134 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [Seshanta. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo and Golungo Alto, Angola, and a variety 10 
Huilla with a muricated stem, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
2. S. pachyearpa, DC. Prod. ii. 265. A glabrous erect glaucous 
annual 1-3 ft. high, usually unarmed. Upper leaves 3-4 in. long; 
leaflets 15-20-jugate, reaching 8—9 lines, glabrous, very glaucous. 
Flowers 1-6 in’ subsessile abbreviated racemes. Pedicels slender, 2 
lines. Calyx 24 lines. Corolla 3 in. long, the standard concolorous 
or dotted. Pod reaching a foot long, the sutures and rounded valves 
thick ; style 4 in. or more long ; seeds 20-30.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg: 
200, t. 50. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet ! 
Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Binder. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon! 
Lower Guinea. Bengucla, Dr. Welwitsch! (Prickly, with a shorter style.) 
3. S. cinerascens, Welw. mss. A graceful much-branched slender 
shrub, 8-12 ft. high, with finely grey-downy branches. Petioles very 
short, unarmed. Upper leaves 4—6 in. long; leaflets 15—-20-jugate, 
reaching 9-10 lines long, glaucous, puberulous. Peduncles ee 
Racemes laxly 8~12-flowered, the lower pedicels 6—9 lines long, © xe 
cernuous. Calyx 2 lines deep; teeth very short, deltoid cuspidat 
Corolla 2 in, deep, the standard 2in. broad, copiously finely dotted Mi 
purple. Pod 9-12 in. long, 24 lines thick, tipped with a persistent pik 
half an inch long, the moderately thick valves slightly torulose, not a 
all ribbed on the back; seeds 40-50. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
4. S. wegyptiaca, Pers.; DC. Prod. ii. 264. An erect copiously 
branched pale-green glabrous shrub, 5-8 or even 10 ft. high. Leaves 
nearly sessile, the unarmed rachis on the upper ones 2-4 in. longs 
leatlets 10—20-jugate, glabrous, glaucous-green, reaching an inch long, 
2 lines broad, blunt with a faint mucro. Peduncles 1-2 in.; racemes 
lax, 6-12-flowered ; pedicels spreading, 2-4 lines. Calyx 2 lines; 
glabrous, the teeth very short, deltoid cuspidate. Corolla bright 
yellow, 4 in. long, the round emarginate standard } in. broad, more “ 
less dotted with purple. Pod 6-8 in. long, 14-2 lines thick, distinct 
torulose, 20-30-seeded, the valves rounded on the back, not 80 thie 
as in S. punctata and pachycarpa, Wight. Ic. t. 32.—S. picta, Pers., Bot. 
Reg. t. 873 (flowers deeper coloured, more spotted than usual). 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet! Guinea proper, Dr. Vogel! 
Capt. Burton! &c. 
Nile Land. Upper Egypt, Schimper! Dr. Bromfield! Nubia, Kotschy! Banks 
of the White Nile, Dr. Brownell! 3° N. lat., where the herd-boys use the pod as . 
rattle, Speke and Grant! 
acl throngh Tropical Asia to North Australia, and often cultivated in European 
gardens. 
5. S. aculeata, Pers. ; DC. Prod. ii. 265. A slender glabrous annual 
2-4 ft. high, with the branches and rachis of the leaves armed fe 
small deciduous prickles. Leaves 6-12 in, long; leaflets 20-50-jugal®, 
