Argyrolobium.| XLVI. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 47 
Leaflets oblong or oblanceolate, acute, 9-15 lines long, thinly silky 
principally beneath. Flowers 2-3 together on sparse naked leaf- 
opposed peduncles 12-18 lines long. Pedicels and silky linear bracts 
a line long. Calyx 24 lines deep, bilabiate two-thirds of the way down, 
with a few adpressed silky hairs, teeth of the upper lip linear. ‘Corolla 
not seen. Pod linear, 12-14 lines long, 2 lines broad, with a few ad- 
pressed silky hairs, pointed, 7~8-seeded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Agrees with the Indian A. flaccidum, J. et S., in pod and general habit. 
8. A. Petitianum, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 163. Shrub with branches 
clothed with white-silky pubescence. Petioles short. Stipules ovate- 
acuminate, silky, persistent. Leaflets very. small obovate, apex rounded 
mucronate, glaucous, upper surface dotted and slightly silky, the lower 
more so. Flowers solitary, terminal or axillary. Bracts lanceolate. 
Lower lip of the calyx with three narrow teeth, teeth of the upper lip 
ovate-acuminate. Corolla yellow. Pod narrow, compressed, clothed 
like the rest of the plant with long white silky hairs. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! 
This we have not seen. 
6. ADENOCARPUS. DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 481. 
Calyx with the two upper teeth free, the lower ones more or less 
thoroughly connate. Petals shortly unguiculate; standard oblong or 
roundish ; wings oblong; keel blunt in our species. Stamens united 
in a closed tube ; anthers dimorphous. aca? sessile, multiovulate ; 
style upcurved glabrous; stigma capitate. Pod linear, compressed, 
densely viscous.—Silky shrubs with digitately trifoliolate leaves. 
A small genus, principally Mediterranean. 
Leaflets oblong, acute; lower lip of calyx trifid . . . . . «1. A. Mannii. | 
Leaflets oblanceolate ; lower lip of calyx entire . . . . . «2. A. benguellensis. 
l. A. Mannii, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 8. A woody shrub 
5-6 feet high, with rigid erecto-patent densely brown-silky branchlets. 
Leaves dense, often fascicled. Petioles under a line, densely silky. 
Leaflets oblong, acute, coriaceous, revolute when dry, 2-3 lines long. 
Flowers in dense sessile terminal heads. Calyx very silky, 4 lines 
deep, the two upper teeth lanceolate acuminate, equal to the tube, the 
lower lip longer, with three setaceous teeth at the apex. Corolla 
scarcely half as long again as the calyx, the standard 4 lines broad. 
Pod 9-10 lines long, 24 lines broad, 5—6-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, at 8-1200 feet, Mann! who also gathered 
@ variety with smaller leaflets and flowers on Clarence Peak, Fernando Po. 
2. A. benguellensis, Welw. mss. A diffuse shrub 3 to 5 feet high, 
with long spreading finely grey-silky erecto-patent branches. Leaves 
not so dense as in the other species, but usually fascicled. | Petioles 
1}-2 lines, finely grey-silky. Leaflets oblanceolate, 3-6 lines long, 
