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13. C. polygaloides, Welw. mss. Stem a foot, herbaceous, 
erect, copiously branched, densely clothed with short grey silky pu- 
bescence. Leaves close, subsessile, linear, erecto-patent, 9-18 lines 
long, 2-24 lines broad, blunt, narrowed gradually at the base, both 
surfaces thinly grey-silky, subglaucous beneath. Flowers 10-80 in 
rather close terminal racemes, the lower ones fascicled and reaching 
down among the leaves. Bracteoles minute, setaceous. Pedicels } in. 
long, thinly silky. “Calyx 2-24 lines long, finely silky, the linear teeth 
reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla yellowish, half as long 
again as the calyx, very fugacious. Pod linear-oblong, 3—4 lines long, 
a line thick, glabrous when mature, slightly recurved, 8-9-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, 1000-2400 ft., Dr. Welwitsch ! 
14. C. cylindrostachys, Welw. mss. An erect annual 1-2 ft. high, 
with densely brown-silky stems and several erecto-patent branches 
overtopping the primary one. Stipules minute, setaceous, moderately 
persistent. Petioles 2-3 lines, densely silky. Leaves simple, oblong, 
1-2 in. long, acute, faintly mucronate, persistently brown-silky on 
both sides. Flowers up to 40-60 in moderately dense terminal 
racemes 4—6 in. long, } in. broad. Bracts setaceous, 1-2 lines. Pe- 
dicels erecto-patent, } in. densely silky. Calyx turbinate, 14-2 lines, 
with two setaceous bracteoles at the base, the lanceolate teeth as long 
as the tube. Corolla yellow, 3 lines, the standard conspicuously veined 
with purple. Pod roundish-oblong, sessile, } in. long, densely clothed 
with a mass of bright light-brown silky hairs, 1-2-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Angola; Huilla, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch! 
15. ©. calycina, Schrank. ; DC. Prod. ii. 129. Herbaceous, spar- 
ingly branched, the whole plant clothed with long yellowish-brown 
silky hairs. Leaves linear, sessile, 2-3 in. long, }—} in. broad, silky 
beneath. Racemes lax, terminal and lateral. Bracts large foliaceous. 
Calyx reaching 9-12 lines long, clothed with stiff silky hairs, the teeth 
reaching down nearly to the base, the upper ones }—2 in. broad. 
Corolla sulphur-yellow, about equalling the calyx. Pod sessile, glab- 
rous, 12—18-seeded, about as long as the calyx. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! 
Wile Land. Unyoro plateau, Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk! : 
A common E. Indian species, reaching China and North Australia. 
16. C. anthyllopsis, Welw. mss. A diffuse copiously branched 
erect annual reaching a foot high, with densely brown-silky erecto- 
patent or horizontal branches. Stipules setaceous, 2-3 lines long, sub- 
persistent. Petiole 2-3 lines long. Leaves simple, the upper ones 
oblong or lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, acute, the lower ones roundish, 
blunt, texture between papyraceous and coriaceous, both sides densely 
clothed with persistent adpressed brown silky hairs. Flowers in dense 
