] XLVII. § PAPILIONACE^E (BAKER). 157 



Pod with two articulations, about £ in. long, both the faces and the 

 style densely silky. 



Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy 425 ! 



4. S. mucronata, Willd. ; DC. Prod. ii. 318. A copiously branched 

 spreading- undershrub with stems not more than a foot long, the branches 

 clothed with short grey pubescence. Stipules scarious, finely bristly on 

 the back, adnate as in the other species. Leaflets J-J in. long, 2 lines 

 broad, narrowed to both ends, the point mucronate, texture very rigid, 

 veins very prominent, under surface finely pubescent. Flowers in dense 

 terminal rounded heads. Bracts rather shorter than in the others, 

 finely pubescent on the back, and sometimes bristle -ciliated. Calyx 2 

 lines deep, the plumose rudimentary floret slightly longer. Pod with 

 2 articulations, about \ in. long, both the faces and style pubescent. — 

 Vogel in Linnaea, xii. 68. S. setosa, Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 217. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Michelin ! 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsoh I 



Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Forbes ! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk ! 



A common East Indies species, and also a plant of the Cape. 



5. S. Bojerij Vogel in Linncea, xii. 68. A copiously branched as- 

 cending shrub with the branches clothed both with short pubescence and 

 numerous long spreading yellowish bristles. Stipules scarious, pubescent 

 and bristly on the back, f-^ in. deep, adnate to the articulated petiole 

 except the rigid setaceous points. Leaflets oblanceolate, f — 1 in. long, 

 J-f in. broad, narrowed to a point and mucronate, rigid and promi- 

 nently veined beneath, finely pubescent, and the edge and midrib below 

 ciliated. Flowers in dense oblong terminal heads. Bracts imbricated, 

 densely bristly and pubescent. Calyx 2 lines deep, the rudimentary 

 floret about equalling it. Corolla tube \ in. long. Pod with two 

 articulations, about a quarter of an inch long, both it and the style finely 

 pubescent. 



Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Bojerf Dr. Kirk! 



Also a plant of Madagascar. The whole plant, unlike the other species, turns 

 brownish when dried. General habit of the American S. guianensis, which has no 

 barren floret. 



41. ABACHIS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 618. 



Calyx-tube filiform, the lobes membranous, the four upper ones con- 

 nate, the lowest thin, distinct. Petals and stamens inserted into the apex 

 of the tube ; standard suborbicular ; wings oblong, free ; keel incurved, 

 rostrate. Stamens all connate in a closed tube, sometimes nine only ; 

 anthers alternately longer and shorter, fixed near the base and versa- 

 tile. Ovary subsessile at the base of the tube, 2-3-ovulate, the torus 

 after the flower falls becoming an elongated, deflexed, rigid stalk 

 forcing the fruit into the ground, the apex acute, and after the style 

 falls terminated by a stigma-like callus ; style long, filiform ; stigma 

 minute, terminal. * Pod ripening beneath the soil, oblong, reticulated, 



