LEschynomene. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 151 
17. AB. dimidiata, Welw. mss. A copiously branched ascending 
undershrub 2—3 ft. high, the woody twigs densely clothed with glands 
and spreading grey fragile bristles. Stipules membranous, linear, 2-3 
lines. Petioles 3-9 lines ; rachis 2-4 in., densely setose and viscous ; 
leaflets 25—-50-jugate, 3-4 lines long, 1-1} lines broad, mucronate, 
rigidly subcoriaceous, very glaucous especially beneath, the costa 
parallel with and contiguous to the upper edge. Flowers in copious 
terminal panicles reaching a foot long, the ascending laxly-flowered 
branches densely setose, the lower ones from the axils of leaves. Pe- 
dicels 1-2 lines, erecto-patent. Calyx 4-5 lines, subglabrous, with a 
single large clasping bracteole at the base; lips blunt oblong. Corolla 
bright yellow, moderately persistent, half as long again as the calyx. 
Articulations 1, rarely 2, hemispherical, 7-8 lines long, 5—6 lines broad, 
quite smooth on the faces. Pedicels 3—4 lines. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
18. AB. siifolia, Welw. mss. A rigidly erect sparingly branched 
undershrub, 3-5 ft. high, the stems glabrescent when mature, furnished 
when young with copious short spreading bristles. Stipules lanceolate, 
coriaceous, caducous, 6-12 lines long. Petioles 9-12 lines long; 
tachis 5—7 in., both finely setose; leaflets 30-35-jugate, oblong, blunt, 
mucronate, 6—9 lines long, rigidly coriaceous, prominently veined, the 
midrib central. Flowers in copious terminal panicles reaching a foot 
long; branches slender, erecto-patent, finely setose, the lower ones 
Compound, subtended by reduced leaves with ovate leaflets 1-1} lines 
long. Pedicels 1-2 lines, erecto-patent. Calyx glabrous, 2} lines, 
clasped when young by an ovate caducous bracteole 1 line long ; lips 
blunt. Corolla bright yellow, veined with purple, 3-3} lines. Articu- 
lations solitary, hemispherical, 4 lines long, glabrous on the faces. 
Pedicel 5-6 lines long. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, 3800 ft., in palm groves, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
_ A plant collected by Afzelius at Sierra Leone, of which there are several specimens 
in his own herbarium, labelled by him Cyclocarpa stellaris, and one at the British 
Museum, will no doubt form a new genus near d?schynomene, but at present the corolla 
and calyx are unknown. It is a smal] erect branched herb under six inches high, with 
slender naked stems, lanceolate scariose stipules like those of Smithia sensitiva with a 
arge linear spur, nearly sessile leaves with 1-3 pairs of oblanceolate glabrous leaflets, 
2-4 lines long, 1-14 lines broad, without stipelle, flowers solitary or two together on 
pedicels under a line long from the axils of the leaves, and a flattened circinate glabrous 
pod about a line broad, with rather more than a single spiral and 8 or 9 subdeltoid arti- 
culations not at all indented at the septa. 
38. SMITHIA, Ait.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i, 516. 
Calyx deeply bilabiate, the upper lip entire or emarginate, the lower 
three-toothed. Standard subor icular, shortly unguiculate; wings 
obliquely oblong or rarely obovate; keel incurved, obtuse or subros- 
trate. Stamens in a sheath which is slit above and afterwards below ; 
anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, bi- or multiovulate ; style 
