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herbarium, but is not the plant figured as such in Hooker's 
Exotie Flora, t. 188. 
ÆSCHYNOMENE HEURCKEANA, n. sp. 
Fruticosa, glabra, ramulis gracillimis, stipulis magnis persistentibus 
lanceolato-sagittatis, foliis zqualiter pinnatis breviter petiolatis, foliolis 
0-12-jugis lineari-oblongis, racemis axillaribus laxissimis paucifloris 
pedunculis pedicellisque hispidis, bracteis bracteolisque lanceolatis persis- 
tentibus, calycis dentibus parvis 2 superioribus deltoideis, inferioribus 
lanceolatis, petalis luteis quam calyx paulo longioribus, legumine stipitato 
plano glabro articulis 2 oblongis. 
A shrub 3-5 feet high, with very slender woody glabrous brown 
branchlets. Leaves about an inch long including the short 
petiole; stipules lanceolate, 4 in. long, with a pair of distinct 
lanceolate spurs at the base ; leaflets contiguous, sensitive, shortly 
petiolulate, } in. long, moderately firm in texture, obtuse, with 
a minute muero. Racemes axillary, about as long as the leaves ; 
pedicels 3-4 in. long, with a. pair of persistent shortly spurred 
lanceolate bracts at the base. Calyx glabrous, 4 in. long, with a 
pair of persistent lanceolate bracteoles adpressed to it; teeth all 
small, those of the upper lip deltoid, of the lower lanceolate. 
Corolla yellow, glabrous, i in. long. Pod flat, glabrous, dis- 
tinctly stipitate, with two oblique oblong articulations 4—4 in. 
long.— Central Madagascar, an old specimen in Herb. Kew. with- 
out collector’s name and now regathered by Dr. G. W. Parker 
and Mr. Baron (2059). Like the Angolan Æ. acutangula, W elw., 
this connects the two sections Euæschynomene and Ochopodium, 
combining the habit and legume of the latter with the sagittate 
stipules of the former. 
ÆSCHYNOMENE (ŞOCHOPODIUM) LAXIFLORA, Bojer MSS. 
Fruticosa, glabra, ramulis gracillimis, stipulis parvis persistentibus ovato- 
cuspidatis basi haud sagittatis, foliis æqualiter pinnatis brevissime petiolatis, 
folis 8-10-jugis oblongis parvis firmulis, racemis axillaribus laxissime 
3-4-floris folio longioribus, pedicellis brevibus, bracteolis minutis persis- 
tentibus, calyce bilabiato lobis subintegris, petalis luteis quam calyx duplo 
longioribus, ovario stipitato hispido articulis 2-3. 
A small shrub, with very slender terete brown branchlets. 
Leaves not more than an inch long, with very short petioles, 
with a pair of rigid ovate persistent stipules ,-} in. long at the 
base; leaflets 4 in. long, very obtuse, with a minute mucro, sub- 
coriaceous in texture, with distant erecto-patent veins raised on 
the under surface. Racemes 2-3 in. long including the peduncle ; 
