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upper part densely silky, hairs bright brown, adpressed, and rather 
short. Stipules small, linear. Leaves nearly sessile, with three sub- 
sessile linear-oblong leaflets, the central one 14-2 in. long, 1-4 in. 
broad, bluntish with a mucro, lateral ones generally smaller, upper 
surface nearly glabrous, lower finely silky. Flowers in dense oblong 
heads terminal on the main stem and branches. Calyx in flower 4 lines 
long, the two bracts which are attached near the base lanceolate, half 
as long as the calyx; teeth lanceolate, the three upper reaching half- 
way down, two lower ones narrower and deeper, both tube and teeth 
densely clothed with long bright-brown silky pubescence. Corolla 
about equalling the calyx, yellow, standard } in. broad, wings rather 
shorter, keel much and suddenly upeurved. Pod sessile, roundish- 
oblong, densely silky, 6-8-seeded.— Chrysocalya ebenoides, Guill. et Pert. 
Fl. Seneg. 158, t. 43, fig. 1. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet! Galam and the Sahara, 
Heudelot ! 
33. ©. densicephala, Welw. mss. An erect shrub with terete 
straight woody branches densely clothed with brown silky pubescence. 
Stipules linear, minute, deciduous. Petioles 3-6 lines. Leaflets 3, 
oblanceolate, the central one 18-27 lines long, 10—12 lines broad, blunt 
with a distinct mucro ; side ones much smaller ; texture subcoriaceous; 
upper surface glabrous, lower densely clothed with persistent bright 
brown silky hairs. Flowers 20-40 in very dense round or oblong 
shortly-peduncled terminal heads an inch thick. Bracts minute, seta- 
ceous. edicels very short. Calyx 45—5 lines, densely brown-silky, 
the lanceolate teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla slightly 
exceeding calyx, turning purplish or nearly black when dried ; keel 
4 in. deep, with an abrupt beak and a distinct fringe of whitish cottony 
pubescence along the base. Ovary oblong, densely brown-silky. Pod 
not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
34. C. nigricans, Baker. Stem firm-herbaceous, 2-3 ft. high, 
clothed throughout with short grey spreading or deflexed silky hairs, 
copiously branched, with the lower branches erecto-patent and again 
compound. Stipules small, linear-lanceolate. Petioles 1}—2 in. long, 
spreading, silky. Leaves with three subsessile oblanceolate leaflets, 
central one 3-2 in. long, } in. broad, mucronate, both sides thinly 
silky. Flowers in rounded heads terminal on the main stem and 
branches. Calyx nearly sessile, } in. long, bracts short, roundish or 
ovate-acuminate, teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down, 2-3 
lines broad, oblong-acuminate. Corolla quite included, both tube and 
wings thinly silky, not more than } in. long, yellow, but like the es 
and calyx turning black when dried, the standard } in. broad, the kee 
ciliated on the base. Ovary densely silky. Young pods globose, sessile, 
very silky. 
Nile Land. Mininga, Speke and Grant (183)! 
