Vigna. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACER (BAKER). 199 
ll. V. lobatifolia, Baker. Stems firm-herbaceous, clothed with 
short ferruginous tomentum. Stipules small, lanceolate, striated. Pe- 
tioles about an inch long; leatlets 3, subcoriaceous, the central one 
hastate, 2-3 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, the lobes rounded, reaching half- 
way down to the midrib, apex bluntish with a mucro ; penoinie 4 in. 
lone ; lateral ones unequal-sided and deeply-lobed, both sides with a 
little short down and the veinlets raised. Peduncles 2-4 in. long, 
2-3-flowered. Calyx finely downy, 4in. deep, the five equal linear- 
lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down: Corolla rose-red, 
half as long again as the calyx; standard # in. broad, veined, the keel 
ue a long recurved beak. Young pod linear, terete, densely brown- 
silky. 
South Central. Between Koobie and N. Shaw valley in the interior near the 
ore of Capricorn, Baines ! : : 
his has flowers like those of V. vexillata, and leaves in shape and texture like the 
Cape V. decipiens. 
12. V. golungensis, Baker. Stems herbaceous, trailing, clothed 
copiously with long spreading deflexed brown hairs. Stipules linear, 
—gin. Petioles 1-3 in.; leaflets 3, papyraceous with raised veins 
below, thinly clothed with adpressed grey ae hairs on both sides ; 
end one ovate acute 2-2} in. mer petiolule 6-9 lines ; lateral ones 
very unequal-sided. Peduncles 6-9 in., subglabrous, 2—4-flowered. 
Calyx subsessile, 3 in., subglabrous; teeth lanceolate as long as tube. 
Corolla yellow, 2in.; keel rostrate, its point and standard recurved. 
Pod unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, in woods, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
May be a variety of V. vewillata, near Thonningit. 
13. V. vexillata, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras, xxiv. 194, t.50, fig. 1. Root- 
stock large, fusiform. Stems herbaceous, wide-climbing, clothed with 
spreading silky hairs. Stipules lanceolate, 3—4 lines. Petioles 1-3 in., 
With copious spreading hairs; leaflets 3, papyraceous, dark green with 
adpressed strong silky hairs on both sides, the veinlets below raised ; 
end one lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate acute, 4~6 in. long; petiolule 
2~Zin.; lateral ones very unequal-sided. Peduncles 3-12 in. long, 
~~4-tlowered. Calyx subsessile, }—3 in., silky ; teeth linear-lanceolate 
‘as long as tube. Corolla reddish-purple, lin. long conspicuously 
veined ; keel prolonged into an incurved beak. Pod linear, 3—4 in. 
long, silky, recurved.—Phaseolus vewillatus, Linn. Sp. Plant. 1017. 
Pleetrotropis hirsuta, Schum. et Thonn, Pl. Guin. 888. Strophostylis 
capensis, EK. Meyer, Comm. 147. Phaseolus quadrifarwus, Hochst. in 
Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1426. Vigna tuberosa, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1. 
217, t. 42 (leaflets broader ; calyx teeth linear-setaceous). 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Lepriewr. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Gold Coast, 
arter ! 
Nile . ini himper! and others. 
Tower Heinen Teeode of Gelango Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! | : : 
A very variable plant, reaching Natal, and widely-dispersed through Tropical 
