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brescent above, persistently thinly grey-canescent beneath, the end one 
rotundate-deltoid, 8-4 in. long and broad, bluntish with a mucro; pe- 
tiolule 9-12 lines; lateral very unequal-sided. Flowers in ample ter- 
minal panicles, with dense-flowered erecto-patent racemose branches. 
Pedicels very silky, } in, Calyx 2 lines, Sask grey-silky ; upper lip 
truncate ; 3 lower teeth deltoid, very short. Corolla red, 4 in. long. 
Ovary linear, densely grey-velvety, multiovulate ; style } in., twisted 
at base. Pod not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
17. D. pseudo-cajanus, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub 2-3 ft. 
high with sulcate terete finely grey silky branches. Stipules lanceolate, 
5-6 lines. Leaflets 3, glabrescent above, persistently thinly grey 
silky beneath, end one oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 in. long; _petiolule 
6-9 lines; lateral ones scarcely unequal-sided. Flowers in copious 
subsessile axillary corymbs passing at the top of the branches into a 
short raceme. Pedicels 1-2 lines, densely silky. Calyx 24 lines, finely 
silky; teeth lanceolate, shorter than the tube, upper pair connate. 
Corolla reddish, twice the calyx. Pod linear, straight, 18-21 lines long, 
8 in. broad, slightly downy, 6—7-seeded, narrowed at the base; style 
¢ in., twisted at the base. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
18. D. splendens, Welw. mss. An erect simple or slightly branched 
undershrub, 2-8 ft. high, with stout sulcate densely Sia ar stems. 
Stipules lanceolate, 5-6 lines. Petioles 2-3 in. ; leaflets 3, glabrescent 
above, densely clothed beneath with persistent shining thick grey silky 
tomentum ; end one ovate or lanceolate, acute, reaching 3-4 in. long ; 
scan 12-15 lines; lateral ones rather unequal-sided. Flowers in 
ong lax terminal racemes reaching down among the leaves. Pediicels 
3—+ in., densely silky. Calyx 4im., finely grey-silky; three lower 
teeth linear, exceeding tube, upper pair connate. Corolla bright red, 
lin. deep, standard 4 in. broad. Pod linear, 2-24 in. long, 4 lines 
broad, recurved, 7—8-seeded, persistently grey downy ; style } in. long, 
twisted at the base. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
69. CAJANUS, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 541. 
Calyx with the two upper teeth connate, the others equal. Standard 
orbicular, reflexed, the base appendiculate with inflexed auricles ; wings 
obliquely obovate; keel with an incurved apex, truncate. Upper sta- 
men free, the others connate; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, “era 
Ovulate; style incrassated above the middle, beardless, slightly dilate 
below the obliquely terminal stigma. Pod linear, obliquely iar 
Compressed, two-valved, with transverse constrictions between the seeds 
on the outside, scarcely septate within. 
A single species. 
