Pseudarthria.] XLVI. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 167 
44, PSEUDARTHRIA, Wieht et Arn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. i. 521. 
Calyx campanulate, the teeth linear, subequal, the two upper more 
or less connate. Standard suborbicular, wings free, oblong; keel 
obtuse. Stamens diadelphous, the upper one free; anthers uniform. 
Ovary shortly-stalked, multiovulate; style inflexed, subulate; stigma 
terminal. Pod linear, compressed, inarticulate, continuous within, 
shortly stalked, usually many-seeded.—Undershrubs, differing from 
Desmodium only in the pod. 
Five species are known, one East Indian, and another reaching Natal. 
Ptoomes lax; pod 1-S.seedod (2 mccoy so 4. Hs a 
Racemes dense ; pod many-seeded. 
Leaves glabrescent beneath. . . ... . 
Leaves densely persistently pubescent beneath. 
Pod 2-24 lines broad, 5-6-seeded . . . . ... ~~ « . 3. B macrophylla. 
Pod 4 in. broad, G@-10-neaded «5. <i ws te ct | 4 ee ee 
1. P. fagifolia, Baker. An erect undershrub 3 or 4 ft. high, the 
branches ascending, firm-herbaceous, sulcate, finely grey-silky up- 
wards. Stipules 3—4 lines long’, lanceolate, scarious. Lower petioles 
3 in. long, firm, silky; leaflets 3, terminal one oblong-obovate, 3—5 
in. long by more than half as broad, repand, base subcuneate, the 
petiolule more than an inch long, the lateral ones smaller and unequal- 
sided, subcoriaceous, upper surface slightly scabrous, lower densely 
adpressed grey-silky all over. Racemes long, narrow, lax, axillary 
and terminal, the latter compound. Bracts linear, about equalling the 
erecto-patent pedicels. Calyx } in. deep, silky, the teeth linear, reach- 
ing about halfway down. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx. 
Pod 3-4 lines long, 2 lines broad, oblong, acuminate, downy, 2-3- 
seeded, narrowed to a distinct stalk. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! (Guinea, Yomba, Barter / 
. 2. P.confertiflora. 
2. P. confertiflora, Baker. An erect undershrub 2-3 ft. high, with 
firm suleate finely grey-pubescent branches. Stipules lanceolate, 
scarious, 3-4 lines long. Petioles an inch long, grey-pubescent ; 
leatlets 3, ovate-oblong or obovate, terminal ones 3-4 in. long by 
about half as Broad, slightly repand, lateral ones rather unequal-sided, 
coriaceous, upper surface green, subscabrous, lower glaucous, silky 
only on the veins. Flowers in dense axillary and terminal racemes, 
the latter often compound. Bracts 3 lines long, linear, thinly silky 
on the back, deciduous. Pedicels } in, long, about equalling the cam- 
panulate calyx, which is slightly silky, with linear subequal teeth 
reaching halfway down. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Ovary 
pubescent, stalked, 5—6-ovulate. Ripe pod not seen.—Rhynchosia con- 
Jertifiora, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 231. Anarthrosyne gracilis, Klotzsch in 
Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. i. 40. 
Nile Land. Banks of White Nile, Knoblecher fide Kotschy. Abyssinia, 
Schimper ! 
