L58 
elongati, breviter pubescentes. Alabasira minuta, pubescentia. 
Folia 13-15 cm. longa; rhachis pubescens, infra foliola dilatatus, 
sulcatus; foliola 5-juga, valde inaequalia, inferiora elliptico- 
oblonga, 2 cm. longa, 1 cm. lata, tenuiter papyracea, superiora 
late-oblique lanceolata, ad apicem obtusum breviter angustata, 
unilateraliter anguste rotundata, 7-5 cm. longa, 2-5 em. lata, 
utrinque costa media puberula excepta glabra; nervi laterales 
numerosi, prominuli, basales ascendentes; stipulae caducae; 
stipelae 0. Inflorescentia spiciformis, circiter 5 cm. longa, 3 cm. 
lata; axis fere glaber; bracteae caducae; pedicelli graciles, 
circiter 7 mm. longi, glabri. Bracteolae obovato- -oblongae, glabrae, 
striatae, circiter 7mm. longae et 3mm. latae. Sepala minuta, 
lineari-lanceolata.  Ovarium breviter stipitatum, ferrugineo- 
hirsutum. 
Brteran Congo: Forest of the Sankuru, fl. Aug. 1902, 
Laja 51! 
41. Brachystegia venosa Hutch. et. B. Davy, sp. nov 
Arbor circiter 9 m. alta; ramuli annotini glabrescentes, 
circiter 3 mm. crassi, striati, hornotini molliter pubescentes. 
Alabasira late conica, 0-5-1-3 cm. longa, puberula, squamis 
ciliolatis. Folia circiter 1 cm. longa; rhachis molliter pubescens, 
sulcatus, infra foliola late expansus; foliola valde discontigua, 
3—4-juga, oblique oblongo-lanceolata, apicem versus leviter 
angustata, emarginata, base inaequaliter rotundata, inferiora 
2-2-5 em. longa, 1-1-3 cm. lata, superiora 4-6-5 em. longa et 
1-5-1-7 cm. lata, chartacea, conspicue venosa, costa media 
puberula excepta glabra; nervi laterales utrinsecus circiter 6, 
supra conspicui, basales ascendentes; stipulae deciduae ; stipelae 
Oo 
axis puberulus; pedicelli graciles, circiter 3 mm. Peto puberuli. 
Bracteolae elliptico-obovatae, 6 mm. longae, 3:5. . latae, 
fere glabrae. Sepala 2, lanceolata, ciliolata, 1-1-5 mm. Jonge 
vel 0. Ovarium stipitatum, hirsutum. Legumen. non. vis 
Uean ANDA: Stevenson Road, fl. Nov., Scott Elliot 8380! "8380 
in Herb. Mus. Brit. ! 
Ruopusta: N.W. Rhodesia; Highveld near. the Victoria 
Falls, erect tree 30 ft. high, fl. Sep. 1905, Allen 165 (type) ! 
42. B. itoliensis 7'aub. in Engl. Pfl. Ost. Afr. C: 197 (1895). 
TANGANYIKA TERRITORY: Victoria Nyanza; Itolio, fl. Nov. 
1890, Stuhlmann 925 (type) ! 
43. B. mpalensis Micheli in Compt. Rend. Soc. Bot. Belg. 36: 
73 (1897); Illustr. Fl. Cong. t. LX XXVIII 
Brteran Concd: m’Pala, Descamps 27 (type) ! m’Towa, 
fl. Aug. 1895, Descamps ! 
Ruopssta: N.W. Rhodesia; Chilanga, fl. Sep. 1909, Rogers 
8451! Broken mgr tesa: 1300 m., Rogers 8608 ! S. Rhodesia ; 
Victoria, Munro 3 
