Chtoria. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 177 
1. C. Ternatea, Z.; DC. Prod. ii. 223. Wide-climbing with rather 
shrubby slender slightly pubescent stems. Leaves imparipinnate with 
5-7 subcoriaceous stipellate oblong leaflets 1-2 in. long. Flowers soli- 
tary on short pedicels in the axils of the leaves. Bracteoles round, 
3-6 lines long. Calyx 6-9 lines long, the oblong-lanceolate teeth half 
the tube. Corolla 15-18 lines long, the standard bright blue or white 
with an orange throat an inch or more broad. Pod linear, 3—4 in. 
long, 8-10-seeded.—Bot. Mag. t. 1542. Zernatea vulgaris, H.B.K. Nov. 
Gen. vi. 415. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot! Perrottet! Sierra Leone, Barter! Dr. 
Daniell! Niger land, Barter | 
North Central. Mandra, Z. Vogel! 2 
_ Nile Land. Nubia, Sennaar, and Kordofan, Cienkowshi, Von Harnier, &c. Abys- 
sinia, Salt! Schimper ! : 
Lower Guinea. [oanda, in dry sandy ground, climbing over Euphorbias, and Go- 
lango Alto, Dr. Welwiisch ! E 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 
Everywhere in the tropics, and very common in cultivation. 
53. SHUTERIA, Wight et Arn.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 529. 
Calyx-teeth short, the two upper ones connate. Standard obovate, 
suberect, narrowed into a claw, inappendiculate ; wings narrow, oblique, 
adherent to the keel; keel shorter than the wings, nearly straight, 
obtuse. Upper stamen free, the others connate; anthers uniform. 
Ovary subsessile, or shortly stipitate. Style incurved, filiform, beard- 
®ss; stigma capitate, terminal. Pod linear, subobtuse, two-valved, 
obscurely septate between the seeds.—T wining herbs. 
A small genus, the other species all East Indian. 
1. S. africana, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 190, Stems firm, 
slender, wide-climbing, 10-12 ft. long, densely clothed with decurved 
brown silky hairs. Stipules lanceolate, scarious, striated, persistent, 
3—4 lines long. Petioles densely brown-silky, 14-2 in, long ; leaflets 
three, stipellate, ovate-oblong, the terminal one 14-2 in. long, 1-1} in. 
broad, the apex rounded and mucronate ; petiolule din. long ; lateral 
leaflets unequal-sided, papyraceous, upper surface green, thinly silky, 
Ower grey and more silky, the main veins raised and subferruginous. 
Flowers 6-8 in lax long-stalked racemes equalling the leaves. Bracts 
lanceolate, scarious, persistent. Pedicel 1 line long, silky. Calyx 
obconic, 24 lines deep, thinly silky, the upper tooth deltoid acuminate, 
the others lanceolate or linear reaching a third down. Corolla pur- 
plish, twice the calyx. Pod stipitate, an inch long, { in. broad, nar- 
rowed at the base, firm, finely silky, 3—4-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon mountains, at 7000 feet, Mann! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Dr. Roth! 
.. We have what is probably a second undescribed species from Dr. Kirk, from read 
aibar, but it is in pod only. ' It is quite as wide-climbing as and rather more robus 
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