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6. C. holoptera, Welw. mss. A glabrous rigid annual branched at 
the crown of the root with suberect 1-3 times dichotomously forked 
stems with .two rigidly coriaceous wings each reaching a breadth of 
2-8 lines in the centre of the main stem. Leaves very few, some- 
times none, oblong or oblanceolate, 18-21 lines long, 6—8 lines broad, 
bluntish or subacute, very conspicuously mucronate, rigidly coriaceous, 
pale green. Flowers 3-4 in lax long-peduncled terminal racemes. 
Bracts rigid, linear, very minute. Pedicels 3-4 lines long, spreading. 
Calyx } in. long, glabrous, cuneate at the base, the lanceolate acumi- 
nate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla vellow, 5-6 lines long. Pod 
distinctly stalked, oblong, inflated, 7-10 lines long, 5-6 lines broad, 
glabrous, very blunt, 10—12-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft., sparingly in sandy 
thickets, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
7. C. uniflora, Baker. Stem herbaceous, slender, procumbent, 
terete, glabrous, branched copiously and diffusely. Stipules minute, 
setaceous. Leaves simple, sessile, oblanceolate, ?-{ in. long, } in. 
broad, mucronate, base subcuneate, glabrous. Flowers solitary on 
leaf-opposed slender glabrous pedicels more than an inch long, with a 
minute setaceous bract three-quarters of the way up. Calyx glabrous, 
4 in. deep, the teeth lanceolate, reaching down nearly to the base. 
Corolla not seen. Pod linear-oblong, 6—7 lines long, 3 lines thick, 
glabrous, slightly upcurved, distinctly stalked. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! 
8. C. retusa, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 125. Suffruticose, subglabrous, 
sparingly branched. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves simple, ob- 
lanceolate, sessile, reaching 18—24 lines long, 6—12 lines broad, retuse, 
faintly mucronate, both sides subglabrous. Flowers in lax terminal 
racemes 4—6 in. long. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels 2—3 lines. 
Calyx 3-1 in., the teeth exceeding the tube, the upper ones lanceolate- 
deltoid, lower narrower. Corolla bright yellow, considerably exceed- 
ing the calyx. Pod distinctly-stalked, linear-oblong, glabrescent, 
1 in. long, 4 in. thick, 15—20-seeded.— Bot. Mag. t. 2061; Bot. Reg. 
t. 253. 
fh ag Guinea. Gaboon country, Griffon du Bellay and Duparquet, teste 
ar ° 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Dr. Peters, Dr. Kirk! | ; 
A common E. Indian and Malayan species very likely only introduced with us. 
9. C. Welwitschii, Baker. A low shrub with slender trailing 
woody subglabrous branches ascending outwards. Stipules minute, 
setaceous, moderately persistent. Petioles reaching an inch. Leaves 
simple, oblong, narrowed gradually to an acute point, glabrous, coria- 
ceous, the upper ones 2-3 in. long, 9-18 lines broad. Flowers 4—20 
in lax long-peduncled terminal racemes reaching 6-7 in. long, 2 in. 
broad. Bracts lanceolate, 1}—-2 lines, acute, coriaceous, deciduous. 
Pedicels erecto-patent, 3-6 lines. Calyx 3 in. long, inconspicuously 
