168 xlvii. § papilionacejs (baker). [Pseudarthria. 



Mozamb. Diatr. Mozambique, Peters ! 



Less woody than P. Hookeri, and the unopened racemes not so Bilky. 



3. P. macrophylla, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub 3-4 ft. high 

 with stout sulcate densely grey-downy branches. Stipules lanceolate, 

 3-4 lines. Petioles 1-2 in. ; leaflets 3, membranous, dull green, 

 scabrous above, pale green and finely persistently grey-downy beneath, 

 the central one obovate, reaching 6—7 in. long, bluntish or subacute, 

 obscurely repand, rounded at the base ; side ones smaller, short- stalked, 

 unequal-sided. Flowers in dense terminal panicles reaching down 

 amongst the leaves with crowded racemose branches. Pedicels 1—2 

 lines, densely grey-downy. Bracts linear, very downy, 2 lines. Calyx 

 | in., the lanceolate teeth reaching more than halt down. Corolla 

 purplish, twice the calyx. Pod linear, straight, brown, finely downy, 

 6-8 lines long, 2-2J lines broad, 5-6-seeded, not at all torulose, with 

 a pedicel shorter than the calyx. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



4. P. Hookeri, Wight et Am. Prod. Ft. Ind. 209. An erect undershrub 

 3-4 ft. high, with stout sulcate densely grey-downy stems. Stipules 

 lanceolate, 3-4 lines, downy on the back, deciduous. Petioles 6—15 lines, 

 downy ; leaflets 3, the terminal obovate, 4-6 in. long, bluntish, obscurely 

 repand, on a petiolule 6-15 lines long, lateral ones much smaller, 

 shortly stalked, texture subcoriaceous, upper surface dull green glabres- 

 cent, lower persistently grey-canescent all over. Flowers in copious ter- 

 minal panicles reaching down amongst the leaves, the branches densely 

 racemose. Pedicels 1-2 lines, densely downy. Bracteoles linear, 1J-2 

 lines, very downy. Calyx ^ in., very downy, the setaceous teeth reach- 

 ing more than halfway down. Corolla bright red, more than twice the 

 calyx. Pod linear, brown, finely downy, 8-12 lines long, J in. broad, 

 6-10-seeded, slightly torulose, with a pedicel shorter than the calyx.— 

 Anurthrosyne robusta, E. Meyer, Comm. 124 ; Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 229. 

 A. densiflora, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 41. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Karague, and abundant in Unyoro forests, 

 Speke and Grant ! 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo and Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Island of Zanzibar, Bojer! 

 Also a plant of Natal. 



45. URARIA, Desv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 521. 



Calyx-teeth lanceolate acuminate, spreading, the two upper ones, 

 which by the resupination of the flower become the lowest, the shortest. 

 Standard obovate or orbicular, narrowed into a claw j wings falcate- 

 oblong, adhering to the keel j keel obtuse, slightly .incurved. Upper 

 stamen free, the rest connate ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or short- 

 stalked, bi- or multi-ovulate ; style filiform, inflexed upwards ; stigma 

 terminal, capitate. Pod subsessile, much constricted between the articu- 



