Asschynomene.| XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). 14? 
Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Binder. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin- 
Dillon! Parkyns! 
No. 615 of Speke and Grant’s collection is probably distinct, but the specimen does 
not furnish any character to separate it clearly. Their note upon it is—* A high bushy 
tree ; Waganda make shields of its light wood; Wanyaro use it as trimmers and door- 
bolts; Wanyamuezi as load-levers.” 
5. #E. sensitiva, Snartz ; DOC. Prod. ii. 320. A shrub with glabrous 
or slightly viscid terete slender branches. Stipules 1-3 in. lanceolate 
caducous. Petioles short, viscid, the rachis 1} in. long 5 leaflets in 15— 
20 pairs, linear-oblong, 3-4 lines long, 1 line broad, glabrous, glaucous, 
sensitive. Flowers 2—4 in very lax corymbs with leaves from the lower 
nodes. Bracts ovate, membranous like the stipules. Pedicels viscous. 
Calyx 2 lines deep, cleft nearly to the base. Corolla yellow, not more 
than } in. deep. Pod 14-2 in. long, 6—9-jointed, the lowest articula- 
fon on a pedicel } in. long, the upper suture nearly straight, lower 
deeply indented, hoth considerably thickened, the face in our plant 
with a few scattered seti. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! ; 
A common American plant, extending from the West Indies to Brazil. 
6. ZG. indica, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 320. An annual or biennial 1-3 
ft. high, with pale glabrous or casually slightly bristly branchlets. 
Stipules lanceolate, {4 in. with a lanceolate spur, caducous. Petioles 
2-3 lines ; rachis 13-3 in. long; leaflets 15-20-jugate, linear-oblong, 
2-4 lines long’, sensitive, glaucous below. Flowers 2—4 in lax short- 
Prduneled racemes. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, membranous, 1-1} lines, 
edicels 14-8 lines. Calyx 2-24 lines, cleft down to the base. Corolla 
pale yellow, very fugacious, half as long again as the calyx. Pod 12- 
15 lines long, y in. broad, recurved, the upper suture not at all, the 
lower very little indented; articulations 6-10, smooth or slightly 
Tugose on the faces; pedicel exceeding the calyx.— 2. sensitiva, Beauv. 
Fl. Owar. 89, t. 58, non Swartz. 2. macropoda, DC. Prod. loc. cit. 
4. quadrata, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 356. 
eee Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Perrottet ! Gold Coast, Beauvois, Thon- 
nin i 
Was Lent Roviofan, Kotschy! Yn marshes generally from 5° 8. to 2° N., Speke 
and Grant ! 
Lower Guinea. Ambaca, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 
?. AB. aspera, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 320. Stems erect, annual or 
biennial, 3-4 ft. high, herbaceous, but sometimes 3 in. thick at the 
base, filled with soft white pith, usually glabrous. Stipules lanceolate, 
in. long. Petioles 4-1 in. long, glabrous. Rachis 3-6 in. long, 
the sensitive membranous leaflets in 30-50 pairs, linear-oblong, }—} 
in. long, } in. broad. Flowers in lax corymbs of 2—4 each on short 
peduncles from the axils of the leaves. Pedicels slender, glabrous, or 
slightly bristly. Bracts ovate, membranous. Calyx bristly, 4 in. 
deep, cleft nearly to the base. Corolla 8-9 lines long, yellow, hairy 
on the outside, “Pod 2-3 in. long, } in. broad, with 6-8 articulations, 
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