62 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [ Lotus. 
base, spreading, grey-silky. Leaflets 3-5, short-stalked, obovate- 
cuneate, 3-4 lines long by half as broad, conspicuously grey-silky. 
Flowers 1—4 together on peduncles shorter than the leatlets, with a 
short-stalked bract like a leaflet from the base of the cluster. Pedicels 
silky, very short. Calyx 2 lines deep, teeth linear subequal, reaching 
three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish yellow, slightly ex- 
ceeding the calyx. Pod linear-oblong, terete, 2-3 lines long, about 
6-seeded. 
Wile Land. Banks of the White Nile, near Mussa, Kotschy / 
Var. 8 montanus, Baker; flower rather smaller; branches and leaves more silky, 
L. montanus, A. Rich. Fl, Abyss. i, 177. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon! 
Perhaps not distinct from Z. brachycarpus, H. and S. 
3. L. brachycarpus, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 242. 
Rootstock woody, the stems densely ciwspitose, 12-18 inches long, 
spreading, wiry, glabrous or slightly silky upwards. Leaflets crowded, 
oblanceolate 3—3 in. long, a third as broad, thick, fleshy, glabrous or 
slightly silky, the stipular pair like the others. Flowers 4-6 together, 
in copious axillary umbels with a stalked bract like a single reduced 
leaflet at the base. Pedicels very short. Peduncles 1-3 in. long. 
Calyx 3-4 lines long, more or less silky, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, 
reaching two-thirds of the way down, the lowest narrower and some-— 
times shorter than the others, Corolla reddish, a third longer than the 
calyx. Pod terete, glabrous, 2 in. long, 4~6-seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. 
Abyss. i. 177. Doryenium Schimperi, Jaub. et Spach. Mlust. t. 473. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Parkyns! 
Abyssinian name Hamat-Jemanberri. 
Differs from LZ. arabicus principally in the short pod. 
4. L. arabicus, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 212. Stems herbaceous, a foot 
or more long, copiously branched from the base, prostrate or suberect, 
glabrous or slightly silky. Leatlets 5, all short-stalked, obovate-cuneate, 
entire, {-} in. long by half as broad, pointed, both sides glabrous oF 
thinly silky, the stipular pair like the others. Flowers usually 2—4 to- 
gether, rarely solitary, on axillary peduncles 1-1 in. long with a short- 
stalked bract like a leaflet from the base of the cluster. Pedicels under 
a line long, glabrous or silky. Calyx 3-4 lines deep; teeth linear, 
subequal, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish, 
slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod $-1} in. long, 1-1} line thick, 
terete, glabrous, subtorulose, 10-12-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg: 
162. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 177. 
bape a plentiful on the banks of the Senegal, Lepriew? 
Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Peters. ; dence dieiae i 
A common Egyptian species, and extending from Greece to Beloochistan. 
5. I. mossamedensis, Welw. mss. A copiously branched diffuse 
annual with finely grey-silky stems under a foot ae Leaflets 9; 
