230 REVISION OF THE AFRICAN SPECIES OF ERIOSEMA* 



lanceolatis, corolla fere glabra, ovario dense liirsuto 2-ovulato, 

 legnmine applanato pubescente 2-spermo. 



Hab. Not uncommon in sandy sparsely grassy places by tbe 

 banks of the rivulet Pampa, near Ambaca, Angola ; in flower and 

 fruit in October, 1856, Welwitsch, No. 4121 ! 



A dwarf herb, 3-6 in. high, perennial ; stems decumbent, 

 ascending or suberect, tough, at times a little woody, tawny, softly 

 and shortly pubescent, branched. Leaves tvifoliolate ; common 

 petiole ^-f in. long, pubescent; leaflets elliptical, rounded at both 

 ends or slightly excavated at the base, often mucronulate at the tip, 

 •|-1^ in. long, ^-f in. wide, puberulous, the terminal leaflet rather 

 larger than the lateral ones ; terminal petiolules ^-^ in. long, lateral 

 ones very short. Htipules lanceolate, parallel-nerved, pubescent, 

 i-i in. long. Inflorescence axillary, about 6-flowered, rather dense; 

 peduncle pubescent, f-l^ in. long. Flowers f in. long, patent- 

 nodding, of a deep yellow colour ; pedicels short. Calyx pubescent 

 outside, glabrous inside, obliquely campanulate, 5-cleft ; lobes 

 lanceolate or somewhat subulate. Corolla nearly glabrous. Ovary 

 densely hairy ; ovules 2. Fruit compressed, J in. long, f in. broad, 

 pubescent ; seeds 2, ^ in. long, j^y in. broad. 



Allied to Eriosema procumbms Benth. [Cytisus procumbensBo]er), 

 from Madagascar. 



H. Caulis volubilis dense griseo-pubescens. Folia ternato- 

 pinnatifida. Flores 4-8 in racemum capitatum et longe peduncu- 

 latum dispositi. Petala 3-4 lin. longa. 



81. E. RHYNCHosioiDES Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 94. 

 Hab. Near Lake Tanganyika, Cameron ! 



This plant has the habit of a lihynclwsia, but the seeds are 

 attached at the extremity of the hilum. 



I. Caules (ssepe herbacei) prostrati vel adscendeutes rarius 

 erecti. Folia simplicia vel trifoliolata. fKadices tubera napi- 

 formia vel fusiformia producentes. Inflorescentia varia. Flores 

 parvi vel parviusculi. 



* Folia simplicia. 



32. E. coRDiFOLiuM Hochst. ex Richard, Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 227 ; 

 Baker, I.e. 224; Engler, Uoehgebirysfiora, 272. 



Hab. Abyssinia, -Am ba Sea, .SW/Z/^/'cr (1862), No. 451 ! Dscher- 

 ladscheranne, HchUnper, iii. No. 1601. Gafta, ^ichimper, ii. No. 

 1220. Dschanda, in Amhara, Steiidner, No. 132. 



Tigre name, "Ras Golla." 



The stem is herbaceous and flexuous. Leaves simple ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate. The tuber is edible. 



E. conlifolinm Benth. in Limuea, xxii. 521, from Brazil, was 

 published two years later than the above ; it is apparently the same 

 as E. Benthannanum Mart. 



t I have placed E. psilophleharum Welw. ih this group on account of its 

 evident affinity with E. tuberosum, but our specimens do not show whether the 

 root bears filipendulous tubers or noti 



