226 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Eriosema. 
clothed with spreading or deflexed tawny silky hairs. Stipules 3-4 
lines long, linear or lanceolate, often deflexed. Petioles $~1 in. long ; 
leaflets 3, central one oblong or slightly ovate, 2-3 in. long, blunt or 
acute; petiolule } in. long, the lateral ones unequal-sided, under sur- 
face downy all over, the veins raised and ferruginous. Flowers in dense 
heads 1-2 in. long on glabrous or pubescent peduncles 4—10 in. long. 
Bracts lanceolate-setaceous, deciduous. Pedicels very short. Calle 
slightly pilose, a line deep ; teeth deltoid or lanceolate, not reaching half- 
way down. Corolla three times the calyx, yellow tipped with red. Pod 
3 in. long, } in. broad, densely clothed with long tawny silky hairs.— 
E. podostachyum and spicatum, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 314. Cytisus glomeratus, 
Bojer, Hort. Maur. 89 (name only). E. consanguinewm, Klotasch 
in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 33. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Sierra Leone, Don! <Afzelius! Guinea 
proper, Vogel! Ansell! and others. 
Nile Land. Karagué, Speke and Grant, 420! 
Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Bojer! Peters! 
Extends southwards to the Cape. 
7. E.sericeum, Baker. Branches firm, herbaceous, moderately 
stout, densely clothed with erecto-patent bright brown silky hairs. 
Stipules linear, 4 in. long, scarious, erect. Leaves subsessile ; leaflets 
3, central one oblong-lanceolate, 3—4 in. long, both ends narrowed 
gradually ; petiolule 3 in. long, lateral ones erecto-patent, equal-sided, 
both sides glabrous except that the raised veins beneath are clothed 
with fine bright ferruginous pubescence. Flowers in dense rounded 
heads an inch each way on firm silky peduncles an inch long. Bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, exceeding the silky pedicel, which is } in. long. 
Calyx } in. deep, densely brown-silky ; teeth linear-setaceous, densely 
ciliated, reaching three-quarters down. Pod broad-oblong, oblique at 
the point, densely clothed with long brown silky hairs. 
Upper Guinea. Angiama, Niger country, Barter! 
8. E. pauciflorum, Alotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. i. 31. Stems 
a foot or more high, suberect, the branches firm-herbaceous, slender, 
densely clothed with spreading ferruginous pubescence. Stipules Z in. 
long, lanceolate, scarious. Leaves nearly sessile ; central leaflet oblan- 
ceolate, 14 in. long, blunt; petiolule 1 in. long; lateral ones erecto- 
yee scarcely unequal-sided, subcoriaceous, upper surface glabrescent, 
ower finely grey-downy all over, the veins raised, ferruginous. Flowers 
6—8 in moderately dense racemose heads, on firm pubescent eduncles 
3-5 in. long. Bracts lanceolate, shorter than the calyx, deciduous. 
Pedicels very short. Calyx 1—8 in. deep, finely grey-silky ; teeth lan- 
ceolate-setaceous, reaching halfway down, densely -ciliated. Corolla 
half an inch deep. Pod not seen. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Sena, Dr. Peters! 
9, E. radicosum, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 228. Stems 1-2 ft. high, 
woody below, the branches flexuous, densely clothed with tawny hairs. 
