478 Annals of the South African Museum. 



21 cm. long; limb 15 cm. long, 6 mm. broad, oblong; claw 6 mm. 

 long, linear; carina 1-6 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, almost plano-convex 

 in outline, obtuse; claw 7 mm. long, linear. Filaments 1*5 cm. long, 

 dilated at the base; anthers 1 mm. long, oblong. Ovary stalked;' 

 stalk 5 mm. long, pubescent ; ovary 7 mm. long, linear in outline,' 

 arcuate, shortly pilose; style 6 mm. long, semiterete ; stigma small'. 

 Fruit 5-6 cm. long, '8-1 cm. broad, linear, tipped with the remains 

 of the style, 4-6-seeded. 



Harv. and Soncl, Fl. Cap., ii, 267 ; C aurea, Blcr., in Fl. Trop. 

 Afr., ii, '252; Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv (1896), Append, II, 222; Virgilia 

 aurea, Lam,, Hi, t, 326 ; DC, Prodr. II. 98; A. Rich., Fl, Abyss., i, 

 234 ; Podalyria aurea, Willi,, Sp. PL, ii, 502 ; Robinia subdecandra, 

 L'Her. Stirpes, t. 75. 



South-eastern Region.— Pondoland: Between Umtata Eiver and 

 St. John's Eiver, Drege* !. Natal : Among bushes near Durban, 100- 

 150 ft., September, Wood, 102 !, 6125 !, Kranss, 325 !, Drege, Gueinzins ; 

 Umzimyati Valley. Wood, 1344* !, without precise locality, Gerrard 

 135* !. 



Transvaal.— Rimer's Creek, Barberton, 4500-4800 ft., December, 

 Galpiii, 1214!; Zoutpansberg, Potatobosch, 4750 ft., January, Burtt- 

 Davy, 1208! ; between Delagoa Bay and Pretoria, August- September, 

 Bolus, 7753 ! ; Shilovane, Junod, 580* !. 



3. G villnsa (Harv., in Harv. and S >nd., Fl. Cap., II. 268). 

 Young branches softly tomentose, becoming glabrous with age. 



Leaves 2-5-5 cm. long, 3-6-jugate ; petiole softly tomentose; leaflets 

 7-15 mm. long, 4-7 mm. broad, elliptic-oblong, rounded at both ends, 

 apiculate or minutely mucronate, glabrous above, adpressed silky 

 beneath. Racemes 3-5"5 cm. long, softly tomentose, 6-12-flowered. 

 Pedicels 4-5 mm. long. Calyx of fully expanded flowers (not of 

 buds) intruse at base, softly pubescent outside ; tube and lobes each 

 about 25-3 mm. long. Corolla glabrous ; vexillum 1 1-12 cm. long, 

 abruptly recurved at the 4 mm. long claw, with the obovate limb 

 about 5 mm. broad ; alae as long as the keel ; claw 4 mm. long ; limb 

 8 mm. long, falcate-lanceolate, auricled at the base, obtuse ; carina 

 about 14 cm. long, obtuse. Stamens and ovary not seen. 

 South Africa.— Without locality, Mand and Maire. 



4. C. Woodii (Schinz, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv (1896), 426). 



Branches whitish tomentose. Leaves 8-10 cm. long, 8-10-jugate ; 

 leaflets P3-25 cm. long, 7-12 cm. broad, oblong, rounded at the 



