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with black glands. Flowers in dense nearly sessile axillary racemes 
an inch or more long. Calyx } in. deep, thinly silky, the teeth seta- 
ceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla red, about equalling 
the calyx. Pod deflexed, oblong, mucronate, } in. long, } in. thick, 
subterete, slightly torulose, thinly villose, 2-8-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. 
Fl. Seneg. 185. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! 
Very like I. endecaphylla in texture and general habit, different by its opposite leaf- 
lets, conspicuously dotted beneath, and in its pods. 
79. I. costata, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 187. Stem herbaceous, 
18 in. high, erect, scarcely branched, angular, scabrous, thinly hairy. 
Stipules minute, filiform, spreading, ciliated. Petioles under 3 in. 
long. Leaves with 6-7 pairs of leaflets, oval-oblong, 8-10 lines long, 
mucronate, the lateral ones opposite, colour pale green, both sides 
thinly hairy. Flowers in slender axillary racemes 2-3 in. long on 
peduncles as long as themselves. Calyx a line deep, thinly hairy, the 
teeth linear, reaching more than halfway down. Corolla rose-coloured, 
twice as long as the calyx. Pod linear, mucronate, straight, subcom- 
pressed, deflexed, about 1 in. long, adpressedly pilose, 15—20-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! : 
ae ery near J. parviflora, but the leaves broader, and racemes with stalks that equal 
em. ' 
80. I, daleoides, Benth.; Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 200. A copiously 
branched argenteous perennial herb with slender trailing stems 1-2 ft. 
long. Stipules linear, minute, spreading, persistent. Leaves sub- 
Sessile, 8-12 lines long; leaflets 7-13, obovate-oblong, 3—4 lines long, 
blunt, minutely mucronate, very thick in texture, both sides densely 
and persistently argenteo-canescent, the end one subsessile or short- 
Stalked, the side ones alternate. Racemes 12—30-flowered, conical, 
6-9 lines, finally 12-18 lines long, on peduncles which usually exceed 
the leaves, Calyx 1 in. long, subsessile, densely clothed with long 
whitish hairs, the plumose setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the 
ase. Corolla violet, scarcely exceeding the calyx, the standard slightly 
gtey-hairy on the outside. “Pod deflexed, linear, 6—7 lines long, 1 line 
thick, shortly grey-pubescent, 9—10-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Benguela, in the sands of the seashore, Dr. Welwitsch! 
A Cape species. 
G1. E. enneaphylla, Z.; DC. Prod. ii. 229. Annual or biennial, 
copiously stellately branched at the crown of the root with firm terete 
stems a foot or more long, grey-downy upwards. Stipules setaceous, 
1-1} lines. Petioles 2-4 lines, often patent or deflexed. Leaves 9-18 
ines lone; Jeaflets 7-11, oblanceolate, blunt, often emarginate, grey 
and more or less argenteous on both sides, 3-6 lines long, the end one 
stinetly stalked, the side ones opposite. Flowers in very dense 
racemes 1-2 in, long on very short peduncles. Calyx 1 line, densely 
8tey-silky, the linear setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. 
