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slightly downy on the back. Ovary linear, sessile, finely downy, multi- 
ovulate.—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 43. 
South Central. Banks of Lake Ngami, McCabe! 
77. C. emarginata, Bojer ; Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 584. Stem 
erect, suffruticose, striate, densely clothed with short grey pubescence. 
Stipules none. Petioles 3 in., erect, silky. Leaves with three sessile 
oblanceolate leaflets, 2 in. long, }-3 in. broad, conspicuously emargi- 
nate, densely silky on both sides. Flowers in stalked many-flowered 
terminal racemes 2-3 in. long. Bracts minute. Pedicels silky, 1 line 
long. Calyx silky, broadly and obliquely campanulate, 2 lines deep, 
teeth lanceolate-acuminate, about equalling the tube. Corolla three 
times as long as the calyx, bright yellow, conspicuously striated, 
standard 4 lines broad, keel beaked and much upcurved. Ovary villose, 
multiovulate. Pod unknown.—C. cylindrica, A. Rich. Fl, Abyss. i. 154? 
Mozamb. Distr. Island of Pemba, north of Zanzibar, Bojer ! 
The description of the Abyssinian C. cylindrica, which I have not seen, agrees with 
this as far as it goes. 
78. C. protensa, Welw. mss. Stems suffruticose trailing 2-4 ft. 
long, the outer branches ascending, slender, finely grey-silly. Stipules 
setaceous. Petioles 6—9 lines. Leaflets 3, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
subcoriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with short adpressed grey hairs 
beneath, the central one 2-8 in. long, 8-12 lines broad, the uppermost 
leaves casually simple. Flowers 6-12 in moderately dense long-pedun- 
cled terminal racemes. Bracts linear, 2-3 lines.  Pedicels 3—4 lines, 
finely grey-downy. Calyx 5 lines long, coriaceous, densely adpressed 
grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching three-quarters of the way 
down. Corolla bright yellow, slightly exceeding the calyx, the orbicu- 
lar pointed standard 4 in. broad, a little silky on the back. Ovary 
linear-oblong, sessile, densely brown-velvety. Pod not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 feet, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
79. CG. zanzibarica, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 584. Stem suf- 
fruticose, erect, prominently striate, clothed with dense short grey 
pubescence. Stipules none. Petioles ? in. long, slender, spreading, 
pubescent. Leaves with three oblanceolate leaflets, central 14 in. long, 
% in. broad, point rounded slightly mucronate, upper surface dark 
green, glabrous, lower paler, densely but finely silky. Flowers 12-20 
in lax many-flowered terminal racemes. Bractsminute. Pedicels 3 in. 
silky, spreading. Calyx silky on the back, the rest nearly glabrous, 
abliqualy campanulate, not more than } in. deep, the teeth deltoid 
mucronate, one-third as long as the tube. Corolla bright yellow, 3 in. 
long, standard 3 in. broad, the keel with a long beak. Ovary densely 
silky. Pod unknown. 
Mozmb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Bojer ! 
80. CG. lathyroides, Guill. ct Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 163. Stem herba- 
ceous, about 2 ft. high, with copious glabrous terete ascending beamches. 
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