Lonchocarpus.| LEGUMINOSE (Harv:) 263 
terminating short, axillary, nearly leafless branches ; rachis incrassated in 
fruit ; vexillum nearly free ; alz shorter than the carina ; legume quad- 
rate-oblong, 2-24 times longer than broad, very oblique at base, about 
s-seeded. Benth.! Fl. Braz. XXIV. p. 215. A. sguamulosus, L. Mey.! 
Comm. p. 126. ae arte 
Has. Port Natal, Drege! Krauss! T. Williamson, gc. (Herb. Hk., D., &e.) } be 
Common throughout tropical Asia‘and Africa. Stems climbing, sparingly pubes- —S 
cent. Leaves abruptly pinnate, 10-20-jugate ; leaflets oblong, blunt, pale green, + 
glabrous above, minutely silky beneath, 4-8 lines long, 2-4 lines wide. Flowering 
branches axillary, longer or shorter than the leaves, very patent or divaricate, rarely 
quite leafless, generally with 1-2 leaves at base, and always pluri-stipulate in the 
lower part. Stipules subulate. Flowers red, 4-5 lines long. Legumes 1-14 inch 
long, 6-7 lines wide, in our specimens squamulose and pubescent, sometimes gla- 
brous ; seeds bright scarlet with a black spot round the short hilum. The seeds are 
often strung as béads by children, &c. 
2. A. levigatus (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 126); racemes several-flowered, 
terminating leafy, lateral branches ; rachis scarcely thickened in fruit ; 
vexillum adnate to.the base of the staminal tube, ale shorter than the 
carina; legume subfalcate, 5 times longer than broad, 6—-8-seeded, sub- 
glabrous and even. 
Has. Caffraria and Natal, Drege! (Herb. Hk., D., &c.) 
Very near A. pulchellus, Wall. Cat. 5819. It is easily known, when in fruit, from 
A. precatorius by the longer and narrower, several-seeded legume. The habit and 
foliage are similar, but the flowers are less numerous, and the flowering branch bears 
leaves nearly to the base of the raceme. : 
LXI. LONCHOCARPUS, H.B.K. : 
Calyx truncate or shortly 4—5-toothed. Ale slightly cohering above 
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the claw of the carina. Petals of the carina slightly cohering at back 
above. Vexillary-stamen quite free at base, above connate with the 
rest into a complete tube. Anthers versatile. | “y everal-ovulec 
Legume flat, oblong or elongate, membranacec 1s 
stipelle few or none. Racemes simple or panicled. Flowers violet, purple or white, 
but not yellow ; petals silky or expo ol Name from Aovxn, 
Fruit ; alluding to the shape of 1e pods. . 
netted-veined beneath ; 
at base, obtuse or acute, ilenop- 3 
tera Schimperiana and Dalbergia Schimperiana, Hochst. Pl. abyss.No.897, 
1778. Tapassa violacea, Kl. oo 
Has. Banks of the Tamulakau R. and between the Chobu and | iv ; 
near Lake Ngami, Jos. M‘Cabe. (Herb. Hk., D.) or 
‘A tree 20-30 feet high, 2 feet in diameter. Leaves toward 
