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silky ; standard obovate-cuneate ; wings oblanceolate. Stamens f in. 

 long ; alternate filaments flattened towards the tip. Pod linear, 

 brown-sericeous, 3-4 in. long, ^ in. broad, 10-12-seeded. — Central 

 Madagascar, Baron 47 ! The species already known all have then- 

 flowers in dense axillary racemes. Three species are ah-eady 

 known in Madagascar; Dalbergia striata, Bojer Hort. Maur. Ill, is 

 probably the same as the Indian and African M. suherosa, Benth. ; D. 

 Telfairii, Bojer loc, cit., with about nine obovate-oblong glabrescent 

 strongly- veined leaflets, flowers in dense racemes just like those of 

 suherosa, and a flat glabrescent pod ^ ft. long ; and a third un- 

 named species with 7-11 thick silky oblanceolate leaflets with 

 reflexed edges, shorter racemes, and a few- seeded thick smaller 

 villose earlier-dehiscent pod. Dr. Parker states that M. Telfairii 

 is used as a fish-poison, under the native name of Famamo or 

 Fanomamo. 



Desmodium harhatum, Benth., var. emirnense, Baker. — Differs 

 from the typical form of this common American species, which Dr. 

 Hildebrand has lately gathered in the island of Nossibe, by its 

 leaves being, instead of trifoliolate, reduced to a single oblong or 

 obovate-oblong leaflet 1-|— 2 in. long. Dr. Parker sends this from 

 Central Madagascar, where it was gathered long ago by Dr. Lyall, 

 and another dwarf variety (var. niunmularifolium) of the same 

 species, with a single orbicular leaflet \-^ in. diameter. Native 

 name, Tsilavomlrivotra (not levelled by the wind). 



Smithia [Kotschija) chamcEcrista, Benth. in Plant. Junghuhn. 

 211. — Central Madagascar, in the forest, a shrub 8-10 feet high, 

 Dr. Parker ! Native name, Sorindrana. 



Smithia strigosa, Benth. loc. cit. — Central Madagascar, on 

 exposed hillsides, Dr. Parker! 



ViGNA ANGiVENSis, n. sp. — Lotus angivcnsis and Tephrosia hetero- 

 jjJiylla, Bojer MS. — A trailing herb, with a fusiform perennial 

 root and slender terete stems, densely clothed with fine spreading 

 brown hairs. Petiole ^-2^ in. long; stipules minute, lanceolate, 

 persistent ; leaflets 3, ovate, oblong, or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 

 -|— 1 in. long, entire, thinly pilose. Flowers solitary on long 

 pedicels in the axils of the leaves ; bracts and bracteoles small, 

 lanceolate. Calyx thinly pilose, ^ in. long; teeth lanceolate, as 

 long as the campanulate tube. Corolla reddish, more than twice 

 as long as the calyx, glabrous ; standard orbicular, ^ in. diam. 

 Pod linear, brown, pilose, rather recurved, 1|— 2 in. long, 10-15- 

 seeded. — Central Madagascar, Dr. Parker! One of the species 

 called Avokomhihg . The root has a sweet starchy taste, and is dug 

 up and eaten by the boys that herd the cattle. 



ViGNA Parke Ri, n. sp. — A climbing herb, with very slender 

 finely pilose stems. Petiole about as long as the leaf; stipules 

 lanceolate-sagittate, minute, persistent; leaflets 3, oblong, ob- 

 scurely pilose, subacute, entire, f-l'in. long, moderately firm in 

 texture, green on both surfaces. Flowers two together in long 

 slender pilose peduncles in the axils of the leaves ; pedicels very 

 short; bracts minute, Imear. Calyx pilose, I in. long; teeth lan- 

 ceolate or deltoid, as long as the tube. Corolla reddish, glabrous, 



