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dark green and nearly glabrous when mature on the upper 
surface, pale green and more hairy beneath. Flowers in copious 
lax axillary and terminal racemes about 2 in. long, with a densely 
pilose rhachis; pedicels i-i in. ; bracts small and caducous in an 
early stage. Calyx 4 in. long, densely pilose; upper teeth 
lanceolate, as long as the tube; lower longer and very acuminate. 
Corolla half as long again as the calyx; standard yellow, marked 
With copious conspicuous blackish veins. Pod i-i in. long, 
densely pilose, brown, 1 in. broad, 2-seeded, the flat faces clothed 
with copious yellowish hairs with a bulbous base.—Central 
Madagascar, at Ambohimanga, Dr. Parker ! 
Ruyycnosra ( § CoPISMA) RHODOPHYLLA, n. sp. 
Fruticosa, ramulis dense pilosis, stipulis minutis lanceolatis caducis, 
foliis petiolatis trifoliolatis facie tenuiter pilosis dorso dense pilosis rubellis, 
foliolo terminali ovato, racemis copiosis laxis axillaribus et terminalibus, 
bracteis pilosis ovatis cuspidatis, calycis pilosi tubo campanulato dentibus 
lanceolatis, petalis rubellis, quam calyx duplo longioribus, ovario lineari 
dense piloso. 
A shrub, with densely pilose slender woody branchlets. Sti- 
pules lanceolate, deciduous, jl; in. long; petiole under an inch 
long ; end leaflet broad ovate, 1-1} in. long, subcoriaceous, 
obscurely cordate at the base, dark green and shortly pilose on 
the upper surface, densely clothed with persistent rather reddish 
pubescence beneath. Flowers in copious lax racemes with a 
densely pilose axis 2~3 in. long, which are sometimes panicled at 
the end of the branchlets; pedicels finally Àj in. long; bracts 
ovate cuspidate, as long as the pedicels, soon falling. Calyx 
$ in. long, densely pilose, with a campanulate tube and 5 lanceo- 
late teeth about as long as the tube. Corolla reddish, glabrous, 
twice as long as the calyx. Ovary 2-ovuled, densely pilose. Pod 
not seen.— Central Madagascar, Baron 771! Both this and the 
preceding species are allied to R. caribea, DC. 
EnrosEeMA Bosrnrt, Benth. MSS. 
Fruticosa, ramulis dense pilosis, foliis distincte petiolatis pinnatim tri- 
foliolatis, stipulis minutis caducis, foliolis oblongis obtusis minute mucro- 
natis facie tenuiter dorso dense pubescentibus, racemis densis pedunculatis 
folio longioribus, pedicellis brevissimis, bracteis lanceolatis persistentibus, 
calycis dense pilosi tubo campanulato dentibus lanceolatis, petalis quam 
calyx duplo longioribus, vexillo extus piloso, ovario sessili dense piloso 
biovulato. 
A shrub, with densely pilose slender woody branchlets. Petiole 
