144 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Ormocarpum, 
8_2 in. deep, becoming subscarious, veined and persistent as in Taver- 
niera; the standard 3 in. broad, the wings 3 in. broad, the keel # in. 
round. Pod 3-1 in. long, with two articulations, downy and venose 
but not papillose.—<Aerotaphros bibracteata, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. 
Hb. Abyss. 1298. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 207 t. 88. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Salt, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit! 
Native name Alaudia. ; 
A plant gathered by Dr. Kirk in the country on the west of Lake Nyassa, with 
the calyx of Ormocarpum, the pod of dschynomene, and the tube of the stamens 
slit above only, and the upper one free, is probably the type of a new genus, but 
our single specimen is too imperfect to decide upon. The following are its further 
characters. Branches woody, slender, clothed with short grey pubescence. Flowers 
in fascicles of 2-5 from the twigs. Pedicels pubescent, equalling the broadly cam- 
panulate calyx, which is 3 lines deep, the teeth reaching about halfway down, the 
two upper ones connate. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx; the standard 
orbicular erect; wings small and much shorter than the other petals; keel 4 in. deep, 
not rostrate. Pod with a curious slender decurved pedicel more than an inch long, the 
articulations 2—4, oblong, each 3-4 lines long, both sutures, especially the lower one, 
wavy. so that the constrictions are not more than half as broad as the articulations, the 
style persistent, the faces flat, and, like the pedicel, densely clothed with soft short 
yellowish silky hairs. 
36. HERMINIERA, Guill. et Perr.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
i. 515. 
Calyx deeply divided into two subentire lips. Standard orbicular, 
shortly unguiculate ; wings obliquely obovate broad about equalling 
the standard ; keel broad, obtuse or obliquely subrostrate, its petals 
easily separating. Stamens in two bundles of five each; anthers unl 
form. Ovary stalked, multiovulate; style filiform; stigma terminal, 
minute. Pod broad, linear, nearly flat, spirally curved, the square 
articulations finally separating. 
A single species, confined to Tropical Africa. 
1. H. Elaphroxylon, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 201, t. 51. An erect 
shrub 8-20 ft. high, with spinose woody branches densely clothed with 
weak spreading yellowish bristles. Thorns 1-1 in. long, principally 
in pairs at the base of the leaves, horny, yellowish, subconical. Stipules 
ovate-lanceolate, membranous, deciduous. Leaves nearly sessile, the 
rachis 3-4 in. long, bristly and acicular; leaflets in 10-20 pairs, 
linear-oblong, 4-6 fines long, 2-8 lines broad, the apex wounded and 
sometimes emarginate, texture firm, colour pale glaucous-green, uppe 
surface glabrous, lower scabrous with small bristly hairs. Flowers 
1-8, subcorymbose on short bristly peduncles. Calyx 3-1 in. deep, 
the lips ovate, unequal, the upper the shortest. Corolla bright orang®, 
14 in. deep, the standard 14-13 in. broad, the keel § in. deep a2 
wings § in. broad. Pod 2 in. or more long, 3—4 lines broad, 12-15- 
articulated, once or more spiral, the sutures hardly at all waved, the 
faces nearly flat, finely pubescent.—Walp. Rep. 5: 516. demoné, 
Kotschy in Cisterr. Bot. Monat. 1858, t. 1. 
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