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202 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Vigna, 
long. Pedicels silky, 1-1} lines long. Calyx 3-34 lines deep, silky, 
the upper teeth deltoid, equal to the campanulate tube, the lower lanceo- 
late, istinctly longer. Hower yellow, 9-10 lines deep, the glabrous 
standard 7—8 lines broad. Immature pod linear, more than 2 in. long, 
densely silky, 12—15-seeded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
21. V.comosa, Baker. Stems slender, wide-twining, clothed with 
fine spreading grey hairs. Stipules linear, ey minute. Petioles 
downy, 1-2 in.; leaflets 3, papyraceous, finely downy on both sides, 
end one ovate, 15-18 lines long, acute, rounded at the base; petiolule 
3-4 lines; lateral ones unequal-sided. Flowers in close racemes 12-16 
lines long, on straight downy peduncles 6-10 in. long, the setaceous 
bracts exceeding the buds. Pedicels very short. Calyx 1 line long ; 
teeth deltoid, lowest lanceolate. Corolla yellow, % in.; standard gla- 
brous on the back. Pod linear, finely downy, not seen mature. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
22. VW. Donii, Baker. Stems slender, herbaceous, wide-twining, 
densely clothed when young with fine deflexed tawny silky hairs. 5U- 
pules 2 lines deep, auricled. Petioles an inch long, clothed like the 
stems; leaflets 3, membranous, terminal one ovate, 14-2 in. long, 
subacute, lateral ones very unequal-sided, both sides finely-silky. 
Flowers 6-12 in flexuose rather lax racemes on silky peduncles about 
equalling them. Pedicel equalling the calyx, which is campanulate, 
§ in. deep, subglabrous, the teeth reaching about halfway down. Co- 
rolla_ blue, 4-6 lines deep. Pod linear, 1—14 in. long, 1 in. broad, 
straight, glabrous.—Clitoria racemosa, G. Don, Gard. Dict. ii. 219. 
Upper Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, G. Don! 
23. VW. Afzelii, Baker. Stems very slender, wide-climbing, clothed 
with fine grey pubescence. Stipules linear, very minute. Petiole 
9-18 lines long, pubescent like the branches; leaflets 3, the central 
one ovate, 12-18 lines long, 5—7 lines broad, bluntish, the base del- 
toid, the side ones shorter, unequal-sided, texture membranous, under 
surface at first finely grey-downy. Peduncles 14-5 in. long. Racemes 
dense, 3-12-flowered. Pedicels silky, 1-2 lines long. Calyx broadly 
sR RCI. a line deep, nearly glabrous, the deltoid teeth reaching 
nearly halfway down. Corolla reddish, half an inch, the standard ha 
an inch broad. Pod linear, 6—8 lines long, a line broad, glabrous when 
mature, 5-6-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 
24. V. marginata, Benth. in Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 240. Stem woody ’ 
suberect, the young branches subglabrous. Stipules minute, linear. 
Petiole 12-18 lines long, firm, glabrous; leaflets 3, chartaceous, 
quite glabrous, the central one oblong, 2-24 in. long, acute or blunt, 
rounded at the base, with a petiolule 5—6 lines long, lateral ones 
slightly unequal-sided, Flowers 4-6 crowded at the summit of frm 
