62 XLVII. § PAPILI0NACE2K (BAKER). [Lotus. 



base, spreading", grey-silky. Leaflets 3—5, short-stalked, obovate- 

 cuneate, 3-4 lines long by half as broad, conspicuously grey-silky. 

 Flowers 1-4 together on peduncles shorter than the leaflets, with a 

 short-stalked bract like a leaflet from the base of the cluster. Pedicels 

 silky, very short. Calyx 2J lines deep, teeth linear subequal, reaching 

 three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish yellow, slightly ex- 

 ceeding the calyx. Pod linear-oblong, terete, 2—3 lines long, about 

 6-seeded. 



Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, near Mussa, Kotschy ! 



Var. /3 montanus, Baker ; flower rather smaller ; branches and leaves more silky, 

 L. montanus, A. Kich. Fl. Abyss, i. 177. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quar tin- Villon! 



Perhaps not distinct from L. br achy carpus, H. and S. 



3. L. brachycarpus, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Ho. Abyss. No. 242. 

 Rootstock woody, the stems densely csespitose, 12-18 inches long, 

 spreading, wiry, glabrous or slightly silky upwards. Leaflets crowded, 

 oblanceolate J— | in. long, a third as broad, thick, fleshy, glabrous or 

 slightly silky, the stipular pair like the others. Flowers 4-6 together, 

 in copious axillary umbels with a stalked bract like a single reduced 

 leaflet at the base. Pedicels very short. Peduncles 1-3 in. long. 

 Calyx 3—4 lines long, more or less silky, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, 

 reaching two-thirds of the way down, the lowest narrower and some- 

 times snorter than the others. Corolla reddish, a third longer than the 

 calyx. Pod terete, glabrous, | in. long, 4— 6-seeded. — A. Rich. Fl. 

 Abyss, i. 177. Dorycnium Schimperi, Jaub. et Spach. Illust. t. 473. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin- Dillon ! Parkyns ! 



Abyssinian name Hamat-Jemanberri.. 



Differs from L. arabicus principally in the sbort pod. 



4. Li. arabicus, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 212. Stems herbaceous, a foot 

 or more long, copiously branched from the base, prostrate or suberect, 

 glabrous or slightly silky. Leaflets 5, all short-stalked, obovate-cuneate, 

 entire, J— J in. long by half as broad, pointed, both sides glabrous or 

 thinly silky, the stipular pair like the others. Flowers usually 2-4 to- 

 gether, rarely solitary, on axillary peduncles \—l in. long with a short- 

 stalked bract like a leaflet from the base of the cluster. Pedicels under 

 a line long, glabrous or silky. Calyx 3-4 lines deep; teeth linear, 

 subequal, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish, 

 slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod f-lj in. long, 1-1J line thick, 

 terete, glabrous, subtorulose, 10-12-seeded. — Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 

 162. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 177. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : plentiful on the banks of the Senegal, Leprieur, 

 Perrottet ! Heudelot. 



Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! Both! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Peters. 



A common Egyptian species, and extending from Greece to Beloochistan. 



5. Li. mossamedensis, Welw. mss. A copiously branched diffuse 

 annual with finely grey-silky stems under a foot long. Leaflets 5, 



