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rather shorter, all scarious, ribbed, persistent and ciliated. Corolla 
yellowish, equalling the calyx. Pod sessile, with two glabrous roundish 
articulations. 
Nile Land. Mininga, Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
A very distinct and interesting novelty. 
3. S. nodulosa, Baker. A bush with brittle grey nodose woody 
branches finely grey-bristly upwards. Stipules } in. long, lanceolate, 
rigid, persistent. tras subsessile ; rachis pubescent, an inch long; 
leaflets in 10-12 pairs, 3 lines long, under one line broad, rigid, 
narrowed to the point, mucronate, nearly glabrous. Flowers in lax 
corymbs of 3-4 each from the axils of the leaves, on densely grey- 
pubescent peduncles, which are sometimes an inch long, without bracts 
or bracteoles. Peduncles spreading, 2-3 lines long, densely pubescent. 
Calyx glabrous, 4 lines deep, cut down nearly to the base, the upper 
lobe entire, the lower slightly emarginate. Flowers yellowish, striated, 
the keel half as long again as the calyx, the standard and wings 
shorter, the latter 3 lines broad. Young pod longer than the corolla, 
stalked, with three oblong articulations. Ripe pod not known. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Mount Chiradzura, Dr. Meller! 
omewhat resembles the Madagascar S. chamecrista, Benth., but that has bristly 
stems, more numerous leaflets, flowers only 1-2 together on densely bracteated and 
bristly peduncles and a bristly calyx. 
4. 8. zschynomenoides, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub 2 ft. 
high with numerous slender erecto-patent branches clothed with copious 
Weak spreading glandular bristles. Stipules 1-2 lines, lanceolate, free, 
membranous, deciduous. Petioles 4—6 lines, glandulose-pubescent ; 
Tachis 12-15 lines; leaflets 12—16-jugate, sensitive, oblanceolate, 
unequal-sided, 1-3 in. long, 1-14 lines broad, not coriaceous, glabrous 
on both faces, obscurely ciliated, the main vein near the app edge. 
lowers 6~12 in moderately close-stalked racemes equalling the leaves. 
‘racts and bracteoles similar, minute, ovate. Lower pedicels 2—3 lines. 
alyx 2-21 lines, membranous, finely pubescent, with five oblong 
bluntish teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla twice the 
calyx, yellow veined with purple; standard } in. broad. Pod glabrous, 
hot exceeding the calyx ; articulations 2, rarely 3. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla province, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
5. S. Kotschyi, Benth. Pl. Junghuhn. 211. An erect shrub with 
thick rigid woody branches densely clothed with spreading weak yel- 
lowish bristles. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 lines deep, persistent. 
aves sessile, the rachis 14-2 in. long, the leaflets in about 20 pairs, 
near, the lowest 4 lines long, 1 line broad, upper ones growing smaller 
gradually, point narrowed, firm, glabrous, rachis a little bristly down- 
Wards. “Flowers in dense crowded nearly sessile axillary racemes of 
6-12 flowers each. Pedicels 1 in. long with a pair of rigid persistent 
lanceolate bracteoles just below the calyx, which is ? in. long, scarious 
