270 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [ Peltophorum. 
4-ovuled ; style short, straight. Legume compressed oblong, setose. 
Endl, Gen, No. 6772. DC. Prod. 2, 485. Leg. Mem. t. 69. 
~ Small half-herbacous plants ; the stem, petioles, leaflets, peduncles, calyx, ovary, 
—_ o Loa all parts of the plant except the petals and stamens, thickly sprinkled 
with black, hemispherical, resinous dots. Leaves bipinnate, stipulate, and stipellate. 
Flowers racemose ; racemes opposite the leaves. Name from peAas, black, and 
orikTos, a dot. : 
: : ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Sparsely setose ; leaves 1-2-jugate, with a long, terminal pinna ; 
_ flowers drooping... ec se vas ee ... (1) Burchellii. 
Densely setose ; leaves equally 4-5-jugate ; lat, pinnz 14-16 : 
foliolate ; fl. erecto-patent ... Ses ons oes .-. (2) Sandersoni. 
1, M. Burchellii (DC. Leg. Mem. t. 69) ; leaves I-2-jugate, with a 
long, terminal pinna ; lateral pinnee 6-8 foliolate, terminal 16-20 folio- 
late; racemes scarcely as long as the leaves, few-flowered ; flowers 
drooping ; bracts minute. DC. Prod. 2, p. 48 5- Harv. Thes. t.2. Burch. 
Cat. 2345. 
Has. 8. Africa, Burchell. Zooloo Country, Miss Owen. (Herb. D. 
a penta rare. high, herbaceous, “olor heal as are Km the pedun- 
__ ¢les and petioles. ‘Leaves 4-5 inches long ; the lateral pinne uncial, the terminal 3 
inches long. Leaflets oval, thickly spri with gland-dots. Racemes s—6-flow- 
ered ; pedicels 2-3 lines long, recurved. Flowers purple, small. Legume oblong, 
2. M. Sandersoni (Harv.); leaves 4—5-jugate, the terminal pinna not 
longer than the rest ; lateral pinne 14-16 foliolate 3 Tacemes longer than 
the leaves, many-flowered ; flowers erecto-patent; bracts lanceolate, de- 
flexed. = Sage ise 
Has. Transvaal, J. Sanderson, Esq. (Herb. Hk.) 
Taller and more robust than MV. Burchellii, much more setose, with longer racemes 
and very different leaves, the black dots smaller and less abundant. Stem 8-10 
inches high, herbaceous, thickly setose, as well as the peduncles and petioles. Leaf- 
lets margined with small gland-dots, very few or none on the disk. Racemes 6-8 
inches long, erect, 18-20-flowered ; pedicels 6 lines long, straight and spreading. 
Ovary glabrescent, Legume not seen: 
_____-LXXI. PELTOPHORUM, Vog. 
_ Calya-tube turbinate ; limb 5-parted, deciduous, the segments oblong, 
reflexe tals 5, obovate, curled at the edge, clawed. Stamens 10, 
Inserted with the petals, free ; filaments equalling the petals, hairy at 
the base, inflexed in estivation ; anthers versatile, slitting longitudi- 
nally ; ovary sessile, compressed, few-ovuled ; Style filiform; stigma 
peltate, depressed in the centre. Legume broadly-oblong, much com- 
a AB yg 2 acute ox each end. 1-2-seeded ; seeds oblong, with a 
2 al and straight embryo. Vogel, in Linnea, vol. 11, p. 
400, apa ae ae (Ree 
Pp ae: jello: spt od by Vit span _ Racemes axillary and terminal ; 
ea Dy Yogel fro ich it differs by the 
peltate stigma. Name from ‘meAr pope rin yeah ee 
P. africanum (Sond. in Linn, Vo 23, p. 35) ; unarmed: twigs, in- 
orescence, and ealyx thinly rusty-pubescent eave abruptly bipin- 
‘Rate, pinnee 7-8 pair, 14-20-jugates pinnules linearoblongy apiculete 
