228 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Eriosema. 
point oblique, the faces thinly clothed with long grey silky hairs——Harv. 
Fl. Cap. ii. 261. Rhynchosia cajanoides, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 215. 2. 
polystachyum, EK. Meyer, Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 130. 2. floribundum, 
macrophyllum and incanum, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 33-4. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Lepriewr and Perrottet! Heudelot! Sierra Leone, 
Smeathmann! Guinea proper, Barter! Irving! Brass! 
Wile Land. Nubia; Noer, Binder (fide Kotschy). 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Capt. Burton! Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Wel- 
witsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Peters! Dr. 
Meller! Dr. Kirk! 
Extends southward to Natal. 
13. E. griseum, Baker. A low copiously branched shrub, with 
firm woody slender branches, densely clothed with grey pubescence. 
Stipules } in. long, lanceolate, scarious. Petioles } in. long; leaflets 
3, the central one oblanceolate, 11-14 in. long by about 2 in. broad, 
acute or blunt; the petiolule } in. long, the lateral ones erecto-patent, 
slightly unequal-sided, subcoriaceous, upper surface grey-green, finely 
downy, lower softly grey-downy all over. Flowers in dense rounded 
heads an inch or more each way on firm short downy peduncles. Bracts 
lanceolate acuminate, grey-silky, 3-} in. long. Pedicels a line long. 
Calyx half an inch deep, finally membranous, clothed with spreading 
grey hairs, the teeth linear or lanceolate, densely ciliated, reaching 
three-quarters of the way down. Corolla yellow. Pod oblong, equal- 
ling the calyx, the valves finely downy. 
Upper Guinea. Aboh and lofty hills of the Yomba country, Barter! 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
14. E. glomeratum, Hovk. f. Fl. Nigr. 313. An erect copiously 
branched shrub, 5-6 ft. high, with slender woody branches more or 
less densely clothed with spreading ferruginous pubescence. Stipules 
lanceolate, scarious, } in. long. Leaves subsessile ; leaflets 3, the cen- 
tral one oblong-lanceolate, 2-8 in. long, narrowed to both ends; pée- 
tiolule } in. long; lateral ones erecto-patent, slightly unequal-sided, 
subcoriaceous, upper surface grey-green, finely downy when young, 
lower finely grey-downy all over, the raised veins ferruginous. Flowers 
crowded in dense nearly sessile axillary heads an inch or less broad and 
long. Bracts linear, fin. long. Pedicel a line long. Calyx 4 in. 
deep, densely silky, the teeth linear-setaceous, densely ciliated, reaching 
half down. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx. ‘Pod broad-oblong, 
4 in. long, } in. broad, densely clothed with long silky hairs.—Glycine 
rufa, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 344, non H. B. K. Rhynchosia 
glomerata, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 216. E. rufum, Baill. in Adans. V1. 
226, non E. Meyer. . gracile, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 39. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Smeathmann! Senegambia, Heudelot! 
Perrottet! Guinea proper, Thonning, Vogel! Barter! Mann! Griffon du Bally. 
Brass! Duparquet. ‘ 
* toa Guinea. Congo, Capt. Burton! Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Wel- 
witsch ! 
