Cnesiis.] xi,vi. connakace.e (bakkr). 



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A small genus, belonging to tropical Africa and the Malay isles, one Bpecie* Cape. 

 Leaflets 4-13 pairs. 



Petals exceeding the calyx 



Rachis of leaves densely pubescent .... 1 ^; ^^ufa 



Rachis of .leaves glabrous .; ^ cormcuIaU 



retals shorter than the calyx. 



Leaflets in 12-15 pairs. •' ^ 



Leaflets blunt. Calyx 2J-3 lines deep .... \ c maerautha 



Leaflets acute. Calyx 1 line deep .... h. C. oblonnxUui 



LeafleU 1-2 pairs n. C. raccmo»a 



1. C. grisea, ^a/:e;-. A shrub with terete glabrous brnnches. Lt-avcs I 

 ft. long, the petiole about 2 in., clothed with firm, spreading, grey pube«. 

 cence; leaflets 6 pairs and a terminal one, oblong, the upper oiu-s '3-4 in, 

 long by just half as broad, cuspidate, the base cordate, the lateral ones quite 

 sessile, not quite opposite; texture subcoriaceous, upper surface glabrous unless 

 on the midrib, lower surface with a few scattered, spreading, tinn, grey hnirs. 

 FloAvers in fascicled racemes from the main branches, scarcely more than I 

 in. long before the flowers expand, the latter ovoid, sessile, densely grey-pu- 

 bescent, close together and subtended each by a linear bract, which equal* 

 the flower. Mature flowers with a pedicel shorter than the calyx, which is 

 i in. deep, the divisions lanceolate and finally revolute. Petals twice as long 

 as the calyx, ligulate. Flowers hermaphrodite ; the stamens united ut tin- 

 base, the longer ones falling considerably short of the petals. Carpels 5, 

 sessile, densely grey-pubescent. Pod not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Thomson ! 



Inflorescence like that of the Mauritian C. glabra and po/t/phy //a. It recedes from the 

 other species in the direction of Manotes by its stamens joined below and i)ct«ls excredinfc 

 the c^lyx. 



2. C. comiculata. Lam. Diet. iii. 23. An erect or climbing shrub 

 with terete, woody, glabrous branches. Fully developed leaves 5-6 in. long, 

 the petiole about 2 in. ; leaflets in 4-5 pairs, oblong, 2-2^ in. long by about 

 half as broad, subacute, the base broadly rounded or cordate, the lateral ones 

 sessile, subopposite, the lower pairs ovate ; texture coriaceous, both sides quite 

 glabrous. Flowers in fascicled axillary racemes 2-3 in. long, the branches 

 thinly grey-pubescent. Calyx subsessile, with 2-3 small, pubescent, linear 

 bracts at the base 2 lines long, the divisions ligulate, slightly pulM'sc«*nt on 

 the back. Corolla when fully expanded slightly exceeding the calyx {i\ 

 lines deep), the petals also ligulate. Pods 1-5, sessile, oblong-cylindrical, 

 li-li i"- ^o"oj narrowed gradually upwards and curved outwards, densely 

 clothed with spreading, bristly, ferruginous hairs 1 line to \ in. long. — DC. 

 Prod. ii. 87 ; Planch, in Linnaea, xxiii. 440. Spondiodes prurims, Smftath- 

 mann, and Agelaa pruriem, Soland. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Upper Guinea. Seneganibia, Reudelot ; Sierra Leone, Smeathmamn ! Gabooo 

 country, On fan du Bellay,fide Baillon. 



Iiower Guinea. Congo, Smith ! Burton ! 



3. C. ferruginea, DC. Prod. ii. 87. A shrub, 8-12 H. high, the 



