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44. T. radicans, Welw..mss. A wide-trailing perennial herb with 
copiously branched slender flexuose prostrate stems 2-3 ft. long, 
densely clothed with fine spreading pubescence. Stipules ovate, 1-14 
lines. Petioles 2-8 lines; rachis 2-4 lines; leaflets 5-7, obovate- 
oblong, 6—9 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, truncate, mucronate, above 
grey-green glabrous, persistently grey-silky below, the midrib tawny. 
Racemes copious, usually terminal, stalked, 6-15-flowered, 1-2 in. 
long, rarely running down among the leaves. Bracts lanceolate, very 
“minute. Pedicels densely downy, 1-3 lines, lower often patent. Calyx 
~ lines, finely downy; teeth lanceolate cuspidate, longer than the tube. 
Corolla reddish-purple, $ in. long; standard 2 in. broad, silky on the 
back. Pod oblong, 6-8 lines long, }in. broad, thin, finely grey- 
downy, 2-3-seeded. Style pubescent throughout, especially along the 
Inner edge, 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
45. 'T. huillensis, Wel. mss. A diffuse moderately branched lax 
perennial, 1-2 ft. high, the stems densely clothed with fine spreading 
tawny hairs. Stipules lanceolate acuminate, 4—6 lines. Petioles 12-18 
lines ; rachis 2-3 inches ; leaflets 7-11, oblanceolate, reaching 13-2 in. 
long, 3—8 in. broad, blunt, distinctly mucronate, glabrous above, finely 
gtTey-canescent below. Flowers 1—2 from the axils of the upper leaves, 
and in stalked close 6—12-flowered racemes. Bracts linear, 3—4 lines. 
Pedicels 2-3 lines, ascending. Calyx 3 in. densely silky, teeth linear- 
Setaceous, much exceeding the tube. Corolla 4-3 in., reddish-purple, 
keel pale, standard 3 in. broad. Pod linear, 2-24 in. long, 34-4 lines 
broad, glabrescent, 12—14-seeded. Style bearded along inner edge. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Var. 8. grandiflora, Baker. 
Bracts issn pe ’ Calyx Lin. long. Corolla ?-Zin. long; standard j in. broad. 
Immature pod densely silky. : 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
46. T. reptans, Baker. Stems suffruticose, wide-trailing, the 
branches firm, angular, clothed with dense pale brown spreading silicy 
pubescence. Stipules 4 in. long, linear-subulate. Leaves subsessile, 
the rachis 4—7 in. long; the leaflets in 7-10 pairs, oblanceolate, 2-2; 
In. long, 3-Lin. broad, emarginate and mucronate, upper surface gla- 
brous, lower clothed with thin loose grey pubescence, the midrib 
ferruginous. Racemes terminal and lateral, lax, 6-12 in. long, on 
peduncles as lone, the flowers of the lower part generally in pairs about 
an inch apart. Bracts linear-subulate, }-3 in. long. Lower pedicels 
¢ in. long, villose, Calyx } in. deep, densely grey-silky, the teeth 
linear-subulate, the lower ones reaching more than halfway down, 
the upper rather shorter. Corolla purplish, ? in. deep, the standard 
2 in. broad, very silky on the back. Pod 2-24 in. long, 2 lines broad, 
glabrescent, straight, 16-18-seeded. Style pubescent throughout, 
*specially along the inner edge. 
