326 XLVI1. § MIMOSEH (OLIVER). | Entada. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! : 
Dr. Welwitsch states that one of his negroes, from Cabinda, named the plant in 
Angola Entada. A pod is in the Kew Museum, presented by Sir George Grey, and 
indistinctly labelled as from Lake Ngami. It is probably widely spread in Africa, a8 
in Tropical Asia. 
It affords a fibre used for textile purposes. (Dr. Welwitsch.) 
2. E. Wahlbergii, Harv. Flora Cap. ii. 277. A slender climber, 
wholly glabrous. Extremities terete faintly sulcate or striate. Pinne 
2-jugate ; rachis 14-4 in. long, spreading or deflexed, ecirrhose in our 
specimens ; leaflets in 4-10-18 pairs, sessile, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
scarcely mucronulate, very oblique at the obtuse or truncate base, the 
nervure becoming median towards the apex, 4—1 in. long, 1—8 lines 
broad. Flowers chocolate-red or brown, in dense cylindrical shortly 
pedunculate spikes 14-24 in. long ; pedicels not exceeding 1 line, often 
much shorter. Racemes solitary from the upper axils or distichously 
panicled and patent from a zigzag rachis at the extremities. Bracts 
and bracteoles subulate, present at flowering. Calyx-lobes acute, del- 
toid. Petals spreading or recurved, contluent at the base with the 
filaments and disk. Legume flat, arcuate, 4-6 in. from end to end of 
the chord, 1-1} in. broad or about } less at the constrictions, 
which are faint on the dorsal and rather deep on the ventral suture ; 
larger pods with 10-13 articles each, varying from as broad to twice 
as broad as long. Pericarp very thin, faintly reticulate, the endocarp 
apparently not separable. Gynophore 4 in. or less. 
Upper Guinea. Leaflets 12-16 pairs, } in. long or less; flowers nearly sessile, 
the stamens shorter than or barely exceeding the petals. Niger, Barter / 
Mozamb. Distr. Leaflets $—1 in. long, often in few pairs. Rovuma river, Dr. 
Meller ! 
In the Natal plant, originally described by Dr. Harvey, the flowers are on distinct 
thongh short pedicels, and the stamens are more exserted. We have flowering and 
rayegtn specimens both from Natal and the Niger, and I can hardly doubt their specific 
identity. 
3. E. africana, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 233. A much-branched 
tree of 15-30 ft.; extremities shortly pubescent. Pinne 2—4-jugate ; 
leaflets 8—-15-jugate, linear-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, paler be- 
neath with a few scattered hairs, 4-5 lines long, 4 line (? 1-2 lines) 
broad. Spikes in fascicles of 2-4, supra-axillary, elongate, erect. 
Calyx turbinate, 5-dentate. Ovary glabrous. Legume compressed, 
chartaceous, oblong, subarcuate, with from 15-20 1-seeded articles. 
_Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Heudelot and Perrottet. 
Niger, Barter! Fernando Po, Mann! 
I have not seen an authentic specimen, and the description is taken from Guillemin 
and Perrottet. The plants collected by Barter and Mann are in fruit only, but I can 
hardly doubt that they belong to this species. The pods do not exceed 15 in. in length, 
are irregularly or obscurely sinuous, flat, 3-44 in. broad; the epicarp is papery, smooth, 
and very obscurely transversely veined. Guillemin and Perrottet describe the pod as 
8 in. broad, meaning no doubt 8 in. long, 
Nearly allied to #, africana is a plant of Zambesi land, of which we have fruiting 
specimens only, gathered near Senna, on the Zambesi, by Dr. Kirk. It is a glabrous 
climber (occurring from the coast to Tette). Pinne about 4-jugate; leaflets 10-12- 
jugate, rather broadly oblong obtuse sessile, 7-9 lines long, 3 lines broad. Flowers 
