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the calyx it difters somewhat in generic character, but there is no 
genus with which it can be so well associated, and in the absence of 
fruit I i from proposing a genus upon so slender a point of 
differen 
- ee Walp. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,400 ft., Lugard, 185; Mrs. Lugard, 170. 
A trailing annual ; leaves sometimes variegated ; flowers mauve 
or purple. 
Vigna Burchellii, Harv. 
Kwebe, Lug gard, 63; Botletle Valley, Lugard, 240; Kalahari 
Desert and between Lake Ngami and the River Zuga, McCabe, 12. 
Grows freely, with long trailers, but does not climb ; flowers 
purple and pin 
Dolichos gibbosus, Zh? 
Bechuanaland ; near Pie 3,000 ft., Lugard, 239. 
Rhynchosia caribaea, DC. 
Kwebe Hills, Lagard, 173; Mrs. Lugard, 207. 
Creeping on the ground ; flowers orange-yellow, with chocolate 
stripes. 
Lonchocarpus sp. ? 
Near Lake Ngami, Lugard, 2 
thes = ft. high, flowering batons the leaves appear 
cimen is leafless and without fruit, so that it cannot be 
iserls degnin ed, 
Peltophorum africanum, Sond. 
Northern Kalahari Deere 3,000 ft., Lugard, 241, 
A bushy tree 20 ft. high ; flowers yellow. 
Hoffmanseggia rubra, Engl. 
Kalahari Desert ; at the T’Klakane Pits, 2,500 ft., Lugard, 305. 
A thorny bush, growing to 5 ft. high ; flowers pink. 
The specimens are much more spiny, and have shorter racemes 
than in the typical form, but are otherwise identical. 
Cassia obovata, Collad. ints 
Kalahari Desert ; near 1” Klakane Pits, Lugard, 229; Kwebe 
Hills, 3,000 ft., Mrs. Lugar 
Creeping on the ground ; flowers yellow. 
Cassia Absus, Linv. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 137; Mrs. Lugard, 193. 
Annual, growing to 15 in. high ; flowers orange or buff. 
Bauhinia esculenta, Bur 
Kalahari Desert ; webs to te 3,000 ft., Lugard, 242. 
A ground-creeper ; ; flowers yellow 
Bauhinia macrantha, Oliv. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 144 ; Mrs. ~~? 189. 
_A bush 4-16 ft. high, flowers white, ‘pod gree 
Copaifera Mopane, Kirk. | 
Ngamiland and 'Nowhers Katsbist? Desert, 3,000 ft., Lugard, 
243 ; near T’Klakane Pits, 3,000 ft., Lugard, 296. 
