242 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Lonchocarpus. 
calyx less silky, leaves nearly or ultimately quite glabrous below. LL. 
domingensis, DC. 1.c. L. macrophyllus, H. B. K. Nov. Pl. 883. Robinia 
violacea, Beauv. Fl. Owar., ii. 28, t. 76. RB. argentiflora, Schum. et 
Thonn. P!. Guin. 352. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Skues! St. Thomas, @. 
Don! Dr, Welwitsch! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Miss Turner! Dr. Daniell! 
Guinea proper, Thonning, Vogel! and others. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
2. L. laxiflorus, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 226. An erect tree 
15-20 ft. high, the young branches slightly grey-velvety. Petioles 
2 in. long.; leaflets 5-7, oblong or ovate, 8~4 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, 
bluntish, the base rounded, subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous, pale 
ee Flowers in solitary or fascicled panicles sometimes a 
oot long, the branches racemose, slender, erecto-patent or spreading, 
3—4 in. long, dense upwards. Pedicels Lin. long. Calyx 2 lines deep, 
finely grey-velvety, sometimes nearly glabrous, the teeth deltoid, 
reaching a quarter of the way down. Corolla din. deep, pale violet, 
the standard reflexed, oblong, glabrous, } in. broad, appendiculate at 
the base. Pod 3-4 in. long, 8 in. broad, membranous, straight, gla- 
brous, acute, narrowed gradually to the pedicel, 2-3-seeded.—Benth. 
l.c. 97. L. Philenoptera, Benth. 1. c.; Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 263. 
Philenoptera Schimperiana, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1802; A. 
Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 232. P. Kotschyana, Fenzl in Flora, 1844, 312. 
Capassa violacea, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 28, t. 5. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot!  Perrottet! 
on Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! Madi, Speke and Grant, 
South Central. Banks of Lake Ngami, WeCabe! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Kirk! Mozambique, Peters! 
Var. 8. sericeus, leaflets 3-5, the terminal one obovate, 4 in. long by nearly 3 in. 
broad, densely grey-velvety beneath. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zamba, and east end of Lake Shirwa, Dr. Meller ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
We cannot separate from this the L. Sophie of Kotschy and Peyritsch, figured in 
Plante Tinneanw, t. ii. 
3. L. pallescens, Welw. mss. An erect tree 40—50 ft. high with 
the habit of Fraxinus, and glabrous branches. Petioles slender, 1-2 in. 
long; leaves deciduous at flowering time, 6—8 in. long with 7 ovate- 
oblong glabrous pointed grey opaque coriaceous leaflets, the terminal 
one 3—4 in. long, 12-18 lines broad, on petiolules 4 in. long. Flowers 
in copious decompound lax terminal panicles with patent branches. 
Pedicels 2-3 lines long, densely grey-velvety. Calyx broad-campanu- 
late, 24-3 lines deep, velvety, the lower teeth lanceolate, reaching 
halfway down. Corolla scarcely twice the calyx, dull violet, the stan- 
dard orbicular, glabrous, 4 lines broad, the keel-petals rather shorter, 
2 lines broad. Pod membranous, short-stalked, linear, 4—5 in. long, 
8-9 lines broad, grey-velvety, subfalcate, 4—5-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Zenza do Golungo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
