308 FLORA NIGRITIANA: 
culatim venosis, racemis terminalibus strictis multifloris, 
calyce spathaceo vix puberulo apice reflexo obscure tridentato; 
vexillo calyce multo breviore, alis calycem zequantibus, carina 
triente longiore.— Fernando Po, Vogel; Accra, Don. 
Caulis lignosus, cortice albido. Petioli 2-3-pollicares, infra pe- 
tiolulos 1 lin. longos glanduligeri. Foliola 4 poll. longa, late- 
ralibus minoribus, supra viridia, subtus pallidiora. Pedunculi 
8-12-pollicares, stricti, multiflori, dense pubescentes. Flores 
l} poll. longi, solitarii v. gemini, brevissime pedicellati. 
Calyx 4 lin. longus, coriaceus. Vewillum paullo curvatum. 
Legumen deest. 
Vogel cites this as a medicinal plant. Don’s specimens are 
hardly determinable: their flowers appear rather larger than 
Vogel’s. : 
2. Erythrina Senegalensis, DC. Prod. 2. p. 413.—E. Guineensis; 
G. Don, Gard. Dict. 2. p. 371.— Sierra Leone, Don. Sene- 
gambia to Guinea, extending, according to A. Richard, as far 
as Abyssinia. : 
l. Phaseolus lunatus, Linn.—Fernando Po, Vogel.—AÀ plant 
extensively cultivated in Tropical countries, especially in Asia 
and Africa. 
The P. vulgaris is enumerated by Schumacher and Thonning 
as being in cultivation in Guinea, and Guillemin and Perrottet 
have described another species, P. Senegalensis, a8 a native of 
Senegambia. 
l. Vigna oblonga, Benth. Bot. Sulph. p. 86.—Sandy banks of 
the Nun River, near the sea, and Fernando Po, Vogel. 
An American sea-coast plant, very near V. glabra, but the 
leaflets are always remarkably blunt, besides some differences 1 
the flowers. piu x à 
2. Vigna multiflora, Hook. fil; pilosula v. glabra, stipulis 
breviter auriculatis, foliolis membranaceis ovato-rhombels, 
pedunculis folio longioribus supra medium multifloris, pedi- 
cellis calyce subbrevioribus, calycis late campanulati dentibus 
tubo brevioribus supremo latissimo integro lateralibus obtusis 
infima angustiore, carina nuda erostri, leguminibus glabris 
leviter faleatis.— Fernando Po, on the sea-coast, Vogel. 
