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Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet! and others. 
North Central. Kouka, #. Vogel! 
Ooieay and. Nubia, Kotschy! Petherick! Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartip- 
tllon ! 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! : 
Mozamb. Distr. Sofala, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Dr. Stewart! 
Var. 8. pubescens, Baker. 
Leaves, stem, and young pod slightly downy. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Thonning! Capt. Burton! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! 
Lower Guinea. Ambaca and Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Meller! 
A cosmopolitan species in the Tropics. 
56. 'T. nubica, Baker. Stems woody, 12-18 in. long, diffusely 
branched, the branches terete, densely coated with short white silky 
pubescence. Stipules lanceolate, } in. long. Leaves nearly sessile, 
the rachis woolly like the branches, the leatlets in 3-4 pairs, oblanceo- 
late, 1-1} in. long, }—-3 in. broad, apex rounded, mucronate, both sides 
very pale, and especially the lower one densely slerae as Racemes 
terminal or leaf-opposed, 6—12-flowered, 3—4 in. long, on long or short 
rigid peduncles. Pedicels and bracts shorter than the calyx, which is 
1 
4~3 in. deep, densely white-silky, the teeth linear, reaching more than 
halfway down. Corolla pinkish, slightly exceeding the calyx, the stan- 
dard 1 in, broad, very silky on the back. Pod twice as long as the 
calyx, densely clothed with long half-spreading white silky hairs, 1- 
seeded.— Poyonostiqma nubicum, Boiss. Diagn. ii. 40. P. abyssinicum, 
Jaub. et Spach. Illust. Pl. Or. t. 477-8. 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy! Cienkowsky. Abyssinia, Schimper. 
5?. 'T’. sphzerosperma, Baler. A copiously branched diffuse un- 
dershrub, about a foot high, the branches woody, clothed with fine grey 
pubescence when young. Stipules } in. long, rigid, linear, falcate, per- 
sistent. Petioles a line long, downy. Leaves simple, obovate, half an 
inch long, more than half as broad, firm, grey, generally folded, apex 
mucronate, recurved, veins prominent, both surfaces, especially thie 
under one, finely downy. Flowers axillary, 1-3 together, nearly ses- 
sile. Calyx tubular, Lin. deep, the teeth lanceolate, not reaching half- 
way down. Corolla pale yellow, not twice as long as the calyx. Pod 
spathulate mucronate, 1~$ in. long, finely downy, 1-seeded.—Requienia 
spherosperma, DC. Prod. ii. 168. Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 230. 
poonth Central. The interior just north of the Tropic of Capricorn, Chapman and 
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A Cape species. 
OB. T. obcordata, Baker. A woody undershrub, 2—3 ft. high, the 
ranches firm, straight, ascending, terete, clothed with fine grey 
‘omentum. Stipules subulate, a line long, rigid, persistent. Leaves 
subsessile, ete Pe obcordate, 4-3 in. long, three-quarters as broad, 
apex truncate or retise with a mucro, texture coriaceous, both sides 
8tey-green, and the veins very prominent, the upper one subglabrous 
when mature, the lower iaualy coated with fine short whitish silky 
