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Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Speke! 
38. C. cephalotes, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 695. Stem 
simple or with several curved ascending branches, firm-herbaceous, 
6-18 in. high, annual, the upper part densely silky, hairs grey, erecto- 
patent. Flowers in dense sessile rounded heads at the summit of ‘the 
main stem and branches. Leaves distant on the lower part of the stem 
but densely aggregated upwards. No stipules seen. Petioles } in. 
long, compressed and winged upwards, densely silky. Leaflets 3, 
quite sessile, oblanceolate, central one 1-14 in. long, 1-2 lines broad, 
mucronate, both sides densely clothed with yellow silky pubescence. 
Pedicels } in. long, silky. Calyx 14-2 lines deep, silky, teeth linear- 
lanceolate, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla yellow, nearly 
half as long again as the calyx, the keel long-beaked, much and sud- 
denly upcurved. Pod sessile, roundish-oblong, 1 in. long, 2-seeded, 
densely coated with yellowish pubescence.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 156. 
Upper Guinea. Niger country; Nupe, Barter! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Petit! Madi woods, Speke 
and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
39. C. nubica, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot, ii. 581. Stem herba- 
ceous, 12-18 in. long, diffusely and dichotomously branched, slightly 
silky. Stipules minute, jeiceolits Petioles } in. long, slender, silky. 
Leaves with three sessile linear leaflets, the central one 1-1} in. long, 
¢ in. broad, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower slightly pubes- 
cent. Flowers in copious fone ncalesd lax lateral racemes ultimately 
3—5 in. long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 1 line long, silky. 
Calyx 1 line deep, finely silky, cut three-quarters of the way down ; 
teeth lanceolate. Conall yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Pod 
sessile, roundish-oblong, 2 lines long, } in. broad, finely sky 4—6- 
) 8 “ye . 
seeded.—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 45; C. spherocarpa var. angustifolia, Hochst. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Bidjem! 
Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! ‘ 
South Central. In the interior, near the Tropic, Chapman and Baines! : 
Very near ©. spherocarpa, but pubescent, and the leaves narrower. A Cape species. 
40. C. sphzerocarpa, Perrott. in DC. Prod. ii. 133, Stem her- 
aceous, a foot long, diffusely branched, glabrous. Stipules small, 
linear. Petioles 3 in. long, glabrous. Leaves with three sessile ob- 
lanceolate leaflets, central one an inch long, $~3 in. broad, mucronate, 
both surfaces glabrous. Flowers in copious long-stalked lateral and 
terminal lax racemes ultimately 3-5 ie long. Bracts minute, se- 
taceous. Pedicels 1 line, spreading. Calyx 1 line long, glabrous, the oe 
linear-lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla 
yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Pod ppb Rear roundish- 
oblong, glabrous, } in. broad, 2 lines long, 2-4-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. 
Fl. Seneg. i. 167; C. polycarpa, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. it. 580. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! 
