262 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Abrus. 
free ; peduncles longer than the leaves, floriferous for 2 their length, 
laxly many flowered ; calyx-segments nearly equalling the tube ; vex- 
illum glabrous. Rhynchosia cajanoides, Guill & Perr! Fl. Seneg. p. 215. 
Eriosema polystachyum, EZ. Mey.! Comm. Drege, p. 130. Zey.! 404. 
Has. Port Natal, Krauss, 64! Crocodile River, Burke ¢ Zeyher! Coastland 
near Natal, Dr. Sutherland / Caffraria, Drege! (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 2-3 feet high, angular and slightly flexuous, not much branched, whitish 
or rufescent. Stipules lanceolate, patent. “Petioles 2-6 lines long. Leaflets 2-23 
inches long, 4-3 inch wide, green and finely netted above, discoloured and penni- 
nerved beneath, the margin slightly reflexed. Racemes 3-4 inches long, many- 
flowered, subdistichous ; flowers 2~3 lines apart, 4-5 lines long. Calyx canescent. 
2} lines long, its lobes ovate-acute, Vexillum mostly quite glabrous. Legumes 7 
lines long, 5 lines wide, coriaceous, densely clothed with long, white hairs. A native 
also of tropical Africa. The flowers in the S. African specimens are rather longer, 
and the pubescence more copious and whiter. 
Species unknown to us. 
E. reticulatum (E. Mey. Comm. p. 129) ; “stem flexuous, covered 
with teflexed, yellow hairs ; medial leaflet obovate-oblong, lateral ob- 
liquely oblong, all acute, transversely venoso-reticulate beneath, appres- 
_ sedly hirsute at the veins, fuscescent ; racemes shorter than the leaves, 
few-flowered ; vexillum violet.” Z, Mey. 1. ¢, 
E. trinerve (E Mey. Comm. p. 1 30); “stem flexuous, retrorsely 
hairy ; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 3-nerved as far as the mid- 
dle, green beneath, between the brownish veins, pubescent ; racemes 
about equalling the leaves, few-flowered.” E, Mey. 1. ¢. 
Has, Caffraria, Drege. : 
E. capitatum (E. Mey. Comm. p. 1 30); “stem erect, appressedly 
pubescent, canescent ; leaflets lanceolate-oblong, subacute at each end, 
white and silky beneath ; heads subglobose, involucrate, on long ped- 
uncles.” 2. Mey. 1. c. ; 
ie Hap. Among shrubs at Ruigtavalei, Drege. Petals all violet-coloured, 
OS LX. ABRUS, L. 
eampanulate, shortly 4-fid or 4-toothed, the upper lobe entire 
Vewillum ovate, about equalling the subfalcate carina. Sta- 
ed ; style short, incurved, glabrous. Legume oblong, com- 
ressed, 4-6-seeded, with partitions th . Endl. Gen. 6698. 
DO: Prd 9 ¥en = between the seeds Sindh. Gor: 9 
pane nia ee "ogy seagate sar ni from tropical Asia; natural 
rs ; ssy, oblong, red, with a black spot round the hilum. 
ce. Name from 
oe, oy 
1. A. precatorius (Linn. Syst. 533) ; 
