252 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Camoensia. 
in. long, firm, glabrous; leaves digitately trifoliolate; leaflets on 
tiolules } in. long, oblong or with a slight obovate tendency, 4—7 in. 
ong, subacute, the base cuneate or a little rounded, coriaceous, glabrous, 
upper surface glossy, the main veinsraised. Flowers in stalked erecto- 
patent racemes 6-12 in. long from the axils of the leaves. Pedicels 
4—3 in. long, erecto-patent, with a pair of small ovate spreading brac- 
teoles at the apex. Calyx an inch deep, turbinate, coriaceous, slightly 
downy, turning black when dried, the five teeth all broad-deltoid, } in. 
deep. Corolla 2 in. deep, standard 11 in. broad. Ovary linear, multi- 
ovulate, straight, glabrous, with a slightly raised line along the edge 
both above and below. Ripe pod not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Gulf of Guinea. 1° N. lat., Wann! 
2. GC. maxima, Welw.; Benth. in Linn. Trans. 1.c. t. 86. A woody 
climber with terete glabrous branches. Stipules rigid and subspines- 
cent. Petioles 2-24 in. long; leaves digitately trifoliolate, the leaflets 
with very short petiolules and linear stipelle, obovate-oblong, 5—6 in. 
long, narrowed below the middle, cuspidate, subcoriaceous, glabrous. 
Flowers in short-stalked 6—8-flowered axillary racemes ; pedicels 1-2 
in. long, downy; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate. Calyx densely 
coated with reddish woolly tomentum, tubular, 6—7 in. long, the stamens 
inserted halfway up, slit into five lanceolate segments 1—1} in. deep, 
which are finally recurved. Petals cream-coloured, with deeper coloured 
veins and a golden border, edges crisped and crenulated, the standard 
protruding 4 in. beyond the calyx, its limb suborbicular, 3—4 in. broad ; 
the other petals shorter and not more than an inch broad. Pod 6—8 in. 
long, 1-14 in. broad, nearly straight, clothed with ferruginous woolly 
tomentum, 3—4-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Prof. C. Smith! (not Sierra Leone, Afzelius, as given 
by mistake in Linn. Trans.). Angola, common in the forests of Golungo Alto, Dr. 
Welwitsch! 
A magnificent species, much the most striking plant of the Suborder. 
85. CALPURNIA, E. Meyer; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 554. 
Calyx-teeth broad, short, the two upper ones connate. Standard 
suborbicular, erect or recurved; wing's talcate-oblong ; keel incurved, 
obtuse, its petals united along the back. Stamens free, the anthers 
versatile, often small. Ovary stipitate, multiovulate; style incurved, 
subulate; stigma terminal, capitate. Pod linear, flattened, mem- 
branous, indehiscent, narrowly winged along the upper suture. 
A small genus, restricted to the Cape, except this species. 
1. C. aurea, Baker. An erect shrub 10-15 ft. high with slender 
thinly adpressed grey-silky branches. Petioles slender, }$—1 in. long; 
rachis of the leaves 3-4 in. long; leaflets 13-21 , opposite, short-stalked, 
elliptical, 1-1} in. long, bluntly rounded at both ends, not coriaceous, 
the under surface slightly silky when young. Flowers in copious 
