Lidigofera.} xlvii. § papilionace^: (baker). 101 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of the province of Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 



96. I. sutherlandioid.es, Wclw. mss. An undershrub, with erect, 

 woody stems with several rigidly erecto-patent branches, densely 

 clothed with short brownish-grey pubescence. Stipules 2-3 lines, seta- 

 ceous, persistent. Petioles 3-4 lines. Leaves 2-2J in. long ; leaf- 

 lets 13-19, subcoriaceous, 5-6 lines long, grey and finely silky above, 

 densely white-silky beneath with the midrib brownish, the side ones 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, usually opposite, the end one 

 stalked, oblanceolate, blunt, both with a conspicuous mucro. Flowers 

 in moderately dense short-stalked racemes 15-18 lines long, an inch 

 broad. Pedicels J-f line, densely grey-silky. Calyx \ line, densely 

 grey-silky, teeth deltoid, shorter than the tube. Corolla 4-5 lines 

 long, dark purple, the standard glabrous externally. Pods straight, 

 dark purple, 18-21 lines long, 2 lines broad, glabrous, 12-15-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 



97. I. fulgens, Baker. A copiously branched shrub, with firm, 

 flexuose branches, clothed upwards with short spreading brown pubes- 

 cence. Stipules half an inch long, setaceous, ciliated. Petioles |-f in. 

 long, firm, erecto-patent. Leaves 5-6 in. long, with about 10 pairs of 

 stalked oblong or slightly obovate leaflets, an inch or rather more long, 

 not half as broad, distinctly mucronate, green, not at all glaucous, both 

 sides slightly pubescent. Racemes lax, short-stalked, finally nearly as 

 long as the leaves. Pedicel equalling the calyx, which is a line deep, 

 thinly silky, campanulate, the teeth lanceolate, reaching halfway down. 

 Corolla bright red, | in. long, the standard spathulate, 2 lines broad. 

 Pod linear-mucronate, 1\ in. long, \ in. thick, glabrous, slightly 

 torulose, 10-12-seeded. 



Mozamb. Distr. Banks of the Bovuma, Dr. Kirk! 



This has much the largest and most showy flowers of all the Tropical African species. 



98. I. Hochstetteri, Baker. Stems herbaceous, a foot or more long, 

 copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branchlets slender, 

 angular, moderately silvery. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles 

 J-J in. long. Leaflets in 1-3 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, J-l in. long, the 

 lateral ones distant, slightly stalked, the apex rounded and mucronate, 

 both sides glaucous, and permanently thinly coated with strong ad- 

 pressed silvery hairs. Flowers in" close oblong racemes of about 12 

 each, not above \ in. long till the fruit is produced, on peduncles \ in. 

 or less long. Calyx silvery, \ in. deep, cut down nearly to the base, 

 the teeth setaceous, the lowest the longest. Corolla pink, about equal- 

 ling the calyx. Pods deflexed and then again slightly recurved, linear- 

 mucronate, h-\ in. long, \ in. broad, 6-8-seeded. — /. ornithopodioides, 

 Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Arab. No. 769. Jaub. et Spach, Illust. 

 PI. Or. t. 480, non Schum. et Thonn. nee Cham, et Schlecht 



Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy ! Petherick ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Roth ! 

 Extends through Arabia to Scinde. 



