Zornm.] xlvii. § papilionacejs (baker). 159 



Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy ! Abyssinia, Salt! JSchimper! Quartin-DUlon 

 Unyoro, Speke and Grant/ 



Lower Guinea. Ambaca, Loanda, and highlands of Pungo Andongo and Golungo 

 Alto, Dr. Weluritsch! 



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



2. Z. tetraphylla, Miehx. ;■ DC. Prod. ii. 317. A diffuse perennial 

 with slender much-branched trailing" finely grey-downy stems a foot 

 or more long. Stipules lanceolate. Petioles 4-8 lines long, downy. 

 Leaflets 4, digitate, oblanceolate, 9-1*2 lines long, 2-3 lines broad' 

 subcoriaceous, subacute, with numerous distinct black dots below! 

 Eacemes, bracts, flowers and pod like those of Z. diphylla. — Harv. Fl.' 

 Cap. ii. 225. Z. capensis, Pers. D.C. I.e. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Angola, plentiful at 5500 feet, Dr. Wei- 

 witsch ! 

 A common Cape species, found also in various parts of North and South America. 



43. DESMODITTM, Desv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 Plant, i. 519. 



Calyx with a campanulate or obconical tube, the upper two teeth more 

 or less united, the other three acute and deep, often linear-setaceous. 

 Standard obovate or suborbicular ; wings adherent to the keel; keel 

 obtuse or rarely a little rostrate, straightish or incurved. Upper stamen 

 connate or free, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, bi- or 

 multiovulate ; style inflexed beardless ; stigma small, capitate. Pod 

 exserted, sessile or stipitate, compressed, with membranous or coria- 

 ceous articulations, flat or rarely subturgid, glabrous or more or less 

 hispid, usually indehiscent at maturity and separating from one another, 

 sometimes dehiscing by the inferior suture. — Herbs or shrubs with 

 pinnately trifoliolate or simple leaves. 



A large genus, principally tropical. 



A. Group 1. Eudesmodium. — Calyx obconical; keel not appendiculate. 



The only species 1. D. umbellatum. 



B. Calyx campanulate ; keel appendiculate. 



Group 2. Chalarium. — Both sutures of the pod deeply indented. 



Leaflets three 2. D. spirale. 



Leaflets one 3. D. polygonoides. 



Group 3. Heteroloxna. — Upper suture straight; lower deeply indented. Pod 

 sessile. 



Leaves simple. 



Eacemes under an inch long 4. D. dimorphum. 



Racemes several inches long. 



Leaves ovate entire 5. D. gangeticum. 



Leaves cordate-ovate repand 6. D. lasiocarpum. 



Leaves trifoliolate. 



Racemes very lax ; pedicels 4-6 lines long, ultimately 

 patent. 

 Shrubby subglabrous 7. D. as'cendens. 



