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5. M. gracilis, Welw. mss. A slender shrub 3-5 or rarely 8-10 
ft. high, with glabrous branches. Petioles slender, an inch long. Leaves 
6-8 in. long, with 15-21 obovate-oblong blunt deflexed glabrous leaf- 
lets, the terminal one 1}—2 in. long by half as broad, opaque above, 
glaucescent below. Petiolules a line long with minute deciduous 
stipellee. Flowers in lax or moderately dense short-stalked racemes 
about as long as the leaves, the lower ones in pairs or fascicles. Pe- 
dicels 142 lines long, finely silky. Calyx 14-2 lines deep, nearly gla- 
brous, obliquely campanulate, the teeth almost obsolete. Corolla deep 
rose-violet, 3 in. deep, the standard orbicular, 3 in. broad, finely argen- 
teous on the back, the wings and much incurved keel nearly as long. 
Upper stamen free to the base. Pod linear-oblong, sessile, ligneous, 
flat, quite glabrous, 3-4 in. long, 4 in. broad, 38—5-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Angola; Ambaca, and Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
6. M. versicolor, Welw. mss. An erect shrub, 5-10 ft. high, with 
glabrous branches. _Petioles 14-2 in. long. Leaves 8-12 in. long, 
with 11-13 glabrous subcoriaceous obovate or oblong acuminate or 
cuspidate leaflets like the leaves of Fagus sylvatica in texture, upper 
ones 4—5 in. long, 14—2 in. broad, the main veins beneath prominent. 
Petiolules 23-8 lines long, stipellate. Flowers in ample stalked ter- 
minal panicles sometimes a foot long with racemose or subcapitate 
branches glabrous downwards. Pedicels 2-3 lines long. Calyx broadly 
campanulate, 24-3 lines deep, densely brown-silky, the deltoid teeth 
teaching a quarter down. Corolla 9-12 lines long, the orbicular 
emarginate reflexed standard 4-2 in. broad, bright yellow within, 
densely brown-silky on the back; the violet-purple wings and keel 
‘ nearly as long. Upperstamen free. Pod ligneous, permanently brown- 
silky, linear-oblong, sessile, 4 in. long, 16-18 lines broad, decurved, 
2-3-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
oe urophylla, Welw. mss. A wide-climbing shrub with a trunk 
3—4 in. thick, the voung branches densely clothed with fine ferruginous 
pubescence. Petioles 3-6 in. long. Leaves 4-12 in. long, with 3-9 
obovate-oblong cuspidate opaque subcoriaceous leaflets, glabrous above, 
at first finely brown-downy on the veins below, the terminal one 2-8 
in. long, 1-5 in. broad; petiolules 2—4 lines long, without stipelle. 
Flowers in rigid subdense axillary stalked racemes or panicles 1—2 
times as long as the leaves, usually fascicled. Pedicels 14-2 lines 
long, finely downy. Calyx campanulate, 1}—2 lines deep, finely brown- 
silky, the ‘teeth very short, deltoid. Corolla rose-violet, } in. deep; 
Standard oblong, 4 lines broad, at first thinly argenteous on the back ; 
wings and keel scarcely shorter. Upper stamen free from the base. 
vary linear, sessile, silky, multiovulate. Pod (only seen immature) 
linear-oblong, deflexed, 3 in. broad, subligneous, densely brown-velvety. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
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