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silky on the back. Pod linear, 2 in. long, 2 lines broad, slightly 
recurved, glabrescent, 10-12-seeded. Style pubescent throughout, 
bearded along the inner edge. 
Upper Guinea. Banks of the Niger, Dr. Baikie! 
21.'T. barbigera, Welw. mss. An erect robust annual, 2-4 ft. high, 
with flexuose stems, densely clothed with spreading tawny pubescence. 
Stipules 3-6 lines, linear or lanceolate acuminate. Petioles 6-12 lines ; 
rachis 2-4 inches; leaflets 11-15, narrowly oblanceolate, 1$—2} in. 
long, 5—7 lines broad, blunt, mucronate, often emarginate, grey-green, 
glabrescent above, permanently grey-silky below, the midrib and border 
tawny. Racemes usually terminal, long-stalked, close upwards, reach- 
ing 4-6 in. long, rarely a pair of flowers from the axil of the top leaf. 
tacts linear, 2-3 lines, Pedicels }—} in., erecto-patent. Calyx 4 in. 
long, obliquely campanulate, very densely clothed with rather stiff 
spreading tawny hairs, the upper teeth short deltoid, the lowest lanceo- 
late, twice as long. Corolla purplish violet, $3 in. long, standard 4—5 
lines broad, densely brown-silky on the back. Pod linear, slightly 
fuleate, 2 in, long, 2-24 lines broad, finely grey-downy, 15—16-seeded. 
Style bearded throughout, especially along the upper side. 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
2. kT, polysperma, Baker. An erect suffruticose perennial, with 
stems densely clothed with spreading tawny pubescence. Stipules 
linear, 4-6 lines, ‘ Petjoles 1 in.; rachis 3-4 inches; leaflets 11-15, 
narrowly oblanceolate, 13-21 in. long, 5-6 lines broad, blunt, mucro- 
hate, subcoriaceous, glabrescent above, persistently grey-silky below, 
the midrib tawny. Racemes terminal and lateral, peduncled, reaching 
oi, long, Bracts linear, } inch. Pedicels densely silky, 13-2 lines, 
frecto-patent. Calyx 2 lines, finely silky, the upper teeth deltoid, the 
lowest lanceolate, 14 the tube. Corolla reddish, 3 in. long, the stan- 
dard 4 in, broad, densely velvety on the back. Pod linear, slightly 
faleate, 24 in, long, } in. broad, finely downy, 18—20-seeded. Style 
flattened upwards, slightly downy. 
Nile Land. Uganda, in plantain groves, Speke and Grant! 
3. T. zequilata, Baker. Stems woody, the branches firm, subterete, 
densely clothed upwards with spreading grey-slky hairs. Stipules 
anceolate, silky, soon scarious, } in. long, half as broad. Leaves sub- 
Sessile, the densely silky rachis 3 in. long; leaflets in 7-8 pairs, linear- 
oblong, 14-13 in: long, 4—5 lines bread, sides nearly parallel, apex 
and base rounded, upper surface pale green, glabrous, lower densely 
clothed with short erey-silky hairs. Racemes subsessile, terminal, 
dense, about 12-flowered. Bracts small, linear. Pedicel equalling the 
calyx, which is densely clothed with tawny silky hairs, 3-4 lines deep, 
the lower teeth lanceolate, reaching halfway down, the upper rather 
roader and shorter. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx, the 
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