Tcpkrosia.] xlvii. § papilionace^e (baker). 117 



tioles 3-6 lines. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate with fewer simple ones 

 intermixed, the end one oblong-, reaching- 2J-3 in. long, 12-16 lines 

 broad, blunt, sometimes emargiriate, membranous, glabrous above, 

 finely grey-downy below, base rounded. Racemes terminal, sessile or 

 reaching- down to the second leaf, 4-6 in. long, subdense upwards. 

 Bracts ±-J in. long-, setaceous. Pedicels |-1J lines, erecto-patent. 

 Calyx | in. long, densely clothed with nearly black spreading silky 

 hairs j teeth lanceolate cuspidate, exceeding the tube. Ovary linear, 

 densely velvety, multiovulate. Style glabrous, flattened upwards, peni- 

 cillate at the point. Ripe pod not seen. 

 Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Angola, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch t 



33. T. pedicellata, Baker. Stems annual, a foot or more long, 

 diffusely branched, the branches slender, thickly clothed with fine 

 spreading brownish silky hairs. Stipules lanceolate acuminate, \ in. 

 lono-. Petioles often an inch long, the rachis 1-1 J in. long, slender ; 

 leaflets in 2-4 pairs, oblanceolate, f-1 in. long, 2-3 lines broad, the 

 apex rounded and mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly 

 clothed with loose silvery silky hairs. Flowers 1-3 in the axils of the 

 leaves on slender pedicels 2-3 lines long. Calyx 2-3 lines deep, 

 thinly silky; the teeth subequal, linear-subulate, reaching more than 

 halfway down. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx ; the stan- 

 dard 2 lines broad. Pod 1-1 J in. long, 2 J lines broad, slightly re- 

 curved, glabrous, 6-9- seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Confluence of the Quorra and Tschadda, Barter ! 



34. T. vicioides, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 188. A herbaceous perennial 

 with stems 1 J— 2 ft. long, and diffusely branched, clothed with fine 

 spreading grey pubescence. Stipules 2 lines long, linear, firm, falcate. 

 Leaves subsessile, the villous rachis 1^ in. long ; leaflets in 3-4 pairs, 

 obovate-oblong, f — | in. long, three-quarters or the lower ones quite as 

 broad as long ; apex deeply emarginate ; both surfaces finely adpressed- 

 grey-silky. Flowers all axillary, solitary or two together. Pedicel 

 equalling the calyx, which is 2 lines deep, very silky ; the ceeth lan- 

 ceolate-subulate, reaching halfway down. Corolla purplish, twice as 

 long as the calyx ; the standard \ in. broad. Pod an inch long, rather 

 over \ in. broad, slightly recurved, finely grey-downy, 8-9-seeded. 



Nile Land. Nubia, Ehrenberg, Kotschy ! Abyssinia, Schimper, Quartin- Dillon. 



35. T. subtriflora, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 2312. A her- 

 baceous perennial, 1-1 \ ft. high, dichotomously branched from the 

 base, the branches firm, densely clothed with short spreading grey-silky 

 hairs. Stipules setaceous, \ in. long. Petioles J-f in. long, rachis 

 f-1 in. ; the leaflets in two or three pairs, narrowly oblanceolate, ter- 

 minal One 1-1J in. long, \ in. broad, the others smaller, upper surface 

 glabrous, lower densely adpressed grey-silky. Flowers 1-3 in the 

 axils of the leaves, nearly sessile ; the calyx silky, \ in. deep j the 

 teeth setaceous, equalling the tube. Corolla purple, half as long again 



