| 258 LEGUMINOS ( Harv.) [Evriosema. 
1-2 feet high, slender, not much branched ; leaflets 4~5 lines long, 1~2 lines wide, 
thickly resinous-dotted, pale ; petioles 1-2 lines long. Stipules ovate-acuminate, 
longer than the petiole. Calyx tube obtuse at base, 2 lines long, patently pubescent 
and viscid ; laciniz acuminate, scarcely longer, the uppermost slightly connate, low- 
est a little longer, all rigidly ciliolate. Vexillum 6 lines long, with a longish claw. 
_ Ales narrow, shorter. Carina equalling the vexillum, broad, incurved and blunt at 
the point. Legume 5-6 lines long, 2-3 broad, oblong, compressed. 
Species of Copisma unknown to us. 
R. trichodes (E. Mey. Comm. p. 134); stem procumbent, flexuous, 
very hairy, with patent, yellow hairs ; leaflets elliptic-oblong, subacute, 
netted-veined, yellow-hairy on both sides, gland-dotted beneath, equal- 
ling the petiole; peduncles one-flowered, e ualling the leaf ; legumes 
(unripe) straightish, villous. Cop. trichodes, » Mey. 
Collected by Drege; no habitat assigned. 
R. nitida (E. Mey. Comm. p. 136) ; stem terete, filiform, voluble, 
glabrescent ; leaflets broadly-triangular, lateral scarcely unequal-sided, 
galroue and shining at both sides, ciliate ; racemes equalling the leaves, 
few-flowered ; flowers suberect, pedicels equalling the pubescent, nearly 
_ glandless calyx, legumes falcate, glabrescent, about 3-seeded, Copisma 
. LIX. ERIOSEMA, Dc. 
upwards ; stigma small or capitate. Legume compressed, obliquely 
orbicular-rhomboid, or broadly oblong, hairy ; seeds 2 or 1, compressed, 
oblong, obliquely transverse, the seed-cord fixed at one end of a linear 
Leafi. linear-lanceolate 
white beneath ... 
Leafl. lanceol.-oblong, 
neath. Pe 
