184 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [Erythrina. 
the sides rounded, faintly repand; petiolule 14-2 in. long. Flowers 
in dense racemes 4—5 in. long, equalling the woody downy peduncles. 
Bracts lanceolate deciduous. Pedicels very short, tomentose. Brac- 
teoles setaceous, 2-3 lines. Calyx 12-15 lines, thinly pubescent, slit 
more than halfway down on the lower side, the upper lip cut into five 
linear twisted teeth 3-4 lines long. Standard scarlet, 18—21 lines. 
Pod 2—8-seeded, densely clothed with close brown velvety tomentum 
when young, not seen mature. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
8. E. tomentosa, Rk. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 63 (name only). A 
tree 10-20 ft. high with woody spinose branches densely clothed with 
tine grey tomentum. Stipules lanceolate, }-$ in. long. Petioles 4-6 
in. long, densely grey-tomentose, spinose; leaflets roundish or broad- 
ovate, thickly subcoriaceous; terminal one 4—6 in. each way, sometimes 
broader than deep, blunt, the base broadly rounded or cordate ; petio- 
lule 2-3 in. long; both sides matted with grey tomentum. Flowers m 
dense racemes 2—4 in. long on woody peduncles 6-8 in. long. Pedicels 
2-3 lines long, very woolly. Calyx 1-1} in. long, tomentose on the 
back, slit down nearly to the base on the underside, cut more than a 
third down on the upper side into five whip-like lacinie. Corolla. 
bright scarlet, the standard as long or rather longer than the calyx, 
half an inch broad, wings 3 in. long, keel shorter. Pod 4-5 in. long, 
sublioneous, consisting of about 6 close 1-seeded globes 7—8 lines thick, 
the base distinctly-stalked, the faces velvety, the upper suture finally 
splitting. —Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 531; A. Rich. 
Fl. Abyss. i. 218. £. pelligera, Fenzl, in Flora, 1844, 312. £. lutissima, 
E. Meyer, Comm. 151; Harv. FI. Cap. ii. 238. E. Sandersoni, Harv. Thes. 
t. G1-2. Chirocalyx mollissima, Meissn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 98. 
Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Petherick! Binder. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin- 
Diilon and Petit. Karague, Speke and Grant! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk, Dr. Meller! 
Also a plant of Natal. 
The plant figured in fruit by A. Richard, under the name of Z. abyssinica, Lam., 
and in flower in Plante Tinneane, tab. 3, under the name of Chirocalyx abyssinicus, 
does not appear to differ from this in anything except its less tomentose leaves. 
Lamarck’s name be rightly applied, of course it will have to take precedence. 
57. MUCUNA, Adans.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 538. 
Upper teeth connate, the lowest longest. Standard folded together, 
shorter than the wings, with intlexed auricles at the base; wings ob- 
long or ovate, incurved, often adhering to the keel; keel equalling oF 
longer than the wings, incurved at the apex, acute or rostrate. Upper 
stamen free, the rest connate; anthers alternately longer and fixed at 
the base, and shorter, versatile, often bearded. Ovary sessile, villous, 
pauciovulate; style filiform, ‘beardless ; stigma small, terminal. Pod 
thick, linear or ovate-oblong, often clothed with stinging hairs, two- 
valved, septate between the seeds, the valves coriaceous, plane ° 
