Smithia.] xlvii. § PAPiLioNACEiE (baker). 153 



rather shorter, all scarious, ribbed, persistent and ciliated. Corolla 

 yellowish, equalling- the calyx. Pod sessile, with two glabrous roundish 

 articulations. 



Nile Land. Mininga, Spehe and Grant! 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Br. Welwitsch I 



A very distinct and interesting novelty. 



3. S. nodulosa, Baker. A bush with brittle grey nodose woody 

 branches finely grey-bristly upwards. Stipules \ in. long, lanceolate, 

 rigid, persistent. Leaves subsessile ; rachis pubescent, an inch long ; 

 leaflets in 10-12 pairs, 3 lines long-, under one line broad, rigid, 

 narrowed to the point, mucronate, nearly glabrous. Flowers in lax 

 corymbs of 3—4 each from the axils of the leaves, on densely grey- 

 pubescent peduncles, which are sometimes an inch long, without bracts 

 or bracteoles. Peduncles spreading", 2-3 lines long, densely pubescent. 

 Calyx glabrous, 4 lines deep, cut down nearly to the base, the upper 

 lobe entire, the lower slightly emarginate. Flowers yellowish, striated, 

 the keel half as long again as the calyx, the standard and wings 

 shorter, the latter 3 lines broad. Young pod longer than the corolla, 

 stalked, with three oblong articulations. Ripe pod not known. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Mount Chiradzura, Br. Mellerl 



Somewhat resembles the Madagascar 8. chamacrista, Benth., but that has bristly 



stems, more numerous leaflets, flowers only 1-2 together on densely bracteated and 



bristly peduncles and a bristly calyx. 



4. S. seschynomenoides, Welrv. mss. An erect undershrub 2 ft. 

 high with numerous slender erecto-patent branches clothed with copious 

 weak spreading glandular bristles. Stipules 1-2 lines, lanceolate, free, 

 membranous, deciduous. Petioles 4-6 lines, glandulose-pubescent ; 

 rachis 12-15 lines; leaflets 12-16-jugate, sensitive, oblanceolate, 

 unequal-sided, J— § in. long, 1-1J lines broad, not coriaceous, glabrous 

 on both faces, obscurely ciliated, the main vein near the upper edge. 

 Flowers 6-12 in moderately close-stalked racemes equalling the leaves. 

 Bracts and bracteoles similar, minute, ovate. Lower pedicels 2—3 lines. 

 Calyx 2-2J lines, membranous, finely pubescent, with five oblong 

 bluntish teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla twice the 

 calyx, yellow veined with purple ; standard \ in. broad. Pod glabrous, 

 not exceeding the calyx ; articulations 2, rarely 3. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla province, Angola, Br. Welwitsch 1 



5. S. Kotschyi, Benth. PI. Junghuhn. 211. An erect shrub with 

 thick rigid woody branches densely clothed with spreading weak yel- 

 lowish bristles. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 lines deep, persistent. 

 Leaves sessile, the rachis 1 J— 2 in. long, the leaflets in about 20 pairs, 

 linear, the lowest 4 lines long, 1 line broad, upper ones growing smaller 

 gradually, point narrowed, firm, glabrous, rachis a little bristly down- 

 wards. Flowers in dense crowded nearly sessile axillary racemes of 

 6-12 flowers each. Pedicels \ in. long with a pair of rigid persistent 

 lanceolate bracteoles just below the calyx, which is j in. long, scarious 



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