144 xlvii. § papilionace-e: (baker). [Ormocarpum. 



f— | in. deep, becoming subscarious, veined and persistent as in Tavcr- 

 viera ; the standard f in. broad, the wing's f in. broad, the keel f in. 

 round. Pod f-1 in. long, with two articulations, downy and venose 

 but not papillose. — Acrotaphros Mbracteata, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. 

 Hb. Abyss. 1298. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 207 t. 38. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Salt, Schimper! Quartin- Dillon and Petit I 



Native name Alaudia. 



A plant gathered by Dr. Kirk in the country on the west of Lake Nyassa, with 

 the calyx of Ormocarpum, the pod of jEschynomene, and the tube of the stamens 

 slit above only, and the upper one free, is probably the type of a new genus, but 

 our single specimen is too imperfect to decide upon. The following are its further 

 characters. Branches woody, slender, clothed with short grey pubescence. Flowers 

 in fascicles of 2-5 from the twigs. Pedicels pubescent, equalling the broadly cam- 

 panulate calyx, which is 3 lines deep, the teeth reaching about halfway down, the 

 two upper ones connate. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx ; the standard 

 orbicular erect ; wings small and much shorter than' the other petals ; keel | in. deep, 

 not rostrate. Pod with a curious slender decurved pedicel more than an inch long, the 

 articulations 2-4, oblong, each 3-4 lines long, both sutures, especially the lower one, 

 wavy, so that the constrictions are not more than half as broad as the articulations, the 

 style persistent, the faces flat, and, like the pedicel, densely clothed with soft short 

 yellowish silky hairs. 



36. HERMINIERA, Guill. et Perr. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 



i. 515. 



Calyx deeply divided into two subentire lips. Standard orbicular, 

 shortly iinguiculate ; wings obliquely obovate broad about equalling 

 the standard ; keel broad, obtuse or obliquely subrostrate, its petals 

 easily separating. Stamens in two bundles of five each ; anthers uni- 

 form. Ovary stalked, multiovulate ; style filiform; stigma terminal, 

 minute. Pod broad, linear, nearly flat, spirally curved, the square 

 articulations finally separating. 



A single species, confined to Tropical Africa. 



1. H. Elaphroxylon, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 201, t. 51. An erect 

 shrub 8-20 ft. high, with spinose woody branches densely clothed with 

 weak spreading yellowish bristles. Thorns \—\ in. long, principally 

 in pairs at the base of the leaves, horny, yellowish, subconical. Stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, membranous, deciduous. Leaves nearly sessile, the 

 rachis 3-4 in. lon^, bristly and acicular; leaflets in 10-20 pairs, 

 linear-oblong, 4-6 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, the apex rounded and 

 sometimes emarginate, texture firm, colour pale glaucous-green, upper 

 surface glabrous, lower scabrous with small bristly hairs. Flowers 

 1-3, subcorymbose on short bristly peduncles. Calyx f-1 in. deep, 

 the lips ovate, unequal, the upper the shortest. Corolla bright orange, 

 1J in. deep, the standard 1^—1^ in. broad, the keel | in. deep and 

 wings I in. broad. Pod 2 in. or more long, 3-4 lines broad, 12-15- 

 articulated, once or more spiral, the sutures hardly at all waved, the 

 faces nearly flat, finely pubescent. — Walp. Rep. 5. 516. JMemone, 

 Kotschy in CEsterr. Bot. Monat. 1858, t. 1. 



