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Stipules very minute, setaceous. Leaves sessile. Leaflets 3, oblong or 
oblanceolate-oblong, the central one reaching 18-24 lines long, 8-12 
lines broad, blunt with a mucro, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above, 
persistently clothed beneath with short adpressed grey-silky hairs. 
Flowers 3-6 in copious lax sessile or shortly-peduncled terminal 
racemes. Bracts minute, linear. Pedicels 3—6 lines, rigidly erecto- 
patent, densely brown-silky. Calyx 43-5 lines, coriaceous, thinly 
silky, the lanceolate teeth foriet than the broadly campanulate tube. 
Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx, pale-purplish when dried, all the 
petals thick in texture, densely silky on the outside. Pod shortly- — 
stalked, oblong, an inch long, half as broad, densely clothed with per 
sistent red-brown velvety pubescence, 12-15-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
52. ©. cordata, Welw. mss. A shrub 2-38 ft. high, many times 
dichotomously branched with very flexuose almost scandent branches 
clothed with adpressed grey-silky pubescence. Stipules rigidly coria- 
ceous, forming a wing to the petiole, reaching an inch long, 3 in. 
broad, obcordate, cuneately decurrent on the branch. Main petioles 
12-16 lines. Leaflets 3, shortly stalked, oblanceolate, reaching 2-3 in. 
long, 9-12 lines broad, bluntish with a distinct mucro, subcoriaceous, 
pale green, elabrous above, densely clothed with adpressed persistent 
grey or brown silky pubescence beneath. Flowers 6—12 in moderately 
lax shortly-peduncled terminal racemes.  Bracts linear, minute. 
Pedicels 3-4, ultimately 6—8 lines. Calyx 4 in. long, densely adpressed- 
silky, the lanceolate acuminate teeth reaching down nearly to the base. 
Corolla reddish when dried, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod shortly 
stalked, oblong, 12-15 lines long, 3 in. broad, densely persistently 
brown-silky, 10-12-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, sparingly in two places, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
53. C. orixensis, Roxb. ; DC. Prod. ii. 131. Stems herbaceous, 
6-18 in. long, prostrate or suberect, copiously branched from the base, 
clothed with long spreading silky hairs. Stipules small, linear-lanceo- 
late, spreading or decurved. Petioles 4-14 in. long, slender, silky. 
eaves with three sessile oblong-obovate leaflets, central one {—1} in. 
ong, 4 in. broad, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly 
silky. Flowers in copious stalked very lax lateral racemes of 3-6 
flowers each. Bracts conspicuous, cordate-ovate, persistent, lower 
Ones sometimes } in. broad. Pedicels slender, spreading, the lowest 
2 in. long. Calyx silky, } in. deep, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reach- 
ing three-quarters of the way down. Corolla scarcely exceeding the 
calyx. Pod stalked, the stalk half as long as the calyx, 3-4 in. long, 
half as broad, glabrous, many-seeded.— Wight et Arn. Prod. i. 193; 
Mart. in Denk. Acad. Mun. vi. 157 t. H. Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 
u. 588. ©. macropoda, Hochst., A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 157. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon. 
An East Indian species, well marked in the group by its peculiar raceme 
Persistent cordate bracts, 
and large 
