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of which are a line broad; vexillary stamen free downwards. Ovary 
linear, sessile, silky, with several ovules. Pod unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
2. D. lucida, Welw. mss, A wide-climbing evergreen shrub’ with 
strong glabrous terete branches.  Petioles 14-5 in. long; leaves 
6-12 in. long, with 5-9 obovate-oblong coriaceous leaflets, terminal 
one 4—5 in. long by about half as broad, glabrous, very shining above ; 
petiolules 3—4 lines long. Flowers in axillary and terminal thyrsoid 
panicles sometimes a foot long, the rigid erecto-patent branches naked 
downwards, the clusters densely fascicled, especially at the apex of the 
branchlets. Pedicels under a line long. Calyx campanulate, 3 in. 
deep, inconspicuously velvety, the deltoid teeth reaching a quarter 
down. Corolla 5 lines deep, whitish, the keel and narrow wings slightly 
exceeding the recurved ovate standard. Upper stamen free. Ovary 
Sessile, 3—5-ovulate. Pod (immature) oblong, 2} in. long by half as 
broad, membranous, with a narrow wing along each suture. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
3. D. nobilis, Welw. mss. A wide-climbing or rarely erect bush 
with densely velvety woody terete branches. Petioles 4-6 in. long; 
developed leaves 9-12 in. long with 5—7 obovate coriaceous subacute 
leaflets, the terminal one 4-7 in. long, 2-84 in. broad, glabrous above, 
densely and permanently clothed with ferruginous tomentum below ; 
petiolules 14-2 lines long, stipellate. Flowers fascicled in panicles 
Sometimes more than a foot long with dense racemose branches. Pe- 
dicels very short. Calyx campanulate, } in. deep, densely velvety, the 
4 deltoid teeth reaching a quarter down. Corolla three times the 
calyx, pale reddish. when dried, the standard oblong, 2 lines broad, 
slightly shorter than the deep keel, to which the very inconspicuous 
wing's almost entirely adhere. Upper stamen free at base, united above. 
od membranous, linear-oblong, 3-34 in. long, 1 in. broad, glabrous, 
l-seeded, with a wing } in. broad along the lower suture. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo and Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
4. D. uliginosa, Benth. in Pi. Jungh. i. 252. A wide-climbing shrub 
With firm glabrous terete woody branches. Petioles 1}—3 in. long; 
leaflets 3, 5 or 7, distant, oblong, 2—4 in. long by about half as broad, 
acuminate, base rounded, sometimes cordate, coriaceous, both sides 
glabrous, veins not raised, petiolules 2 lines long. Flowers in narrow 
sparingly compound subracemose panicles from 3-6 or even 9 in. long 
on firm short woody peduncles. Pedicels about equalling the calyx, 
Which is about 1 in: deep, campanulate, slightly oblique, subtruncate, 
glabrous or thinly silky. Corolla pale rose, three times as long as the 
calyx; standard orbicular, } in. broad. Pod 14 in. long, about I in, 
toad, upper suture nearly straight with a narrow rigid wing, the lower 
much rounded, not winged, valves compressed, coriaceous, glabrous, 
finely reticulated ; seeds 2.—Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iv. Suppl. 107. 
