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tioles 8-6 lines. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate with fewer simple ones 
intermixed, the end one oblong, reaching 24-8 in. long, 12-16 lines 
broad, blunt, sometimes emarginate, membranous, glabrous above, 
finely grey-downy below, base rounded. Racemes terminal, sessile or 
reaching down to the second leaf, 4-6 in. long, subdense upwards. 
Bracts 3-1 in. long, setaceous. Pedicels 4-14 lines, erecto-patent. 
Calyx 3 in. long, densely clothed with nearly black spreading silky 
hairs; teeth lanceolate cuspidate, exceeding the tube. Ovary linear, 
densely velvety, multiovulate. Style glabrous, flattened upwards, peni- 
cillate at the point. Ripe pod not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Angola, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
33. 'T. pedicellata, Baker. Stems annual, a foot or more long, 
diffusely branched, the branches slender, thickly clothed with fine 
spreading brownish silky hairs. Stipules lanceolate acuminate, } in. 
long. Petioles often an’ inch long, the rachis 1-14 in. long, slender ; 
leatlets in 2-4 pairs, oblanceolate, 3-1 in. long, 2-8 lines broad, the 
upex rounded and mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly 
clothed with loose silvery silky hairs. Flowers 1—8 in the axils of the 
leaves on slender pedicels 2-8 lines long. Calyx 2-3 lines deep, 
thinly silky; the teeth subequal, lmear-subulate, reaching more than 
allway down. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx; the stan- 
dard 2 lines broad. Pod 1-1} in. long, 24 lines broad, slightly re- 
curved, glabrous, 6—9-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Confluence of the Quorra and Tschadda, Barter ! 
34. T. vicioides, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 188. A herbaceous perennial 
with stems 14-2 ft. long, and diffusely branched, clothed with fine 
spreading erey pubescence, Stipules 2 lines long, linear, firm, falcate. 
eaves subsessile, the villous rachis 1} in. long; leaflets in 3—4 pairs, 
obovate-oblong, 3-4 in. long, three-quarters or the lower ones quite as 
road as long ; apex deeply emarginate ; both surfaces finely adpressed- 
gtey-silky. Flowers all axillary, solitary or two together. Pedicel 
equalling the calyx, which is 2 lines deep, very silky; the teeth lan- 
ceolate-subulate, reaching halfway down. Corolla purplish, twice as 
long as the calyx ; the standard } in. broad. Pod an inch long, rather 
over J in. broad, slightly recurved, finely grey-downy, 8—9-seeded. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Ehrenberg, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper, Quartin-Dillon. 
do. T. subtriflora, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 2312. A her- 
uceous perennial, 1-14 ft. high, dichotomously branched from the 
base, the branches firm, densely clothed with short spreading grey-silky 
aairs. Stipules setaceous, } in. long. Petioles 4—} in. long, rachis 
¢—lin.; the leaflets in two or three pairs, narrowly oblanceolate, ter-, 
minal one 1-14 in. long, } in. broad, the others smaller, upper surface 
glabrous, lower densely adpressed grey-silky. Flowers 1-3 in the 
axils of the leaves, nearly sessile; the calyx silky, } in. deep; the 
teeth setaceous, equalling the tube. Corolla purple, half as long again 
