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as long as the leaves. Leaflets 3, shortly-stalked, obovate-oblong, 
acute, mucronate, both sides silky, the central one 2 in. long. Flowers 
6—8 in lax long-peduncled lateral racemes. Bracts linear, 2—3 lines. 
Pedicels 14-2 lines, densely silky. Calyx 6-8 lines long, with a we 
of small lanceolate bracteoles at the base, densely sky the lanceolate 
teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. ‘Corolla equalling the 
calyx; standard roundish, densely silky on the back. Ovary linear, 
sessile, silky, ovules 20 or more. Pod unknown. 
Wile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Von Harnier. 
104. C. astragalina, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 808. Stems 
about a foot long’, slender, herbaceous, ae and diffusely branched, 
slightly silky upwards. Stipules obsolete. Petioles 3-1 in. long, 
erecto-patent, glabrous. Leaflets 3 subsessile oblanceolate, central 
1-1} in. long, $ in. broad, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower 
slightly silky. Flowers in copious long-stalked dense lateral racemes 
of 6-12 each. Bractsminute. Pedicel 1 line, cernuous. Calyx thinly 
silky, } in. deep, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reaching halfway down. 
Corolla } in. long; standard yellow, conspicuously veined with purple, 
keel sharply upcurved. Pod sessile, cylindrical, 4-3 in. long, 2 lines 
thick, silky when young, 10~-14-seeded._—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 155. C. 
striata, A. Br. in Flora, 1841, 280 non DC. ©. impressa, Nees. Cat. 
Sem. Wrat. 1841, 3? 
Nile Land. Nubia, Ehrenberg (fide Schweinfurth). Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Quartin-Dillon. 
105. ©. pyenostachya, Benth. in Lond. Journ, Bot. ii. 584, Stem 
herbaceous, 12-18 in. high, erect, simple or with several spreading 
branches, striate, finely silky upwards. Stipules minute, setaceous. 
Petioles } in., spreading, glabrous. Leaflets 3 sessile, oblanceolate, 
central 1-14 in. long, 1-3 in. broad, mucronate, both sides glabrous or 
nearly so. Flowers 20-50 in dense nearly sessile lateral racemes 
2—3 in. long. Bracts long, setaceous, deciduous. Pedicels glabrous, 
very short, cernuous. Calyx campanulate, glabrous, 1 line deep, upper 
teeth triangular, reaching about halfway down, lower lanceolate. 
Corolla bright yellow, not striate, 2 lines long; standard roundish, § in. 
broad, keel short beaked, much upcurved. Pod subsessile, oblong- 
cylindrical, 3 in. long, finely downy, about 10-seeded.—C. melilotoides, 
Steud. A. Rich, Fl. Abyss. i. 155. 
hone Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Cienkowsky. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin- 
illon, 
A well-marked species, with racemes like those of Melilotus officinalis. 
106. C. cleomifolia, Welw. mss. Suffruticose, 23-3 ft. high, es 
stout branches inconspicuously grey-silky. Stipules 0. Petioles ae 
lines, Leaflets 5, short-stalked, oblong or o lanceolate-oblong, gla- 
brous above, finely grey-silky below, the central one reaching 3-3} in. 
long, 12-15 lines broad, narrowed gradually to a faintly mucronate 
