94 PROF. OLIVER ON PLANTS 



Belongs to section Tinctorice, next I. torulosa, Baker, from 

 which it differs by its pilose leaves and branchlets, argenteous 

 calyx, &c. 



Habit quite shrubby. Branches slender, terete, thinly clothed with 

 minute, adpressed, white hairs. Stipules and stipellae setaceous. 

 Leaves short-stalked, 1^-2 inches long; leaflets 2-3-jugate, oblong, 

 subcoriaceous, mucronate, £-f inch long, rounded at the base to a 

 short petiolule ; side ones opposite ; both surfaces, especially the 

 lower, clothed with short minute white hairs. Flowers in dense 

 racemes, an inch long, which are sessile in the axils of the leaves. 

 Bracts lanceolate-navicular, minute, argenteous, caducous. Pedicels 

 very short. Calyx obliquely campanulate, scarcely % a line deep, 

 densely argenteo-sericeous ; teeth deltoid. Corolla J inch long, 

 densely brown-silky. Ovary cylindrical, multiovulate. Ripe pod 

 not seen. 



Eriosema khynchosioidks, Baker. Volubilis, dense griseo-pubes- 

 cens, stipulis parvis lanceolatis persistentibus, foliis longe petiolatis 

 ternato-pinnatifidis subcoriaceis conspicue venulosis, foliolo terminali 

 oblongo distincte petiolulato obtuso minute mucronato, floribus 4-8 in 

 racemum capitatum densum longe pedunculatum dispositis, pedicellis 

 brevissimis, calyce campanulato dentibus magnis lanceolatis, petalis 

 purpureis extus pilosis, legumine oblongo applanato piloso inter 

 semina baud constricto. 



Of the Tropical- African species this will have to be placed next 

 J?, parvifloriim^ E. Meyer ; but it is very different in leaf and 

 calyx, and has entirely the general habit of a Rhynchosia — so much 

 so that it w ould be inevitably referred to that genus if the seeds 

 were not examined. 



A voluble herb, with long internodes. Branches densely clothed with 

 short, rather spreading, grey hairs. Stipules small, lanceolate, per- 

 sistent. Petioles f-1 inch long, spreading, densely pilose. Leaflets 

 3, subcoriaceous, oblong, 1-2 inches long, both sides thinly pilose, 

 the lower with its veins and veinlets raised ; the point bluntish, with 

 a minute mucro, the end one largest, distinctly stalked, the side ones 

 shorter and rather oblique. Flowers 4-8, crowded at the top of an 

 axillary peduncle which much exceeds the leaf. Pedicels very short. 

 Calyx 2 lines deep, densely clothed with short, spreading, grey hairs, 

 the lanceolate teeth much exceeding the tube. Corolla twice as long 

 as the calyx, much recurved, densely silky on the outside. P°d 

 oblong, flat, % inch long, £ inch broad, densely pilose, two-seeded, 

 abruptly rounded at the base, not constricted between the seeds. 

 Flattened funiculus attached obliquely to the extremity of the 

 hilum. . .,--.? 





