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168 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEA (BAKER). [ Pseudarthria. 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Peters! ; 
Less woody than P. Hookeri, and the unopened racemes not so silky. 
+. 3. P. macrophylla, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub 3-4 ft. high 
with stout suleate densely grey-downy branches. Stipules lanceolate, 
3-4 lines. Petioles 1-2 in.; leaflets 3, membranous, dull green, 
scabrous above, pale green and finely persistently grey-downy beneath, 
the central one obovate, reaching 6—7 in. long, bluntish or subacute, 
obscurely repand, rounded at the base; side ones smaller, short-stalked, 
unequal-sided. Flowers in dense terminal panicles reaching down 
amongst the leaves with crowded racemose branches. Pedicels 1-2 
lines, densely grey-downy. Bracts linear, very downy, 2 lines. Calyx 
1 in., the lanceolate teeth reaching more than half down. Coro la 
purplish, twice the calyx. Pod linear, straight, brown, finely downy, 
6-8 lines long, 2-24 lines broad, 5—6-seeded, not at all torulose, with 
a pedicel shorter than the calyx. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
4, P. Hookeri, Wight et Arn. Prod. Fl. Ind. 209. An erect undershrub 
3—4 ft. high, with stout sulcate densely grey-downy stems. Stipules 
lanceolate, 3—4 lines, downy on the back, deciduous. Petioles 6—15 lines, 
downy ; leaflets 3, the terminal obovate, 4—6 in. long, bluntish, obscurely 
repand, on a petiolule 6—15 lines long, lateral ones much smaller, 
shortly stalked, texture subcoriaceous, upper surface dull green glabres- 
cent, lower persistently grey-canescent all over. Flowers in copious te?- 
minal panicles reaching down among'st the leaves, the branches densely 
racemose. Pedicels 1—2 lines, densely downy. Bracteoles linear, 1}-2 
lines, very downy. Calyx Jin., very downy, the setaceous teeth reach- 
ing more than halfway down. Corolla bright red, more than twice the 
calyx. Pod linear, brown, finely downy, 8-12 lines long, } in. broad, 
6—10-seeded, slightly torulose, with a pedicel shorter than the calyx.—— 
Anarthrosyne robusta, E. Meyer, Comm. 124; Harv. Fl. Cap. i. 229. 
A, densifiora, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 41. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Karagué, and abundant in Unyoro forests, 
Speke and Grant! : 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo aid Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Island of Zanzibar, Bojer! 
Also a plant of Natal. 
45. URARIA, Desv.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 521. 
Calyx-teeth lanceolate acuminate, spreading, the two upper ones, 
which by the resupination of the flower become the lowest, the shortest. 
Standard obovate or orbicular, narrowed into a claw; wings falcate- 
oblong, adhering to the keel; keel obtuse, slightly incurved. Upper 
stamen free, the rest connate; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or short- 
stalked, bi- or multi-ovulate ; style filiform, inflexed upwards ; stigma 
terminal, capitate. Pod subsessile, much constricted between the articu- 
