jE$chynomen&.\ xlvii. § papilionace;e (baker). 151 



17. JE. dimidiata, Welw. mss. A copiously branched ascending 

 undershrub 2-3 ft. high, the woody twigs densely clothed with glands 

 and spreading grey fragile bristles. Stipules membranous, linear, 2-3 

 lines. Petioles 3-9 lines ; rachis 2-4 in., densely setose and viscous ; 

 leaflets 25-50-jugate, 3-4 lines long, 1-1J- lines broad, mucronate, 

 rigidly subcoriaceous, very glaucous especially beneath, the costa 

 parallel with and contiguous to the upper edge. Flowers in copious 

 terminal panicles reaching a foot long, the ascending laxly-flowered 

 branches densely setose, the lower ones from, the axils of leaves. Pe- 

 dicels 1-2 lines, erecto-patent. Calyx 4-5 lines, subglabrous, with' a 

 single'large clasping bracteole at the base ; lips blunt oblong. Corolla 

 bright yellow, moderately persistent, half as long again as the calyx. 

 Articulations 1, rarely 2, hemispherical, 7-8 lines long, 5-6 lines broad, 

 quite smooth on the faces. Pedicels 3—4 lines. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch I 



18. JE. siifolia, Welw. mss, A rigidly erect sparingly branched 

 undershrub, 3-5 ft. high, the stems glabrescent when mature, furnished 

 when young with copious short spreading bristles. Stipules lanceolate, 

 coriaceous, caducous, 6-12 lines long. Petioles 9-12 lines long; 

 rachis 5—7 in., both finely setose ; leaflets 30— 35-jugate, oblong, blunt, 

 mucronate, 6-9 lines long, rigidly coriaceous, prominently veined, the 

 midrib central. Flowers in copious terminal panicles reaching a foot 

 long; branches slender, erecto-patent, finely setose, the lower ones 

 compound, subtended by reduced leaves with ovate leaflets 1-1 \ lines 

 long. Pedicels 1-2 lines, erecto-patent. Calyx glabrous, 2J lines, 

 clasped when young by an ovate caducous bracteole 1 line long ; lips 

 blunt. Corolla bright yellow, veined with purple, 3-3J lines. Articu- 

 lations solitary, hemispherical, 4 lines long, glabrous on the faces 

 Pedicel 5—6 lines long. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, 3800 ft., in palm groves, Dr. Welwitsch I 



A plant collected by Afzelius at Sierra Leone, of which there are several specimens 

 in his own herbarium, labelled by him Oyclocarpa stellaris, and one at the British 

 Museum, will no doubt form a new genus near jEschynomene, but at present the corolla 

 and calyx are unknown. It is a small erect branched herb under six inches high, with 

 slender naked stems, lanceolate scariose stipules like those of Smithia sensitiva with a 

 large linear spur, nearly sessile leaves with 1-3 pairs of oblanceolate glabrous leaflets, 

 2-4 lines long, 1-1^ lines broad, without stipellse, flowers solitary or two together on 

 pedicels under a line long from the axils of the leaves, and a flattened circinate glabrous 

 pod about a line broad, with rather more than a single spiral and 8 or 9 subdeltoid arti- 

 culations not at all indented at the septa. 



38. SMITHIA, Ait. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant, i. 516. 



Calyx deeply bilabiate, the upper lip entire or emarginate, the lower 

 three -toothed. Standard suborbicular, shortly unguiculate; wings 

 obliquely oblong or rarely obovate ; keel incurved, obtuse or subros- 

 trate. Stamens in a sheath which is slit above and afterwards below ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, bi- or multiovulate ; style 



