Eriosema.] XLVII. § PAPILIONACE® (BAKER), 227 
Stipules linear, densely silky. Leaves stalked, trifoliolate ; central 
leatlet oblong, acute; lateral ones slightly unequal-sided, under surface 
principally pilose. Flowers in 8-12-flowered racemes, on peduncles 
which equal the leaves. Calyx densely tawny-silky; teeth subdeltoid. 
Corolla twice the calyx. Pods oblong, silky. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon. 
Not seen. 
10. E, longepedunculatum, 4. ich. Fl. Abyss. i. 226. Stems a 
foot or more high, suberect, the branches firm-herbaceous, terete, slen- 
der, clothed with fine tawny down. Stipules } in. long, lanceolate, 
scarious. Petioles 4-1 in. long, slender, firm. Leaflets 3, central one 
ovate or oblong, 1-14 in. long; petiolule 2 lines long; lateral ones 
unequal-sided, subcoriaceous, the under surface slightly pubescent on | 
the raised ferruginous veins. Flowers in moderately dense 6-12- 
flowered racemes 1-1} in. long, on slender, firm, glabrous peduncles 
3-4 in. long. Bracts linear, deciduous, { in. long, ferruginous. Calyx 
2 lines deep, finely adpressed-silky ; teeth lanceolate, reaching a third 
down. Corolla twice the calyx. Pod in. long by more than } in. 
broad, the apex oblique, the valves finely tawny-silky.—2hynchosia lon- 
gepedunculata, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 9265. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! : 
Resembles E. parviflorum in general habit, but the calyx twice as long. 
11. E. ellipticum, Welw. mss. A sparingly branched shrub 2-3 ft. 
high, with rigid sulcate grey-canescent branches. Stipules minute 
lanceolate, deciduous.  Petioles rigidly erecto-patent, }-} in. Leaves 
Simple, rigidly coriaceous, oblong, blunt, rounded at the base, 
2-24 in. long, dull green with immersed glands and short inconspicuous 
hairs above, closely persistently grey-canescent below. Flowers in 
Copious subsessile congested axillary racemes much shorter than the 
leaves. Pedicels 1-1} lines, densely grey-silky. Calyx 2 lines, cam- 
panulate, densely silky; teeth deltoid, much shorter than the tube. 
Corolla yellow, 6-7 lines; standard densely silky on the back. Pod 
oblong, 32 in. long, } in. broad, densely grey-silky. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, at 4000 feet, Dr. Welwitsch! 
12. E. cajanoides, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 314. An erect copiously 
branched shrub, 4-5 ft. high, branches slender, angular, densely ad- 
pressed gre y-silky. Stipules minute, lanceolate. Petioles a4 in. 
lone, eee 3, central one oblanceolate or narrow-oblong, 2—3 in. 
long, blunt or acute ; petiolule 4-4 in. long; lateral ones erecto- 
patent, scarcely unequal-sided, subcoriaceous, under surface i Hy 
glabrescent, lower densely and permanently coated with fine grey pubes- 
cence. Flowers in moderately close racemes 2-4 in. long, on firm 
peduncles 1-2 in. long. Pedicels very short. Calyx 2-2} lines deep, 
finely silky ; teeth subdeltoid, reaching nearly half down. Corolla yellow, 
twice the calyx. Pod over half an inch long by rather less ? the 
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