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Annals of the South African Museum. 



Key to Species. 



Flowers 13-2 cm. long when dried. 



Ovary glabrous L sy i vati ea. 



Ovary adpressed-pubescent 2. lasiogyne 



Flowers less than 1 cm. long when dried. 



Young branches and petioles softly tomentose. 



Leaflets glabrous above ; racemes rather laxly 6-12- 



flowered 3. villosa. 



Leaflets pubescent on both sides ; racemes densely many- 

 flowered 4. Woodii. 



Young branches and petioles glabrous or minutely ad- 

 pressed-pubescent. 

 Leaves with 3 (rarely 4) pairs of leaflets ; raceme s less 



than 12-flowered 5 . robinioides. 



Leaves with many (rarely 5 or 6) pairs of leaflets ; racemes 

 many-flowered. 

 Leaflets minutely apiculate ; racemes in a leafless 

 panicle ; flowers 8-9 mm. ; long, drying pale 



yellowish-white 6. Jiloribunda. 



Leaflets distinctly mucronate; racemes in leaf-axils ; 



flowers 6 mm. long, drying dark brownish . . 7. intrusa. 



1. C. syivatiea (E. Mey., Comm., p. 2). 



Branches terete, glabrous, sometimes minutely pubescent. Leaves 

 7-17-5 cm. long, 4-8-jugate ; leaflets -9-47 cm. long, -6-2-4 cm. broad, 

 obovate, oblong, elliptic-oblong or elliptic, rounded or retuse at the 

 apex, rounded or slightly narrowed at the base, glabrous or scantily 

 puberulous above and beneath, shortly stalked on petioles 2-4 mm. 

 long, the petiole of the terminal leaflet -7-1-1 cm. long. Inflorescence 

 racemose, axillary, as long as or shorter than the leaves, rarely 

 •exceeding the leaves. Bachis glabrous or minutely puberulous. Bracts 

 '5 mm. long, ovate, concave. Beclicels '8-1-3 cm. long, glabrous or 

 minutely puberulous, articulated just below the calyx. Floiver-buds 

 7-9 mm. long, ellipsoid, obtuse ; mature flowers 1-6-1-8 cm. long. 

 Calyx-tube 5-6 mm. long, campanulate, conical at the base, glabrous 

 or scantily puberulous ; lobes 3 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, triangular- 

 ovate, the two posterior lobes smaller, ciliated. Vexillum 15 cm. 

 long, 8 mm. broad above, obovate, reflexed, glabrous ; alae 17 cm. 

 long, 6 mm. broad, oblong, rounded at the apex, with a linear claw 

 5 mm. long; carina 15 mm. long, 55 mm. broad at the widest part, 

 plano-convex in outline, rounded at the apex, with a linear claw 6 mm. 

 long. Filaments 1*6 cm. long, linear, broadening to the base ; anthers 

 oblong. Ovary stalked, 1*3 cm. long, 1-5 mm. broad, linear, 11-ovuled, 



