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when young densely silky, glabrescent, 10—12-seeded.—Benth. in Lond. 
Journ. Bot. ii. 589. C. falcata, Schum, et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 335, non 
Vahl. C. macrostipula, Steud. A. Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 153. 8. angusti- 
folia, leaflets linear, not more than 2~—8 lines broad. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Boteler! Heudelot! Guinea Proper, 
Thonning, Don! Vogel, Barter ! 
Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit ! 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
8 Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Smeathmann ! Banks of the Niger, 
Barter! On the beach at Fernando Po, Mann! 
58. C. flexuosa, Baker. Stems 12-18 in. long, herbaceous, copi- 
ously and diffusely branched, clothed throughout with long spreading 
silky hairs. Stipules 1-4 in. long, lanceolate-faleate. Petioles 1-14 
in. long, spreading, silky. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate 
leaflets, central 1-14 in. long, 1=} in. broad, upper surface glabrous, 
lower thinly silky with long hairs. Flowers in lax 6—8-flowered lateral 
racemes, which about equal the peduncles. Bracts minute, setaceous. 
Pedicels } in. long, cernuous. Calyx silky, 3 in. long, teeth linear or 
lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla twice as 
long as the calyx, the standard oblong, the keel with a long beak. Pod 
3—§ in. long, not quite so thick, round-oblong, sessile, finely-silky, 
when young glabrescent, 8-9-seeded. 
South Central. In the interior near the Tropic, Chapman and Baines ! 
Mozamb, Distr. Zambesi land, Dr, Kirk! : 
General habit just that of the Cape C. obscura, DC., but the flower different and 
pod shorter, 
59. C. elata, Welw. mss. An erect shrub 2-3 ft. high with woody 
finely brown-silky terete branches. Stipules linear, semilunate, 3-6 
lines. Petioles 6-14 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate-oblong, 12-18 
lines*long, blunt with a faint mucro, upper surface glabrous when 
mature, lower finely adpressed brown-silky. Flowers 3-6 together on 
short leaf-opposed peduncles in a lax raceme 3-4 in, long, 18-21 lines 
broad. Pedicels 3-4 lines. Calyx 8-9 lines long, clothed with thick 
brown-silky pubescence, the lanceolate teeth reaching much over half- 
way down, Corolla yellow, an inch long, the standard 8—9 lines 
broad, the keel 4 lines deep. Pod subsessile, oblong, 18-20 lines 
long, 8-9 lines broad, clothed with very dense bright brown silky hairs 
like those of the calyx. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla and Golunga Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
60. C. orthoclada, Welw. mss. An erect shrub with numerous 
Straight erecto-patent branches densely clothed with short adpressed 
prey pubescence. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-4 lines, adpressed to the 
ranches. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, reaching 12-18 lines long, 3-4 
lines broad, blunt with a distinct mucro, glabrous above, finely grey- 
silky beneath. Flowers 6-12 in lax short-peduncled terminal racemes 
8-9 lines broad. Bracts 2-3 lines, linear, silky, deciduous. Pedicels 
1-1} line. Calyx 3-34 lines, densely grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth 
