Zornia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 159 
Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Salt! Schimper! Quartin-Dillon. 
Unyoro, Speke and Grant! : 
Lower Guinea. Ambaca, Loanda, and highlands of Pungo Andongo and Golungo 
Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 
2. Z. tetraphylla, Miche. ; DC. Prod. ii. 317. A diffuse perennial 
with slender much-branched trailing finely grey-downy stems a foot 
or more long. Stipules lanceolate. Petioles 4-8 lines long, downy. 
Leaflets 4, digitate, oblanceolate, 9-12 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, 
subcoriaceous, subacute, with numerous distinct black dots below. 
Racemes, bracts, flowers and pod like those of Z. diphylla—Harv. Fl. 
Cap. ii. 225. Z. capensis, Pers. D.C. lec. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Angola, plentiful at 5500 feet, Dr. Wel- 
witsch | 
A common Cape species, found also in various parts of North and South America. 
43. DESMODIUM, Desv.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. i. 519. 
Calyx with a campanulate or obconical tube, the upper two teeth more 
or less united, the other three acute and deep, often linear-setaceous. 
Standard obovate or suborbicular; wings adherent to the keel; keel 
obtuse or rarely a little rostrate, straightish or incurved. Upper stamen 
connate or free, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, bi- or 
multiovulate ; style inflexed beardless; stigma small, capitate. Pod 
exserted, sessile or stipitate, compressed, with membranous or coria- 
ceous articulations, flat or rarely subturgid, glabrous or more or less 
ispid, usually indehiscent at maturity and hale pa from one another, 
sometimes dehiscing by the inferior suture——Herbs or shrubs with 
Pinnately trifoliolate or simple leaves. 
A large genus, principally tropical. 
A. Grour 1. Eudesmodium.—Calyzx obconical ; keel not appendiculate. 
The only species . . 1. D. umbellatum. 
- Calyx campanulate ; keel appendiculate. 
Grovur 2. Chalarium.—Both sutures of the pod deeply indented. : 
Rieblieta theres: 16124 F881 PETROS eB D. apirale; 
NGeia ones: i cre oe artes Se 3. D. polygonoides. 
Group 3. Efeteroloma.— Upper suture straight ; lower deeply indented. Pod 
sessile. 
Leaves simple. 
Racemes under an inch re Sah 6% 
acemes several inches long. , 
Leaves ovate entire . be ws sinwce ie © © + + + 5D. gone, 
Leaves cordate-ovate repand . i rer 
aves trifoliolate. : : 
acemes very lax ; pedicels 4-6 lines long, ultimately 
patent, 
Shrubby subglabrous ea re Ge ea, ME 
4. D. dimorphum. 
