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5. M. gracilis, Welw. mss. A slender shrub 3-5 or rarely 8-10 

 ft. high, with glabrous branches. Petioles slender, an inch long. Leaves 

 6-8 in. long, with 15-21 obovate-oblong* blunt deflexed glabrous leaf- 

 lets, the terminal one 1J-2 in. long by half as broad, opaque above, 

 glaucescent below. Petiolules a line long with minute deciduous 

 stipellse. Flowers in lax or moderately dense short-stalked racemes 

 about as long as the leaves, the lower ones in pairs or fascicles. Pe- 

 dicels 1^—2 lines long, finely silky. Calyx 1J-2 lines deep, nearly gla- 

 brous, obliquely campanulate, the teeth almost obsolete. Corolla deep 

 rose-violet, f in. deep, the standard orbicular, f in. broad, finely argen- 

 teous on the back, the wings and much incurved keel nearly as long. 

 Upper stamen free to the base. Pod linear-oblong, sessile, ligneous, 

 flat, quite glabrous, 3-4 in. long, J in. broad, 3-5-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Angola ; Ambaca, and Golungo Alto, Dr. Wtlwitsch! 



6. M. versicolor, Welw. mss. An erect shrub, 5-10 ft. high, with 

 glabrous branches. Petioles 1J-2 in. long. Leaves 8-12 in. long, 

 with 11—13 glabrous subcoriaceous obovate or oblong acuminate or 

 cuspidate leaflets like the leaves of Fagus sylvatica in texture, upper 

 ones 4-5 in. long, 1J-2 in. broad, the main veins beneath prominent. 

 Petiolules 2J— 3 lines long, stipellate. Flowers in ample stalked ter- 

 minal panicles sometimes a foot long with racemose or subcapitate 

 branches glabrous downwards. . Pedicels 2-3 lines long. Calyx broadly 

 campanulate, 2-J— 3 lines deep, densely brown-silky, the deltoid teetn 

 reaching a quarter down. Corolla 9-12 lines long, the orbicular 

 emarginate reflexed standard J— § in. broad, bright yellow within, 

 densely brown-silky on the back ; the violet-purple wings and keel 

 nearly as long. Upper stamen free. Pod ligneous, permanently brown- 

 silky, linear-oblong, sessile, 4 in. long, 16-18 lines broad, decurved, 

 2-3-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitschl 



7. M. urophylla, Welw. mss. A wide-climbing shrub with a trunk 

 3-4 in. thick, the young branches densely clothed with fine ferruginous 

 pubescence. Petioles 3-6 in. long. Leaves 4-12 in. long, with 3-9 

 obovate-oblong cuspidate opaque subcoriaceous leaflets, glabrous above, 

 at first finely brown-downy on the veins below, the terminal one 2—8 

 in. long, 1-5 in. broad ; petiolules 2-4 lines long, without stipellae. 

 Flowers in rigid subdense axillary stalked racemes or panicles 1-2 

 times as long as the leaves, usually fascicled. Pedicels 1|— 2 lines 

 long, finely downy. Calyx campanulate, 1 A— 2 lines deep, finely brown- 

 silky, the teeth very short, deltoid. Corolla rose-violet, \ in. deep ; 

 standard oblong, 4 lines broad, at first thinly argenteous on the back ; 

 wings and keel scarcely shorter. Upper stamen free from the base. 

 Ovary linear, sessile, silky, multiovulate. Pod (only seen immature) 

 linear-oblong, deflexed, j in. broad, subligneous, densely brown- velvety. 



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