Stylosanthes. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 157 
Pod with two articulations, about 1 in. long, both the faces and the 
style densely silky. 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy 425! 
4. S.mucronata, Willd.; DC. Prod. ii. 318. A copiously branched 
hegre undershrub with stems not more than a foot long, the branches 
clothed with short grey pubescence. Stipules scarious, finely bristly on 
the back, adnate as in the other species. Leaflets 3—4 in. long, 2 lines 
broad, narrowed to both ends, the point mucronate, texture very rigid, 
veins very prominent, under surface finely pubescent. Flowers in dense 
terminal rounded heads. Bracts rather shorter than in the others, 
finely pubescent on the back, and sometimes bristle-ciliated. Calyx 2 
lines deep, the plumose rudimentary floret slightly longer. Pod with 
2 articulations, about 4 in. long, both the faces and style pubescent.— 
Vogel in Linnea, xii. 68. S. setosa, Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 2177 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Michelin! 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Forbes! Zambesi land, Dr, Kirk! 
A common East Indies species, and also a plant of the Cape. 
5. S. Bojeri, Vogel in Linnea, xii. 68. A copiously branched as- 
cending shrub with the branches clothed both with short pubescence and 
humerous long spreading yellowish bristles. Stipules scarious, pubescent” 
and bristly on the back, 3-3 in. deep, adnate to the articulated petiole 
except the rigid setaceous points. Leatlets oblanceolate, 3-1 in. long, 
~3 In. broad, narrowed to a point and mucronate, rigid and promi- 
nently veined beneath, finely pubescent, and the edge and midrib below 
ciliated. Flowers in dense ob ong terminal heads. Bracts imbricated, 
densely bristly and pubescent. Calyx 2 lines deep, the rudimentary 
floret about equalling it. Corolla tube } in. long. Pod with two 
articulations, about a quarter of an inch long, both it and the style finely 
pubescent. , 
Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Bojer! Dr. Kirk! : 
Also a plant of Madagascar. The whole plant, unlike the other species, turns 
brownish when dried. General habit of the American S. guianensis, which has no 
barren floret. 
41. ARACHIS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 618. 
Calyx-tube filiform, the lobes membranous, the four upper ones con- 
hate, the lowest thin, distinct. Petals and stamens inserted into the apex 
of the tube ; standard suborbicular ; wings oblong, free ; keel incurved, 
rostrate. Stamens all connate in a closed tube, sometimes nine only ; 
anthers alternately longer and shorter, fixed near the base and versu- 
tile. Ovary subsessile at the base of the tube, 2—3-ovulate, the torus 
after the Hower falls becoming an elongated, deflexed, rigid stalk 
forcing the fruit into the ground, the apex acute, and after the style 
alls terminated by a stigma-like callus; style long, filiform ; stigma 
minute, terminal, Pod ripening beneath the soil, oblong, reticulated, 
