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anthesi plena late, pedunculati, rachi ut pedicellis laxe ferruginea ; nodi 
floriferi sessiles vel rarius breviter peduneulati. Flores fasciculati, L:7-1:8 em. 
longi; pedicelli 4-5 mm. longi, apice bibracteolati ; bractese minute, 
subulatze ; bracteolee lanceolate, 5 mm. longw. Calyæ campanulatus, basi 
truncatus, 4 mm. longus, preter marginem glabram tenuiter puberulus, 
dentibus tubo 6-plo brevioribus late triangularibus, superioribus 2 connatis, 
breviter patentibus. Petala lilacina ; vexilli lamina rotundata, in unguem 
brevem acuminata, dorso tenuiter sericea ; ale carinæque petala oblong, 
subhamatz. Stamina monadelpha, vexillare basi solutum. Discus nullus. 
Ovarium lineare, multiovulatum. Legumen lineare, 15 em. longum, 1:5 em. 
latum, glabrum, lignosum, inter semina. cohærens. Semina 5-8, lenticularia, 
l em. longa. 
Conco Frer SrATE: Mukenge, Pogge, 887 (Campine, type). 
Differs from M. drastica in its pedicels being longer than the subglabrous 
calyx, and from M. dura by its smaller flowers, subglabrous calyx, and long 
narrow pod. 
127. M. LASIANTHA, Dunn in Journ. Bot. xlix. (1911) 221. 
Arbor parva, ramulis brevissime velutinis glabrescentibus lenticellatis. 
Folia 3-(rarius 4-)juga, 12-20 em. longa, petiolis ter longiora ; stipule 
eaduce ; foliola lateralia superiora oblongo-obovata, acuminata vel acuta, 
apiculata, 5-7 em. longa, papyracea, supra glabra, infra ut raches tenuiter 
adpresse brunneo-sericea, venis 8-9-paribus ascendentibus arcuatis supra 
inconspicuis infra prominulis; petioluli 2-3 mm. longi ; stipellæ setaceæ, 
3-4 mm. longe. Panicula racemiformis vel ramosa, sepissime terminalis, 
sessilis, rachi brevissime tomentosa ; ramuli floriferi 3-10 mm. longi, sessiles, 
ut raches pedicellique vestiti. Flores approximati, 1-2 ст. longi ; pedicelli 
2-3 mm. longi; bractem minute, caduce. Calyx campanulatus, 4 mm. 
longus, 3 mm. latus, dense adpresse brunneo- vel purpureo-hirsutus, bi- 
bracteolatus, dentibus tubo bis brevioribus ; bracteole lanceolate, 1 mm. 
longs. Petala cerulea; vexilli lamina ovata, basi sagittata, ungue bis 
breviore ad basin attenuato, dorso ut apices petalorum aliorum longe et 
laxe hirta; айе oblongæ, basi obtuse ; carin: petala ovata, subhamata. 
Stamina monadelpha, vexillare basi solutum mox omnino liberum. Ovarium 
lineare, sericeum, 4-ovulatum. Legumen immaturum oblongum, adpresse 
brunneo-sericeum. 
Flowers in February to May. 
GERMAN Basr Arrica: Holst, 2968, 2215 (Usambara), Holtz, 1041 
(Pugu), Braun, 1790 (Hemiafa), Saclewr (Mkonda, collected by Dulhac), 
Wakefield (Nyika). All types. 
