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thinly adpressed grey-silky beneath. Flowers in long-stalked terminal 
racemes finally 4-5 in. long. Pedicels erecto-patent, 2 lines long. 
Calyx broadly campanulate, membranous, glabrous, about a line deep, 
teeth subulate, dilated at the base, shorter than the tube. Corolla ap- 
parently yellowish, distinctly veined; standard } in. broad, roundish 
with a mucro, wings 1 in. broad, both considerably shorter than the 
keel, which is nearly 3 in. round at the broadest part, 6-7 lines long, 
narrowed gradually to a long upeurved point, the edges and the lower 
part of the back a little ciliated. Ovary linear, multiovulate. Pod not 
seen. 
Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk! 
General habit of C. lanceolata, from which it differs in calyx and corolla. 
84. C. intermedia, Kotschy in Sitzungsb. Acad. Wien. 1864, 362 t. 3. 
An erect sparingly-branched annual 2-3 ft. high, with firm terete 
Straight erecto-patent subglabrous branches. Stipules 0.  Petioles 
1-2 in. Beats 3, shortly-stalked, linear, green, subglabrous, 
reaching 4—6 in. long, 3-6 lines broad. Flowers in a few very lax 
terminal racemes reaching 6-12 in. long, 15-18 lines broad. Bracts 
linear, minute. Pedicels 14-2 lines, slightly grey-downy. Calyx 
2 lines, broadly campanulate, subglabrous, the deltoid acuminate teeth 
shorter than the tube. Corolla bright yellow, 8-9 lines; the pointed 
standard 3 in. broad, very conspicuously veined with purple. Pod sub- 
sessile, linear, 14—2 in. long, 3 in. broad, glabrescent, 20—30-seeded. 
Wile Land. Banks of the White Nile near Gondokoro, Knoblecher. Unyoro in 
fallows and grassy ground, Speke and Grant ! : 
Lower Guinea. Gvlungo Alto, in fields of Phaseolus, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
We have imperfect specimens of a closely-allied plant, with a similar calyx and 
corolla, but with a shrubby stem and much shorter leaflets, gathered by Mr. Consul 
Petherick, on the White Nile. 
85. C. ochroleuca, G. Don, Gard. Dict. ii. 138. Stem suffruti- 
cose, 2-3 ft., erect, terete, with long ascending branches. Stipules 
deciduous. Petioles 14 in., spreading, glabrous. Leaflets 3, linear, 
subsessile, 2-35 in. long, 4-5 lines broad, both sides glabrous. Flowers 
in moderately lax 6—12-Howered racemes terminal on the main stem and 
branches. Pedicel } in., with a minute bract at the base. Calyx cam- 
panulate, nearly } in. deep, teeth linear, not more than a quarter as 
long as the tube. Corolla pale yellow; standard § in. long, 2 in. broad, 
narrowed to a point, keel with a long beak. Pod linear-oblong, 14 in. 
long, 3 in. thick, glabrous, sessile. 
. Upper Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, G. Don in Herb. Brit. Mus.! 
86. C. brevidens, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 585. Stem her- 
baceous, erect, striate, slightly branched, nearly glabrous. Stipules 
minute, setaceous or obsolete. Petioles 4—} in., glabrous,  .. 
patent. Leaves with three subsessile linear leaflets, central 5 
ong, in. broad, narrowed to both ends, mucronate, upper suriaice 
quite and the lower nearly glabrous. Flowers in elongate tew-flowered 
