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Upper Guinea. Senezambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Leprieur! Guinea, Barter! 
Nile Land. Banks of White Nile, Dr. Brownell! Petherick! Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Angola and Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Dr. Meller! 
Grows in or near water. Very ornamental, from its large bright-coloured flowers. 
“The ‘Ambash,’ or pith tree of the Nile, from 3° to 8° N. lat. Natives use its light 
logs to assist them in swimming across the river. It grows so rapidly that in three 
years it almost choked up the channel of the Bahr el Gazelle.” — Grant. 
H. excelsa, Kotschy, from the White Nile country, and H. humilis, Kotschy, from 
Sennaar, are known to us by name only. 
37. AASCHYNOMENE, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 515. 
Calyx deeply bilabiate, the divisions entire or shortly toothed. 
Standard roundish with a short claw; wings obovate-oblong, about 
equal to-the standard ; keel more or less incurved. Staminal tube slit 
either below or both below and above; anthers uniform. Ovary 
stalked, 1—2- or multiovulate ; style incurved beardless; stigma ter- 
minal. Pod stalked, the articulations finally separating, smooth or 
muricated on the flat or slightly convex faces—Undershrubs or herbs 
with usually very numerous crowded small more or less sensitive 
leaflets and fugacious flowers. 
A middle-sized genus, belting the world in the tropics. 
§ Eueschynomene proper.—Stipules with a distinct spur. Ovary multiovulate. 
tee membranous; stipules caducous, , 
owers solitary or casually geminate. 
Retcaeuans of pod ee tee OS Bee GS a ee a 
Articulations of pod 5-8. : 
Sutures hardly at all indented . 2. 2. oligantha. 
Sutures distinctly indented . 3. 4. uniflora. : 
Articulations of pod 10-15 . 4, 4. Schimperi. 
lowers 2—4 in lax corymbose racemes. : 
Lower suture deeply indented . 5. Ai. sensitiva. 
Lower suture very slightly indented. 
Corolla 4-6 lineslong. . . - « + + + +e + + 6. &. indica. 
Corolla '§-9 lines longi." 3 ee 4. aspera. 
Leaflets rigidly coriaceous ; stipules persistent. . . . . . 8. &. acutangula. 
S$ Ochopodium (Vogel).—Stipules not spurred at the base. Ovary 1-2 ovulate; the 
pod often reduced to a single joint. 
Flowers in terminal racemes separate from the leaves. 
Leaflets 10-15-jugate, 1-14 lines long . eee a ae 9. 4B. pygmea. 
_ Leaflets é-Gsurate 6-9 ine long i“ Deuiafeedie wo. 10. 20. glabrescent: 
Flowers all in axillary racemes. 
Leaflets 3-6-jugate ; corolla minute . . . +. + - + - Il. &. pulchella. 
Leaflets 8-12-jugate; corolla middlesized . . . - - - 22. 4. Ruppellii, 
Leaflets 20-35jugate; corollalarge =. - - - - - + - 13. &. Sulgida. 
acemes copious, both terminal and lateral, all simple. 
Bracteoles at base of pedicels very persistent . . . . . 14. &. bracteosa. 
PRES oo. a Ieee 
acemes copious, both terminal and lateral, some forked . . 16. AE. debilis. 
Flowers in large terminal panicles, ouly the lower branches sub- 
tended by leaves. 
Leaflets dimidiate, the midrib close to the upper edge. « 17. 
racteoles all very fugacious . 
Zt. dimidiata. 
Leaflets equal-sided, the midrib central . .-. . . » 18, 4. siifolia. 
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