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38. I. parvula, Delile in Cuill. Voy. 38, t. 8, fig. 1. Stem 6-9 in. 
long, suffruticose, trailing, copiously and diffusely branched from the 
base, the branches slender, tirm, terete, thinly silky. Stipules large, 
scariose, ovate-acuminate, persistent, slightly adnate to the petiole. 
Petiole very short. Leatlets three, obovate, mucronate, } in. long, end 
one short-stalked, lateral ones sessile, texture firm, both sides thinly 
silky. Flowers in lax clusters of 2-4 each ona peduncle about } in. 
long. Calyx } in. deep, thinly silky, the lower teeth lanceolate, not 
reaching more than half way down, the upper ones shorter. Corolla 
twice as long as the calyx. Pod spreading’, linear, mucronate, 4 in. 
long, 1 line thick, thinly silky, subterete, 5—6-seeded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Nubia, Caillaud. 
39. I. geminata, Buker. Stem firmly herbaceous, erect, 1-2 ft. high, 
copiously branched, the branches ascending, firm, angular, only thinly 
silky upwards. Stipules setaceous. Petioles erecto-patent, }—4 in. 
long. Leaflets 3-5, oblanceolate, 4—3 in. long, 14-2 lines broad, the x He 
rounded and mucronate, terminal one close to the top pair, upper surface 
pale green, glabrous when mature, lower glaucous, and thinly clothed 
with strong adpressed grey hairs. Flowers usually in pairs, sometimes 
solitary on slender glabrous rigid filiform reddish-brown peduncles 2 in. 
long from the axils of the leaves. Calyx under a line deep, thinly 
silky, the teeth linear, reaching three-quarters of the way. Corolla 
pale red. Pod linear, mucronate, glabrous, subtetragonous, 3-4 lines 
long, 1 line broad, about 4-seeded. ’ 
Upper Guinea. Banks of the Niger at Nupe, and of the Quorra at Jeba, Barter! 
Most like J. nigritana in general habit, differing in its geminate flowers and more 
humerous seeds. 
40. I. vicioides, Jaub. et Spach. lust. t. 481. Stem herbaceous, 
6-12 in. long, copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the 
branches slender, angular, thinly pilose. Stipules linear, minute. 
etioles 1-1 in, long, erecto-patent. Leaflets 7-9, oblanceolate, 
2-8 in. long, 14-2 lines broad, mucronate, the lateral ones distant 
and short-stalked, both sides glaucous-green and thinly silky. Flowers 
In lax racemes of 3-6 flowers each on peduncles 3-1 in. long from the 
axils of the leaves. Pedicels equalling the campanulate calyx, which 
is a line deep, thinly silky, the teeth setaceous reaching down nearly 
to the base. Corolla pale, twice as long as the calyx. Pod linear- 
mucronate, } in. long, } in. broad, straight, subcompressed, slightly 
torulose, permanently pilose, 5—6-seeded.— J. agowensis, Hochst. in 
Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 2243. I. tenuicaulis, Klotzsch in Peters 
Lossamb. Bot. 50: 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
ao Central. Highlands of Batoka country, Dr. Kirk! Mozambique, 
ers 
a): kK. viscosa, Lam.; DC. Prod. ii. 227. Stems 1-4 ft. high, 
herbaceous, diffusely branched from the base, the branches more or 
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