Cnedis.'] xlvi. CONN ABAC B^ (baker). 463 



6. C. racemosa, Bon, Gard. Diet. ii. 91. A shrub, 10 ft. high, with 

 woody, glabrous, terete branches. Petioles 1^-2 in. long, firm, glabrous ; leaf- 

 lets 3-5, the terminal one ovate-oblong, 3-3^ in. long, 2 in. broad, acuminate, 

 the base broadly rounded, the lateral ones subopposite, on short petiolules, 

 the lowest pair much shorter ; texture coriaceous, both sides glabrous and 

 green, veins and veinlets fine, raised. Inflorescence, in the only specimen we 

 have seen, in a raceme 2-3 in. long, with a slender, finely brown-downy 

 rachis from the end of a branch on one side. Flowers not seen. Pod -f in. 

 long, sessile, obliquely oblong, narrowed below, densely clothed with bright 

 red, velvety tomentum. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 



