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brevissimi, sessiles vel rare pedunculati, puberuli. flores in nodis fasciculati, 
2—3-ni, 1:5 em. longi ; pedicelli 0*8-1*0 em. longi, ut calyces glabri ; bracteæ 
minute ; bracteole setaceæ, 1 mm. long, infra calycem affixee. Саул 4 mm. 
longus, dentibus preter inferiorem paullo longiorem tubo 6-plo brevioribus. 
Petala violacea ; vexilli lamina rotundata, basi ecallosa, truncata, in ungnein 
4-plo breviorem contracta, dorso breviter adpresse sericea; al: anguste ob- 
longæ et carinze petala ovata subfaleatze, Stamina monadelpha. Piscus nullus. 
Ovarium lineari, pubescens, multiovulatum. Legumen parvum, lineare,ad 5 em. 
longum, 1 em. latum, primo albo-sericea, tum tomentosa et tandem glabra. 
Britisu East ArR1CA : Tana River, Dattiscombe, 26. 
German East AFRICA: Stuhlmann, 6358 and 7044 (Usaramo, types), 
7456 (Dar-es-Salaam), 1039, Busse, 2851, Holtz, 1004 (Maneramango), 
987, Kirk (Kilwa), Wangenheim, 8 (Tanganyika), Holst, 2948 (Usambara). 
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA : Nyika Country, Wakefield. | 
Porrucurse East AFRICA: Swynnerton, 1425, 1474 (Chironda), Dawe, 
513 (Mozambique), 446 ( Madanda). 
Var. PARVIFOLIA, Dunn, var. nov. Foliolis minoribus, 2-3 em. longis. 
GERMAN East AFRICA, Stuhlmann, Perrot (Lindi). 
A species which presents rather different facies at different seasons. 
124. M. ERIOCARPA, Dunn, sp. n. 
Arbor 8 m. alta, cortice vivente viridula levi, ramulis siccitate brunneis 
rugosis. Folia 8-juga, 15-18 em. longa, breviter petiolata, rachi ferruginea ; 
stipule oblongæ, caduce ; foliola lateralia superiora lineari-lanceolata, ad 
apicem obtuxam mucronatam angustata, basi rotundata, 4-7 cm. longa, 
chartacea, supra preter venas glabra, subtus precipue in venis laxe 
ferruginea, venis supra paullo impressis subtus prominentibus utrinque 4-7 ; 
petioluli 1-2 mm. longi ; stipellie. 1 mm. longe. Paniculw axillares, parvae, 
ramis brevioribus paucifloris. Ovarium 5-6-ovulatum. Legumen lineari- 
oblongum, 8-11 em. longum, dense molliter luteo-velutinum, valvis crassis 
elasticis inter semina 3-4 coherentibus ; pedicelli ad 1 em. longi. Semina 
castanea, lenticularia, 8 mm. diam. 
GERMAN East AFRICA : Noto Plateau, nr. village of Noto, Busse, 2920 (at 
500 m.); Mt. Uluguru, Goetze, 207. 
195. M. rLEPTOCARPA, Dunn in Journ. Dot. xlix. (1911) 221. 
Arbor? ramulis brunneis rugosis. Folia 7-8-juga, breviter petiolata, 
12-16 em. longa, rachi ut foliolis laxe ferruginea glabrescente ; stipule 
садист ; foliola superiora lateralia ovato-oblonga, acuminata, basi rotundata 
3-4 cm. longa, papyracea, preter venis paullo ferrugineis maturitate glabra, 
venis 7-9-paribus inconspicuis ; petioluli З mm. longi; stipolle setaceæ, 
1 mm. longe. Panicule racemiformes axillares, 15 cm. longs, 4-5 em. in 
