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reaching 12-15 lines long, glaucous, glabrous. Racemes more elon- 
gated and narrower than in the other species, and bracts more 
persistent. Lower pedicels 2-3 lines, usually ascending. Peduncles 
reaching 3—4 in., often muricated. Calyx } in.; the teeth very short. 
Corolla pale yellow, 4 in. long, concolorous or faintly dotted. Pod not 
seen in a mature state-—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 212. 8. mossambicensis, 
Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 45 (a slender unarmed form), 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieuwr and Perrottet! Guinea proper and Niger 
country, Thonning, Dr. Vogel! and others. 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Tette, Dr. Kirk ! 
Reaches Natal, and extends through Tropical Asia to Australia, 
6. S. pubescens, DO. Prod. ii. 265. A firm erect annual reaching 
a height of 2—4 ft. with densely grey-silky branches. Leaves short- 
stalked, the upper 3-4 in., the lower 8-10 in. long; leaflets 16—30- 
jugate, 12-15 lines long, 2-8 lines broad, densely grey-silky. Racemés 
13-2 in. long, 6—15-tlowered on short silky peduncles. Pedicels 2-3 
lines. Calyx 2 lines, subglabrous, the deltoid teeth }—1 of the tube. 
Corolla in. Pod 5-6in. long, 1 line thick, faleate, 20-30-seeded, not 
torulose when mature ; valves thick, coriaceous.—Klotzsch in Peters’ 
Mossamb. Bot. 44, t. 8. : 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet! Brunner! and others. Guinea proper, 
Thonning. 
Nile Land. Sennaar, teste Schweinfurth. 
Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters. 
7. S.leptocarpa, DC. Prod. ii. 265. A slender erect glaucous 
glabrous annual, 2-3 ft. high. Petioles 2-3 lines unarmed. Upper 
leaves 2-8 in. long ; leaflets 20-30-jugate, reaching } in. long, gla- 
brous, very glaucous. Flowers 1-3 on slender peduncles 6-12 lines 
long. Pedicels and glabrous calyx }in. Corolla 44—5 lines, the stan- 
dard blotched and finely dotted with purple. Pod 5-6 in. long, torulose, 
20-24-seeded, with thin valves and dissepiments ; style short.—S. jilr- 
formis, Hochst. in Kotschy, Hb. Nub. No. 47. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! 
Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy. 
Also a plant of Arabia. 
8. S. spherosperma, Welw. mss. A glabrous shrub 4-6 ft. high. 
Petioles very short, like the rachis slightly muricated. Leaves 4—5 in. ; 
leaflets 25-30-jugate, reaching an inch long, glaucous, glabrous. 
Racemes 4—6-flowered, subsessile in the axils of the leaves, under an 
inch long. Pedicels 2-3 lines very slender. Calyx 1 line deep ; teeth 
very short, deltoid. Corolla 4 lines long, paler than in the other 
2 Seg the standard not dotted. Pod reaching 8-9 in. long, 4 im. 
thick, the valves and dissepiment very thick, the latter angular on the 
back me marked with a distinct keel; seeds 40-50; style acutely 
conical, 
Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! 
