454 xlvi. coNNARACEiE (baker). [Agelaa. 



Mozamb. Distr. Moramballa hills, alt. 3500 feet, Zambesi-land, Br. Kirk ! 

 A common Mauritian and Madagascar species. 



2. A. obliqua, Pal. Beauv. Fl. Oware, i. 95. t. 59 {Cnestis). An erect or 

 climbing shrub, with firm, woody, glabrous or slightly downy branchlets. Pe- 

 tioles 2-4 in. long, firm, glabrous. Leaflets 3, the terminal one on a petiolule 

 about 1 in. long, roundish or broad-ovate, with a cuspidate point and rounded 

 base, 4-6 in. long and nearly as broad, the lateral ones nearly sessile, smaller 

 and unequal-sided ; texture coriaceous, both sides glabrous, the under oue with 

 the main veins prominently raised. Flowers in ample panicles, often 1 ft. long, 

 and more than half as broad, generally just above the leaves, but sometimes 

 the lower part down amongst them, the lower branches copiously compound, 

 erecto-patent or divaricate at a right angle. Bracts minute, lanceolate, de- 

 ciduous. Ultimate pedicels shorter than the calyx, which is | in. deep, the 

 divisions elliptical, free down to the base, finely grey-velvety on the back. 

 Petals free, elliptical, 2 lines long, scarcely over \ line broad. Stamens 10, 

 united at the base, exserted. Pod 6-7 lines long by half as thick, oblong- 

 turbinate, rugose, finely velvety, .considerably curved, not stalked, the calyx 

 reflexed, not dilated— ^4. nitida, Soland.,/^ Planch., Walp. Ann. ii. 305; 

 Baillon in Adans. vii. 238. 



Upper Guinea. Seuegambia, Heudelot I Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Irving I Barter! 

 Smeathmann! Mann! Prince's Island and Fernando Po, Mann! Guinea, Palisot at 

 Beauvois ; Brass ! Dwparquet ! 



3. A. villosa, Soland. mss.,fide Planch, in Linnaa, xxiii. 438. A wide- 

 climbing shrub, with terete, woody, densely ferruginous-downy branchlets. 

 Petioles 2-3 in. long, firm, downy. 'Leaflets 3, the terminal one on a petiolule 

 1 in. long, obovate-oblong, 4-7 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, cuspidate, the lower 

 part much narrowed and the base subcuneate, the lateral oues nearly sessile, 

 smaller and unequal-sided ; texture subcoriaceous ; upper surface glabrous, 

 lower finely downy, the veins and veinlets prominent. Flowers in ample 

 thyrsoid panicles above the leaves, which are sometimes 1 ft. long and more 

 than half as broad, the lower branches copiously compound, erecto-patent. 

 Bracts linear, downy, the lower ones sometimes \ in. long. Calyx about 2 

 lines deep, densely downy, the divisions ovate or ligulate, reaching down to 

 the base. Petals scarcely exceeding the sepals, cohering towards the base. 

 Stamens 10, shortly monadelphous, the longer ones equalling or slightly ex- 

 ceeding the petals. Pod ^-f in. long, } in. thick, oblong-turbinate, rugose, 

 vvitn longitudinal grooves, densely velvety, considerably curved, narrowed at 

 the base but not truly stalked, the calyx reflexed.— Baillon in Adans. vu. 

 2-il. Cnestis trifoha, Lam. Diet. iii. 24. Omphalobium villosum, D^- 

 Prod. n. 86 ; Deless. Ic. Select, iii. t. 58. O. nervosum, G. Don, Gard. Diet, 

 u. 90. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! G. Don ! Morton ! 

 Smeathmann! Barter! Prince's Island, Mann! Guinea, Mann I Duparquet ! 

 Lamarck's is the oldest name, bnt all the species are 3-foliolate. 



