162 xlvii. § papilionace^: (baker). 



hairjr. — Hedysarum gangeticum and maculatum, Linn. Sp. PI. 1051—2. 

 H. lanceotatum, Schum. et Thonn. PL Guin. 360. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Thonnivg, Burton I Irving I Princes Island, Dr. 

 Welwitsch J 

 Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schweinfurih ! 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch I 

 Mozaxnb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Metter I 

 A common Indian and Malayan species. 



6. D. lasiocarpum, DC. Prod. ii. 328. An erect undershrub 3-6 

 ft. high, the branches robust, sulcate, scarcely woody, densely brown- 

 pubescent. Stipules 3-4 lines long, subulate from a much dilated base. 

 Petioles stout, densely pubescent, 4-6 lines long ; leaves simple, ovate, 

 4—5 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, the base much rounded, often cordate, 

 slightly repand, point bluntish, coriaceous, upper surface scabrous, 

 lower glaucous, soft with fine silky pubescence, the veins and veinlets 

 raised. Racemes dense, sessile, narrow, axillary and terminal, the 

 latter compound. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels a line long, 

 slender, erecto-patent. Calyx about the same length, densely silky, 

 the teeth lanceolate, reaching about halfway down. Corolla reddish, 

 twice as long as the calyx. Pod |-f in. long, \ in. broad, with 4 oi 5 

 articulations, the lower suture waved quite halfway down, the faces 

 densely hispid.— Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 207. D. latifolium, DC. 

 Prod. I.e. Hedysarum latifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. hi. 350. M. deltoides, 

 Poir. Enc. Suppl. v. 15. H. deltoideum, Schum. et Thonn. PL Guin. 361. 

 Anarthrosyne cordata, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 39, t. 7. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, fimeathmann! Afzeliusl Senegambia, Leprieur 

 and Perrottet ! Meudelot I Guinea proper, Vogel I Darter I and others. 

 Nile Land. Nubia, Petheriek I Knoblecher. 

 Lower Guinea. Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch I 

 Mozaxnb. Distr. Zanzibar and Mozambique, Dr. Peters I 

 A common Indian and Malayan species. 



7. D. ascendens, DC. Prod. ii. 332. An undershrub 3-4 ft. high 

 with ascending woody branches, thinly pubescent upwards. Stipules 

 lanceolate acuminate, 3-4 lines long. Petiole J in. long, firm, subgla- 

 brous; leaflets 3, obovate, f— 1 in. long, sometimes nearly as broad as 

 deep, apex rounded, often emarginate, subcoriaceous, upper surface 



labrous, lower nearly so or finely adpressed grey- silky. Racemes 

 ax, axillary and terminal, stalked, ultimately half a foot long. Bracts 

 ovate cuspidate, equalling the pedicels, which are very slender 4-6 

 lines long, spreading ultimately from the rachis at right angles. Calyx 

 | in. deep, thinlj silky, the teeth linear, reaching down nearly to the 

 base. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx. Pod J-| in. long, 

 a line broad, the joints 3—6, the lower suture waved halfway down, the 

 faces thinly hairy. — D. racemiferum, DC. Prod. I.e. D. oxalidifolium, 

 G. Don, Gard. Diet. ii. 295 ; Fl. Nigr. 295. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot I Guinea proper, Vogel I Fernando Po, 

 Mann! St. Thomas, Don! Sierra Leone, Afzeliusl 

 Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch 1 

 A common American species, not known elsewhere in the Old World. 



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