FLORA NIGRITIANA. 317: 
argentiflora, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 352.—St. Thomas, 
Don ; on the Quorra, Cape Palmas, Grand Bassa, &c., Vogel. 
From Senegal to Guinea, and thence to the east coast, 
where it is said to be planted; and if, as is probable, this be 
but a mere variety of the R. sericeus, DC., it is an American 
species not uncommon both in the West Indies and in 
Brazil. 
Among the numerous species which have been collected 
under Lonchocarpus, but very few have as yet been described 
in fruit, and in those few so many differences are observable in 
the pod, that almost each has been proposed as the type 
of a separate genus. The present species, although one of 
those on which Kunth's Lonchocarpus was originally founded, 
has not the membranous wingless pod of L. latifolius and 
macrophyllus, which he described, nor the coriaceous wingless. 
one of Sphinctolobium virgilioides, nor yet the curiously winged 
one of Neuroscapha Guilleminiana, but one in some measure 
intermediate between those of the two latter. With the habit 
and flowers of Newroscapha, and a pod in general form like 
that of the same genus, the broad wings are replaced by a 
slightly prominent longitudinal nerve on each side of the 
seminal suture. It is, therefore, safer for the present to leave 
the 'genus Lonchocarpus entire, until a sufficient number of 
fruits shall have been observed, to show whether these slight 
modifications correspond with any real differences in habit or in 
flower. 
2. Lonchocarpus ? macrostachyus, Hook. fil.; ramis foliisque 
glabris, foliolis 5-7 oblongis obtuse acuminatis basi rotun- 
datis coriaceis, panicula ampla multiflora, ramulis pedicel- 
lisque brevibus velutinis, calycis velutini dentibus 5 brevibus, 
bracteolis late ovatis, vexillo glaberrimo.—On the Quorra, at 
Ibaddi, Vogel. : 
Rami ramulique lignosi, teretes, cortice pallide fusco verrucis 
pallidis notato. Petioli 5-8 poll. longi, stricti. Foliola 
6-8 poll. longa, 24 poll. lata v. inferiora minora, basi inter- 
dum subcordata; apice abrupte acuminata, acumine brevi 
