12 XLVI1. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Orotalaria. 
oblong, sessile, densely tawny-silky, 6-10-seeded.—C.thebaica, Guill. 
et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 160, non DC. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Roger! 
Very similar to the last in general habit, but not spinose. 
3. C. glauca, Willd.; DC. Prod. ii. 127. An erect glabrous annual 
1-8 feet high with slender erecto-patent terete branches. Stipules se- 
taceous, 2-3 lines. Leaves linear, nearly sessile, 1-3 in. long, acute, 
mucronate, subcoriaceous, the primordial ones lanceolate. Flowers in 
copious 2—8-flowered very lax peduncled terminal and lateral racemes. 
Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 3~4 lines. Calyx 3 lines, glabrous, 
the linear-lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla 
half as long again as the calyx, the standard very much recurved. 
Pod linear-oblong, pendulous, 6-12 lines long, 4—5 lines thick, gla- 
brous, distinctly stalked, 8-12-seeded.—C. acutifolia, Steud. in Schimp. 
Pl. Abyss. No. 829; C. genistifolia, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 389. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Niger country, 
Thonning! Vogel! &e. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Unyoro, in plantain-groves, and eaten by the 
people of Madi as spinach, Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, in many localities, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Dr. Kirk ! 
4, C. spartea, R. Br. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. Stems slender, 
herbaceous, glabrous, erect, terete, 1-2 ft. high, with numerous long 
slender ascending branches. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. 
Upper leaves sessile, linear, 1-3 in. long, 1-3 lines broad, acute, sub- 
coriaceous, glabrous, the lowest lanceolate 5—6 lines broad. Flowers 
in lax 6~—12-flowered terminal racemes reaching 4-5 in. long. 
Pedicels 2—3 lines long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Calyx glabrous, 
4 in., the lanceolate teeth equalling the tube. Corolla 4 lines, the 
standard purple, 2 lines broad. Pod (not seen mature) linear-oblong, 
glabrous, sessile, 8-9 lines long, 24 lines broad, straight, 18-20-, 
seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 
Lower Guinea. Hauilla, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch! 
5. GC. stenoptera, Welw. mss. A glabrous annual copiously 
branched from the crown of the root with suberect simple or once- 
forked stems more than a foot high with a narrow wing to each of the 
four angles. Stipules rigid, setaceous, persistent. Leaves subsessile, 
linear, 1-4 in. long, 1}—6 lines broad, narrowed gradually to a mucro- 
nate point, subcoriaceous, pale green. Flowers 3—5 in very lax long- 
sapere ag subsecund terminal. racemes. Bracts linear, very minute. 
-edicels 3-4 lines, spreading. Calyx glabrous, 3—4 lines io nar- 
rowed at the base, the lanceolate acuminate teeth reaching more than 
halfway down. Corolla } in. long, yellow veined with violet. Pod 
oblong, inflated, glabrous, } in. long, 3-4 lines broad, shortly stalked, 
12—15-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
