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Leaves with three subsessile oblong leaflets, central 1-14 in. long, i 
broad, apex rounded mucronate, glabrous above, slightly silky below. 
Flowers in many-flowered elongate terminal racemes 6-12 in. long. 
Bracts minute setaceous. Pedicels } in. silky cernuous. Calyx } in. 
long, thinly silky, teeth lanceolate-cuspidate reaching more than half- 
way down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as calyx; standard 2 in. 
broad, striated, silky outside, the keel long-beaked. Pod sessile, ob- 
long, 2 in. long, more than half as thick, very silky, 8—12-seeded. 
C. carinata, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. 772 non 519; A. Rich. Fl. 
Abyss. i. 154 in part. 
Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Dr. Brownell! Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 
65. C. senegalensis, Buacle in DC. Prod. ii. 133, Stem herbaceous, 
diffuse, copiously branched, 6—18 inches long, finely downy upwards. 
Stipules minute, deciduous. Petioles half an inch, slender. Leaves 
with three sessile oblong or oblanceolate leaflets, central 1-1} in. long, 
4—} in. broad, acute or rounded and mucronate, upper surface glabrous, 
lower finely silky. Flowers in copious terminal and lateral long- 
stalked racemes of 10-30 flowers. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 
é in, long, slender, at first erect, afterwards cernuous. Calyx slightly 
silky, 2 lines long, the teeth lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the 
way down. Corolla bright yellow, twice as long as the calyx, the 
standard 3 in. broad. Pod sessile, 4—6 lines long, half as broad, finely 
pubescent, 10—12-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 165. Benth. in 
Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 582. C. macilenta, Delile, Cent. Pl. Afric. 35, t. 3, 
fig.2. ©. remotiflora, Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 2266. C. cari- 
nata, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. 519 non 772. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Heudelot! Brunner! 
Nile Land. Nubia, Caillaud, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Lower Guinea. Loanda and Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Luabo, and Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk! 
Extends south to Natal (Gerrard !) and to the Cape Verde islands. 
66. C. montana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 152. Stem erect, 2 ft. high, 
branched, clothed with long ferruginous hairs. Stipules setaceous, long, 
acute, silky. Petioles about equalling the obovate leaflets, which are 
rounded at the apex, glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath. Flowers 
in long-stalked 6—8-flowered lax elongate lateral and terminal racemes. 
tacts linear; pedicels short; calyx densely clothed with long silky: 
hairs, teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla scarcely equalling the calyx, 
aie silky on the back. Pod 2 in. long, terete, cylindrical, very 
81 yi 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon. Not seen. 
87. C. incana, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 132. Herbaceous, annual or 
fennial, erect, reaching 2-4 ft. in height, the divaricate branches 
clothed with fine spreading brown silky hairs. Stipules setaceous. 
minute. Petioles 1-2 in, Leaflets 3, obovate, blunt, reaching 12-18 
