ArgyroloUum.] xlvii. § papilionace^: (baker). 47 



Leaflets oblong" or oblanceolate, acute, 9-15 lines long-, thinly silky 

 principally beneath. Flowers 2-3 together on sparse naked leaf- 

 opposed peduncles 12-18 lines long. Pedicels and silky linear bracts 

 a line long. Calyx 2± lines deep, bilabiate two-thirds of the way down, 

 with a few adpressed silky hairs, teeth of the upper lip linear. Corolla 

 not seen. Pod linear, 12-14 lines long, 2 lines broad, with a few ad- 

 pressed silky hairs, pointed, 7-8-seeded. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 



Agrees with the Indian A.flaccidum, J. et S., in pod and general habit. 



8. A. Petitianum, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 163. Shrub with branches 

 clothed with white-silky pubescence. Petioles short. Stipules ovate- 

 acuminate, silky, persistent. Leaflets very small obovate, apex rounded 

 mucronate, glaucous, upper surface dotted and slightly silky, the lower 

 more so. Flowers solitary, terminal or axillary. Bracts lanceolate. 

 Lower lip of the calyx with three narrow teeth, teeth of the upper lip 

 ovate-acuminate. Corolla yellow. Pod narrow, compressed, clothed 

 like the rest of the plant with long white silky hairs. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit I 

 This we have not seen. 



6. ADENOCARPUS. DC; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 481. 



Calyx with the two upper teeth free, the lower ones more or less 

 thoroughly connate. Petals shortly unguiculate ; standard oblong or 

 roundish ; wings oblong ; keel blunt in our species. Stamens united 

 in a closed tube ; anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile, multiovulate ; 

 style upcurved glabrous; stigma capitate. Pod linear, compressed, 

 densely viscous. — Silky shrubs with digitately trifoliolate leaves. 



A small genus, principally Mediterranean. 



Leaflets oblong, acute ; lower lip of calyx trifid 1. A. Mannii. 



Leaflets oblanceolate ; lower lip of calyx entire 2. A. benguellensis. 



1. A. Mannii, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vi. 8. A woody shrub 

 5-6 feet high, with rigid erecto-patent densely brown-silky branchlets. 

 Leaves dense, often fascicled. Petioles under a line, densely silky. 

 Leaflets oblong, acute, coriaceous, revolute when dry, 2-3 lines long. 

 Flowers in dense sessile terminal heads. Calyx very silky, 4 lines 

 deep, the two upper teeth lanceolate acuminate, equal to the tube, the 

 lower lip longer, with three setaceous teeth at the apex. Corolla 

 scarcely half as long again as the calyx, the standard 4 lines broad. 

 Pod 9-10 lines long, 2J lines broad, 5-6-seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, at 8-1200 feet, Mann! who also gathered 

 a variety with smaller leaflets and flowers on Clarence Peak, Fernando Po. 



2. A. benguellensis, Welw. mss. A diffuse shrub 3 to 5 feet high, 

 with long spreading finely grey-silky erecto-patent branches. Leaves 

 not so dense as in the other species, but usually fascicled. Petioles 

 1J-2 lines, finely grey-silky. Leaflets oblanceolate, 3-6 lines long, 



