obovate, }-2 in. long by about half as broad, the apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones opposite and short-stalked, both sides thinly silky. Flowers solitary, axillary, on slender rigid, erecto-patent pedicels 1-1} or 2in. long. Calyx silky, a line deep, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla purplish, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod sessile, oblong, mucronate, } in. long, 1 line broad, thinly silky, 2- or 3-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Bidjem! 29. I. nigricans, Vahl; DC. Prod. ii. 23? Stem suffruticose, 4 foot or more high, firm, erect, the branches spreading or erecto-patent, densely clothed with erecto-patent silvery pubescence with a tnge of brown. Stipules linear, spreading. Leaves of the main stem with 2-3 pairs of leaflets and a terminal one, of the branchlets 3-folio- late or simple, all obovate-oblong, 1 in. long, the apex rounded and conspicuously mucronate, lateral ones opposite, short-stalked, texture firm, both sides grey-green, densely cat permanently coated with adpressed silvery pubescence. Flowers solitary from the axils of the simple or the lower ones of the trifoliolate leaves, on slender spreading rigid bright-coloured pedicels half an inch long. Calyx } in. deep, densely silky, the teeth reaching down nearly to the base, lanceolate acuminate or cuspidate, half a line broad. Corolla reddish, equalling the calyx. Ovary linear-oblong, densely silky. Pod unknown. Upper Guinea. Banks of the Niger, Dr. Baikie! A very distinct and well-marked plant. 30. I. nigritana, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 294. Stem 2-3 ft. high, her- baceous, erect, paniculately branched, the branches slender, glabrous, erecto-patent. Stipules minute, linear, deciduous. Leaflets 5-7, oblanceolate, the terminal one 3—} in. long by 2 lines broad, the ape* rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones smaller, distant, opposite, the upper side subglabrous, the lower thinly silky. Flowers solitary, on filiform pedicels 4? in. long from the axils of the simple leaves ° the branches. Calyx 1 line deep, clothed with bright brown silky pubescence, the teeth lanceolate acuminate, reaching three-quarters ° the way down. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx, silky oD the outside. Pod 2 lines long, 1 line broad, oblong mucronate, thinly silky, 2-seeded. Upper Guinea. Banks of the Quorra, Vogel! Indigofera. ] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). 79 31. I. sparsa, Baker. Stem slender, erect, herbaceous, glabrous, a span high, copiously branched. Stipules minute setaceous. Petioles 1-2 lines long. Leaflets 3-7, oblanceolate, mucronate, the terminal one 3~ in. long, 3 in. broad, the upper surface green and glabrescent, the lower glaucous and thinly silky. Flowers solitary or geminate on very slender axillary peduncles 6—9 lines long. Calyx } line deep, with 5 equal linear teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla reddish, sin. deep. Pod linear, sessile, glabrous, 6-8-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 32. I. sessiliflora, DC. Prod. ii. 186. Stem a foot or more long, herbaceous, procumbent or suberect, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branches slender, wide-spreading, angular, moderately silvery. Stipules linear, often faleate. Petioles 4-2 in. long, spreading. Leaflets 7-11, obovate, } in. long, apex rounded mucronate, the lateral ones distant, opposite or alternate, sessile or the lowest short-stalked, both sides, especially the lower one grey-green and permanently silvery. Clusters dense, sessile, rounded, + in. broad, about 12-flowered. Calyx subsessile, very silvery, a line deep, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla pale rose, not more than equalling the calyx. Pod sessile, linear, } in. long, 1 line broad, mucronate, silky, slightly torulose, about 6-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet 183! Heudelot! General habit of I. enneaphylla, but flowers in sessile clusters. 33. I. trigonelloides, Juub. et Spach. Illust. t. 482. Stem 6-12 in. long, herbaceous, erect, copiously branched from the base, the branches erecto-patent, silvery throughout. Stipules lanceolate acuminate. Petioles 3 in. long, erecto-patent. Leaflets 3-5, obovate, 3—3 in. long, 4-§ in. broad, apex rounded, mucronate, lateral ones sessile, distant, opposite, both sides glaucous, and rather thickly coated with adpressed silvery hairs. Clusters tin. broad, dense, rounded, sessile, 12—20- flowered, Calyx } in. deep, densely silvery, the teeth linear, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla purplish, equalling the calyx. od sessile, linear-oblong, mucronate, very silky, } in. long, 1 line broad, 2-3-seeded—J. asperifolia, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. ~272. I. eraginis, Schweinf. F1. £Ethiop. 11. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! General habit and texture of J. sessiliflora, but more loosely and copiously silvery ; the leaflets fewer, and pod like that of enneaphylla. It has been gathered in Scinde by Dr. Stocks. 34. I. arenaria, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 183. Stems erect, herbaceous, only 2-8 in. high, densely branched from the base, with erecto-patent silky branches, Stipules small, linear. Leaves pee or with one or even two pairs of leaflets, which are obovate, half an inch long by about half as broad, apex rounded, mucronate, both sides glaucous, and fueay but not densely argenteous. Flowers in subsessile ab- reviated racemes of 2-6 each from the axils of the leaves. Calyx §0 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera.” densely silky, a line deep, the lower teeth linear, reaching half way down, the upper ones lanceolate, shorter. Corolla bright purple, twice as long as the calyx. Pod spreading, linear, mucronate, }—3 in. long, a line broad, thinly silky, subterete, 6—8-seeded. Nile Land. Nubia, Schweinfurth! Abyssinia, Petit. Not the same as J, arenaria, E. Meyer, which is J. alternans, DC. 35. I. concinna, Baker. Stems herbaceous, 6-9 in. long, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branches very slender, angu- lar, only thinly hairy upwards. Stipules setaceous. Petioles very short. Leaflets 9-11, oblanceolate, } im. long, 1 line broad, mucronate, the lateral ones opposite, nearly sessile, both sides green, very slightly silky. Flowers in close nearly sessile axillary clusters of about 6 flowers each. Pedicels very short. Calyx } line deep, silky, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Young pod linear mucronate, very silky. Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Dr. Meller! We have no specimens that show the mature pod. 36. I. grisea, Baker. Stem erect, almost woody below, very copi- ously branched, the branches ascending, firm, subterete, chestnut brown, densely clothed with fine short spreading grey hairs, a few of which bear glands. Stipules minute, setaceous, spreading. Petioles very short. Leaflets usually 5, oblanceolate-cuneate, 4 in. long, apex rounded, mucronate, lateral ones distant, opposite, subsessile, texture firm, both sides grey, and densely clothed with adpressed silvery hairs. Flowers solitary or 2—4 together in sessile clusters in the axils of the leaves. Calyx over a line deep, very hairy, the teeth setaceous, reach- ing down nearly to the base. Corolla scarlet, twice as long as the calyx. Pod oblong-mucronate, 2-24 lines long, half as broad, sub- terete, persistently villose, 2-3-seeded. Upper Guinea. Niger country, Abbeoknta, Dr. Irving! Nupe, Barter! Most like J. sessiliflora, but more shrubby, with fewer flowers in a cluster, and @ different pod. 37. I. suaveolens, Jaub. et Spach. Illust. t. 489. Stem a foot high, woody, erect, copiously branched, the branches erecto-patent, coate with silvery pubescence. Stipules minute, linear. Petioles } in. long; spreading, slender, argenteous. Leaflets 3, rarely 5, obovate, 8 in. long, apex rounded, often emarginate, lateral ones smaller, opposite, short-stalked, texture firm, both sides pale green, scarcely at all arge?- teous. Flowers solitary, or more usually in lax irregular clusters © 2—4 together on peduncles about } in. long. Pedicels cernuous, gene- rally longer than the calyx, which is 1 line deep, silvery, campanulate, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth subulate, enegudl Pod linear- mucronate, an inch long, a line thick, straight, spreading, subtetra- onous, thinly silky, 6-12-seeded.—J. sparsifiora, Hochst. in Schimp- b. Abyss. No. 2288. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! _unpinoueeemningin * Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 81 38. I. parvula, Delile in Cuill. Voy. 38, t. 8, fig. 1. Stem 6-9 in. long, suffruticose, trailing, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branches slender, tirm, terete, thinly silky. Stipules large, scariose, ovate-acuminate, persistent, slightly adnate to the petiole. Petiole very short. Leatlets three, obovate, mucronate, } in. long, end one short-stalked, lateral ones sessile, texture firm, both sides thinly silky. Flowers in lax clusters of 2-4 each ona peduncle about } in. long. Calyx } in. deep, thinly silky, the lower teeth lanceolate, not reaching more than half way down, the upper ones shorter. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Pod spreading’, linear, mucronate, 4 in. long, 1 line thick, thinly silky, subterete, 5—6-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Nubia, Caillaud. 39. I. geminata, Buker. Stem firmly herbaceous, erect, 1-2 ft. high, copiously branched, the branches ascending, firm, angular, only thinly silky upwards. Stipules setaceous. Petioles erecto-patent, }—4 in. long. Leaflets 3-5, oblanceolate, 4—3 in. long, 14-2 lines broad, the x He rounded and mucronate, terminal one close to the top pair, upper surface pale green, glabrous when mature, lower glaucous, and thinly clothed with strong adpressed grey hairs. Flowers usually in pairs, sometimes solitary on slender glabrous rigid filiform reddish-brown peduncles 2 in. long from the axils of the leaves. Calyx under a line deep, thinly silky, the teeth linear, reaching three-quarters of the way. Corolla pale red. Pod linear, mucronate, glabrous, subtetragonous, 3-4 lines long, 1 line broad, about 4-seeded. ’ Upper Guinea. Banks of the Niger at Nupe, and of the Quorra at Jeba, Barter! Most like J. nigritana in general habit, differing in its geminate flowers and more humerous seeds. 40. I. vicioides, Jaub. et Spach. lust. t. 481. Stem herbaceous, 6-12 in. long, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branches slender, angular, thinly pilose. Stipules linear, minute. etioles 1-1 in, long, erecto-patent. Leaflets 7-9, oblanceolate, 2-8 in. long, 14-2 lines broad, mucronate, the lateral ones distant and short-stalked, both sides glaucous-green and thinly silky. Flowers In lax racemes of 3-6 flowers each on peduncles 3-1 in. long from the axils of the leaves. Pedicels equalling the campanulate calyx, which is a line deep, thinly silky, the teeth setaceous reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla pale, twice as long as the calyx. Pod linear- mucronate, } in. long, } in. broad, straight, subcompressed, slightly torulose, permanently pilose, 5—6-seeded.— J. agowensis, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 2243. I. tenuicaulis, Klotzsch in Peters Lossamb. Bot. 50: Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! ao Central. Highlands of Batoka country, Dr. Kirk! Mozambique, ers a): kK. viscosa, Lam.; DC. Prod. ii. 227. Stems 1-4 ft. high, herbaceous, diffusely branched from the base, the branches more or VOL. IT, G 82 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. less densely coated with stalked glands. Stipules linear. Petioles 4-1 in. long, erecto-patent. Leaflets 7-13, oblanceolate or obovate, 4-2 in. long, the apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones distant, opposite, subsessile, both sides glaucous, thinly silvery. Flowers m lax racemes of 4—6 each on axillary peduncles }-1 in. long. Pedicels very short. Calyx a line deep, not silvery, the teeth setaceous, reach- ing down nearly to the base. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx. Pod linear, mucronate, $—1 in. long, 1 line broad, subterete, slightly torulose, glandular, 10—12-seeded.—JZ._glutinosa, Perrott. DC. Prod. lc. non Vahl. J. lateritia, Willd. Sp. Pl. 8. 1233.; DC. Prod. lie. TZ. consanguinea, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 50. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Niger country, Barter! Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! Miozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Bojer! _Quiilimane, Peters / A common East Indian species, extending eastward to Queensland. 42. I. pilosa, Vahl; DC. Prod. ii. 223. Annual or biennial, 1-2 ft. long, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branches slender, angular, densely: clothed with strong erecto-patent silky hairs. Stipules linear, 3-4 lines. Petioles very short. Leaflets 3, the ter- minal one oblong or obovate, blunt, mucronate, 3—Z in. long, the lateral ones at a distance from it, smaller and often unequal or only one or neither developed, both sides grey-green, the lower one very pale, both densely clothed with strong adpressed grey hairs. Flowers soli- tary or in lax racemes of 2-4 on erecto-patent peduncles 1-14 in. long from the axils of the leaves. Calyx hairy, a line deep, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla rose-red, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod linear, mucronate, 1—3 in. long, a line broad, subterete, pilose, 10—-12-seeded, black when mature.—Hemispadon pilo- sus, Endl. in Flora, 1832, ii. 885, t. ].; Atakta, t. 3. Walp. Rep. 1. 660. I. guineensis, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 141. Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning. Barter! Senegambia, Perrottet! Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! 43, I. pentaphylla, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 230. Stems a foot or more high, herbaceous or slightly fruticose, copiously and diffusely branched, the branches slender, subglabrous. Stipules small, linear. Petioles 1 in. long. Leaflets 5-7, oblanceolate or obovate, 3-4 in. long, the apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones opposite and short- stalked, upper surface green, subglabrous, lower glaucous, thinly silvery. Flowers in lax racemes of 2—5 each on peduncles 3-1 in. long from the axils of the leaves. Bracts setaceous, equalling the pedicels. Calyx a line deep, thinly silky, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth setaceous. Corolla reddish, at least twice as long as the calyx. Pod linear, mucronate, $-1 in. long, a line broad, straight, glabrous when mature, subtetragonous, 10—12-seeded.—J. glabra, Linn. Suppl. 1062. I. fragrans, Retz. Obs. iv. 29; I. viscosa, var. subglabra, A- Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 182. Indigafera.} XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). 83 a Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! (pod and flowers smaller; perhaps istinct). dae Gand. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Madi woods, Speke and rant f ,Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Speke! Zambesi land, Meller! Kirk! Zan- zibar, Dr. Kirk:! A common East Indian species. J. pentaphylla, Burch., Harv. Fl. Cap. il. 178, is a different plant, belonging to a group with five or more leaflets digitately arranged, of which we have no representatives within our limits, and of course it will have to receive a new name. 44. I. multijuga, Baker. Stem slender, herbaceous, erect, the branches weak, erecto-patent, angular, subglabrous. Stipules small, linear. Petioles very short. Leaflets 13-17, oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, 1-3 in. long, 13-2 lines broad, apex rounded conspicuously mucronate, lateral ones on short stalks, the lowest pair shorter and broader than the others, upper surface green subglabrous lower glau- cous and thinly silvery. Flowers in lax racemes of 4—6 each from the axils of the leaves on slender glabrous peduncles 1$—2 in. long. Bracts Setaceous, equalling the pedicels. Calyx a line deep, subglabrous, the teeth Setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla reddish, three times as long as the calyx. Pod 1 in. long, 1 line thick, linear, mucronate, straight, dark brown, glabrous, subtetragonous, about 10- Seeded. -Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 1 Very near J. pentaphylla, from which it differs principally by its more numerous eaflets, 45. I. parviflora, Heyne in Wight et Arn. Prod. Fl. Ind. Or. 201. Stem herbaceous, 1-2 ft. long, erect, diffusely branched, the branches angular, sulcate, thinly silky. Stipules minute, setaceous. hele 4 in. long. Leaflets 5—7, narrowly oblanceolate, }—1 in. long, 1-1} lines broad, the lateral ones distant, short-stalked, the point rounded and mucronate, both sides pale-green and thinly silvery. Flowers in Sessile or subsessile abbreviated racemes of 6—12 flowers each from the axils of the leaves. Calyx silvery, } in. deep, the teeth linear, reach- ing more than halfway down, the lowest the longest. Corolla pale ilac, twice as long as the calyx. Pods linear-mucronate, detlexed, slightly recurved towards the point, 1-1} in. long, 1 line broad, sub- terete, rather densely silvery when young, 15-20-seeded.—Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 197. 7 linearis, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 184. I. deflexa, Hochst. in Kotsch. Hb. Nub. 14. A. Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 178. I. machero- carpa, Fenzl in Kotsch. Pl. Kord. 12& Indigastrum deflecum, Jaub. et Spach, Mlust. Pl. Or. a92, Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Heudelot ! ae j Nile Land. Nubia and Kordofan, Kotschy. Cienkowsky! Abyssinia, Schimper! uartin. Dillon. : Ranges from the Cape Verdes through Tropical Asia to North Australia. a5. i, stenophylla, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 188, t. 48. Stem 1-3 ft. high, erect, herbaceous, sparingly branched, es below, 84 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. thinly silky upwards. Stipules setaceous. Petioles erecto-patent, 4-1 in. long. Leaflets 11-13, linear, narrowed to both ends, 1-1} in. long, 1-1} lines broad, the lateral ones opposite, sessile, }—j in. apart, both sides with short adpressed grey hairs. Flowers in nearly sessile lax axillary racemes 2-3 in. long. Pedicels very short, erecto- patent. Calyx thinly silky, more than 2 lines deep, teeth seta- ceous, reaching down nearly to the base, lowest the longest. Corolla rose-coloured, half as long again as the calyx. Pod linear-mucronate, 14-2 in. long, 1 in. broad, erecto-patent, slightly upeurved, thinly silky, 12-15-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 179. 8. I. brachypoda, (Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1711) leaflets oblanceolate, 2 to 3 lines broad, racemes reduced to half-an-inch long and under a dozen flowers. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Banks of the Niger, Barter! North Central. Udgé, H. Vogel! Nile Land. Nubia, Banks of the White Nile, Petherick! Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Madi, Speke and Grant! 47. I. Prieureana, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 187. Stem herba- ceous, 12-18 in. high, erect, sparingly branched, subglabrous. Sti- pules linear-subulate, } in. long. Petioles erecto-patent, 4—} in. long. Leatlets 19-21, oblanceolate, $—? in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, the apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones opposite, }—-3 in. apart, both sides thinly silky. Flowers in nearly sessile lax axillary racemes which ultimately about equal the leaves. Calyx 14—2 lines es very silky, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base, the lowest much the longest. Corolla rose-coloured, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod linear-mucronate, 1-14 in. long, } in. broad, erecto-patent, sub- tetragonous, thinly silky, 12—15-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Perrottet! 48, I. Welwitschii, Buker. A diffuse copiously branched annual with very slender subglabrous stems reaching a foot long. Stipules 1—2 lines, setaceous persistent. Petioles 2-3 lines. Leaflets 3, coria- ceous, linear, pale green, narrowed gradually to an acute point, both sides with a few inconspicuous adpressed grey bristles, the terminal one short-stalked, 6—9 lines long, under a line broad, the side ones opposite, leaflets of a few of the primordial leaves oblong. Flowers 4— in very lax short-stalked often subsecund racemes 1-2 in. long. Bracts minute setaceous. Pedicels 1-1} lines rigidly patent or deflexed. Calyx 1 line long, densel ey-hispid, the linear-setaceous teeth ex- ceeding the tube. Corolla bright red, twice the calyx, the standard glabrous on the outside. Pod linear, 8-9 lines long, 4 line broad, much upeurved, grey, glabrescent, 12—-15-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! Habit of the Cape J. filipes, Benth., which has 3-4 jugate leaflets. 49. I. psilostachya, Welw. mss. A moderately-branched erect annual, 2-4 it. high, with erecto-patent slender angular branches with a few scgremeecmnemmnmieemmnesene: PER aee ao ee OE OT Indigofera.] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 85 adpressed grey bristles. Stipules linear-setaceous, tin. Petioles }-1 in. Leaves 24-3 in.; leaflets 5-7, oblanceolate, both sides pale-green with a few adpressed grey bristles, reaching 1-2 in. long, the upper leaves 3-4, the lowest 5-6 lines broad, blunt with a distinct mucro, the end one short-stalked, the side ones lax opposite distinctly stalked. Flowers 20-50 in lax racemes ultimately 9-12 in. long on erecto-patent peduncles as long as the leaves. Pedicels very short. Bracts minute, setaceous, deciduous. Calyx } in., thinly grey-silky, the linear teeth much exceeding the tube. Corolla bright violet, 5 lines, the standard thinly grey-hispid externally. Pod linear, 1 in. long, 1 line broad, get ees thinly coated with adpressed grey bristles, 10-12- seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 50. I. Heudelotii, Benth. in Herb. Kew. Stem erect, herbaceous, 12-18 in. high, copiously branched, the branches slender, angular, thinly pilose. Bouts linear, deciduous. Petioles }—4 in. long, erecto- patent. Leaflets 7-18, oblanceolate, $—? in. long, 2 lines broad, con- Spicuously mucronate, lateral ones distant and short-stalked, both sides stey-green and thinly pilose, not at all silvery. Flowers 6-12 in lax racemes on erecto-patent pilose peduncles 3-1 in. long from the axils of the leaves. Pedicels 1-14 lines long. Calyx campanulate, not silvery, 1 line deep, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx. Pod 4-8 in. long, 1 line broad, chestnut-brown, glabrous, subtetragonous, 5—6-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Sierra Leone, Morson! 51. I. goniodes, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No, 2242. Stem 1-3 ft. high, erect, herbaceous, copiously branched, the branches as- cending, angular, sulcate, thinly silvery. Stipules linear. _ Petioles very short. Leaflets 11-13, oblanceolate, 3-1 in. long, 2-4 lines toad, apex rounded, mucronate, both sides pale-green and _ thinly silvery. Flowers in lax racemes 2-4 in. long of from 20-80 flowers, on erecto-patent peduncles 2-3 in. long from the axils of the leaves. ‘lowers cernuous, finally deflexed. Calyx nearly 2 lines deep, thinly Silvery, the teeth linear, reaching halfway down. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, pale lilac. Pod deflaxed, linear, mucronate, 1-1} in. ong, § in. jo finely silvery, slightly upcurved, 12—16-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 52. I. crotalarioides, Baker. Stem slightly shrubby, copiously and diffusely branched, the young branches slender, angular, thinly- Silvery. Stipules a line long, linear, spreading. Leaves subsessile, eely trifoliolate, central leaflet oblanceolate, }—3 in. long, 14-2 lines toad, apex rounded, mucronate, its petiolule } in. long, the lateral ones smaller, upper side green and thinly silky, the lower quite argenteous. owers in axillary racemes of 8-12 flowers, at first dense, afterwards 86 XLVII. § PAPILIONACE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. elongated on slender peduncles 2-3 in. long. Bracts linear-lanceolate, argenteous, equalling the pedicels which are about half a line long. Calyx tubular, argenteous, 3 line deep, the teeth lanceolate-deltoid, reaching nearly halfway down. Corolla purplish, four times as long as the calyx. Pods deflexed, an inch long, } in. thick, linear, mucro- nate, argenteous, 6—9-seeded.—Zephrosia crotalarioides, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 45. Miozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Peters! Very like J. trita, from which it may be known by its calyx and subsessile leaves. 53. I, medicaginea, Welw. mss. Annual or biennial with slender prostrate stems a foot or more long, several times forked with a few ad- pressed grey bristles upwards. Stipules setaceous, very munute. Petioles 8-4 lines. Leaflets 3 (often 1 in the annual form) green with a few adpressed grey bristles on both sides, the central one 6—8 lines long, roundish or broad-obovate, blunt with a faint mucro, distinctly stalked, the side ones smaller opposite. Racemes 6—20-flowered, 9-18 lines long on very slender pedunclés 6-12 lines long. Lower pedicels 3-4 lines long patent or erecto-patent. Calyx $ line long, thinl hispid, the lanceolate teeth as long as the tube. Corolla bright red, 1 in. long, the standard } in. broad, glabrous externally. Pod linear, $ in. long, densely grey-pubescent, upcurved, 8—9-seeded. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 54, I. oxalidea, Welw. mss. A trailing perennial herb with cop! ously branched stems a foot or more long, the slender flexuose branches inconspicuously grey-hispid. Stipules a line long, setaceous, persistent. Petiole shorter than the stipules. Leaflets 3-5, obovate-oblong, firm, bright green and subglabrous above, glaucous and inconspicuously erey-hispid beneath, blunt with a faint mucro, 4—6 lines long, the ter- minal one stalked, the side ones alternate. Racemes laxly 6-20- flowered on peduncles 3-6 lines long, finally 12-18 lines long. Pe- dicels very short, the lower cernuous. Calyx } in. deep, thinly grey- hispid, the linear-setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla purplish-red, half as long again as the calyx, the standard § ™. broad, grey-silky externally. Pod deflexed, linear, 1—3 in. long, 1 line broad, glabrescent, nearly straight, tipped with a persistent style a line long, 3—4-seeded, Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 55, I. trita, Linn. f.; DC. Prod, ii. 232. Annual or biennial with firm copiously branched ascending stems, slightly shrubby down- wards, densely clothed upwards with adpressed grey bristles. Stipules setaceous, persistent, 14-2 lines. Petioles 6—9 lines. Leaflets 3, very rarely 5, oblong or ovate or obovate-oblong, blunt with a faint mucro, ereen and scabrous above, glaucous and densely clothed with brittle erey bristles below, the central one 6-12 lines long, distinctly stalked, the side ones usually opposite. Flowers in copious short-peduncle Indigofera.) XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 87 moderately dense racemes 2-6 in. long. Pedicels very short, the lower detlexed. Calyx 2-1 line, the setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla purplish-red, twice the calyx, silky exter- nally. Pods deflexed, an inch long, 1 line thick, brown, glabrescent, slightly upcurved, 8—10-seeded.— IF. hedysaroides, Lam. Eneyel. itt. 250. I. cinerea, areuata and rigida, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1225-8. Lahaed Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Golungo Alto, Loanda and Ambaca, Dr. Wel- wetseh Wile Land. Abyssinia, Roth ! : A common East India species, extending to North Australia. 56. I. subulata, Voll; DC. Prod. ii. 232. Annual or biennial, 2-8 ft. high, copiously branched, the branches firm, slender, thinl silky. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles $3 in. long. Leaves wit usually two lateral pairs of leaflets and a terminal one, which are elliptical, 3-14 in. long, the apex rounded and mucronate, bright green, the lateral ones opposite, nearly sessile, both sides subglabrous. Flowers in lax racemes of about 20 flowers each on erecto-patent pe- duncles 1-2 in. long from the axils of the leaves. Calyx a line deep, thinly silky, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla lilac, three times as long as the calyx. Pod linear, mucronate, deflexed, subtetragonous, subglabrous, 1—2 in. long, 1 line broad, 8—10- seeded.—I. Thonningii, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 366. I. flaccida, Keen.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 875. Z. seabra, Roth. Nov. Sp. 359; DC. Prod. ii. 229, ‘A eae Guinea. Guinea Proper, Thonning. Senegambia, Leprieur and Per- rottet. Also a plant of the East and West Indies and Mexico. 57. I, benguellensis, Baker. An argenteous trailing perennial herb with slender terete stems more than a foot long, with copious ascending curved branches. Stipules minute, linear, persistent. Pe- tioles 2-3 lines. Leaves 9-12 lines long ; leaflets 3—5, narrow-obovate, reaching 6—8 lines long, 3-34 lines broad, blunt, often emarginate, thick in texture, both sides persistently argenteo-canescent, the end one shortly-stalked, the side ones alternate. Racemes densely 12—20- flowered, 9-15 lines long, on short peduncles. Pedicels very short. Bracts linear, minute, persistent. Calyx argenteous, } in. long, the linear-lanceolate teeth exceediny’ the obliquely campanulate tube. Corolla bright violet, half as long again as the calyx, the standard thinly silvery on the back. Pod Jinear, 6-8 lines long, } in. broad, Straight, canescent, subcompressed, 5—6-seeded. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, in sands near the sea, Dr. Welwitsch ! 58. I. inhambanensis, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb, Bot. 48. A woody copiously branched shrub more than a foot high with long, firm, ascending terete densely grey-silky branches. Petiole } in. long, densely grey-silky. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, terminal leaflet on a stalk } in. long, elliptical, 4-3 in. long by about half as broad, lateral 88 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [Indigofera. ones opposite, similar but smaller, texture firm, both sides densely erey-silky. Flowers in dense copious erecto-patent bracteate axillary racemes under an inch long. Pedicels very short. Calyx % in. long, erey-silky, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth linear-subulate, about equalling the corolla. Pod linear, 3-4 lines long, under 1 line thick, densely grey-silky, 3—4-seeded. Mozamb. Distr. Sofala, Inhambane, Dr. Peters! Tn general habit and the shape and texture of its leaves resembling I. paucifolia, but quite different in calyx and pod. 59. I. paucifolia, Delile; DC. Prod. ii. 224. A suberect shrub 4-8 ft. high, with slender, terete, flexuose, argenteous canescent branches. Stipules minute, linear-subulate, deciduous. Petioles 3-4 lines, argenteous. Leaflets 8-5, obovate-oblong, the terminal one 6-9 lines long, blunt with a mucro, the lateral ones laxly placed, usually alternate, both sides grey-green, and especially the under one argen- teous. Racemes short-stalked, 20-40-flowered, usually exceeding their leaves. Pedicel and calyx 1 line, both argenteous, the lower teeth of the latter lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla scarlet, twice the calyx, argenteous externally. Pod 6—9 lines long, 1 line broad, linear, slightly:upeurved and torulose, glaucous, 6~8-seeded.—Z. erythrantha, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 2178. Upper Guinea. Sencgambia, Perrottet! Leprieur! Heudelot ! Worth Central. Kouka, near Lake Tschad, L. Vogel! Nile Land. Nubia and Abyssinia, frequent, Sieber! Schimper! Speke and Grant! &c. Lower Guinea. Benguella, Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Also Egyptian, Arabian, and East Indian. 60. I. hirsuta, Z. ; DC. Prod. ii. 228. An erect or decumbent mode- rately branched annual or biennial, reaching 2-8 ft. high, with stems densely clothed with long fine spreading brown pubescence. Stipules setaceous, 3-4 lines, plumose. Leaves 1}—-3 in.; leaflets usually 5-?; rarely 9, obovate, 9-15 lines long, blunt with a faint mucro, grey a2 thinly silky above, more densely silky beneath, the midrib brown, al distinctly petiolulate, the side ones always opposite. Racemes mode- rately dense, 2—5 inches long, on erecto-patent peduncles shorter than the leaves. Bracts setaceous, brown-plumose. Pedicels } line long, cernuous. Calyx } in. long, densely brown-silky, the setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla scarlet, half as long aga? as the calyx. Pod lmear, straight, 6—9 lines long, 1 line broad, densely clothed with spreading grey or brown pubescence, 6—8-seeded.—Jacq- Te, t. 569. Beauvois Fl. d’Oware, t. 119. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag:; t. 24. I. ferruginea, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 370. I. fusca, G. Don, Gard. Dict. ii. 211. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Guinea Proper Beauvois, Thonning, Vogel! and others. Island of St. Thomas, G. Don! Worth Central. Bornu, #. Vogel! Wile Land. White Nile, Petherick! Unyoro and Mininga, Speke and Grant! ee Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 89 Lower Guinea. Common in Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! _ Reaches the Cape, Madagascar, and through Tropical Asia to North Australia, and is introduced in Brazil. _ Var. 8. polystachya, Welw. mss. Leaves closer ; leaflets more numerous, lateral 5-6- Jugate ; racemes shorter, denser, a large number from the upper leaves overtopping the stem. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Var. pumila, Welw. mss. Dwarf (foot high), perennial, suffruticose, copiously branched; leaflets 7-9, rotundate-obovate, 3-4 lines long; racemes dense, at first 1, finally 2 in. long: flowers smaller. Lower Guinea. Hauilla, Benguela, 5000 feet, Dr. Welwitsch! 61. I. astragalina, DC. Prod. ii. 228. An erect, moderately branched annual, 1-2 ft. high, with stems densely clothed with spreading whitish hairs. Stipules setaceous, 3-4 lines. “ Leaves 1-3 in. long; leaflets 7-11, obovate, reaching 6—9 lines long, blunt, faintly mucronate, both sides persistently clothed with spreading white soft hairs, the end one distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Racemes dense, 1-2, finally 3-4°in. long on peduncles 1-3 in. long. Bracts seta- ceous. Calyx } in. long, densely white-pubescent, the setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla bright yellow, half as long again as the calyx. Pod 5-6 lines long, 1 line broad, per- sistently grey-pubescent, 4—5-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Perrottet! Niger country, Barter! Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy! Lower Guinea. Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 62. I. alternans, DC. Prod. ii. 229. A prostrate, more or less argenteo-canescent herb, copiously branched at the crown of the root and upwards with stems a foot or less long. Stipules linear, very minute. Petioles 3—4 lines long. Leaves 9-12 lines long; leaflets 7-9, obovate-oblong, 4-6 lines long, blunt, often emarginate, both sides persistently argenteo-canescent, all rir ooneat stalked, the side Ones alternate. Flowers 12-20 in dense racemes about an inch long, on peduncles which often exceed the leaves. Pedicels 4 line long. alyx 1 in. long, densely grey-hispid, the setaceous teeth reaching own nearly to the base. Corolla bright violet, half as long again as the calyx, the round standard 24 lines broad, elabrous externally. Pods deflexed, linear, 5-6 lines long, } in. thick, persistently canescent, 5—6-seeded.—Harv. FI. Cap. ii. 199. TL. hololeuca, Benth.; Harv. Fl. Cap. loc. cit, Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, in sandy desert plains, Dr. Welwitsch! Var. 8. macra, Baker. Suberect, 1-2 ft. long, copiously branched, less argenteous, much more robust; leaflets oblanceolate, 8-9 lines long, 2-4 lines broad; lower racemes reaching 6~9 lines long. Jsower Guinea, Mossamedes, Benguela, in sands of the seashore, Dr. Wel- woitsch | 63. I. maritima, Baker. A diffuse copiously branched prostrate Perennial herb, with very flexuose stems 1-2 feet long, densely clothed 90 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. with short spreading white pubescence. Stipules linear, 1—2 lines, spreading, persistent. Petioles 83-4 lines. Leaves 12-18 lines; leaf- lets 5-9, obovate-oblong, distinctly emarginate, 4—6 lines long, all distinctly stalked, side ones alternate. | Racemes densely 20—30- flowered, at first conical, 1 in., finally 2-8 in. long, on peduncles that frequently exceed the leaves. Pedicels very short. Calyx 2 lines long, densely white-pubescent like the rest of the plant, the plumose seta- ceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla bright violet, half as long again as the calyx, the standard finely pubescent on the back. Pod linear, straight, 6-9 lines long, } in. thick, finely grey- downy, 8—10-seeded. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, frequent on the sands of the seashore, Dr. Welwitsch! who very justly compares the vestiture to that of Medicago maria. 64. I. heterocarpa, Welw. mss. A herbaceous perennial very ¢0- piously branched at the crown of the root and upwards with very slender branches, thinly coated with adpressed grey bristles. Stipules 1-1} lines, setaceous, persistent. Petioles 1-2 lines. Leaves 6—9 lines long; leatlets 5-7, oblanceolate, pale green, with a few adpressed grey bristles on both sides, 3-4 in. long, subacute, cuspidate, the end ones distinctly stalked, the side ones subsessile, opposite. Flowers 6—12 in copious lax racemes 12-18 lines long’, on peduncles about as long as the leaves. Pedicels $ line. Calyx 1 line, densely grey-hispid, teeth linear-seta- ceous down nearly to the base. Corolla purplish-red, under twice the calyx, the standard slightly grey-silky on the outside. Pod 3-4 lines, 3 en thick, terete, finely grey-hispid, straight, 4—5- sometimes 1-2- seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, in high pastures 5400 feet above sea-level, Dr. Welwitsch! 65. I. setiflora, Baker. An erect copiously branched herbaceous perennial 1-2 ft. high, with slender finely grey-hispid branches. Sti- pules setaceous, ciliated, very minute. Petioles 2-8 lines. Leaves 12-18 lines long ; leaflets 5-7, oblanceolate, 6—8 lines long, bluntish with a distinct mucro, grey and thinly hispid above, glaucous and more densely so below, the end one distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Flowers in racemes 2—3 in. long, dense upwards, lax after they expand, on peduncles an inch long. Pedicels very short. Calyx } in., teet setaceous, reaching down to the base, densely plumose with blackish- grey bristles. Corolla purple, scarcely exceeding the calyx, the stan- dard thinly hispid externally. Ovary oblong, densely erey-hispid, pauciovulate. Pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! Between J. secundiflora and the Natal I. grata, E. Meyer. 66. I. mimosoides, Baker, A herbaceous perennial, with copiously divaricately branched very slender stems, a foot long, thinly clothe with short grey bristles. Stipules minute, setaceous, persistent. Pe- tioles 2-3 lines. Leaves 9-12 lines long; leaflets 3—7, oblong, 3-4 Indigofera. | XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 91 lines long, blunt with a distinct mucro, green above, glaucous beneath, both sides scabrous with short adpressed grey bristles, all distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Flowers 6-10, in very lax distinctly peduncled erecto-patent racemes 1-1} in. long, some of the bristles of the rachis gland-tipped. Pedicels $line. Calyx 1 line, densely grey- bristly, the spreading setaceous teeth exceeding the campanulate tube. Corolla violet, nearly twice the cal yx, the standard thinly grey-bristly on the outside. Pod linear, 6-7 fines long, finely grey-hispid, many of the bristles gland-tipped, 8-10-seeded. aoe Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Wel- witsch | 67. I. torulosa, Baker. A copiously branched shrub with slender firm terete glabrous branches. Stipules setaceous. Petioles slender, firm, erecto-patent, elabrous, 4 in. long. Leaflets 5—9, the terminal one considerably larger than the others, sometimes more than 2 in. long by half as broad, ovate or oblong, rounded at both ends, the apex mucro- hate, the lateral ones opposite, distinctly stalked, upper surface green, lower glaucous, the hairs on both very thin and short, scarcely visible in the mature plant without a lens. Flowers in sessile slender racemes 2 in. long. Bracts linear, deciduous. Calyx obliquely campanulate, half a line deep, subglabrous, the teeth shallow, deltoid. Corolla 4-6 times as long as the calyx, probably yellow when fresh, but turning to dark brown when dried. Pods detlexed, linear, mucronate, slender, glabrous, nearly straight, 14-2 in. long, very distinctly torulose, 4-8-seeded. ae Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, between Tette and Lupata, and banks of the Rovuma river, Dr. Kirk! 68. 1, subcorymbosa, Baker. A copiously branched shrub 2-4 ft. high, the very slender branchlets thinly coated with short grey pubes- fence. Stipules minute setaceous. Petioles 2~3 lines. Leaves 18-21 lines long. Leaflets 5-7, obovate, blunt with a minute mucro, 6-9 thes long, both sides with a few adpressed grey bristles, all distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Flowers 6-12 in close abbreviated Short-stalked racemes shorter than the leaves. Pedicels 4 line, densely rown-silky. Calyx 4 line, densely brown-silky, the linear-lanceolate teeth equalling the tube. Corolla 2 lines long, scarlet, turning brick- red, the oblong standard subglabrous externally. Ovary linear, sub- glabrous, multiovulate. Pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 69. I. Binderi, Kotschy Pl. Binder. xv.t. 6 B. Stem suftruticose, *rect, the whole plant scabrous with short rough hairs, the branches angular and striated. Stipules } in. long, rigid, subulate. Petiole in. long. Leaflets 3-7, obovate, $~2 in. long, the apex emarginate and mucronate, both sides, especially the under one, scabrous, the lateral ones opposite and distinctly stalked. Flowers in moderately 92 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Indigofera. dense racemes of about 20 each, about 2 in. long on erecto-patent axillary peduncles which equal them. Bracts linear, about 2 lines long. Calyx nearly sessile, a line long, densely clothed with short hairs, the mouth oblique, the teeth subdeltoid. Corolla scarcely twice the calyx, hairy on the outside, the standard and keel roundish and convex, the wings much smaller. Ovary linear-oblong, with 8 ovules. Pod not known. Wile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Binder. 70. I. rhynchocarpa, Welw. mss. An undershrub 3-4 ft. high with strong terete grey glabrous woody branches. Stipules setaceous, 13-2 lines. Petioles 12-15 lines long. Leaves 5—6 in. long. Leaflets 7, rarely 9, subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous, upper dull green, lower glaucous, oblong or with a slight obovate tendency, blunt with a faint deciduous mucro, reaching 25-3 in. long, 18-21 lines broad, the end one distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite, shortly stalked, all stipel- late. Racemes dense, comose in bud with deciduous setaceous bracts } in. long, 2-4 in. long in flower, casually forked. Pedicels }~1 line rlabrous. Calyx 1 line deep, glabrous, coriaceous; teeth very short altoid. Corolla 5—6 lines long, whitish tinged with red, the standard glabrous and tinged with green on the outside. Pod coriaceous, 24-*i in. long, 3 in. ‘broad, terete, black, glabrous, upcurved at the very point, where it is curiously tumid and rugose. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft. Dr. Welwitsch! 71. I. Spachii, Baker. An erect undershrub 1-2 ft. high, the branches ascending, slender, thinly silky. Stipules linear-setaceous- Petioles erecto-patent, } in. long. Leaflets 5, oblong or obovate; 3— in. long, apex rounded mucronate, lateral ones opposite, short stalked, surfaces thinly silky. Racemes in flower about 2 in. long, the upper ones sessile, the lower on erecto-patent peduncles an inch oF more long. Calyx } in. deep, the teeth linear, unequal, reaching more than half way down. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx, silk externally. Pod deflexed, linear, mucronate, very slightly upcurvee, 1-1} in. long, } in. broad, 8—-10-seeded, thinly silky, subtorulose- I. coronilloides, Jaub. et Spach. Ill. Pl. Orient. t. 485-6 non Mart. et Gal. Wile Land. Mountains of Abyssinia, Schimper! 72. I. Quartiniana, A. Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 183. Stem woody erect, 2-3 ft. high, the branches ascending, elongated, firm, slender, sulcate, thinly silky. Stipules small, slender. Petioles slender, under 4 1- long. Leaves with 2-3 pairs of leaflets, which are oblong, 1} in. long, under half as broad, the lateral ones opposite, short-stalked, both sides thinly silky. Racemes at first about an inch long on peduncles whic nearly or quite equal them. Calyx 2 lines long, thinly silky, the teeth linear-subulate, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla pur lish, twice as long as the calyx. Pod spreading or slightly deflexed, linea Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACE® (BAKER). 93 mucronate, ?-1} in. long, 1 line thick, tetragonous, subglabrous, 6—10- seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon! Nubian coast, Schweinfurth! 73. I, semitrijuga, Forsk.; DC. Prod. ii. 230. Stem fruticose, a foot or more high, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branches erecto-patent, firm, terete, glaucous-silvery. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles $ in. long. Leaves } in. long or rather more, with usualiy 3 pairs of close sessile obovate leaflets, which are 14-2 lines long, the end one stalked, base cuneate, apex rounded mucronate, texture firm, both sides silvery. Flowers in short-stalked lax racemes of 6-12 flowers each exceeding the leaves. Calyx short-stalked, very silky, a line deep, the lower teeth linear, reaching half way down, the others shorter. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, thinly silvery on the outside. Pods spreading, linear-mucronate, 2 in. long, 1 line broad, terete, finely silky, 2-4-seeded.—Z. argentea, Burm. F'. Ind. 171 non Linn. Nile Land. Abyssinia (teste Schweinfurth), Nubia, Kordofan and Sennaar, Kotschy ! Schweinfurth ! Extends from Egypt through Arabia to Scinde. 74. I, pruinosa, Welw. mss. A shrub 2 ft. high with strong terete woody branches which like the rest of the plant are densely argenteo- Canescent. Petioles 2-3 lines. Leaves 6-12 lines. Leaflets 5-7, very thick, rigidly coriaceous, densely silvery on both sides, often com- Plicate, very deciduous in the dried plant, the end one short-stalked or Sessile, the side ones opposite. Flowers about a dozen in dense short- stalked racemes which exceed the leaves a little. Pedicels very short. Calyx } in, long, argenteous, oblique, the lanceolate teeth much shorter than the tube. Corolla violet-purple, nearly twice the calyx, glabrous externally. Pod straight, coriaceous, terete, 15-16 lines long, } in. broad, brown, slightly canescent, many-seeded. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 75. I, Schimperi, Jaub. et Spach, Ilust. Pl. Or. t. 484. A much- branched shrub reaching a height of 10 ft., the branches ascending, silvery, flexuose, woody. Stipules linear from a dilated base. Petioles in. long, erecto-patent. feates 5-7, obovate, $—2 in. long, the 4pex rounded, often emarginate, the lateral ones alternate, distinctly stalked, both sides densely argenteous. Flowers in rather close axillary Tacemes at first about an inch long, finally 4 or 5 in. long, on short rrecto-patent peduncles. Calyx a line deep, silvery, the teeth subequal, anceolate, acuminate, not reaching more than halfway down. Corolla ip lish, three or four times as long as the calyx, silky on the outside. 0d deflexed, linear, mucronate, 1 in. or more long, straight, thinl silky when young.—J, tettensis, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 51. Nile Land. Nubia, Schweinfurth! Abyssinia, Schimper ! : se" ne Distr. Zambesi land, Peters!’ Banks of a stream in 7°20 S. lat, » Jong., Speke and Grant ! ( As silvery as J. paucifolia aud argentea, and formerly cultivated in Zambesi land. 94 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Indigofera. 76. I. atriceps, Hook.f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 190. An undershrub 2-3 ft. high, the branches firm, subterete, with a few spreading sete when young, glabrous when mature. Stipules setaceous. Petioles very short. Leaflets 9-13, oblanceolate or obovate, 3—} in. long, apex rounded mucronate, lateral ones contiguous, opposite, short-stalked, texture firm, upper surface green, lower glaucous, both very thinly silky. Racemes dense, 1-14 in. long, on firm erecto-patent peduncles 2 in. long, which like the rachis of the flower-cluster are coated with black pubescence. Calyx 2 lines, with dense similar pubescence, the teeth linear-subulate, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla purplish, half as long again as the calyx. Pod spreading, linear- mucronate, 2 in. long, a line broad, densely clothed with close black pubescence, and scattered longer pale brown gland-tipped hairs, 6-8- seeded. Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, at 7000 ft., Wann! 77. I. secundiflora, Poir.; DC. Prod. ii. 228. Stem herbaceous or slightly shrubby, copiously and diffusely branched, more or less densely clothed with spreading grey or ferruginous hairs intermixed with abundant deciduous stalked glands. Stipules subulate. Leaves subsessile, with 4—6 pairs of leaflets, oblong or obovate, 3—} long, the. apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones opposite, short-stalked, both sides rather densely grey-silky. Racemes copious, dense, 14-2 in. long, on erecto-patent peduncles clothed like the stem and from }—1 in. long. Calyx densely silky, } in. long, the teeth subulate, reaching down nearly to the base, often black. Corolla reddish, slightly ex- ceeding the calyx. Pods linear-oblong, 4-3 in. long, straight, hori- zontal, acieia 4 clothed with spreading grey or ferruginous often gland-bearing hairs, 2—4-seeded.— I. oligosperma, DC. Prod. 1.c. ; Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 181; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 181. J. glutinosa, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 370, non DC. 7. melanotricha, Steud. 10 Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 761. Z. urostachya, Fenzl in Kotsch. Pl. /Ethiop. 509. Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Guinea proper, Thonning, Mylne! Barter! Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Schweinfurth! Abyssinia, Schimper! and others. Unyoro, Speke and Grant ! Varies considerably in robustness, the colour of the pubescence and quantity and colour of the setee, which are sometimes a beautiful purple. A plant, of which there 38 a single specimen in the Afzelian herbarium, gathered by Brass at Sierra Leone, ™® sembles this closely in general habit and leaf. It has a longer calyx (12 lines long), densely clothed with brown silky hairs, with lanceolate-setaceous teeth reaching dow? nearly to the base. No doubt it is distinct, but there are neither good flowers nor fruit. 78. I. Perrottetii, DC. Prod. ii. 228. Stem a foot or more long; herbaceous, moderately stout, trailing, branched from the base, think silky upwards. chy seni linear. Petioles spreading or erecto- atent, under half an inch long. Leaves with 3—5 pairs of leaflets, oblance0- late, 3-4} in. long, the apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones opposite, both sides glaucous and thinly silky, and the lower also dotte Atneemaeeseennaioneantemn nent eIe Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 95 with black glands. Flowers in dense nearly sessile axillary racemes an inch or more long. Calyx } in. deep, thinly silky, the teeth seta- ceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla red, about equalling the calyx. Pod deflexed, oblong, mucronate, } in. long, } in. thick, subterete, slightly torulose, thinly villose, 2-8-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 185. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Very like I. endecaphylla in texture and general habit, different by its opposite leaf- lets, conspicuously dotted beneath, and in its pods. 79. I. costata, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 187. Stem herbaceous, 18 in. high, erect, scarcely branched, angular, scabrous, thinly hairy. Stipules minute, filiform, spreading, ciliated. Petioles under 3 in. long. Leaves with 6-7 pairs of leaflets, oval-oblong, 8-10 lines long, mucronate, the lateral ones opposite, colour pale green, both sides thinly hairy. Flowers in slender axillary racemes 2-3 in. long on peduncles as long as themselves. Calyx a line deep, thinly hairy, the teeth linear, reaching more than halfway down. Corolla rose-coloured, twice as long as the calyx. Pod linear, mucronate, straight, subcom- pressed, deflexed, about 1 in. long, adpressedly pilose, 15—20-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! : ae ery near J. parviflora, but the leaves broader, and racemes with stalks that equal em. ' 80. I, daleoides, Benth.; Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 200. A copiously branched argenteous perennial herb with slender trailing stems 1-2 ft. long. Stipules linear, minute, spreading, persistent. Leaves sub- Sessile, 8-12 lines long; leaflets 7-13, obovate-oblong, 3—4 lines long, blunt, minutely mucronate, very thick in texture, both sides densely and persistently argenteo-canescent, the end one subsessile or short- Stalked, the side ones alternate. Racemes 12—30-flowered, conical, 6-9 lines, finally 12-18 lines long, on peduncles which usually exceed the leaves, Calyx 1 in. long, subsessile, densely clothed with long whitish hairs, the plumose setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the ase. Corolla violet, scarcely exceeding the calyx, the standard slightly gtey-hairy on the outside. “Pod deflexed, linear, 6—7 lines long, 1 line thick, shortly grey-pubescent, 9—10-seeded. Lower Guinea. Benguela, in the sands of the seashore, Dr. Welwitsch! A Cape species. G1. E. enneaphylla, Z.; DC. Prod. ii. 229. Annual or biennial, copiously stellately branched at the crown of the root with firm terete stems a foot or more long, grey-downy upwards. Stipules setaceous, 1-1} lines. Petioles 2-4 lines, often patent or deflexed. Leaves 9-18 ines lone; Jeaflets 7-11, oblanceolate, blunt, often emarginate, grey and more or less argenteous on both sides, 3-6 lines long, the end one stinetly stalked, the side ones opposite. Flowers in very dense racemes 1-2 in, long on very short peduncles. Calyx 1 line, densely 8tey-silky, the linear setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. 96 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. Corolla violet-purple, twice the calyx. Pod 2-8 lines long, }—1 line thick, turgid, distinctly torulose, persistently grey-pubescent, the hairs not gland-tipped. Seeds 2-3. Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! A common Kast India species. 82. I. endecaphylla, Jacy.; DC. Prod. ii. 228. An annual or biennial with copiously branched suberect or prostrate stems 1-3 ft. long, thinly grey-hispid upwards. Stipules 3—4 lines, lanceolate, acu- minate, membranous, persistent. Leaves 1-2} in. long; leaflets 7-9, oblanceolate-oblong, 6-12 lines long, blunt with a mucro, greenish and glabrescent above, glaucous and inconspicuously grey-hispid below, all distinctly stalked, side ones alternate. Racemes dense, 1—4 in. long on peduncles 3-18 lines long. Pedicels very short. Calyx 1—1} lines long, the setaceous teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla violet-purple, twice the calyx, glabrous externally. Pods de- flexed, linear, 8-10 lines long, 1 line thick, subglabrous, 6-8-seeded.— Beauv. Fl. d’Oware t. 84. J. anceps, Vahl, Poir. Enc. Suppl. iii. 147. I. Schimperiana, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 366. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Gold Coast, Beauvois, Thonning, and others. Island of St. Vhomas, G. Don! Dahomey, Capt. Burton! Nile Land. Nubia, Schweinfurth. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! and others. Makata, Speke and Grant! Lower Guinea. Congo, and most of the provinces of Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Meller! Extends southward to Natal and the Cape. Var. radicans, Welw. Stems and branches quite trailing, rooting downwards. Leaves 9-12 lines long; leaflets 3-5. Calyx 2 in. Corolla not more than half as long again as the calyx. Pod 5-6 lines long, 4—5-seeded. Lower Guinea. Highlands of the province of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 83. I. phyllanthoides, Baker. An undershrub 2-3 ft. high with very numerous ascending finely grey-downy branches. Stipules 1 line, setaceous, persistent. Leaves subsessile, 9-18 lines long ; leaflets 9-11, obovate, 4-3 in. long, 2-24 lines broad, grey and persistently sca brous with minute grey bristles on both sides, all distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Racemes exceeding the leaves, 12-20-flowered, 14-2 in. long, shortly peduncled. Bracts like the stipules. Pedicels 4 line, cernuous, brown-silky. Calyx 2 line, densely coated with mixe brown and grey bristles, teeth setaceous, rather exceeding the tube. Corolla 4 in., violet, less fugacious than in most of its allies, densely brown-silky on the outside. Ovary linear, clothed with adpressed grey bristles, multiovulate. Pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla province, Benguela, 5400 ft., Dr. Welwitsch! 84, I. subulifera, Welw. mss. Suffruticose, 14-3 ft. high, erect, copiously branched, the erecto-patent rigid slender branches finely rey-downy. Stipules minute, linear, persistent. Petioles 1-4 Jines a Leaves 1-3 in. long; leaflets 7-13, oblong or oblanceolate, reaching 6-9 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, acute, greenish and thinly Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 97 bristly above, grey and more densely bristly beneath, all distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Flowers 12-20 in very numerous mo- derately dense nearly sessile racemes, the upper exceeding the much- reduced leaves. Pedicels very short. Calyx } in. long, densely grey- hispid, the setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla reddish purple, 4 lines long, grey-hispid externally. Pod oblong, tipped with the persistent style, 2 lines long, 1 line thick, usually 3 casually 1-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 85. I. amorphoides, Jau). et Spach, Illust. Pl. Orient. t. 483. A copiously branched shrub several feet high, the branches firm, straight, deeply sulcate, thinly silky. Stipules linear, deciduous. Petioles +-2 in. long, firm, erecto-patent. pe 2-3 in. long; leaflets 8-9 pairs, oblanceolate, 4—3 in. long, apex often emarginate, lateral ones close, opposite, distinctly stalked, both sides subglaucous, any silky, turning blackish when dried. Racemes 20—80-Howered, sessile, ulti- mately 2 in. long. Pedicel equalling the thinly silky obliquely cam- panulate calyx, which is } line deep, the lower teeth lanceolate, reach- mg about halfway down, the upper deltoid shorter. Corolla yellow, three or four times as long as the calyx. Pod oblong-mucronate, 23-3 lines long by half as broad, glabrous and bright chestnut-brown when mature, slightly compressed, 2—3-seeded.—JI. abyssinica, Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 2213. J. alta, Schweinf. Fl. Aithiop. 11. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! ee General habit of J. arrecta, but the flowers more copious, and pods quite different from all the rest of the group. 86. I. arrecta, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1923. A copiously branched shrub several feet high, the branches straight, deeply sulcate, thinly silky. Stipules linear, deciduous. Petioles }—4 in. long, firm, slender, erecto-patent. Leaves 2-3 in. long, leaflets 6—8 pairs, oblan- ceolate, 4-8 in. long, the lateral ones opposite, short-stalked, both sides subglaucous and thinly silky, turning blackish when dried. Racemes 6-12-flowered, sessile’ or nearly so, not more than an inch long. Pedicels equalling the thinly silvery calyx, which is not more than half a line deep, obliquely campanulate, the upper teeth deltoid, the lower anceolate not reaching halfway down. Corolla yellow, four times as ong as the calyx. Pods deflexed, straight, linear-mucronate, }— in. long, a line thick, terete, polished, chestnut-brown when mature, 6—8- Seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 184. Nile Land. Sennaar, Cienkowsky. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit ! Roth! Native name, Degendeg. This and the preceding have more numerous, closer, and smaller leaves than the rest of the officinal species. J. arrecta of Harvey, FI. Cap. ii. 183, is a different plant, and Will have to take a new name. 87. I. argentea, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 224. A copiously branched shrub several feet high, the branches firm, suleate, silvery. Stipules VOL, It. H 98 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. small, setaceous. Petioles $ in. long, firm, erecto-patent. Leaves 2-24 in. long with 4 pairs of leaflets, which are obovate, 3-1 in. long, the lateral ones opposite, short-stalked, both sides permanently silvery, turning blackish when dried. Racemes 12—20-flowered, 1-1} in. long when in flower, sessile or nearly so. Pedicel about equalling the sil- very calyx, which is half a line deep, teeth reaching about halfway down. Corolla yellow, about 4 times as long as the calyx. Pod deflexed, sickle-shaped, } in. long, } in. thick, terete, slightly torulose, glabrous when mature, 3—4-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1. 184. 1. glauca, Lam. Encycl. iii. 246, I. tinctoria, Forsk. Aigypt. 138 non Linn. I. articulata, Gouan, Must. 49. I. eerulea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 387. Wight. Ic. ii. t. 3866. Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Schweinfurth! Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! Also wild and cultivated in the Barbary States, Egypt, and Arabia, and the East Indies. Much more argenteous than J. Anil, which it resembles in its sickle-shaped pod, with fewer leaves and seeds. 88. I. Anil, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 225. A copiously branched shrub 3-9 ft. high, branches straight, woody, deeply sulcate, thinly silvery. Sti- ie small setaceous. Petiole under } in. long, firm, erecto-patent. eaves 2-4 in. long, leaflets 6-8 pairs, oblong or obovate, 3-1 in. long by about half as broad, lateral ones opposite, short-stalked, both sides subglaucous and thinly silvery, upper one nearly or quite glabrous when mature, turning blackish when dried. Racemes moderately dense, 1-2 in. long when in flower, nearly sessile. Pedicel equalling the obliquely campanulate thinly silvery calyx, which is not more than half a line deep, the lower teeth lanceolate, reaching halfway down, the upper shorter. Corolla fugacious, yellow, four times as long as the aii: Pod reflexed, sickle-shaped, }—3 in. long, 4 in. thick, sub- tetragonous with thickened sutures, glabrous when mature, 6—8- seeded.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 178. J. uncinata, G. Don, Gard. Dict. ii. 208. One of the species most commonly cultivated. We have it from Senegambia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Mozambique, Angola, and Zambesi land. It is said to be a native of Tropical America, and is subspontaneous in Tropical Africa in various places, espe cially along the coast about Sierra Leone. 89. I. umbonata, Welw. mss. A rigid undershrub 2 ft. high with terete woody grey sulcate finely grey-hispid long stiff branches. St- mules setaceous very minute. Petioles 3-6 lines. Leaves 2-24 in. bite leaflets 11-18, obovate-oblong, reaching 6-7 lines long, 4 ™- broad, blunt with a minute mucro, glaucous and finely grey-hispid 0” both sides, all distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Racemes sessile, 12-20-flowered, 6—9 lines long. Calyx and pedicels each 4 line long, the former brown-silky, its teeth deltoid, shorter than the tube. Corolla 1-2 lines long, brownish when dried, finely clothed externally with adpressed silky hairs. Pod 6-9 lines long, 1} line thick, terete, straight, glabrous, 6—8-seeded, with a small prominent umbonate ring at the point. Indigofera.) XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 99 Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! Very near J. tinctoria, from which it differs principally in the pod. 90. I. orthocarpa, Baker. A copiously branched shrub with Woody angular thinly silvery branches. Stipules small, setaceons. Petioles 4 in, long, tirm, erecto-patent. Leaves 2-3 in. long, leaflets 4-6 pairs, obovate, 4-3 in. long, about half as broad, both sides per- manently thinly silvery, lateral ones opposite, short-stalked, turning blackish when dried. ‘Racemes sessile, 12—20-flowered, about an inch long when in flower, ultimately equalling the leaves. Pedicel equal- ling the silvery calyx, which is half a line deep, the teeth lanceolate, reaching halfway down. Corolla yellow, four times as long as the calyx. Pod deflexed, 1-1} in. long, } in. broad, straight, subterete, naked, 8—12-seeded.—J. Anil. var. orthocarpa, DC. Prod. ti. 225. North Central. Kouka, Z. Vogel! _Nile Land. Nubia, Kordofan, Sennaar, and banks of the Blue Nile at Khartoum Kotschy! Habit of Z. Anil, but the leaves fewer and more argenteous, and in the straight pod and number of seeds agreeing with J. tinctoria. ae tinctoria, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 224. A copiously branched shrub 4-6 ft. high, the branches straight or flexuose, sulcate, thinly silky, Stipules small, setaceous. Petioles }—1 in. long, firm, erecto- patent. Leaves 2-8 in, long, with leaflets 4—6 pairs, oblong or ob- ovate, 3—} in. long, both sides subglaucous and thinly silvery, the lateral ‘ones opposite, short-stalked, turning slightly blackish when dried. Racemes axillary, lax, about 20-flowered, ultimately equalling or a little exceeding the leaves. Pedicel shorter than the silvery calyx, which is more than half a line deep, teeth lanceolate, reaching half- way down. Corolla more than two lines long, yellow or purplish. ods detlexed, 1-1} in. long, } in. thick, subterete, straight or nearly So, glabrous when mature, 8—12-seeded.— Wight. Te. ii. t. 315. Guill. et Perr, Fl. Seneg. i. 178. 7. indica, Lam. Eneycl. iii. 245, I. ornitho- podivides, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 372. Universally cultivated. Wild in Senegambia, and perhaps elsewhere. ue: I, emarginella, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 730. A woody erect shrub 3-4 ft. high, with firm terete branches, only thinly pubes- Cent upwards, not at all silky or argenteous. Stipules linear-setaceous, etioles 4 in, long, erecto-patent. Leaves with usually 4 pairs ot elliptical or obovate leatlets, $—1 in. long, the apex rounded and dis- tinetly mucronate, the lateral ones contiguous, opposite, distinetly Stalked with minute setaceous stipelle, texture subcoriaceous, upper surface green, lower glaucous, both when mature glabrous. Flowers in dense nearly or quite sessile axillary conical racemes 12-18 lines long. Calyx } line deep, obliquely campanulate, thinly clothed of brownish pubescence, the teeth deltoid. Corolla } in, long, bright yellow when fresh, brown when dried, the oblong standard glabrous externally. Pods deflexed, linear, mucronate, $3 in, long, 1 line broad, nearly straight, terete, glabrous when mature, GS seeded. — H2 100 XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 185. J. coluteifolia, Jaub. et Spach, lust. Pl. Orient. t. 487-8. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Karagué, Speke and Grant! Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 93. I. macrophylla, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 372. An erect very much branched shrub 6-12 ft. high, with firm terete glabrous branches. Stipules minute, linear, deciduous. Petioles }—1 in. Leaves 3—4 in. long; leaflets usually 9, obovate, blunt with a minute mucro, reaching 12-18 lines long, 9-10 lines broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous, all distinctly stalked with minute setaceous stipelle. Flowers 20-40 in moderately dense peduncled conical racemes an inch broad which exceed the leaves. Pedicels 1 line long. LBracts minute, setaceous, deciduous. Calyx } line, subglabrous, the teeth deltoid as long as the tube. Corolla 4-5 lines long, variegated with red and green, glabrous externally. Pods deflexed, linear, 12-15 lines long, } in. broad, nearly straight, glabrous; terete, 6—8-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Guinea proper, Thonning, Barter! Sierra Leone, Afzelius/ Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft., Dr. Welwitsch! 94. I. dendroides, Jucy.; DC. Prod. ii. 227. Stem 1-2 ft. high, herbaceous, erect, copiously branched, the branches ascending, slender, slightly silky. Stipules minute subulate. Leaves of the main stem subsessile, 2-3 in. long, leatlets 10-15 pairs, oblanceolate or oblong, 3-4 lines long, apex rounded mucronate, lateral ones opposite on distinct stalks about 2 lines apart, both sides glaucous, slightly silky. Flowers in very lax racemes of 8-12 flowers each on slender erecto- patent peduncles an inch or more long. Lower pedicels twice as long as the calyx, which is thinly silky, under a line deep, the teeth linear, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla deep rose-coloured, three or four times as long as the calyx. Pod linear, mucronate, 1-14 in. long, 1 line broad, subtetragonous, subglabrous, 10—-12-seeded.—Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 375. Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 181. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Guinea proper, Thonning, Brass! Vogel! and others. Sierra Leone, Afzelius/ Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Herbaceous, with the habit of § Dissitifloree, but the flowers more numerous. 95. I. viscidissima, Baker. A copiously branched erect perennial herb with the main stem and all the branches very densely coated with stalked brown glands. Stipules setaceous, 1 line, persistent, spreading. Petioles 3-4 lines. Leaves 14-3 in.; leaflets 11-19, oblong, 4-6 lines long, blunt with a distinct mucro, both sides grey, densely hispid, very scabrous, all distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Flowers 12-20 in moderately dense racemes 14-2 in. long on short erecto-patent peduncles. Pedicels $ line. Calyx } in. long, densely viscous, the setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla purplish- red, very fugacious, equalling the i Pod linear, rharept 40 grey, many-seeded, densely clothed with stalked glands, not seen fully mature. Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). 101 Lower Guinea. Highlands of the province of Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 96. I. sutherlandioides, Welw. mss. An undershrub, with erect, woody stems with several rigidly erecto-patent branches, densely clothed with short brownish-grey pubescence. Stipules 2-3 lines, seta- ceous, persistent. Petioles 3—4 lines. Leaves 2-24 in. long; leaf- lets 13-19, subcoriaceous, 5-6 lines long, grey and finely silky above, densely white-silky beneath with the midrib brownish, the side ones lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, usually opposite, the end one stalked, oblanceolate, blunt, both with a conspicuous mucro. Flowers in moderately dense short-stalked racemes 15-18 lines long, an inch broad. Pedicels 4—3 line, densely grey-silky. Calyx } line, densely grey-silky, teeth deltoid, shorter than the tube. Corolla 4-5 lines long, dark purple, the standard glabrous externally. Pods straight, dark purple, 18-21 lines long, 2 lines broad, glabrous, 12—15-seeded. Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 97. I. fulgens, Baker. A copiously branched shrub, with firm, flexuose branches, clothed upwards with short spreading brown pubes- cence. Stipules half an inch long, setaceous, ciliated. Petioles }—} in. long, firm, erecto-patent. Leaves 5—6 in. long, with about 10 pairs of stalked oblong or slightly obovate leaflets, an inch or rather more long, not half as broad, distinctly mucronate, green, not at all glaucous, both sides slightly pubescent. Racemes lax, short-stalked, finally nearly as long as the leaves. Pedicel equalling the calyx, which is a line deep, thinly silky, campanulate, the teeth lanceolate, reaching halfway down. Corolla bright red, 2 in. long, the standard spathulate, 2 lines broad. Pod linear-mucronate, 14 in. long, } in. thick, glabrous, slightly torulose, 10-12-seeded. Mozamb. Distr. Banks of the Rovuma, Dr. Kirk! : ; : This has much the largest and most showy flowers of all the Tropical African species. 98. I. Hochstetteri, Buler. Stems herbaceous, a foot or more long, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branchlets slender, angular, moderately silvery. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles 4~$ in. long. Tnalles in 1-8 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, $1 in. long, the ateral ones distant, slightly stalked, the apex rounded and mucronate, both sides glaucous, and permanently thinly coated with strong ad- pressed silvery hairs. Flowers in close oblong racemes of about 12 each, not above 4 in. long till the fruit is produced, on peduncles 4 in. or less long. Calyx silvery, } in. deep, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth setaceous, the lowest the longest. Corolla pink, about equal- ling the calyx. Pods deflexed and then again slightly recurved, linear- mucronate, $-3in. long, } in. broad, 6—8-seeded.—ZJ. ornithopodioides, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Arab. No. 769. Jaub. et Spach, Ilust. 1.-Or, t. 480, non Schum. et Thonn. nec Cham. et Schlecht. Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Petherick! Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! . Extends through Arabia to Scinde. 102 XLVIL, § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). { Indigofera. 99. I. oligophylla, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 49. Stem her- baceous, a foot long, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branches slender, terete, silvery. Stipules small, setaceous. Pe- tioles } in. long. Leaves with 1-2 pairs of narrowly oblanceolate leaflets, }-1 in. long, 2 lines broad, apex rounded, mucronate, both sides densely clothed with adpressed silvery hairs. Flowers in long stalked racemes of 10-15 flowers each which equal the leaves, the peduncle 1-2 in. long. Bracts short, cymbiform, acuminate, persistent. Calyx silvery, 4 in. deep, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth seta- ceous. Corolla about equalling the calyx. Pods deflexed, and then again slightly recurved, linear-mucronate, } in. long, 1 line broad, 4-6- seeded. Mozamb. Distr. Island of Goa, Peters! Closely allied to I. ornithopodioides, but more silvery, with smaller pods, fewer leaf- lets and seeds, and longer peduncles and petioles. 100. I. aspera, Perr. in DC. Prod. ii. 229. Stem herbaceous, @ foot or more long, erect or diffusely branched from the base, the branch- lets slender, angular, moderately silvery. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles }~3 in. long. Leaflets usually 2 pairs, lateral ones opposite, distant, nearly sessile, all linear-lanceolate, 1-14 in. long, 2-8 lines broad, apex rounded, mucronate, both sides glaucous, and permanently thinly coated with strong adpressed silvery hairs. Flowers in axillary racemes 2-3 in. long, of 20-30 each, on peduncles }—-}in. long. Brac- teoles setaceous, deciduous, exceeding the short silky pedicels. Calyx silky, 4 in. deep, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth setaceous, the two lowest the longest. Corolla rose-coloured, twice as long as the calyx, the standard silvery on the outside. Pods deflexed, straight, linear, mucronate, lin. long, 1 line thick, thinly silky, 10—12-seeded.— Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 184. Phe sae Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet! Heudelot! Niger country, arter | Wile Land. Kordofan and the White Nile tract, Kotschy! Binder, Heuglin. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Dr. Welwitsch! 101. I. sengalensis, Lam. ; DC. Prod. ii. 228. Stem herbaceous, 4 foot or more long, erect or copiously and diffusely branched, the branch- lets slender, angular, moderately silvery. Stipules minute, setaceous: Petioles slender, 4} in. long. Leaflets in 1-3 pairs, linear, 1-1} 1 long, 2-3 lines broad, point rounded, mucronate, lateral ones distant, nearly sessile, both sides glaucous, and permanently thinly coated with strong adpressed silvery hairs. Flowers in axillary racemes 1-2 in. long, of 20-80, on peduncles $-} in. long. Bracteoles setaceous, deciduous, exceeding the short silky pedicels. Calyx silky, } in. deep, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth setaceous, ‘the two lowest the longest. Corolla pink, twice as long as the calyx, the standard silky on the outside. Pods deflexed, linear-oblong, straight, mucronate, 4 in. long, } in. broad, thinly silky, 3-4-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). 103 Seneg. 183. JZ. tenella, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 367. Brissonia trapezicarpa, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 1, ix. 409. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Heudelot ! Roger! 102. I.arabica, Jab. et Spach, Iilust. Pl. Or. t.479. Stem nearly or quite woody below, ditfusely branched from the base, about a span high, young branches firm, angular, densely silky. Stipules small, setaceous, Petioles very short. Leaflets 3-5, obovate or oblanceolate, {2 in. long, 2-8 lines broad, lateral ones sessile and close, all often folded with a decurved point, texture thick, both sides densely and permanently silvery. Flowers in short close racemes of 6-10 each, which are nearly sessile in the axils of the leaves. Pedicels very short. Calyx campanulate, silvery, 4 in, deep, the teeth subequal, setaceous, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla scarlet, nearly twice as long as the calyx, silvery externally. Pod 4—2 in. long, 1 line broad, linear-oblong mucronate, subtorulose and slightly silvery, 4—5-seeded. Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Petherick! : : Also inhabits Arabia. The pod is not so thoroughly flattened as in the other species. 103. I. ervoides, A. Rich. Pl. Abyss. i. 1179. Stem herbaceous, diffusely branched from the base, about a span high, the branchlets slender, angular, thinly silky. Stipules linear. Petioles 1}—2 lines long. Leaflets 3, rarely 5, oblanceolate, the terminal one 3-3 in. long, 2 lines broad, stalked, the lateral ones similar, sessile, upper surface green, glabrous when mature, lower grey-green, thinly silvery. Flowers In close racemes of about 12 each, under half an inch long, on ee half their length from the axils of the leaves. Calyx silky, a line deep, the teeth linear-setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla about equalling the calyx. Pod subelliptical acuminate, 3-3} ines long, 4 in. broad, silky, 2-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! 19. SYLITRA, E. Meyer; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 496. Calyx-tube turbinate with five subequal teeth. Standard obovate- spathulate, narrowed gradually into a claw; wings faleate-oblong, as long as the standard ; keel incurved, blunt, shorter. Stamens connate in a tube slit along the top; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, multi- ovulate, narrowed gradually into the incurved filiform glabrous style ; Stigma capitate. Pod oblong, flat, membranous, 4—6-seeded, subinde- iscent.—Perennials with the habit of Tephrosia and pod of Lessertia. One other species known at the Cape with simple leaves. 1. S. angolensis, Buiter. A thinly argenteo-canescent perennial with flexuose slender stems a foot high. Stipules minute, linear, per- ‘istent. Leaves short-stalked, digitately trifoliolate ; leaflets linear, 12-15 lines long, 1-14 lines broad, bluntish with a small mucro, rigidly coriaceous, grey-green, prominently veined. Flowers solitary, nearly Sessile in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 1 line deep, clothed with ad. 104 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Sylitra. pressed yellow silky hairs, the lanceolate teeth rather shorter than the tube. Corolla yellowish, nearly twice the calyx. Pod 9—10 lines long, 4 lines broad, inconspicuously silky. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, in dry places near Maiaabo, Dr. Wel- witsch ! Near the Cape species in everything but its compound leaves. 20. TEPHROSIA, Pers.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 496. Calyx-teeth subequal, or the lower longer than the rest, varying from deltoid to subulate. Petals unguiculate ; standard suborbicular ; wings obliquely obovate or oblong, adhering a little to the keel; keel in- curved, obtuse or subacute. Upper stamen free to the base or middle ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, uni- or bi- or multiovulate. Style up- curved, often flattened, naked or bearded; stigma terminal, penicillate or naked, Pod linear, rarely oblong or ovoid, flattened, two-valved, continuous or slightly septate within —Undershrubs or herbs, the leaves usually pinnate, casually digitate or simple. A large genus dispersed through the Tropics of both hemispheres; occurring also in South Africa, subtropical Australia, and North America. * Brissonia (Neck.). Upper calyx-teeth at most only equalling the tube, deltoid or lanceolate. Pods many-seeded, in sp. 7 2-seeded. Leaves usually compound. Leaves simple. Leaves linear, }-2 in. broad. Racemes reaching down amongst : Phe ee a ee eo 1 eee Leaves lanceolate, 4-3 in. broad. Racemes peduncled . . 2. J. melanocalys. Leaves digitate. pete Beret Sie Oe ae 3. T. laevigata. ceeiets S-Tivarely $<. 4. T. lupinifola. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate . : 5. T. sericea. Leaves pinnately multifoliolate : Flowers 1-3 in the axils of the leaves; leaflets 2-3-jugate . 6. T. emeroides. Flowers in racemes; leaflets 4-10-jugate. vias slender annuals, with stems rarely exceeding a foot ong. Leaflets linear, 14-3 lines broad. Seeds 2 Fin ee pic Cattle 2 7 ee Cee Seeds 4-5 . T. capillipes. Leaflets oblanceolate, 3-6 lines broad. Pod glabrescent; seeds 8-9 . .. ..... . 9. DV. platycarpa. Pod downy ; seeds 12-15. Standard } in. broad pits detrei esa ote eo ce kO Standard 4 in. broad pie ie shee 1 Shrubs, or tall robust usually perennial herbs. Bracts round or ovate acuminate. Standard an inch broad 6.6 ee et I ee Standard § inch broad. leafleta 5~7-jugate. 0 Ss AB ichreocaae: Leaflets 12-13-jugate . . . . . 14. TF. elongata. Bracts minute, linear or lanceolate, Leaflets 4—7-jugate. Racemes very short. : Racemes 3-4-flowered, lateral . . . . . . . 15. T. fulvinerves. . T. humilis. . T. nana. Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). 105 Racemes many-flowered, terminal, descending among the leaves 8) 7 02 a LO fewiosa, Racemes elongated, 6-12 in. long. 100s St scaled: -¢ Sf a nk a ee Pods 8—12-seeded. Leaflets }-4 in. broad, thinly grey-silky below. Leaflets 12-14 lincalong . . : . . .*. .« 18. T. noctifiora. Leaficts 2-4 in. long ss 2 ee ee Leaflets under a line broad, argenteo-canescent below. 20. 7. concinna. Pods 15-20-seeded. oS phronp anninal <0 oo i Bhrabby 6 es ha ee Se aes So ee Leaflets 6—-10-jngate. : Leaflets rounded.at the baso.”. , . . << +s «+ 28: 2. @guilata. Leaflets narrowed at the base. Shrubs. Pod persistent densely velvety . . . . - . « « 24 T. densiflora. Pod glabrescent. Seeds 8-10. Leaflets 4-5 times as long-as broad, . . . . 25. T. rigida. Leaflets 24-2 times as long as broad =... =. 26. T. o«ygona, Seeds 16-18. Leaflets #1 in. long: .. 6" Se. 2 ORO eee Leaflets 8-4 in. long +20. 46 to. a te ts OS Oe T. secunda. Robust annuals or biennials. me Seeds 7-8 De ane Seeds 14-16 Se a a ae A Or a aeteouaae: ** Reineria (Mench). Upper calyx-teeth linear or subulate, at least as long as the tube. Pods many-seeded. Leaves usually compound. Leaves all ite eee a ee Leaves simple and trifoliolate intermixed . . . . - - . 32. TL. dimorphophylla. eaves pinnately tri- or multifoliolate. Flowers 1-3 together, all in the axils of the leaves. ; Slender annual, with glabrous pod . . . . . . - - 33. T. pedicellata. Diffuse firm perennials, with finely grey-downy pods. Pod 12-15 lines long, 6-9-seeded. ee Leaflets obovate-oblong, 4-6 lineslong . . . . « 34. T. vicioides. Leaflets oblanceolate, 9-18 lineslong. . . . . . 35. T. subtriflora. Pod 2-24 in. long, 10-12-seeded . . . . . « - (86. 7. anthylloides. Suffruticose, with densely velvety pods. . . . . - ~ 37. T. elegans. lowers in dense terminal heads. Petioles 4—4 in. long; corolla $3-Zin.long . . - . - 38. T. dasyphylla. Petioles 1-14 lines long; corolla $-g in. long . . . . 39. T. cephalantha. lowers in elongated racemes. Leaflets narrow-linear, 1-2 lines broad. Low diffuse annual, with leaves the same colour on both Bide i nc a eS aw ee ile Teg Tall slender perennials, with leaves canescent beneath. g : pantie thinly grey-canescent . . . . . . - «41. T. linearis. Caves persistently argenteo-canescent. Bide leaflets 6-9 lines lene a. a ee T. pulchella. Side-leaflets 12-18 lines long. . . . . . . . 43. T. longipes. entote ae age or oblanceolate-oblong, 3-6 lines road. ; Corolla large, 3-3 in. long. i Pod oblong, decoded ie Bid ok ee ee 106 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. Pod linear, many-seeded. Style bearded along inner edge. Racemes close, few-flowered . . . . . ~ . 45. T. huillensis. Racemes elongated, many-flowered . . . . . 46. T. reptans. Style glabrous, faintly penicillate at the point. Leaflets 3-7, densely pubescent beneath . . . 47. T. paniculata. Leaflets 9-11, thinly grey-silky beneath . . . 48. 7. brunnea. Corolla small, }—2, or at most half an inch long. Pod persistently velvety. Pubescence of stem thin and adpressed . . . . 49. T. villosa. Pubescence of stem dense and spreading. Racemes 6-12 in. long; lower flowers in fas- Reetie 4 6 SO i ee ee Racemes short, all lateral, distinctly stalked . 51. J. coronilloides. Racemes short, mostly terminal, stalked or MI a ee eee Pod at first slightly downy, finally glabrescent. Pod 3-1 in. long, much recurved, 4-6-seeded . . 53. T. drepanocarpa. Pod 13-2 in. long, slightly recurved, 6—9-seeded. Reese ce as ee beaneWis-17 2 a ck ts eee *** Pogonostigma (Boiss.). Pods 1-seeded. Leaves compound. re ee a a ee ee ee **** Requienia (DC.). Pods 1-seeded. Leaves simple. Pods and leaves beneath finely downy .. . . . . . 57 T. spherosperma. Pods and !eaves beneath densely villose . . . . . . . 58. TL. obcordata. 1. T. acacizefolia, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub, 3-4 ft. high, with several ascending densely grey-downy branches from the upper part. Stipules linear-setaceous, 1-14 lines. Leaves subsessile, linear, ascending, 4-5 in. long, 4-3 in. broad, rigidly coriaceous, bluntish with a mucro, grey glaucous green, upper surtace glabrous, lower densely downy, the midrib ferruginous. Racemes reaching down amongst the leaves, sometimes a foot long, lax, most of the flowers pairs. Pedicels very short, densely downy. Bracts setaceous, very minute. Calyx }in., densely brown-silky, the upper teeth deltoid acuminate shorter than the tube, the lower lanceolate, equalling 1 Corolla 3 in. long, reddish, the standard 3 in. broad, densely brow2- silky on the back. Pod linear, densely silky, 10—12-seeded, not see” mature. Style penicillate at the point. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch ! Very near a Madagascar plant, Lyall, 372, but apparently distinct specifically. 2. T. melanocalyx, Welw. mss. Root thick perennial. Stems spreading from it in a circle, ascending outwards, copiously branched, firm, slender, inconspicuously grey-silky. Petioles under a line long: Stipules minute setaceous. Leaves simple, lanceolate, 2-3 in. long; 6—9 lines broad, bluntish with a mucro, narrowed at the base, rigidly coriaceous, both sides pale glaucous green, upper quite, lower nearly glabrous. Racemes terminal only, peduncled, reaching 6—9 in. long; ax downwards, most of the flowers in pairs. Pedicels very short densely silky. Bracts linear, very minute. Calyx } in. long, densely Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER), 107 matted with nearly black silky hairs; all the teeth lanceolate, equalling the tube. Corolla bright red, } in. long; the obeordate standard densely silky on the outside. Pod linear, densely silky, 15-18 lines long whilst ‘still immature, 8-10-seeded. Style densely penicillate at the apex. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 3. T. levigata, Welw. mss. A very diffuse nearly olabrous peren- nial, with very slender copiously branched stems 12-18 in. long. Bracts lanceolate acuminate, 1-1} lines. Petioles 3-6 lines. Leaflets 3 (of the uppermost leaves rarely solitary), subsessile but stipellate, oblanceolate, 12-18 lines long, 4—5 lines broad, blunt with a mucro, sometimes emarginate, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, pale green with a very distinct thickened grey horny border and ribs. Racemes copious, beth terminal and leaf-opposed, reaching 6-9 in. long, leafy at the very base. Bracts lanceolate, very minute. Pedicels 1-3 lines, ascend- Ing’, spreading or even deflexed. Calyx } in., obscurely grey-silky ; all the teeth lanceolate, equalling the tube. Corolla reddish, twice the calyx. Pod linear, an inch long, 2 lines broad, faintly grey-downy, »—6-seeded. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla province, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 4. T. lupinifolia, DC. Prod. ii. 255. A wide-trailing perennial herb with slender branches densely clothed with spreading grey or brownish pubescence. Stipules 2—3 lines, lanceolate acuminate. _ Pe- tioles 1-5 in., densely pubescent. Leaves digitate but stipellate, casually imparipinnate. Leaflets 5-7, rarely 3, narrow-oblanceolate, li ~24 lines long, 3—6 lines broad, bluntish, mucronate and often emar- Acai rigidly coriaceous, grey-green, glabrous above, densely downy neath. Racemes both terminal and leaf-opposed, very lax, reaching a foot long. Bracts minute lanceolate. Pedicels 1-14 lines. Calyx s 1., the lanceolate acuminate teeth equalling the tube. Corolla red- dish, twice the calyx. Pods linear, downy, 12-15 lines long, 2 lines road, 5—6-seeded, sometimes much shortened, oblong, not more than 1-2-seeded.—Harv. FI. Cap. ii. 204. Rhynchosia Cienkowskir, Schweinf. Rel. Kots, ol, t 2495 (the form with the half-aborted pods). Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Nupe and by the Quorra at Jeba, Barter! Ss “ Nile Land. Kordofan, Cienkowski. ee Ower Guinea. Congo, in the sands of the seashore, Dr. Welwitsch ! Ver. p: 7 digitata, DC. Prod. loc. cit. tems more siender, less downy. Leaflets narrower, subglabrescent. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Bacle! Bidjem! Perrottet! Ep ower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! xtends to the Cape. 5. T. Sericea, Baker. Stem erect, tall, firm-herbaceous, densely clothed with short spreading grey pubescence. Petioles 14-2 in. long, ensely silky. Lantots 3, not fully developed in the specimens, nar- 108 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. rowly lanceolate, 12—18 lines long by 3-4 lines broad, narrowed gra- dually to an acute point, stipellate, the central one on a petiolule 6-8 lines long, both sides densely silky, the veins subferruginous. Flowers 20-30 or more in a terminal raceme 6—12 in. long, the lower ones in clusters. Pedicel 1-1} lines long, densely grey-silky. Calyx-tube campanulate, 2 lines deep, densely clothed ‘with grey and pale brown silky hairs, the lower teeth lanceolate, equalling the tube, the upper ones deltoid, considerably shorter. Bracts minute, deciduous, subulate. Corolla red, 2 in. deep, the standard 4 in. broad, the young pod linear, densely grey-villous, 10-12-ovulate, the style flattened in the lower half, the stigma penicillate. Mozamb. Distr. Manganya hills, H. Waller! 6. T. emeroides, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 190. Stems woody, the branches firm, angular, thinly grey-silky. Stipules setaceous, § 1. long. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis under an inch long, the leaflets in 2 or 8 pairs, narrowly oblanceolate, 2 in. long, +-2 in. broad, gla- brous above, thinly adpressed grey-silky beneath. Flowers 1-3 in the axils of the leaves. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which is 2 lines deep, campanulate, thinly silky, the teeth subequal, lanceolate-deltoid, reaching halfway down. Corolla yellow. Pod 14-2 in. long, 2 lines broad, slightly arcuate, densely clothed with fine short ferruginous tomentum, 10-seeded. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! General habit and leaves very like those of T. purpurea. 7. T. disperma, Welw. mss. A diffuse prostrate annual with ia ously branched finely grey-downy stems under a foot long. Stipules linear, very minute. Petioles 2-3 lines. Leaflets 7-9, narrowly oblanceolate, on a common rachis 6—9 lines long, the terminal one 12-18 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, blunt with a mucro, the side ones much shorter, texture not rigid, both sides grey-green, the under one finely grey-downy, the veins inconspicuous. Racemes very lax (inter nodes often an inch long) both terminal and leaf-opposed, reaching 6—9 in, long, the lowest pair of flowers often from the axil of a leat. Bracts setaceous, very minute. Pedicels very slender, 14—3 lines long; often spreading or deflexed. Calyx } in. long, finely grey-silky, #° lanceolate teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla purplish, fugacious; half as long again as the calyx. Pod 3 in. long, 2 lines broad, finely yrey-downy, 2-, rarely l-seeded, the upper suture straight. Sty! glabrous. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, in coast sands, Dr. Welwitsch! 8. T. capillipes, Welw. mss. A slender copiously branched diffuse annual with ascending stems a foot or more long with a little fine grey pubescence. Stipules setaceous, very minute. Leaves nearly sess ey rachis 1-24 in. long; leaflets 9-17, linear, reaching 14-2 in. long; 1-3 lines broad, bluntish or subacute with a distinct mucro, thin for the Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 109 eo with a little adpressed shining grey-silky pubescence beneath. acemes copious, very lax, terminal and leaf-opposed, reaching 6—9 in, long, the lowest pair of flowers often from the axil of a leaf. Pedicels finely downy, very slender, reaching 4—6 lines long, often spreading or decurved. Calyx 1 line long, with a little adpressed grey pubescence, the lanceolate teeth much shorter than the tube. Corolla rose-purple, more than twice the calyx. Pod linear, 9-10 lines long, } in. broad, finely grey-downy, much upcurved, 4—5-seeded. Style glabrous. Lower Guinea. Loanda, frequent in dry grassy places, Dr. Welwitsch! General habit like that of 7. gracilipes. 9. T. platycarpa, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 195. Stems firm-her- baceous, branched from the base, 1-1} ft. high, the branches ascend- ing, slender, thinly adpressed-silky. Stipules } in. long, linear-subu- late. Leaves subsessile, the rachis 3 in. long, the leaflets in 5—6 pairs, linear, 14-2 in, long, 2-8 lines broad, apex rounded, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly adpressed-silky. Racemes leaf-opposed, sessile, 6—12-flowered, moderately dense. Bracts linear, equal- ling the pedicel and calyx, which is 2 lines deep, thinly silky, the lower tooth lanceolate, reaching halfway down, the others shorter. Corolla not seen. Pod linear-oblong, 14 in. long, 4 lines broad, straight, subglabrous, 8—9-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Ingram! Bidjem. 10. 'T. humilis, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Sencg.196. Stems annual, under a foot high, branched from the base, the branches ascending, slender, finely grey-silky. Petioles 1 in. or more long, the rachis 2—3 in., eaflets in 4 or 5 pairs, 1-13 in. long, } in. broad, upper surface glabrous, lower finely erey-silky, apex rounded, mucronate. Racemes leaf-op- ag subsessile, densely 6-12-flowered. Bracts linear-subulate, 2 in. ong. Calyx 2 lines deep, thinly silky, the teeth unequal, the lowest linear teaching halfway down, the others shorter. Corolla rose, } in, deep, the standard + in. broad. Pod linear, slightly upcurved,” 2-2 in. long, 2 lines broad, silky, 12—14-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! ll. T. nana, Kotschy ; Schweinf. in Rel. Kots. xvi. t.20. Stem annual, hot more than a foot high, copiously branched from the base, the ranches slender, ascending, angular, moderately thickly clothed with spreading grey silky hairs. Stipules linear, } in. long. Leaves short- stalked, the rachis 1~4 in. long. Leaflets in 4—5 pairs, oblanceolate, ~2 in. long, 4-8 in. broad, apex rounded, emarginate, mucronate, Upper surface elabrous, the lower finely villous. Racemes leaf-opposed, ensely 6—12-tlowered, on short peduncles. Bracts linear, 4—@ in. ong. Pedicels densely villous, equalling the calyx, which is eampanu- ate, } in. deep, the lowest tooth lanceolate equalling the tube, the others deltoid. Corolla purple, half an inch long, the standard half an 110 XLVI. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. inch broad, silky on the back. Young pod linear, falcate, densely silky, 12—15-seeded. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schweinfurth! Var. 8. angolensis, Baker. Stems and leaves beneath densely downy. Pods 2-24 in. long, } in. broad, straight, finely downy. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 12. T. Vogelii, Hook. 7. Fl. Nigr. 296. A shrub 8-10 ft. high, the branches woody, ascending, clothed with dense spreading ferru- ginous or yellowish silky tomentum. Stipules linear, }—3 in. long. Leaves short-stalked, the rachis 5-6 inches long. Leatlets in 8-12 pairs, oblanceolate, 14-2} in. long, $-} in. broad, apex rounded mu- cronate, upper surface subglabrous, the lower densely clothed with ad- pressed grey silky pubescence, the midrib ferruginous. Flowers m dense stalked terminal racemes, the main one 20—30-flowered, 4—6 in. long. Pedicels +—-$ in. long, very silky. Bracts roundish or ovate- acuminate, densely silky, 2 in. broad, quite hiding the buds. Calyx 3-1 in. deep, densely clothed with light or dark brown silky tomen- tum, the teeth reaching halfway down, oblong-lanceolate, the lowest longer than the others. Corolla violet-purple, rarely white, nearly an inch deep, the standard an inch broad, silky on’ the back. Pods straight or slightly upeurved, 4-5 in. long, } in. broad, densely grey or brown velvety, 16-18-seeded. Style bearded at the apex and down the inner face. Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Vogel! and others. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Fernando Po, Vogel! Ansell! Princes island, cultivated, Mann! Wile Land. Unyoro, Speke and Grant! Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Zanzibar, Boivin (fide Baillon). i Much the largest and most showy species, and often used, like the allied 7. toazari a ae for the purpose of throwing into ponds to stupefy fish. Called Igongo Ne Gadoon, 13. T. dichroocarpa, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 102. A woody erect undershrub 4—5 ft. high, with firm ascending angular thinly adpressed-grey-silky branches. Stipules linear, 2 in. long. Leaves short-stalked, the rachis 2-4 in. long, the leatlets in 5-7 pairs, oblanceolate, 1-1} in. long, 3—4 in. broad, apex truncate or emarginate, both sides subglabrous when mature. Racemes terminal, the mam ones 6—9 in. long, sessile or long- or short-stalked, the flowers in distant clusters of 4-6 each. Bracts roundish or ovate, 1 in. broad, densely silky. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which is }—3 in. deep, densely clothed with ferruginous silky hairs, the lowest teeth lanceolate, reach- ing half way down, the others shorter, subdeltoid. Corolla reddish, 3 in. deep, standard } in. broad, very silky on the back. Pod 2 in. 0 more long, 4 in. broad, densely and persistently finely silky, g-10- seeded.— 7. interrupta, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss: No. 344. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit! Roth! Also a plant of Madagascar. Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEX (BAKER). 111 14. T. elongata, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 298. An erect undershrub about 8 ft. high, the branches firm, ascending, finely adpressed grey- silky. Stipules lanceolate, } in. long. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis 6—9 in. long, the leaflets in about 12 pairs, linear, 14-3 in. long, 2-3 lines broad, apex rounded mucronate, upper surface glabrous, under finely adpressed-grey-silky, midrib ferruginous. Racemes long- stalked, terminal, 6-12 in. long, the lower part lax. Bracts ovate- oblong, acuminate, } in. long, ciliated and silky on the back. Pedicels very silky, shorter than the calyx, which is campanulate, 2—3 lines deep, the lower tooth lanceolate, about equalling the tube, the others short, deltoid. Corolla reddish, $— in. deep, the standard 4 in. broad, silky on the back. Pod 2-3 in. long, }in. broad, nearly straight, thinly clothed with tawny silky hairs, 12—14-seeded. Upper Guinea. Common on the banks of the Quorra, Vogel! Barter! T. fasciculata of the Niger Flora, appears to be a variety of the same plant, with an abbreviated raceme. 15. T. fulvinervis, IHochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1939. Stem 2-3 ft. high, terete, striated, tawny-silky. Leaflets in 4—6 pairs, linear, 13-2 in. long, 2-8 lines broad, apex rounded mucronate rarely narrowed, upper surface subglabrous, lower adpressed silky, the midrib tawny. Flowers 3-4, distant, short-stalked, peduncle lateral, 3—4 in. long, tawny-silky. Calyx short, tawny-silky, teeth short, unequal, the lowest the longest. Pod 2 in. long, scarcely 3 lines broad, silky.— A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 187. vlang Land. Kordofan, teste Schweinfurth. Abyssinia, Schimper, Quartin- uton. This we have not seen. It is said by A. Richard to differ from T. bracteolata by its Shorter and lateral peduncles, with fewer flowers, and fewer leaflets, which are more silky beneath. 16. 'T. flexuosa, G. Don, Gard. Dict. ii. 232. Stem woody, erect, a foot hich, the branches firm, copious, densely tawny-silky. Stipules liform. “Petiole 4 in. long, clothed like the branches. Leaflets 4—5, linear, 14-11 in. long, 2-24 lines broad, apex rounded, mucronate, tex- ture firm, upper surface sub2labrous, lower densely silky. Flowers in a short terminal raceme, with scattered flowers continued down in the axils of the leaves. Bracts subulate. Calyx campanulate, § in. deep, densely silky, the teeth deltoid-acuminate, reaching about half down. Corolla reddish, 4—5 lines deep, the standard densely silky on the out- side. Pod linear-oblong, 14 in. long, } in. broad, straight, thinly silky when mature, 7—8-seeded.—Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 299. Upper Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, G. Don! 44, deflexa, Buker. A woody erect undershrub, with firm, ascending sulcate, thinly adpressed-silky branches. Stipules } in. long, sHear-subulate. Leaves conspicuously deflexed, the petioles very short, the tachis 3-4 in, long, the leaflets in 4-5 pairs, narrowly oblanceolate. <—2f in. long, 4 in. broad, the lower ones much shorter, emarginate, 112 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. upper surface glabrous, lower thinly adpressed-grey-silky. Flowers in rather dense terminal racemes, the main ones ultimately nearly a foot long, sessile. Bracts linear, half an inch long. Pedicels about equal- ling the calyx, which is campanulate, thinly silky, 2 lines deep, the lower tooth lanceolate, reaching halfway down, the others deltoid. Corolla not seen. Pod deflexed, 14 in. long, 2 lines broad, nearly straight, subglabrous, 3—4-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! 18. T. noctiflora, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 93 (name only). Stems suf- fruticose, copiously and diffusely branched, densely clothed upwards with fine short brown silky pubescence. Stipules linear-subulate, § in. long. Leaves subsessile, rachis 3—4 in. long, leaflets in 6—8 pairs, narrowly oblanceolate, 12-14 lines long, 4 in. broad, glabrous above, thinly adpressed grey-silky beneath, apex rounded, mucronate. Ra- cemes lax, terminal, the main one sometimes a foot long. Bracts lanceolate, very short. Pedicel equalling the calyx, which is densely clothed with ferruginous silky hairs, 2 lines deep, the lower tooth lan- ceolate, equalling the tube, the others shorter and deltoid. Corolla 8_4 in. deep, reddish, the standard } in. broad, silky on the back. Pod 13-13 in. long, } in. broad, curved upwards, densely clothed with fine brown silky hairs, 8—9-seeded. Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Bojer! In general habit considerably resembling T. purpurea. 19. T. rigidula, Welw. mss. An almost glabrous suffruticose peret- nial, several feet high, with erect or oblique firm flexuose stems wit long internodes. Stipules linear, 2-3 lines. Petioles 6-18 lines, rachis 2-3 in., leaflets 7—9, linear, reaching 3-4 in. long, }—4 in. broad, blunt, mucronate, glabrous above, faintly silky beneath, subrigid, veins immerse¢- Racemes copious, both terminal and lateral, peduncled, lax, reaching 6-9 in. Bracts rigid, linear-subulate, } in. Pedicels 1—4 lines, finely grey-silky. Calyx 2 lines, campanulate, finely grey-silky, teeth deltoid, very short. Corolla 3—3 in., purplish-violet, standard 4 in. broad, glabrescent on the back. Pod linear, slightly upeurved, 3-33 ™ long, 2 lines broad, glabrescent, 11—12-seeded. Style pubescent throughout. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 20. 'T. concinna, Buker. Stems shrubby, slender, finely grey- downy. Stipules linear-subulate, 2-3 lines. “Petioles 0 or very short Leaflets 7-13, narrow-linear, reaching 14-2 in. long, $—? line proad, rigidly coriaceous, acute with a mucro, grey and glabrous penehcn sistently argenteo-ganescent below. Racemes terminal, stalked oF subsessile, reaching a foot long. Bracts lanceolate, 14—2 lines. Pedicels vrey-downy, erecto-patent, 1—3 lines. welyx 2 in., finely grey Oe upper teeth deltoid, lower lanceolate, as long as the tube. Coro bright reddish-purple, 4 in. long, standard 4 in. broad, densely grey Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 118 silky on the back. Pod linear, 2 in. long, 2 lines broad, slightly recurved, glabrescent, 10-12-seeded. Style pubescent throughout, bearded along the inner edge. Upper Guinea. Banks of the Niger, Dr. Baikie! 21.'T. barbigera, Welw. mss. An erect robust annual, 2-4 ft. high, with flexuose stems, densely clothed with spreading tawny pubescence. Stipules 3-6 lines, linear or lanceolate acuminate. Petioles 6-12 lines ; rachis 2-4 inches; leaflets 11-15, narrowly oblanceolate, 1$—2} in. long, 5—7 lines broad, blunt, mucronate, often emarginate, grey-green, glabrescent above, permanently grey-silky below, the midrib and border tawny. Racemes usually terminal, long-stalked, close upwards, reach- ing 4-6 in. long, rarely a pair of flowers from the axil of the top leaf. tacts linear, 2-3 lines, Pedicels }—} in., erecto-patent. Calyx 4 in. long, obliquely campanulate, very densely clothed with rather stiff spreading tawny hairs, the upper teeth short deltoid, the lowest lanceo- late, twice as long. Corolla purplish violet, $3 in. long, standard 4—5 lines broad, densely brown-silky on the back. Pod linear, slightly fuleate, 2 in, long, 2-24 lines broad, finely grey-downy, 15—16-seeded. Style bearded throughout, especially along the upper side. Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 2. kT, polysperma, Baker. An erect suffruticose perennial, with stems densely clothed with spreading tawny pubescence. Stipules linear, 4-6 lines, ‘ Petjoles 1 in.; rachis 3-4 inches; leaflets 11-15, narrowly oblanceolate, 13-21 in. long, 5-6 lines broad, blunt, mucro- hate, subcoriaceous, glabrescent above, persistently grey-silky below, the midrib tawny. Racemes terminal and lateral, peduncled, reaching oi, long, Bracts linear, } inch. Pedicels densely silky, 13-2 lines, frecto-patent. Calyx 2 lines, finely silky, the upper teeth deltoid, the lowest lanceolate, 14 the tube. Corolla reddish, 3 in. long, the stan- dard 4 in, broad, densely velvety on the back. Pod linear, slightly faleate, 24 in, long, } in. broad, finely downy, 18—20-seeded. Style flattened upwards, slightly downy. Nile Land. Uganda, in plantain groves, Speke and Grant! 3. T. zequilata, Baker. Stems woody, the branches firm, subterete, densely clothed upwards with spreading grey-slky hairs. Stipules anceolate, silky, soon scarious, } in. long, half as broad. Leaves sub- Sessile, the densely silky rachis 3 in. long; leaflets in 7-8 pairs, linear- oblong, 14-13 in: long, 4—5 lines bread, sides nearly parallel, apex and base rounded, upper surface pale green, glabrous, lower densely clothed with short erey-silky hairs. Racemes subsessile, terminal, dense, about 12-flowered. Bracts small, linear. Pedicel equalling the calyx, which is densely clothed with tawny silky hairs, 3-4 lines deep, the lower teeth lanceolate, reaching halfway down, the upper rather roader and shorter. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx, the VOL. 11, I 114 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. standard half an inch broad. Pod straight, 14 in. long, } in. broad, clothed with fine tawny silky pubescence, 6-seeded. Wile Land. Karague hills, Speke and Grant 401! This may be distinguished from all the other species by the shape of the leaflets, which are distinctly rounded at the base, and less prominently veined than usual. 24. 'T. densiflora, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 296. A woody undershrub several feet high, with stiff sulcate ascending finely grey-pubescent branches. Stipules } in. long, lanceolate. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis 4-5 in. long; leaflets in 7-9 pairs, oblong-obovate, 14-1} im. long, 4-3 in. broad, point distinctly emarginate, upper surface subgla- brous, lower adpressed grey-silky. Racemes dense, terminal, short- stalked, 38-4 in. long. Bracts linear-lanceolate, like the pedicels about equalling the calyx, which is campanulate, 2-3 lines deep, densely coated with spreading grey-silky hairs, the lower tooth lanceolate equalling the tube, the others deltoid, shorter. Corolla reddish, { in. deep, the standard ? in. broad, densely silky on the back. Pod 3-4 in. long, under } in. broad, nearly straight, densely clothed with short grey woolly pubescence, the valves ferruginous. Upper Guinea. Banks of the Quorra, Vogel! Barter! 25, T. rigida, Buker. A woody erect undershrub with rigid as- cending subglabrous branches. Stipules linear, rigid, deciduous, 7 10. long. Leaves subsessile, the rachis rigid, 2 in. or more long, leaflets in 6-8 pairs, linear, 1-11 in. long, 4 in. broad, pale green and gla- brous above, glaucous and slightly argenteous beneath, especially when young, base narrowed, apex rounded mucronate, coriaceous, the veins beneath close and very prominent. Racemes terminal, dense, short- stalked, 2-4 in. long. ‘Bracts linear, } in. long, and pedicels about the same. Calyx campanulate, finely silky, 2 lines deep, the lowest tooth lanceolate, a line ‘long, the others short and deltoid. Corolla pale- reddish, 2 in. deep, standard 3 in. broad, very silky on the back. Pod 2 in. or rather more long, } in. broad, slightly upcurved, subglabrous, 9—10-seeded. Wile Land. Madi, Speke and Grant! 26. T. oxygona, Welw. mss. An erect copiously branched under- shrub 3-4 ft. high, with argenteo-canescent firm terete branches. Stipules } in., linear, rigid, deciduous. Petioles 6-12 lines; leaflets 13-19, obovate-oblong, reaching 12-15 lines long, 5—6 lines broad, rigidly coriaceous, blunt, emarginate, mucronate, both sides persistentl canescent, upper grey, lower glaucous, the tawny veins slightly raise@- Racemes both lateral and terminal very lax, 6-12 in. long, stalked, the canescent axis acute-angled. Bracts linear, rigid, 1-14 lines. Pedicels 1-2 lines, silvery, erecto-patent. Calyx campanulate, 2-24 lines, the upper teeth deltoid-cuspidate, the lowest lanceolate, all shorter than the tube. Corolla violet-purple, 7-8 lines long, standard } in. broad, much recurved, silvery on the outside. Pod linear, 2-23 in. long, ~ Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 115 lines broad, glabrescent, much recurved, 8-10-seeded. Style glabrous, slightly penicillate at the apex. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, in sandy ground near the Bero, Dr. Welwitsch ! 27. 'T. Kirkii, Baker. Stems shrubby, slender, flexuose, with a few inconspicuous adpressed grey hairs. Stipules linear, }—3 in. Pe- tioles 8-4 lines; rachis 23-33 in.; leaflets 15-17, oblanceolate, 9-12 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, blunt, emarginate, mucronate, rigidly coria- ceous, grey and glabrous above, glaucous and thinly clothed with adpressed grey hairs below, the fine veins slightly raised. Racemes terminal, long-stalked, moderately lax, reaching 6-9 in. long, the axis acute-angled and sulcate. Bracts linear-subulate, 14-2 lines. Pedicels downy, ascending, 1-3 lines. Calyx 2 lines, finely downy, the upper teeth lanceolate-deltoid, the lowest lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla purplish-violet, 3 in. long ; standard $ in. broad, densely silky on the back. Pod linear, 24 in. long, 2 lines broad, slightly recurved, glabrescent, 16-—18-seeded. Style subterete, finely pubescent through- out. Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! °8. T. secunda, Welw. mss. An erect shrub 3-4 ft. high, with strong elabrous flexuose branches. Stipules linear, {- in. Petioles 6-18 lines; leaflets 13-19, linear, reaching 3~—4 in. long, }—2 in. broad, bluntish, distinctly mucronate, upper surface grey glabrescent, lower glaucous, faintly ‘grey-silky, the veins fine raised. Racemes Copious, terminal and lateral, peduncled, reaching a foot long, very 4x, subsecund, the axis acute-angled suleate. Bracts linear, 1-1} lines. Pedicels 1-3 lines, erecto-patent. Calyx 2 lines, finely silvery, the teeth lanceolate, shorter than the tube. Corolla pe in. Png, standard 3-9 in. broad, grey-silky on the outside. Pod linear, ~8$ in, long, 24 lines broad, glabrescent, nearly straight, 16-18- seeded. Style faintly pubescent throughout. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 29. 'T. Ansellii, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 297. A robust annual reaching 3 ft. high, with copious firm flexuose branches densely clothed with spreading grey or ferruginous silky pubescence. Stipules linear-subu- late, 4-2 in.long. Leaves nearly sessile, rachis 4—5 in. long ; leaflets in 6~9 pairs, linear or oblanceolate, {—? in. broad, truncate or emargi- hate with a mucro, upper surface glabrous, lower densely clothed with Brey silky pubescence, midrib ferruginous. Flowers in lax terminal racemes sometimes a foot long, usually sessile, sometimes with flowers tom the axils of the leaves. Bracts linear, } in. long. * Pedicel equalling the calyx, which is densely ferruginous-silky, 2 lines deep, “ampanulate, the lower tooth lanceolate, about equalling the tube, the others deltoid, shorter. Corolla reddish, : in. deep, the standard lines broad, densely brown-silky on the back. Pod linear-oblong, ~ 116 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Tephrosia. 14-2 in. long, rather over } in. broad, thinly brown-silky, 7—8-seeded. Style bearded along the upper side. Upper Guinea. Niger country, Ansell! Irving! Vogel! and others. 30. T. bracteolata, (will. et Perr. Fl. Sencg. 194. An erect robust annual or biennial, 2—8 ft. high, the branches ascending, long, straight, slender, thinly adpressed-silky. Stipules lanceolate acuminate, 1-2 in. long. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis 4-6 in. long; leaflets in 6—10 pairs, linear or oblanceolate, 2-3 in. long, }—-4 in. broad, apex rounded, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower very slightly adpressed rey silky. Flowers in lax terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, usually long- stalked, 6-20-flowered, 4-6 in. lone. Bracts linear, rigid, equalling the pedicels which are 2-8 lines long. Calyx campanulate, 2 lines deep, thinly silky, the lowest tooth lanceolate, equalling the tube, the others deltoid and shorter. Corolla reddish, 3—2 in. deep, the standard } in. broad, thinly silky on the back. Pod 2-8 in. long, 2-3 lines broad, nearly straight, finely grey-silky, 14—16-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 186. 7. Kotschyana, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 716, Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! adres Land. Nubia, Kotschy. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and elit: Lower Guinea. Cazengo, Dr. Welwitsch! Also a plant of the Cape Verde islands. 31. T. andongensis, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub 2-3 feet high, with ascending terete firm branches densely clothed with short spreading grey down. Stipules setaceous, 1-14 lines. Petioles downy, 4-1 inch. Leaves simple, oblanceolate-oblong, reaching 3-3} in. long, 8-12 lines broad, blunt with a small mucro, subcoriaceous, above grey and glabrous, below shortly grey-pubescent, the veins raised and tawny. Racemes very copious, terminal and lateral, stalked or sessile, reaching 6—9 in. long, the acute-angled axis densely pubescent. Bracts lanceo- late, 1 line. Pedicels 1-14 lines, erecto-patent, densely grey-downy. Calyx 4 lines long, densely grey-downy; the teeth all’ exceeding the tube, the upper linear, lower lanceolate acuminate. Corolla purplish- red, 2 in. long; standard 43-5 lines broad, densely velvety on the back. Ovary linear, densely grey-velvety, multiovulate. Style finally 3 in. long, flattened upwards, penicillate at the apex. Mature pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! A second species of § Reineria, with simple leaves, was gathered by Forbes at Delago® Bay (7. Forbesii, Baker). A perennial, with shortly grey-downy, slender branclies, subsessile, linear, rigid leaves, 14-2 inches long; flowers solitary, or in pairs in their axils; calyx 2 lines long, with setaceous teeth exceeding the tube; corolla reddish, hal as long again as the calyx. 32. T. dimorphophylla, Welw. mss. An erect herbaceous pere- nial 2-8 ft. high, with firm long slender branches densely clothed with short spreading grey pubescence. Stipules setaceous, 3-4 lines. Pe — Tephrosia.| - XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). rar Y tioles 8-6 lines. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate with fewer simple ones intermixed, the end one oblong, reaching 24-8 in. long, 12-16 lines broad, blunt, sometimes emarginate, membranous, glabrous above, finely grey-downy below, base rounded. Racemes terminal, sessile or reaching down to the second leaf, 4-6 in. long, subdense upwards. Bracts 3-1 in. long, setaceous. Pedicels 4-14 lines, erecto-patent. Calyx 3 in. long, densely clothed with nearly black spreading silky hairs; teeth lanceolate cuspidate, exceeding the tube. Ovary linear, densely velvety, multiovulate. Style glabrous, flattened upwards, peni- cillate at the point. Ripe pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Angola, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch ! 33. 'T. pedicellata, Baker. Stems annual, a foot or more long, diffusely branched, the branches slender, thickly clothed with fine spreading brownish silky hairs. Stipules lanceolate acuminate, } in. long. Petioles often an’ inch long, the rachis 1-14 in. long, slender ; leatlets in 2-4 pairs, oblanceolate, 3-1 in. long, 2-8 lines broad, the upex rounded and mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly clothed with loose silvery silky hairs. Flowers 1—8 in the axils of the leaves on slender pedicels 2-8 lines long. Calyx 2-3 lines deep, thinly silky; the teeth subequal, lmear-subulate, reaching more than allway down. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx; the stan- dard 2 lines broad. Pod 1-1} in. long, 24 lines broad, slightly re- curved, glabrous, 6—9-seeded. Upper Guinea. Confluence of the Quorra and Tschadda, Barter ! 34. T. vicioides, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 188. A herbaceous perennial with stems 14-2 ft. long, and diffusely branched, clothed with fine spreading erey pubescence, Stipules 2 lines long, linear, firm, falcate. eaves subsessile, the villous rachis 1} in. long; leaflets in 3—4 pairs, obovate-oblong, 3-4 in. long, three-quarters or the lower ones quite as road as long ; apex deeply emarginate ; both surfaces finely adpressed- gtey-silky. Flowers all axillary, solitary or two together. Pedicel equalling the calyx, which is 2 lines deep, very silky; the teeth lan- ceolate-subulate, reaching halfway down. Corolla purplish, twice as long as the calyx ; the standard } in. broad. Pod an inch long, rather over J in. broad, slightly recurved, finely grey-downy, 8—9-seeded. Nile Land. Nubia, Ehrenberg, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper, Quartin-Dillon. do. T. subtriflora, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 2312. A her- uceous perennial, 1-14 ft. high, dichotomously branched from the base, the branches firm, densely clothed with short spreading grey-silky aairs. Stipules setaceous, } in. long. Petioles 4—} in. long, rachis ¢—lin.; the leaflets in two or three pairs, narrowly oblanceolate, ter-, minal one 1-14 in. long, } in. broad, the others smaller, upper surface glabrous, lower densely adpressed grey-silky. Flowers 1-3 in the axils of the leaves, nearly sessile; the calyx silky, } in. deep; the teeth setaceous, equalling the tube. Corolla purple, half as long again 118 XLVI. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. as the calyx, the standard 2 lines broad. Pod 12-15 lines long, § in. broad, slightly recurved, finely downy, 6—7-seeded.— 7. decidua, Steud., A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 189 ? Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! A. Richard's short description of 7’. decidua agrees with this as far as it goes, but we have not seen specimens. 36. T. anthylloides, Hochst. in Kotsch. Hb. Zithiop. No. 8. Stems suffruticose, 14-2 ft. long, diffusely branched from the _ base, the branches angular, clothed throughout with short spreading grey silky hairs. Stipules linear-setaceous, 3-8 in. long. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis 1-14 in. long; leaflets in 38-4 pairs, oblanceolate, 1-1; in. long, $4 in. broad ; apex rounded, mucronate, wpper surface glabrous, lower finely silky. Flowers usually axillary, 1-83 together, casually im 4—6-flowered short racemes. Calyx silky, 1-2 in. deep, the teeth linear-setaceous, as long as the tube. Corolla purplish, slightly ex- ceeding the calyx. Pod 2-24 in. long, 2 lines broad, distinctly re- curved, finely grey-downy, 10—12-seeded.—7. Apollinea, Guill. et Fert. Fl. Senee. 196; A. Rich., Fl. Abyss. i. 187, non DC. 2. Cordofant, Hochst. in Kotsch. Hb. Nub. 181. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! and others. | : ; Piagg Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Schweinfurth! Binder. Abyssinia, Schimper: elu. . ‘This is probably the plant intended by Persoon under the name of T. uniflora (Ench. tl 329), but the flowers are described as solitary. J’. lathyroides, Guill. and Perr. Fl. Seneg. 193, may be this. We have seen the original specimen, but it is too imperfect to form a decided opinion upon. Respecting J. hirsuta, Schum. and Thonn. Pl. Guin. 377, we cannot form any definite opinion from the description alone. 37. T. elegans, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 376. Stems suffruticose, 3-4 ft. high, the branches firm, ascending, subterete, densely clothe with adpressed silvery hairs. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 2-3 lines. Leaves subsessile, the rachis 3-9 lines long, the leaflets in one or tw? pairs, narrowly oblanceolate, 14-2 in. long, } in. broad, narrowed from a third of the way down to the base, the point rounded and mucronate, the upper surface glabrous, lower densely grey-silky, midrib subfer- ruginous. Flowers 2-3 together from the axils of the upper leaves and a few close clusters towards the apex of the stem with their sub- tending leaves much reduced. Calyx subsessile, 3—4 lines deep, densely silvery and slightly tawny, the teeth lanceolate, exceeding the tube. Corolla yellowish, half as long again as the calyx, the standard 4 lines broad, very silky on the back. Pod linear-oblong, 14-2 in. long, +e broad, densely clothed with adpressed silvery hairs, 8—9-seeded, the sutures ferruginous.—Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 299. Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning, Vogel! Barter! : Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo and Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 38. T. dasyphylla, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub with cwes- pitose branched or simple stems densely clothed with spteading an down, Stipules linear-subulate, 1-3 in, Petioles }-4 in., rigitY Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 119 erecto-patent. Leaves all digitately trifoliolate; leaflets oblanceolate, reaching 2-3 in. long, $2 in. broad, blunt, rigidly coriaceous, very pale green, glabrous above, permanently clothed with thick adpressed grey velvety pubescence beneath, the veins immersed. Flowers 12-30 in dense terminal heads sometimes extending into the axils of the upper leaves. Bracts linear, silky, 1-3 in. Pedicels 1-2 lines, stiff, ascend- ing. Calyx 3 in. long, densely silky, the upper teeth at least as long as the tube, the lower longer and reaching down deeper. Corolla violet-purple, 2-2 in.; standard 3 in. broad, densely silky on the back. Pod subligneous, 2 in. long, 2 in. broad, 7—8-seeded, persistently grey- velvety, the sutures tawny. Style bearded throughout especially along the inner edge. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! a. Te cephalantha, Welw. mss. An erect copiously branched undershrub 1-2 ft, high, the flexuose branches densely clothed with spreading greyish-brown pubescence. Stipules linear, membranous, ¢ in, lone, purplish-black, falcate. Petioles 1-14 lines. Leaflets 3, rarely 5, casually 1 at the base of the branches, oblanceolate, reaching 12-18 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, rigidly coriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower persistently argenteo-canescent, side ones smaller, all truncate, distinctly mucronate. Flowers 3-12 in dense sessile heads. Pedicels very short. Calyx 3-34 lines long, densely clothed with spreading silvery hairs; teeth linear, all much longer than the tube. Corolla 4-2 in., pale violet, turning yellowish when dried. Standard under 4 in, broad, densely silky on the back. Pod 12-18 lines long, 3-33 lines broad, straight, persistently thinly silky, 8—12-seeded. Style flattened upwards, faintly bearded along the inner edge. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! Var. B. decumbens, Welw. mss. Diffuse, half a foot high; stipules narrower; leaflets 6-9 lines broad; heads 3-4- owered; calyx 4 in. long, teeth subulate. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 40. 'T. gracilipes, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 194, t. 49. Stems erect, very diffuse, annual, about a foot high, the branches slender, ascending, angular, thinly adpressed grey-silky. Stipules } in. long, Setaceous from a dilated base. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis 1-14 in. long, the leaflets in 3-5 pairs, linear, an inch long by 2 lines broad, upex rounded mucronate, upper surface glabrous, ‘lower thinly ad- Pressed-silky. Flowers in very lax terminal or leaf-opposed racemes of 2-4 each’ on filiform peduncles 3-1lin. long. Pedicel equalling the calyx, which is finely si ky, a line deep, the teeth lanceolate acuminate, reaching more than halfway down. Corolla purplish, twice the calyx, the standard Lin. broad. Pod finely downy, 2-1 in. long, } in. broad, 6-8-seeded.—A, Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 189. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon, Schweinfurth! 120 XLVI. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. 41. T, linearis, Pers.; DC. Prod. ii. 254. An erect copiously branched perennial 1-8 ft. high with very slender virgate branches with a few inconspicuous adpressed grey hairs. Stipules linear, very minute. Petioles 1-2 lines; rachis 6-18 lines; leaflets 5-17, linear, 12-15 lines long, 3-1 line broad, ascending, glabrous above, persis- tently thinly grey-canescent below. Flowers 4—8 in very lax racemes which are sometimes stalked, sometimes reach down into the axils of the leaves. Pedicels 1-14 lines, erecto-patent. Calyx 1 line long, densely silky; teeth linear-subulate, exceeding the tube. Corolla reddish, 1 in. long; standard } in. broad. Pod linear, 15—24 lines long’, 4 in. broad, slightly recurved, finely downy, 12—18-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet! Heudelot! Guinea proper, Thonning, Vogel! Nile Land. . Nubia, Kotschy! and others. on Lower Guinea. Ambriz, Congo, Dr. Welwitsch! 42. T. pulchella, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 299. Stems erect, suffruticose, 2-3 ft. high, copiously paniculately branched, the branches ascending, straight, slender, thinly silky. Stipules } in. long, setaceous. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis an inch or less long, the leatlets in 4-5 pairs, 3-2 in. long, 1 line broad, rigidly coriaceous, narrowed gradually from the apex to the base, truncate or emarginate with a mucro, upper surface glabrous, lower quite argenteous. Flowers in very lax terminal and lateral racemes of 3-6 each, sometimes but not always on long veduncles or casually solitary in the axils of the leaves. Bracts subu- late, } in. long. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which is thinly silky, - 4 in. ent the teeth subulate, reaching halfway down. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx, the standard } in. broad, silky on the back. Pod linear, 14-2 in. long, $ in. broad, nearly straight, finely grey- silky, 10—12-seeded. Upper Guinea. Banks of the Quorra, Dr. Baikie! Vogel! Barter! 43. T. longipes, Mvissn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 87. Stem suffru- ticose, 1-2 ft. high, erect, sparingly branched, terete, the branches slender, angular, thinly adpressed-silky. Stipules setaceous, } in. long: Leaves sessile; rachis 2 in. long; leaflets in 4—5 pairs, linear, 14-1 in. long, 2 lines broad, rigidly coriaceous, often folded, the uppe surface glabrous, the lower argenteous. Racemes terminal and lateral, laxly 6-10-flowered, usually on long rigid peduncles but sometimes sessile. Pedicels and linear bracts equalling the calyx, which is 2 lines deep, brown-silky, the teeth lanceolate acuminate, subequal, reaching more than halfway down. Corolla purplish, 4 lines long in our plant, the standard } in. broad, very silky on the back. Pod linear, nearly straight, 13-2 in. long, 2 lines broad,.densely but finely brown-silky, 10—12-seeded—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 208. Wile Land. Karague, Speke and Grant, 487! at 5000 ft. Also a plant of Natal and the north-east of Cape Colony. Tephrosia. | XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 121 44. T. radicans, Welw..mss. A wide-trailing perennial herb with copiously branched slender flexuose prostrate stems 2-3 ft. long, densely clothed with fine spreading pubescence. Stipules ovate, 1-14 lines. Petioles 2-8 lines; rachis 2-4 lines; leaflets 5-7, obovate- oblong, 6—9 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, truncate, mucronate, above grey-green glabrous, persistently grey-silky below, the midrib tawny. Racemes copious, usually terminal, stalked, 6-15-flowered, 1-2 in. long, rarely running down among the leaves. Bracts lanceolate, very “minute. Pedicels densely downy, 1-3 lines, lower often patent. Calyx ~ lines, finely downy; teeth lanceolate cuspidate, longer than the tube. Corolla reddish-purple, $ in. long; standard 2 in. broad, silky on the back. Pod oblong, 6-8 lines long, }in. broad, thin, finely grey- downy, 2-3-seeded. Style pubescent throughout, especially along the Inner edge, Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 45. 'T. huillensis, Wel. mss. A diffuse moderately branched lax perennial, 1-2 ft. high, the stems densely clothed with fine spreading tawny hairs. Stipules lanceolate acuminate, 4—6 lines. Petioles 12-18 lines ; rachis 2-3 inches ; leaflets 7-11, oblanceolate, reaching 13-2 in. long, 3—8 in. broad, blunt, distinctly mucronate, glabrous above, finely gtTey-canescent below. Flowers 1—2 from the axils of the upper leaves, and in stalked close 6—12-flowered racemes. Bracts linear, 3—4 lines. Pedicels 2-3 lines, ascending. Calyx 3 in. densely silky, teeth linear- Setaceous, much exceeding the tube. Corolla 4-3 in., reddish-purple, keel pale, standard 3 in. broad. Pod linear, 2-24 in. long, 34-4 lines broad, glabrescent, 12—14-seeded. Style bearded along inner edge. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! Var. 8. grandiflora, Baker. Bracts issn pe ’ Calyx Lin. long. Corolla ?-Zin. long; standard j in. broad. Immature pod densely silky. : Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 46. T. reptans, Baker. Stems suffruticose, wide-trailing, the branches firm, angular, clothed with dense pale brown spreading silicy pubescence. Stipules 4 in. long, linear-subulate. Leaves subsessile, the rachis 4—7 in. long; the leaflets in 7-10 pairs, oblanceolate, 2-2; In. long, 3-Lin. broad, emarginate and mucronate, upper surface gla- brous, lower clothed with thin loose grey pubescence, the midrib ferruginous. Racemes terminal and lateral, lax, 6-12 in. long, on peduncles as lone, the flowers of the lower part generally in pairs about an inch apart. Bracts linear-subulate, }-3 in. long. Lower pedicels ¢ in. long, villose, Calyx } in. deep, densely grey-silky, the teeth linear-subulate, the lower ones reaching more than halfway down, the upper rather shorter. Corolla purplish, ? in. deep, the standard 2 in. broad, very silky on the back. Pod 2-24 in. long, 2 lines broad, glabrescent, straight, 16-18-seeded. Style pubescent throughout, *specially along the inner edge. 122 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. Nile Land. Creeping along the ground in luxuriant vegetation near water, lat. 5° S., long. 33° E. Alt. 3800 ft., Speke and Grant! Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Shupanga, Dr. Kirk! 47. T. paniculata, Welw. mss. A much-branched undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, the ascending branches densely clothed with short spreading grey pubescence. Stipules 2-3 lines, setaceous. Petioles 4—9 lines, rachis 12-18 lines; leaflets 5-7 (rarely 3 in uppermost leaves), ob- lanceolate-oblong, the end one reaching 2-24 in. long, 8-9 lines broad, side ones much smaller, truncate, distinctly mucronate, both’ sides dull erey-ereen, upper inconspicuously, lower persistently grey-downy, the veins brownish. Racemes copious, both terminal and from the axils of many of the upper leaves so as to form a thyrsoid panicle, usually stalked. Pedicels 1-2 lines, densely downy. Bracts setaceous, 3-4 lines. Calyx 2 in., brownish, densely pubescent, teeth linear-setaceous, much exceeding the tube. Corolla reddish-purple, 5—3 in., standard 5 lines broad, densely silky on the back. Ovary linear, densely grey-silky, multiovulate. Style glabrous, faintly bearded at the point. Pod not seen. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 48, T. brunnea, Baker. Stem suffruticose, 2 ft. high, erect, ¢0- pene clothed upwards with ascending brown-silky hairs. Stipules inear, silky on the back, 3-4 lines long. Petiole 3-6 lines long; rachis 14-2 in.; leaflets 9-11, oblanceolate, 12-18 lines long, 3-b lines broad, mucronate, green above, thinly clothed with adpressed grey- silky hairs, especially beneath. Racemes 12—20-flowered, moderately dense, sessile or nearly so, the lower flowers 2-3 together. Pedicels 1-14 lines long, densely silky. Calyx } in. deep, densely brown-silky, the lower teeth linear, reaching three-quarters, the upper halfway down. Corolla reddish, 7—8 lines long, the standard densely brown-silky 08 the back. Ovary linear, densely pubescent, 6—8-ovulate. Pod not seen Style glabrous, penicillate at the point. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 49, 'T’. villosa, Pers.; DO. Prod. ii. 213. Stems suffruticose, 2-3 ft. high, diffusely branched, the branches firm, angular, finely adpressed white-silky. Stipules linear-subulate, } in. long. Petiole 4-4 ™.i rachis 4—5 in. long; leaflets in 6-10 pairs, oblanceolate, 1-1} in. long; ~3 in. broad, upper surface glabrous, lower finely adpressed grey-silky : Racemes lax, terminal or lateral, 6-12 in. long, on peduncles nearly ™ long. Bracts linear, Jin. long. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which 1s 1 in. deep, densely silky, the lower teeth linear-subulate, reaching more than halfway down, the upper ones rather broader and shorter. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, reddish, the standard 4 lines broad, very silky on the back. Pods curved, about 2 in. long, 2 lines broad, densel silky, 6—8-seeded. Style glabrous,— Wight et Arn. Prod, 213. Klotzse in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 47. Tephrosia. ] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 123 or Wma Distr. Zambesi land, Peters!, Dr. Kirk! Island of Zanzibar, Dr. rk ! A common East Indian species. 50. 'T. incana, Graham in Wall. Cat. 5644, Stems suffruticose, 14-3 ft. high, but according to Dr. Welwitsch annual only, diffusely branched from the base, densely clothed with spreading woolly grey pubescence. Stipules linear, ¢ in. long’, woolly on the back. Petioles }—4 in. long; rachis 2-3 in, long; leaflets in 5-6 pairs, oblanceolate, 1-14 in. long, 4-2 in. broad, apex rounded, mucronate, upper surface thinly, lower densely grey-silky. Racemes terminal and lateral, 6-12 in. long, the lower Howers in Clusters of 3-4 together an inch apart. Pedicels ver short, densely silky. Calyx 3 in. deep, densely white-silky, the teet linear-subulate, reaching three-quarters of the way down, the lowest the longest. Corolla reddish, half as long again as the calyx, the stan- dard 2 in. broad, silky on the back. Pods deflexed, and then slightly recurved, 2 in. long, 4 in. broad, densely and permanently silky, 6—- seeded. Style glabrous, densely penicillate at the apex—Wight et Arn. Prod. i. 212. Wt. Ic. ii. 371. 7. Apollinea, Klotzsch in Peters Mossamb. Bot. 47, non DC. 7. Ehrenbergiana, Schweinf. Fl. Aithiop. 18. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Hhrenberg. Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! ; Mozamb. Distr. Isle of Mombas, Bojer. Zambesi land, Peters! Dr. Kirk! Dr. Meller ! A common East Indian species. Ey coronilloides, Welw. mss. A diffuse ee ae branched undershrub, 2-21 ft. high, the stems densely clothed with short as- cending grey pubescence. Stipules linear, 14-2 lines. Petioles 0 or very short; rachis 9—18 lines; leaflets 7-13, oblanceolate, }—2 in. long, 3-4 lines broad, truncate or slightly emarginate, mucronate, both sides dull grey-green, upper glabrescent, lower finely canescent. Racemes copious, all lateral, 6-9-Howered, 1-14 in. long. Bracts linear, 14-2 lines. Pedicels 1-2 lines. Calyx 2 lines, densely silky, teeth linear- Setaceous, exceeding the tube. “Corolla reddish-purple, 4—44 lines long, standard 4 in, broad, densely silky on the back. Pod linear, persistently brown-velvety, 18-21 lines long, 24 lines broad, slightly recurved, 10-12-seeded. Style glabrous, penicillate at the point. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 2. T. decora, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, the slender flexuose ascending branches densely clothed with short sprea:t- ing brownish pubescence. Stipules setaceous, 14—2 lines. Petioles By lines. Leatlets 5-13, oblanceolate, reaching 18—21 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, blunt, mucronate, grey and glabrous above, rather densely argenteo-canescent beneath. Racemes copious, terminal and lateral, moderately dense, 2-24 in, long, usually stalked, rarely sessile. Bracts linear-setaceous, very minute. Pedicels 1-1} lines, densely Brey-downy. Calyx 2-24 lines, densely silky, teeth linear-setaceous, *xceeding the tube, Corolla 44-6 lines long, pale violet-purple, stan- 124 XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Tephrosia. dard 4 lines broad, densely silky. Pod linear, 13-2 in. long, 2 lines broad, slightly recurved, persistently clothed with short spreading silky pubescence, 10—12-seeded. Style glabrous. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 53, 'T. drepanocarpa, Welw. mss. A decumbent perennial herb, with trailing stems more than a foot long, branched and ascending towards the end, clothed with short spreading grey pubescence. Sti- pules lanceolate, patent, 14-2 lines. Petioles 1—3 lines ; rachis 9-18 lines; leaflets 7-13, oblanceolate, 6-9 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, blunt, mucronate, glabrous above, thinly grey-downy below. Racemes copious, terminal and lateral, reaching 3—4 in. long, moderately dense, the axis densely pubescent. Pedicels 1-14 lines. Bracts linear as long as the pedicels. Calyx } in. long, finely grey-downy, teeth linear, as long as the tube. Corolla bright rose-purple, twice the calyx. Pod 9-12 lines long, 24 lines broad, much recurved, 4—6-seeded, elabrescent, slightly torulose when mature. Style glabrous, penicillate at the pomt. Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch ! 54. 'T. Apollinea, DC. Prod. ii. 254, non aliorum, Stems suffru- ticose, 12-18 in. high, diffusely branched from the base, the branches firm, subglabrous. Stipules linear, firm, 2 lines long. Petioles $1 in. long. Rachis an inch or less long; leaflets in 2—4 pairs, oblong oF oblanceolate, 3-1} in. long, 1} in. broad, apex emarginate and mucto- nate, the upper surface quite and the lower nearly glabrous. Racemes terminal or lateral, laxly 6—-12-flowered, stalked or sessile. Bracts linear, rigid like the pedicel equalling the calyx, which is subg laa 2 lines deep, the teeth linear-subulate, reaching halfway down. Corel a red, twice as long as the calyx, the standard 4 lines broad. Pods ne slightly upcurved, 18-21 lines long, 2 lines broad, glabrous, 6- : seeded. Style glabrous, pencillate at the point.—Galeya Apollinet, Delile Fl. Aigypt. 144, t. 33. Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Schweinfurth! Binder! Petherick! Bromfield! Sometimes cultivated. . Extends northward into Egypt, and through Arabia into Scinde. The T. Apollnts Guill. and Perr. Fl. Seneg. 196; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 187, is T. anthylloides, and ° Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 47, is 7. ineana. 55. 'T. purpurea, Pers.; DC. Prod. ii. 251. A copiously branched herbaceous perennial, 1-2 ft. high, with firm, slender, subglabrous stems. Stipules linear, 2-4 lines. Petioles 1-3 lines; rachis 2-3 in. ; leaflets 13-17, oblanceolate, 9-12 lines long, }—3 in. broad, blunt, mucronate, subcoriaceous, both sides grey-green, upper glabrous, lower nearly 80 Racemes terminal and lateral, 8—6 in. long, laxly 6—20-tlowered, sessile or shortly stalked. Bracts linear, 1-2 lines. Pedicels 1-2 lines, su glabrous, erecto-patent. Calyx 2 lines, slightly silky, teeth lanceolate acuminate, exceeding the tube. Corolla {~3 in., red-purple, standard 4 in. broad. Pod linear, slightly recurved, glabrous, 14-2 in. long, * lines broad, 6—10-seeded. Style glabrous, penicillate at the point. 1. leptostachya, DC. loc. cit. . indigofera, Bert. Misc. xix. 9, t. » Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 125 Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet! and others. North Central. Kouka, #. Vogel! Ooieay and. Nubia, Kotschy! Petherick! Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartip- tllon ! Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! : Mozamb. Distr. Sofala, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Dr. Stewart! Var. 8. pubescens, Baker. Leaves, stem, and young pod slightly downy. Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Thonning! Capt. Burton! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Lower Guinea. Ambaca and Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Meller! A cosmopolitan species in the Tropics. 56. 'T. nubica, Baker. Stems woody, 12-18 in. long, diffusely branched, the branches terete, densely coated with short white silky pubescence. Stipules lanceolate, } in. long. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis woolly like the branches, the leatlets in 3-4 pairs, oblanceo- late, 1-1} in. long, }—-3 in. broad, apex rounded, mucronate, both sides very pale, and especially the lower one densely slerae as Racemes terminal or leaf-opposed, 6—12-flowered, 3—4 in. long, on long or short rigid peduncles. Pedicels and bracts shorter than the calyx, which is 1 4~3 in. deep, densely white-silky, the teeth linear, reaching more than halfway down. Corolla pinkish, slightly exceeding the calyx, the stan- dard 1 in, broad, very silky on the back. Pod twice as long as the calyx, densely clothed with long half-spreading white silky hairs, 1- seeded.— Poyonostiqma nubicum, Boiss. Diagn. ii. 40. P. abyssinicum, Jaub. et Spach. Illust. Pl. Or. t. 477-8. Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy! Cienkowsky. Abyssinia, Schimper. 5?. 'T’. sphzerosperma, Baler. A copiously branched diffuse un- dershrub, about a foot high, the branches woody, clothed with fine grey pubescence when young. Stipules } in. long, rigid, linear, falcate, per- sistent. Petioles a line long, downy. Leaves simple, obovate, half an inch long, more than half as broad, firm, grey, generally folded, apex mucronate, recurved, veins prominent, both surfaces, especially thie under one, finely downy. Flowers axillary, 1-3 together, nearly ses- sile. Calyx tubular, Lin. deep, the teeth lanceolate, not reaching half- way down. Corolla pale yellow, not twice as long as the calyx. Pod spathulate mucronate, 1~$ in. long, finely downy, 1-seeded.—Requienia spherosperma, DC. Prod. ii. 168. Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 230. poonth Central. The interior just north of the Tropic of Capricorn, Chapman and aines | A Cape species. OB. T. obcordata, Baker. A woody undershrub, 2—3 ft. high, the ranches firm, straight, ascending, terete, clothed with fine grey ‘omentum. Stipules subulate, a line long, rigid, persistent. Leaves subsessile, ete Pe obcordate, 4-3 in. long, three-quarters as broad, apex truncate or retise with a mucro, texture coriaceous, both sides 8tey-green, and the veins very prominent, the upper one subglabrous when mature, the lower iaualy coated with fine short whitish silky 126 XLVII. § PAPILIONACER (BAKER). | Tephrosia. tomentum. Calyx subsessile, } in. long, densely tomentose, the teeth lanceolate, reaching down to the middle. Pod ovoid, } in. long, more than half as broad, densely and persistently grey-villous, 1-seeded.— Requienia obcordata, DC. Mem. Leg. 226 t. 37. Prod. ii. 168. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Lepriewr and Perrottet, Heudelot! Bidjem! Wile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy! Cienkowsky. 21. MUNDULEA, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 497. Calyx-teeth short, the two upper ones subconnate. Standard large, spreading, obovate, transversely callose at the base of the blade; wings faleate-oblong, slightly adhering to the keel; keel obtuse, the point incurved. Upper stamen free and geniculate at the base, united upwards with the rest in a closed tube, alternate filaments slightly dilated, anthers uniform. Ovary multiovulate; style incurved, indurated, sub- terete, glabrous, the apex inflexed, the stigma capitate. Pod linear, flat, the sutures very thick, ultimately dehiscing.—Subarborescent shrubs. Three species, the two others Mascarene. A connecting link between Tephrosia and Millettia. 1. M. suberosa, Benth.; Walp. Ann. iv. 491. A shrub, 4—6 ft. high, with corky bark, the branches ascending, sulcate, finely grey-downy upwards. Rachis of leaves 4—6 in. long, leaflets in 6-10 pairs, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 1—2 in. long’, $—? in. broad, pale green, glabrous above, clothed with fine yellowish-grey silky pubescence beneath. Racemes terminal and leaf-opposed, 4—6 in. long. Pedicels 4 in. long, slender, silky. Calyx campanulate, 14—2 lines deep, finely silky, the teeth very short. Corolla reddish, an inch deep. Pod 3—5 in. long, 1—3 in. broad, finely silky, torulose, 6—8-seeded.—Zephrosia suberosa, DC. Prod. ii. 249. Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 204. Wight Illust. t. 79. Hook. Ic. t. 120. 7 Petersiana, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. t. 9. Dalbergia striata, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 111 (mame only). Tephrosia icthynica, Bert. Mise. xviii. 18, t. 3. Upper Guinea. Niger country, Abbeokuta, Irving! Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! South Central. In the interior near the Tropic of Capricorn, Chapman and Baines! Mozamb. Distr. Banks of Lake Ngami, McCabe ! Mozambique, Peters ! Kirk! Sofala, Inhambane, Fornasini. : A well-known East Indian species, and extending southward to Natal and Macalis- berg. 22, MILLETTIA, Wight et Arn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 498. Calyx-tube campanulate, the teeth short. Standard large, spreadi 2 or reflexed, naked or callose above a short claw or rarely furnish with intlexed auricles; wings falcate-oblong, free from the keel, cohe- rent or free at the point; keel incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen free Millettia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). 127 at the base, more or less connate with the others about the middle or quite free; filaments not dilated; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or rarely stalked, often surrounded by an annular disk or short sheath, multi- ovulate ; style inflexed, terete, glabrous, with a small terminal stigma. Pod linear-lanceolate or oblong, compressed, coriaceous or woody, two- valved, ultimately dehiscing.—Shrubs_ or trees, distinguished from Lonchocarpus only by the pod ultimately dehiscing, so that for want of fully ripe fruit the place of several of the species is uncertain. A moderate-sized genus, with one Australian and two Cape species; the others which are not African plants of Tropical Asia. Leaves and branches glabrous or subglabrous. Exstipellate. Standard 1 in. broad Standard 4 in. broad Stipellate. Standard naked on the back; leaflets 7-9 Standard silky on the back; leaflets 11-21. Stamens monadelphons . fee Stamens diadelphous. . MW. macrophylla. . M. Manni. . MW. Thonningii. . WM, drastica. On FF w We Corolla 3 in. deep; leaflets 14-2 in. long - HM. gracilis. Corolla 9-12 lines deep ; leaflets 4-5 in. long . . I. versicolor. a beneath and branches pubescent. ixstipellate. = climber; corolladin. deep . . . =... . + % + Vy Jf eropaglla, rect trees; corolla 9-12 lines deep. : Standard naked on the back . . . . - - - - - - 8 MM. aboensis, Standard silky on the back. : beaiom 7-9 5-41 lone 2. 5 a .) pews 8 apulies 17-21 POW longs hehe Y ; Ppa a a . 11. M. rhodantha. 1 macrophylla, Hovk. 7. Fl. Nigr. 318, t. 32-3. A smal] tree with terete branches. Leaves glabrous, long-stalked, the rachis often a foot long, firm, and glabrous like the twigs. Leatlets in ee and a terminal one, the upper ones obovate-oblong, 4—6 in. long, “4-3 in. broad, the apex not narrowed, upper surface deep green, glabrous, lower pale-green, very finely silky, the veins raised and ferruginous. Petiolules 2-8 lines long, without. stipelle. Flowers in lax long- stalked erect racemes a foot long, the lower ones 5—6 in a cluster on short branches. Bracts lanceolate, deciduous, equalling the silky pe- dicels, 4 in, long. Calyx deeply campanulate, 3-4 lines deep, densely brown-silky, the teeth very nearly obsolete. Corolla an inch long, purplish, the standard an inch broad, not silky on the back, the upper filament free to the middle. Pod oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 in. long, 1} in. broad, glabrous when mature, very coriaceous, 4—6-seeded, not at all torulose. Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Vogel! 2. M.? Mannii, Baler. A tree or shrub with glabrous = Petioles ee long. Leaves 8-9 in. long, with 15-17 obovate-ob- i the ons pointed subcoriaceous opaque pale-green glabrous leaflets, "Upper ones 3-3} in. long, 12.18 lines broad, the main veins beneath 128 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Millettia, raised. Petiolules 2 lines long, not stipellate. Flowers in a long- stalked slightly compound panicle about as long as the leaf with race- mose branches. Pedicels very short. Calyx campanulate, 2—24 lines deep, slightly brown-silky, the teeth obsolete. Corolla reddish. 3 in. deep, the orbicular standard } in. broad, quite glabrous on the back, the wings and much incurved keel nearly as long. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary linear, sessile, very silky, pluriovulate. Pod unknown. Upper Guinea. Gaboon river, Mann! 3. M. Thonningii, Buker. A tree 30-40 ft. high, with glabrous branches. Stipules none or deciduous. Petiole about an inch long, the rachis of the leaf 3-6 in. long, both glabrous; leaflets 7—9, the upper oblong acuminate, 3-5 in. long, 2-2) in. broad, the lowest pair considerably shorter, the petiolules about 2 lines long, with small spreading setaceous deciduous stipelle, subcoriaceous, both sides gla- brous, the veins beneath not prominent. Flowers in sessile drooping axillary racemes 4-8 in. long. Bracts linear or lanceolate, shorter than the slender pedicels, which are 2 lines long, and about equal the glabrous or slightly pubescent broadly campanulate calyx. Calyx- teeth deltoid, reaching about a quarter down, the lowest the narrowest, the two uppermost connate. Corolla }—8 in. deep, lilac or violet, standard orbicular, 3 in. broad, glabrous. Upper stamen free above the middle. Pod linear-oblong, 6-8 in. long, # in. broad, glabrous, firm, subligneous, slightly curved, 5—6-seeded.—Robinia Thonningii, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 349. WM. Griffoniana, Baillon, Adans, vi. 222. Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Thonning, Vogel! Barter! Irving! Mann! Griffon du Bellay. Fernando Po, Mann! Senegambia, Heudelot! Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! A very handsome tree, with copious drooping racemes of pale lilac flowers. Dr Wel- witsch has gathered in Congo a plant which differs by having the leaflets alternate stead of opposite, and the pods shorter and broader, 24~3 in. long, 10-12 lines broad, —3-seeded. 4, M. drastica, Wel. mss. A shrub or small tree 10-15 ft. high, with the habit of Fraainus, with glabrous branches. Petioles 1-2 i. long. Leaves 6-12 in. long, with 15-19 obovate or oblong subcoria- ceous pointed glabrous leatlets, the terminal one 2-33 in. long, 12-2 lines broad, on petiolules 2 lines long, with deciduous setaceous st pelle. Flowers in stiff short ascending axillary and terminal racemes about as long as the leaves, the lower ones 9-3 together. Pedicels 13-2 lines long. Calyx campanulate. 2-23 lines deep, finely brow? or grey-velvety, with deltoid teeth not reaching more than a quarter down. Corolla deep purplish lilac, 8—9 lines deep. Standard orbicu- lar, 7—8 lines broad, finely silky on the back. Stamens monadelphous- Pod sessile, subligneous, glabrous, linear-oblong, compressed, 5-7 long, 9-10 lines broad, many-seeded. Lower Guinea. Angola, Cazengo, Golungo Alto, &c., Dr. Welwitsch ! Millettia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 129 5. M. gracilis, Welw. mss. A slender shrub 3-5 or rarely 8-10 ft. high, with glabrous branches. Petioles slender, an inch long. Leaves 6-8 in. long, with 15-21 obovate-oblong blunt deflexed glabrous leaf- lets, the terminal one 1}—2 in. long by half as broad, opaque above, glaucescent below. Petiolules a line long with minute deciduous stipellee. Flowers in lax or moderately dense short-stalked racemes about as long as the leaves, the lower ones in pairs or fascicles. Pe- dicels 142 lines long, finely silky. Calyx 14-2 lines deep, nearly gla- brous, obliquely campanulate, the teeth almost obsolete. Corolla deep rose-violet, 3 in. deep, the standard orbicular, 3 in. broad, finely argen- teous on the back, the wings and much incurved keel nearly as long. Upper stamen free to the base. Pod linear-oblong, sessile, ligneous, flat, quite glabrous, 3-4 in. long, 4 in. broad, 38—5-seeded. Lower Guinea. Angola; Ambaca, and Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 6. M. versicolor, Welw. mss. An erect shrub, 5-10 ft. high, with glabrous branches. _Petioles 14-2 in. long. Leaves 8-12 in. long, with 11-13 glabrous subcoriaceous obovate or oblong acuminate or cuspidate leaflets like the leaves of Fagus sylvatica in texture, upper ones 4—5 in. long, 14—2 in. broad, the main veins beneath prominent. Petiolules 23-8 lines long, stipellate. Flowers in ample stalked ter- minal panicles sometimes a foot long with racemose or subcapitate branches glabrous downwards. Pedicels 2-3 lines long. Calyx broadly campanulate, 24-3 lines deep, densely brown-silky, the deltoid teeth teaching a quarter down. Corolla 9-12 lines long, the orbicular emarginate reflexed standard 4-2 in. broad, bright yellow within, densely brown-silky on the back; the violet-purple wings and keel ‘ nearly as long. Upperstamen free. Pod ligneous, permanently brown- silky, linear-oblong, sessile, 4 in. long, 16-18 lines broad, decurved, 2-3-seeded. Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! oe urophylla, Welw. mss. A wide-climbing shrub with a trunk 3—4 in. thick, the voung branches densely clothed with fine ferruginous pubescence. Petioles 3-6 in. long. Leaves 4-12 in. long, with 3-9 obovate-oblong cuspidate opaque subcoriaceous leaflets, glabrous above, at first finely brown-downy on the veins below, the terminal one 2-8 in. long, 1-5 in. broad; petiolules 2—4 lines long, without stipelle. Flowers in rigid subdense axillary stalked racemes or panicles 1—2 times as long as the leaves, usually fascicled. Pedicels 14-2 lines long, finely downy. Calyx campanulate, 1}—2 lines deep, finely brown- silky, the ‘teeth very short, deltoid. Corolla rose-violet, } in. deep; Standard oblong, 4 lines broad, at first thinly argenteous on the back ; wings and keel scarcely shorter. Upper stamen free from the base. vary linear, sessile, silky, multiovulate. Pod (only seen immature) linear-oblong, deflexed, 3 in. broad, subligneous, densely brown-velvety. Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! VOL. 11, oss 130 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEA! (BAKER). | Millettia. 8. M. ? aboensis, Hook.f. Fl. Nigr. 820 (as a var. of IM. macrophylla). A tree 30-40 ft. high, the ultimate branches densely clothed with fine dark-brown spreading pubescence. Petioles 38-4 in. long; rachis 6-8 in. long, both pubescent; leaflets in 5—6 pairs, the upper ones obovate- oblong, 4-5 in. long, 14-13 in. broad, the lower ones shorter and broader, petiolules 2 lines long without stipellie, texture subcoria- ceous, upper surface dark green, glabrous, lower more or less ferru- vinous-pubescent, especially on the prominent veins. Racemes 6-12 in. long, on firm woody erect peduncles, the lower part with a few short branches. Pedicels 2 lines long. Bracts lanceolate or oblong- lanceolate, soon falling. Calyx 3 in. deep, densely ferruginous-silky, the teeth nearly obsolete. Corolla an inch deep, reddish, the standard 3-Z in. broad, glabrous on the back, the upper stamen free above the middle. Pod linear-oblong acuminate 6 in. long, 1 in. broad, very coriaceous, densely bright ferruginous-silky. Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Vogel! Ansell! and others. Pe Our specimens received since the Niger Flora was written, show clearly that this 18 distinct as a species from M. macrophylla ; but we have no pods in a mature state. 9. M. nudifiora, Welw. mss. A tree 30-40 ft. high with finely brown-velvety branchlets, no leaves at the flowering time. Petioles 1-2 in. long.” Leaves 6-7 in. long, with 7-9 obovate-oblong pointed subcoriaceous leaflets, the terminal one 3—4 in. long, 15-18 lines broad, cuneate at the base, green and glabrous above, thinly grey-silky over the surface, brown-silky on the veins beneath, on downy exstipellate petiolules 2 lines long. Flowers in very copious short-stalked mode- rately dense nutant racemes 4—5 in. long. Pedicels 2—8 lines long, downy. Calyx narrowly campanulate, 4 lines deep, finely brown-sillf the lanceolate-deltoid teeth reaching about a quarter down. Corolla bright violet, 9-10 lines long; standard obovate, } in. broad, recurved, finely argenteous on the back ; wings and keel rather shorter. Stamens all connate. Pod (rather immature) linear-oblong, subligneous, sessile, glabrous, 4—5 in. long, an inch broad, straight, 7—10-seeded. Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 10. M. ferruginea, Baker. A large tree with firm terete ultimate branches clothed with fine short ferruginous silky tomentum. Stipules lanceolate, 4 in. long. Petioles 1-14 in. long, the rachis 8-12 im. long, ferruginous silky like the twigs; leaflets in 8-10 pairs and & terminal one, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, $—? in. broad, apex narrowed, base rounded, texture coriaceous, under surface finely silky, the veins ferruginous, not prominent, the petiolules a line long; ferruginous, without stipelle. Flowers in long-stalked lax erect racemes 6—9 in. long, the lower ones distant, 8—4 in a cluster. Pedicels silky, about equalling the calyx, which is between campanulate a” tubular, 3—4 lines deep, densely coated with fine brown silky pubes- cence, the teeth very short, subdeltoid. Corolla three times as long as the calyx, cream-coloured, the standard very silky on the bac : Millettia.] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). 131 Pod linear-oblong, 6—7 in. long, 3 in. broad, coriaceous or almost woody, glabrous.—Sesbania ferruginea, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 279. Berebera ferruginea, Hochst. in Flora, 1846, 597. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 190, t. 35. Inga byrsinocarpa, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 536. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon, Petit. Berebera is the Abyssinian name of this handsome tree; the powdered seeds are thrown into the water to stupify fish. ll. M. rhodantha, Buill. Adans. vi. 223. An erect tree 30-40 ft. high, with yellow aromatic wood, the branches densely brown-velvety. Petioles 1 in. long. Leaves 6-8 in. long, with 13-21 slightly oblique oblong pointed subcoriaceous leaflets, 13-2} in. long, 8—9 lines broad, glabrous above, brown-velvety on the midrib and glaucescent beneath, on petiolules 1 line long with persistent setaceous stipelle. Flowers in moderately dense axillary racemes about as long as the leaves, the lower flowers fascicled, the clusters casually stalked. Pedicels 2-3 lines long, brown-velvety. Calyx Jin. deep, the teeth very short. Corolla violet, 4 in. deep, the orbicular standard 4 lines broad, at first thinly silky on the back. Stamens all connate. Pod (only seen im- mature) linear-oblong, sessile, many-seeded. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Sierra Leone, Morson ! Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 23. PLATYSEPALUM, Welw. mss. Calyx with a short campanulate tube clasped by two large persistent oblong bracteoles; two upper teeth connate into a broad emarginate cucullate lip as long as the corolla, three lower linear-lanceolate. Stan- dard obcordate, shortly unguiculate, wings and keel nearly equal- ling it, the former blunt, the latter slightly incurved, obtuse, shortly auriculate and unguiculate. Upper stamen free from the base; anthers uniform, oblong, versatile. Ovary linear, sessile, 5-7-ovulate; style filiform, glabrous, incurved; stigma minute, terminal. Pod linear- lanceolate, compressed, woody, 2-valved, ultimately dehiscing, 3—0- seeded, An erect small tree, with imparipinnate leaves, and the general habit of Millettia, from which it principally differs by the extraordinary calyx, 1. P. violaceum, Welw. mss. A tree 10-20 ft. high, branches clothed with fine grey-brown pubescence. Petioles 12-16 lines long, eaves 4-10 in. long with 7-9 oblong or obovate-oblong acuminate or Cuspidate coriaceous leaflets, pale green and rather shining above, °paque und finely silky on the ribs beneath, terminal one 3-6 in. long, % ‘i in. broad; petiolules 2 lines long with persistent setaceous stipelle. Flowers in copious rigid ascending axillary panicles with “Hort arcuate ascending Sbelibah branshion naked downwards. Pedicels 1-2 lines long, densely silky. Calyx 7—8 lines long, bracteoles half as long, both densely grey-silky, the hooded violet upper lip 4 in. broad. kK: 132 XLVI. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). __ [Platysepalum. Corolla just as long as the calyx, yellowish. Pod 3-3} in. long, ? in. broad, permanently pale brown velvety. Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 24. MICROCHARIS, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 501. Calyx minute, with a campanulate tube and five subequal teeth. Standard orbicular; keel and wings with a long claw, the latter shortest. Upper stamen free above the middle, the others all connate; anthers uniform, not distinctly apiculate. Ovary sessile, linear, multi- ovulate, narrowed gradually into a short ascending glabrous style; stigma capitate. Pod sessile, linear, compressed, two-valved, thinly septate between the seeds.—Diffuse annuals with simple leaves and racemose flowers. Restricted to Tropical Africa, the three species very near to one another, perhaps all varieties of one. Stipules setaceous. Corolla 14 lines . bo eek ea ee prerele 2-24 lines 2. Se ee es ee Ppelens tolinecons ks ee ee 1. M. tenella, Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 297, t. 33 A. Stems diffuse, very slender, finely grey-hispid. Stipules setaceous, 1-1} lines, spreading, persistent. Petioles 1-14 lines. Leaves lanceolate, reach- ing 1-2 in. long, 3-6 lines broad, narrowed to both ends, mucronate, subcoriaceous, pale green, glabrescent above, obscurely grey-hisp! below. Flowers up to a dozen in copious, distinctly peduncled, axillary racemes which equal or exceed the leaves. Bracts setaceous, 4 line, rarely foliaceous. Pedicels patent, }—1 line. Calyx } line, densely grey- hispid, the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla bright scarlet, membranous, fugacious, } in. long. Pod linear, slightly recurved, 8-9 lines long, ? line broad, 8~10-seeded. Upper Guinea. Nupe and banks of the Quorra at Jeba, in crevices of rocks after the rains, Dr. Vogel! Barter! 2. M. angolensis, Baker. General habit of the preceding, but more hispid, with less numerous and more distant leaves. Stipules setaceous, 2 lines. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, subsessile, reaching 9-2} in. long, 3-4 lines broad, dull green, both sides persistently grey- hispid. Lower racemes reaching 3—4 in. long, including the short peduncles, the flowers more numerous than in the last, the bracteoles similar but all the lower ones barren. Calyx ? line deep, the lanceolate- setaceous teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla 2-24 lines. Ovary linear, hispid. Pod unknown. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 3. M. latifolia, Benth. loc. cit. General habit just as in the tw? others. Stipules 3~4 lines, foliaceous, ovate acuminate, deeply cordate Mierocharis.} XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). 138 the outer side. Leaves subsessile, subcoriaceous, the lower ones obovate- oblong, 2 in. lone, 1 in. broad. Racemes about 6-flowered, either truly axillary on short peduncles or terminal on short branches from the axils of the leaves. Calyx under } line, copiously hispid. Corolla + inch. Pod not seen. Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, on the riverbank near Luabo, Dr. Kirk! 25. SESBANIA, Pers.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 502. Calyx broadly campanulate, with short subequal teeth. Petals all distinctly unguiculate ; standard large, emarginate orbicular; wings oblong; keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous; anthers uni- form or nearly so. Ovary sessile or short-stalked, multiovulate , style glabrous, incurved; stigma capitate. Pod linear, compressed, or terete or tetragonous or 4-winged, usually dehiscing—Herbs or sott-wood shrubs of brief duration with very numerous leaflets and flowers in axillary racemes. A small genus dispersed through the Tropics of both hemispheres, many of the Species very closely allied and difficult to define. Suscenus 1, Eusesbania.—Pod not winged. Valves of the pod rounded on the back. Corolla 8-9 lines long. Shrubby, with peduncled lax racemes . Annual, with subsessile abbreviated racemes . Corolla 6-7 lines long. ; Branches finely downy ; lower pedicels 6—9 lines long. Branches glabrous; lower pedicels 2-4 lines long. Shrubby whined ek ea Annual, with prickly branches and leaf-rachis Corolla 4-5 lines long. Branches and young leaves densely grey-silky . Branches and young leaves glabrous Stee Valves of the pod acutely keeled on the back . Suneexus 2. Daubentonia.—Pod with 4 broad wings . . S. punctata. . S. pachycarpa. S. cinerascens. . S egyptiaca. . S. aculeata. . S. pubescens. . S. leptocarpa. . S. spherosperma. 9, 8. tetraptera. 2ND ok DO We 1. S. punctata, DC. Prod. ii. 265. An erect, copiously branched glabrous glaucous shrub 5-10 ft. high. Petioles 6—9 lines, sometimes slightly prickly, upper leaves 38-8 in. long ; leaflets 20—50-jugate, Just like those of s, egyptiaca. Peduncles 12-18 lines. Racemes lax, 6—12- owered, casually compound. Lower pedicels 6—9 lines. Calyx 2 lines, broadly cam anulate, glabrous, the deltoid cuspidate teeth a quarter the ength of the tube. Corolla 8-9 lines long, the standard 8-9 lines broad, bright yellow, much spotted with purple, Pod 8-12 in. long, 2-24 lines thick, 30-40-seeded, not torulose when mature, the valves rounded on the back.—S. filiformis, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. (¢9. 8, multijuga, Schweinf. Hb. Callab. Exsice, No. 1869. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur! Heudelot! Guinea proper, Barter ! North Central. Bornu and Soudan, Z. Vogel! . Nile Land. Nubia, Kordofan, and Sennaar, Knoblecher, &c. Abyssinia, umper! &c. 134 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [Seshanta. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo and Golungo Alto, Angola, and a variety 10 Huilla with a muricated stem, Dr. Welwitsch ! 2. S. pachyearpa, DC. Prod. ii. 265. A glabrous erect glaucous annual 1-3 ft. high, usually unarmed. Upper leaves 3-4 in. long; leaflets 15-20-jugate, reaching 8—9 lines, glabrous, very glaucous. Flowers 1-6 in’ subsessile abbreviated racemes. Pedicels slender, 2 lines. Calyx 24 lines. Corolla 3 in. long, the standard concolorous or dotted. Pod reaching a foot long, the sutures and rounded valves thick ; style 4 in. or more long ; seeds 20-30.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg: 200, t. 50. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet ! Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Binder. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon! Lower Guinea. Bengucla, Dr. Welwitsch! (Prickly, with a shorter style.) 3. S. cinerascens, Welw. mss. A graceful much-branched slender shrub, 8-12 ft. high, with finely grey-downy branches. Petioles very short, unarmed. Upper leaves 4—6 in. long; leaflets 15—-20-jugate, reaching 9-10 lines long, glaucous, puberulous. Peduncles ee Racemes laxly 8~12-flowered, the lower pedicels 6—9 lines long, © xe cernuous. Calyx 2 lines deep; teeth very short, deltoid cuspidat Corolla 2 in, deep, the standard 2in. broad, copiously finely dotted Mi purple. Pod 9-12 in. long, 24 lines thick, tipped with a persistent pik half an inch long, the moderately thick valves slightly torulose, not a all ribbed on the back; seeds 40-50. Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 4. S. wegyptiaca, Pers.; DC. Prod. ii. 264. An erect copiously branched pale-green glabrous shrub, 5-8 or even 10 ft. high. Leaves nearly sessile, the unarmed rachis on the upper ones 2-4 in. longs leatlets 10—20-jugate, glabrous, glaucous-green, reaching an inch long, 2 lines broad, blunt with a faint mucro. Peduncles 1-2 in.; racemes lax, 6-12-flowered ; pedicels spreading, 2-4 lines. Calyx 2 lines; glabrous, the teeth very short, deltoid cuspidate. Corolla bright yellow, 4 in. long, the round emarginate standard } in. broad, more “ less dotted with purple. Pod 6-8 in. long, 14-2 lines thick, distinct torulose, 20-30-seeded, the valves rounded on the back, not 80 thie as in S. punctata and pachycarpa, Wight. Ic. t. 32.—S. picta, Pers., Bot. Reg. t. 873 (flowers deeper coloured, more spotted than usual). Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet! Guinea proper, Dr. Vogel! Capt. Burton! &c. Nile Land. Upper Egypt, Schimper! Dr. Bromfield! Nubia, Kotschy! Banks of the White Nile, Dr. Brownell! 3° N. lat., where the herd-boys use the pod as . rattle, Speke and Grant! acl throngh Tropical Asia to North Australia, and often cultivated in European gardens. 5. S. aculeata, Pers. ; DC. Prod. ii. 265. A slender glabrous annual 2-4 ft. high, with the branches and rachis of the leaves armed fe small deciduous prickles. Leaves 6-12 in, long; leaflets 20-50-jugal®, Sesbania. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 135 reaching 12-15 lines long, glaucous, glabrous. Racemes more elon- gated and narrower than in the other species, and bracts more persistent. Lower pedicels 2-3 lines, usually ascending. Peduncles reaching 3—4 in., often muricated. Calyx } in.; the teeth very short. Corolla pale yellow, 4 in. long, concolorous or faintly dotted. Pod not seen in a mature state-—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 212. 8. mossambicensis, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 45 (a slender unarmed form), Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieuwr and Perrottet! Guinea proper and Niger country, Thonning, Dr. Vogel! and others. Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Tette, Dr. Kirk ! Reaches Natal, and extends through Tropical Asia to Australia, 6. S. pubescens, DO. Prod. ii. 265. A firm erect annual reaching a height of 2—4 ft. with densely grey-silky branches. Leaves short- stalked, the upper 3-4 in., the lower 8-10 in. long; leaflets 16—30- jugate, 12-15 lines long, 2-8 lines broad, densely grey-silky. Racemés 13-2 in. long, 6—15-tlowered on short silky peduncles. Pedicels 2-3 lines. Calyx 2 lines, subglabrous, the deltoid teeth }—1 of the tube. Corolla in. Pod 5-6in. long, 1 line thick, faleate, 20-30-seeded, not torulose when mature ; valves thick, coriaceous.—Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 44, t. 8. : Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet! Brunner! and others. Guinea proper, Thonning. Nile Land. Sennaar, teste Schweinfurth. Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters. 7. S.leptocarpa, DC. Prod. ii. 265. A slender erect glaucous glabrous annual, 2-3 ft. high. Petioles 2-3 lines unarmed. Upper leaves 2-8 in. long ; leaflets 20-30-jugate, reaching } in. long, gla- brous, very glaucous. Flowers 1-3 on slender peduncles 6-12 lines long. Pedicels and glabrous calyx }in. Corolla 44—5 lines, the stan- dard blotched and finely dotted with purple. Pod 5-6 in. long, torulose, 20-24-seeded, with thin valves and dissepiments ; style short.—S. jilr- formis, Hochst. in Kotschy, Hb. Nub. No. 47. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy. Also a plant of Arabia. 8. S. spherosperma, Welw. mss. A glabrous shrub 4-6 ft. high. Petioles very short, like the rachis slightly muricated. Leaves 4—5 in. ; leaflets 25-30-jugate, reaching an inch long, glaucous, glabrous. Racemes 4—6-flowered, subsessile in the axils of the leaves, under an inch long. Pedicels 2-3 lines very slender. Calyx 1 line deep ; teeth very short, deltoid. Corolla 4 lines long, paler than in the other 2 Seg the standard not dotted. Pod reaching 8-9 in. long, 4 im. thick, the valves and dissepiment very thick, the latter angular on the back me marked with a distinct keel; seeds 40-50; style acutely conical, Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! 136 XLVII. § PAPILIONACE® (BAKER). [ Sesbania. 9. S. tetraptera, Hochst. in Kotsch. Hb. Nub. 131. Stems suffruti- cose, erect, the branches glabrous, terete, glaucous, somtimes with a few weak prickles like those of S. aculeata. Leaves subsessile, rachis 2-4 in. long, sometimes densely prickly like the branches towards the base; leaflets in 15-20 pairs, linear-oblong, }—3 in. long, 2 lines broad; apex rounded, mucronate, texture firm, both sides glabrous and glaucous. Racemes 4—6-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Pedicels slender, glabrous, exceeding the calyx, which is 2 lines deep, the teeth deltoid, reaching a quarter of the way down. Corolla yellow, } im. deep, the standard orbicular. Pod 5-6 in. long, glabrous, narrowed into a short pedicel, the body of the pod and each of the four wings a quarter of an inch broad. Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! The species is also in Kotschy’s Ethiopian set, No. 83. 26. COLUTEA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 505. Calyx-teeth subequal or the two upper ones shorter. Standard sub- orbicular, spreading, with a short claw and two callosities above it; wings falcate-oblong, with short claws; keel broad, much incurved, obtuse, with two connate claws. Upper stamen free, the rest united in asheath; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, multiovulate; style m- curved, longitudinally bearded upwards on the inner side, the point m- flexed, the stigma thickened below the apex. Pod stalked, membranous inflated, not dehiscent or opening at the point.—Shrubs. A small genus, principally distributed round the Mediterranean. 1. C. haleppica, Lum.; DC. Prod. ii. 270. A copiously branched shrub with glabrous subterete branches. Petiole 3—? in. long ; rachis 13-2 in. long; leaflets in 4—6 pairs and a terminal one, short-stalked, obovate or oblong, 3-6 lines long by more than half as broad, ape* rounded, mucronate, surfaces glabrous or slightly silky, pale-gree?- Racemes 2—-3-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Calyx glabrous, cam- panulate, 2 lines deep, the teeth very short. Corolla yellow, §—-? 12 deep. Pod oblong, narrowed at both ends, distinctly stalked, glabrous, 2-24 in. long, lin. thick—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 192. €. Pocockit, Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 55, Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Petit! Roth! Native name, Quaequaeta. Inhabits also Asia Minor, Persia, and Arabia. 27. LESSERTIA, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 503. Calyx campanulate with 5 subequal teeth. Petals all unguiculate ; standard suborbicular, spreading or reflexed; wings oblong, shorter than the other petals; keel incurved obtuse. Stamens diatel hous 5 tube slit along the top; anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, multiova- Lessertia, XLVII. § PAPILIONACEX \BAKER). 187 late; style filiform, penicillate in our species round the small round terminal stiema. Pod stipitate, membranous, oblong or linear, the valves flat in our species, finally dehiscing at the apex.—Herbs or undershrubs with imparipinnate leaves and racemose flowers. A considerable Cape genus, of which we get a single outlying species. 1. L. benguellensis, Baker. An erect undershrub with stiff as- cending branches canescent only on the petioles and slightly on the branchlets. Stipules setaceous, minute. Leaves shortly petioled, 3-4 in, long; leaflets 9-13, ligulate, pale-green, rather fleshy, reach- ing 8-10 lines long, truncate at the apex with a faint mucro. Flowers up to a dozen in copious moderately lax short-stalked racemes much shorter than the leaves. Calyx glabrous, 1 line long. Corolla 4 lines, gteenish-yellow, the wines reflexed and standard streaked with purple. Pod with a pedicel which exceeds the calyx, oblong, glabrous, 12-15 lines long, 8-9 lines broad, 6—7-seeded. Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, amongst red sandstone rocks at the base of the Sierra de Montes N egros, Dr. Welwitsch! *8. ASTRAGALUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Plant. i. 506. Culyx tubular, the teeth subequal. Petals with long claws ; standard erect, Ovate-oblong: or panduriform ; wings oblong ; keel equalling the "'ngs or slightly shorter, obtuse, nearly straight. _Upper stamen free, the rest connate; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, multi- ovulate ; style filiform, straight or incurved, glabrous, with a small ter- minal Stigma. Pod sessile or stalked, two-valved, often more or less completely divided lon gitudinally by a membranous dissepiment arising *om the dorsal suture.—Herbs or undershrubs. A very large genus, with its lead-quarters in the Western half of Asia, with many oe ’n Eastern Asia, Europe, and round the shores of the Mediterranean, a few in the Andes and Temperate South America, and one in Natal. Pods compressed, the longitudinal dissepiments complete (Déplo- theca, Hoe gt.) , Stipules 4-j in. long, } in. broad . . Stipules 1-1} in. long, 3-1 in. broad . : * turgid, internal dissepiment very incomplete 1. A. venosus. 2. A. abyssinicus, 3. A. prolixus. oth sides pale-green, glabrous or slightly grey-downy. Racemes 2 igs flowered, alsin y 3-6 in. long, on Nabeoia erect peduncles “Yim. long. Pedicels very short. racts linear, half as long as the 138 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Astragalus. calyx, which is } in. deep, rather oblique, the lower teeth lanceolate, reaching a third down, the upper shorter. Corolla bright yellow, three times as long as the calyx. od linear, 2 in. long, 2 lines broad, dis- tinctly stalked, the longitudinal dissepiments complete, the valves com- pressed, membranous, glabrous, finely wrinkled transversely, seeds 2—4 in each cell.—A. tigrensis, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 241. Diplotheca venosa, atropilosula and tigrensis, Hochst. in Flora. 1846, 596. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit ! Roth! Uganda, in plantain groves, Speke and Grant! Cultivated as food for horses. Native name Hamat quaequaeta, or hamat kochata. 2. A. abyssinicus, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 232. Stems firm, erect, 3—4 ft. or more high, sparingly branched, the branches firm, gla- brous, terete. Stipules cordate acuminate, unequal-sided, 1-1} in. long, 3-1 in. broad, free to the base. Leaves nearly sessile, rachis 2—6 in. long, leaflets in 10-15 pairs, linear-oblong, ?-1 in. long, 2-4 lines broad, glabrous, glaucous-green. Flowers in dense racemes ultimately 4—0 1. long on short erect glabrous peduncles. Bracts linear, exceeding the cernuous pedicels, which are 14-2 lines long. Calyx } in. deep, the lower teeth linear, reaching halfway down, the upper ones deltoid. Co- rolla bright yellow, half an inch deep. Pod as in A. venosus, but rather longer, the seeds 4—5 in each cell.—Diplotheca abyssinica, Hochst. 0 Flora 1846, 595. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit ! 3. A. prolixus, Sieb. in Pl. Ayypt. Exsiec. Stems annual, procum- bent, a foot or more long, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branches slender, finely grey-silky. Stipules lanceolate, + lines deep, free to the base. Leaves sessile ; rachis 1-1} in. long; leat- lets in 5—6 pairs, oblanceolate or oblong, 1 in. long by about half as broad, both sides densely grey-silky. Racemes 6-19-flowered, ult- mately equalling or exceeding the leaves. Bracts setaceous, exceeding the short pedicels. Calyx tubular, a line deep, silky, the teeth linear or lanceolate, reaching about a quarter of the way down. Corolla yellowish, not much exceeding the calyx. Pod oblong, very turgid, ¢ in. long by half as broad, silky, the dissepiment produced about half- way through in the lower part, seeds 2-3 in each cell.—Phaca Vogelt, Webb in FI. Nigr. 128, t. 8. Nile Land. Banks of the Nile within the Tropic, Ehrenberg, Dr. Bromfield! Abyssinia, Schimper! Extends from the Cape Verde islands to Arabia. 29. BISERRULA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 507. Calyx-teeth subequal. Petals shortly unguiculate ; standard erect, oblong ; wings falcate-oblong, free; keel equalling the wings, obtuse. Upper stamen free, the rest connate; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, PP ’ ; Biserrula, | XLVII. § PAPILIONACER (BAKER). 139 multiovulate; style short, thickened, incurved, stigma capitate. Pod linear, indehiscent, flattened on the back, compressed vertically, the valves each with a sinuate-dentate keel down the centre. A single species. I. B. Pelecinus, Zinn.; DC. Prod. ii. 8307. Stems annual, weak, erect, branched, 4—6 in. high, the branches slender, densely grey-pubes- cent. Leaves short-stalked; the rachis 1-1} in. long; the leaflets in 8-12 pairs, oblanceolate, 2-8 lines long, thinly grey-silky. Flowers 1-3 together on pubescent slender erect peduncles, equalling or ex- ceeding the leaves. Calyx a line deep, silky, the teeth linear, reaching nearly halfway down. Corolla cream-coloured, 2-24 linesdeep. Pods glabrous, $ in. long, 1 in. broad. B. Jeiocarpa, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 1762. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 194. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! rs obits Our description is taken entirely from these specimens, but we cannot distinguis the plant as a species from the well known Mediterranean one. 30. SCORPIURUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 508. Calyx campanulate, the two upper teeth connate. Petals unguicu- late ; keel incurved, rostrate. Stamens diadelphous ; alternate filaments dilated; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, cylindrical, multiovulate. Pod subterete, circinate, ribbed, articulated, indehiscent. Seeds sub- Pls or oblong.— Annuals with simple leaves narrowed into a petiole, A small genus belonging to the Mediterranean Flora. 1.8. sulcata, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 308. Stems a foot long, diffuse, subglabrous. Leaves rather fleshy, 2-3 in. long. Flowers 3-6 on Short pedicels in umbellate clusters on long axillary peduncles. Calyx 8 in, long. Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. Pod 1~2 in. long, with one or two spirals, distinctly constricted at the joints, muricated, the prickles of the upper row as long as the breadth of the pod.—S. echinata, A. Rich. Fl, Abyss. i. 290. 8. subvillosa, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 1871. Nile Land Abyssini / in-Dillon ! . yssinia, Schimper ! Quartin- All round the Mediterranean. ig 31. ORNITHOPUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 509. Calyx tubular, teeth nearly equal. Standard suborbicular; wings oblong ; keel nearly straight, obtuse, shorter than the wings. A stamen free, the rest connate; alternate filaments dilated upwards ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, multiovulate ; atyls inflexed ; stigma Capitate. Pod linear, terete in our plant, recurved, the globose turgid 140 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). | Ornithopus. articulations very distinct. Umbels usually bracteate but not so in our plant.—Slender herbs with minute flowers. A small genus, principally European and Mediterranean. 1. O. coriandrinus, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 118. Stems annual, erect, copiously branched from the base, branches slender, slightly pubescent. Leaves sessile; rachis about } in. long; leaflets 7-9, opposite or alternate, narrowly oblanceolate, 3—} in. long, 3-% line broad, slightly silky, rachis with two small glands at the base in place of stipules. Umbels 2—4-flowered, on vlabrous erect peduncles which about equal the leaves. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which 18 a line deep, the teeth setaceous, reaching haltway down. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod $—} in. long, slightly recurved, with 3—4 globose articulations separated by very narrow septa.—Field. et Gardn. Sert. Plant. i. 49. Antopetitia abyssinica, A. Rich. et Quart. Dill. Dec. Pl. Abyss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. ii. 14, 261, t. 15 fig. 1. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 209. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper / Quartin-Dillon. 32. TAVERNIERA, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 511. Calyx with a campanulate tube and five subequal teeth. Standard obovate-cuneate ; wings small; keel as long as the standard, obliquely truncate at the apex. Upper stamen free at the base or altogether; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, 1—-3-ovulate; style filiform, inflexed ; stigma terminal. Pod flattened, composed of 1—3 indehiscent 1-seeded joints.—Shrubs with carnoso-herbaceous deciduous simple or pinnately trifoliolate leaves and marcescent flowers. A desert genus extending from Egypt and Abyssinia to the North-west of India. CROTON TOR ce ns ek ne ee 2 Leaves usually or always simple. Pod densely bristly on the faces. : Flowers 1-2 on a peduncle } in. long . sis we bo 4 et ee 2 Flowers 2-6 on a peduncle 1-1$in.long . . . . . . . 3. ZT. Schimper Pod clothed with white silky hairs ee 4, T. abyssimed- 1, T. lappacea, DC. Prod. ii. 339. Stems procumbent, suffruticose, divaricately branched, terete. Leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets fleshy, ob- cordate, villous. Flowers yellowish, 1-2, axillary, shortly stalked. Joints of the pod rough with rigid bristles hooked at the apex. Nile Land. Nubia, (teste Schweinfurth.) 2. T. egyptiaca, Boiss. Diagn. ix. 1138. An excessively branched low shrub with slender virgate subglabrous twigs. Leaves all simple, obovate-cuneate, subglabrous, 2-3 lines long, on slender petioles under a line long. Flowers 1-2 together on an axillary silk peduncle } in. long. Pedicel very short, finely silky. Calyx 14-2 Tans deep, su?” glabrous, the linear teeth equalling the tube. Corolla red, 5 lines deep, Taverniera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 141 the standard 4 lines broad. Pod shortly stipitate, 4-6 lines long, } in. broad, with 2—3 joints, densely bristly on the faces. Nile Land, Nubia, (teste Schweinfurth.) 3. T. Schimperi, Juub. et Spach. Illust. Pl. Or. t.474, A copiously branched shrub 2 or 3 ft. high with erecto-patent terete subglabrous branches. Leaves usually simple, casually pinnately trifoliolate, the ae + in. long, finely silky, geniculate and articulated at the apex, lade obovate, 3-1 in. long, 4-2 in. broad, the apex rounded, both sides oe and glaucous. Stipules connate into a single small bifid town scarious deltoid sheath round the base of the petiole. Flowers very deciduous, in 2—6-flowered racemes on rigid erecto-patent pedun- cles 1-1} in. long from the axils of the leaves. Pedicels glabrous, equalling the campanulate calyx, which is 2 lines deep, the teeth linear or lanceolate, reaching halfway down. Corolla rose-red, persistent, 2-8 in. deep, the i ee 3 in. broad, the wings not more than 2 lines deep by half as broad. Pod 4_ in. long, with two or three articula- tions, densely muricated with long bristles all over the surface.—T7. cy- clophylla, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 23829. 7. floribunda, Schweinf. Fl. Aithiop. 17. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 4. T. abyssinica, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 206. A much branched shrub with terete pubescent branches. Leaves simple, small, short- stalked, obovate or obovate-oblong, glabrous above, paler and grey- silky beneath, the stipules as in the preceding. Flowers reddish, in few-flowered short-stalked axillary racemes. Calyx silky, the teeth harrow, acute. Pod linear, with 2-3 joints, clothed with white silky hairs.—Onobrychis simplicifolia, R. Br. in Salt, App. Ixv. ? Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit. 33. ONOBRYCHIS, Gertn.; Benth. et Hook. f Gen. Plant. i. 511. Calyx-teeth subulate. Standard ‘obovate, narrowed at the base, scarcely unguiculate ; wings small ; keel obtuse, equalling or longer than the standard. Upper stamen free at the base, connate with the others at the middle in a closed tube; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, 1—-2- ovulate. Style filiform, inflexed, with a small terminal stigma. Pod subcompressed, half or quite orbicular, inarticulated, indehiscent ; seeds ~2.—Herbs or undershrubs. A large genus, principally Mediterranean. + 6. Richardi, Baker. Stem herbaceous, erect, densely clothed with white tomentum. Stipules lanceolate, scarious. Leaves long- Stalked, the leaflets lanceolate or sublinear, glabrous above, silky be- neath principally on the edge and veins. Racemes long-stalked, equalling the leaves when in flower, twice as long when in fruit. ods suborbicular, emarginate at the base, densely setose-tomentose, 142 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Onobrychis. echinate on the edge and both faces.—0. eriophora, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 206 non Desv. et DC. Wile Land. Abyssinia, Petit.: : We have not seen this, and take our account of it from A. Richard. It cannot be O. eriophora, which is a native of Spain, and has the stem glabrous below, thinly silky upwards, with woolly pods only half-orbicular, half an inch broad without the spines, and the spines of the edge a quarter of an inch long, and flowers half an inch deep. We do not know of any described species to which it can be referred. 34, ALHAGT, Desy.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 512. Calyx campanulate, the teeth very short, subequal. Petals equal ; standard obovate, shortly clawed; keel incurved, obtuse. Upper sta- men free; filaments filiform ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, multi- ovulate; style filiform, incurved, glabrous, stigma terminal. Pod linear, subterete, smooth, indehiscent, many-seeded, contracted and septate between the seeds, the articulations not separating sponta- neously.—Rigid, much-branched, spiny shrubs, with simple leaves. A small desert species, extending eastward to Songaria and N.W. India. 1. A. maurorum, Desv.; DC. Prod. ii. 352. An erect wiry much- branched glabrous shrub, 1-3 ft. high, armed with copious pungent spreading spines an inch or more long. Leaves simple, drooping from the base of the spines and branches, obovate-oblong, entire, 1-3 lines long, short-stalked, deciduous. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered secund racemes from the spines on short pedicels. Calyx } in. deep, the teeth deltoid, acute. Corolla red, three times the calyx. Pod sickle-shaped, an inch or more long. Wile Land. Nubia, Caillaud. The common species of the Syrian and Egyptian deserts. 35. ORMOCARPUM, Beauv.; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Plant. i. 515. Calyx five-toothed, two upper lobes subconnate. Standard orbicular, unguiculate ; wings obliquely obovate; keel broad, incurved, obtuse or subacute, equalling the wings. Stamens all united in a sheath, which is slit above and afterwards also often below; anthers uniform. Ovary multiovulate ; style much inflexed, filiform ; stigma minute, ter minal. Pod linear, compressed, longitudinally sulcate-striate, the faces often La ees or muricated, the articulations oblong, narrowed to both ends.—Tall, often glutinous shrubs. A small genus, belting the world in the Tropics. Leaves simple ; petiole articulated =e: Leaves compound; petiole not articulated. Flowers in Jax racemes. Corolla small, yellow, fading . . 2. O. sennoides. Flowers arising singly from the branches. Corolla large, 1. O. verrucosum. reddish, persistent 3. O. bibracteatum. 1. O. verrucosum, Beawy.; DC, Prod. ii, 315. A tree or tall shrub with glossy brown glabrous woody branches. Stipules minute, lancee- Ormocarpum. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 143 late cuspidate. Petioles 1-3 in. long, articulated at the apex, glabrous. Leaves simple, ovate acuminate, 3—4 in. long, when full grown, by 14-2 in. broad, both sides glabrous, the upper one dark green, veins clightly prominent. Flowers 1—4, laxly racemose, on a peduncle about half an Inch long from the axils of the leaves. Bracts lanceolate, small. Pe- dicels slender, glabrous, about equalling the glabrous calyx, which is 2 lines deep, the lower teeth lanceolate, reaching about halfway down, the two upper ones shorter and subconnate. Corolla rose-coloured, twice as long as the calyx, deciduous. Pod 2 in. or more long, with 2-4 articulations, which are ? in. long by 4 in. broad, narrowed to both ends, the lowest distinctly stalked, polished, olive-grey, with prominent longitudinal lines and a few scattered papillee. Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Beauvois, Vogel! and others. Senegambia, Heudelot ! 2. O. sennoides, DC. Prod. ii. 315. A much branched shrub, 4-6 ft. high, with glabrous terete branches. Stipules small, spreading, lan- ceolate acuminate. Petiole 3-3 in. long, glabrous or glandular. Rachis 2-3 in. long, leaflets 13-17, oblanceolate, 3-1 in. long, 1— in. broad, the apex rounded and mucronate, short-stalked and very deciduous, under surface subglaucous. Flowers in lax axillary 38-6-flowered ra- cemes, which are shorter than the leaves. Bracteoles small, lanceolate, Scarious. Pedicels 1_8 in. long, slender, glabrous or slightly glandular. Calyx } in. deep, campanulate, the lower teeth lanceolate, reaching haltway down, the two upper ones subconnate. Corolla yellow, with reddish strie, twice as long as the calyx, deciduous. Pod distinctly stalked, pointed, with 2-6 articulations, which are }—} in. long, } in. broad, glabrous.—0. coronilloides, G. Don, Gard. Dict. ii. 279. Rathkea glabra, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 3855. schynomene coluteoides, A. Rich. Sert. Astrol. 87 t. 32. Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Dr. Mac- william! Island of St. Thomas, G. Don! Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Casengo and Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch ! Extends through Tropical Asia to Australia. The ordinary Indian form has the pod glandulose-muricated on the faces, but we have the African form from Ceylon, Loo Choo isles, Siam, and North Australia. 3. O. bibracteatum, Baler. A shrub or tree with thick, woody, grey terete branches. Stipules }in. deep, lanceolate, scarious, con- Spicuously veined. Leaves crowded, subsessile, the rachis 2—3 in. long, the leaflets in 6-8 pairs and a terminal one, oblong, }-3 in. long by less than half as broad, the apex rounded and mucronate, texture firm, rachis and under surface thinly silky, only the midrib prominent. Flowers crowded on the woody twigs, solitary or in pairs. Pedicels slender, erect, grey-silky, with a pair of opposite spreading ovate- lanceolate bracteoles below the calyx and sometimes others lower down. Calyx campanulate, becoming submembranous, brownish and ky 4—§ in. deep, the upper teeth oblong-deltoid and blunt, reaching nearly halfway down, the lowest longer and more pointed. Corolla reddish, 144 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Ormocarpum, 8_2 in. deep, becoming subscarious, veined and persistent as in Taver- niera; the standard 3 in. broad, the wings 3 in. broad, the keel # in. round. Pod 3-1 in. long, with two articulations, downy and venose but not papillose.—