Uraria.] xlvii. § papilionacejs (baker). 169 



lations, which are ovate, subcompressed, withdrawn within the calyx. 

 — Shrubby herbs. 

 A small genus spread through the Tropics of the Old World. 



1. U. picta, Desv. ; DC. Prod. ii. 324. Stems erect, terete, stout 

 but scarcely shrubby, 3-7 ft. high, densely grey-pubescent. Stipules 

 J-f in. long, ovate acuminate, scarious, persistent. Petioles 1-2 in. 

 long, the lower leaves entire, roundish or ovate, the upper ones pinnate, 

 with 2-4 pairs of leaflets, and a terminal one, which are linear, 4-8 in. 

 long, ^— \ in. broad, stipellate, subcoriaceous, often variegated, upper 

 surface subscabrous, lower finely pubescent with the veins and veinlets 

 pale and raised. Flowers in dense terminal racemes sometimes more 

 than a foot long, \—\ in. broad. Bracts ovate, acuminate, scarious, 

 ciliated, equalling the hispid pedicel, which turns completely round after 

 flowering. Calyx \ in. deep, cleft nearly to the base, densely hispid. 

 Corolla purple, half as long again as the calyx. Pod 3-6-jointed, the 

 seeds soon glabrous, bright-polished, greyish- white. — Hedysarum pictuhi, 

 Jacq. Ic. Rar. iii. t. 567. Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 364. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning, Vogel! Barter 1 Irving! Sierra 

 Leone, Afzelius! 



Nile Land. Madi, Speke and Grant I Banks of White Nile, Schweinfurth. 



Lower Guinea. Ambaca and highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch I 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk ! 



A common East Indian species, extending to North Australia. 



. 46. ALYSICARPTTS, Neck. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 Plant, i. 522. 



Calyx deeply cleft, the lobes rigid, glumaceous, the three lower ones 

 subequal, the two upper ones connate. Standard orbicular or obovate, 

 narrowed into a claw ; wings obliquely oblong, adherent to the keel ; 

 keel slightly incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen free, the rest connate. 

 Ovary sessile or short- stalked, multiovulate ; style filiform, incurved at 

 the apex, with a broadly capitate stigma. Pod subterete, equal or con- 

 stricted between the articulations, which are roundish or truncate at the 

 ends and indehiscent. — Diffuse herbs with the leaves simple in all our 

 species. 



A 6mall genus, diffused widely through the Tropics of the Old World. 

 Calyx not exceeding the first joint of the pod. 



Joints deeply constricted 1. .4. monilifer. 



Joints scarcely constricted < 2. A. vaginalis. 



Calyx equalling at least two or three joints of the pod. 



Articulations scarcely wrinkled on the face. 



Largesc leaves 15-18 lines long 3. A.ferrugineus. 



Largest leaves 6-7 lines long 4.-4. Zeyheri. 



Articulations much wrinkled on the face. 



Calyx-lobes linear, not imbricated 5. A.porrectus 



Calyx-lobes lanceolate, imbricated 6. A rugosus. 



1. A. monilifer, DC. Prod. ii. 353. Stem annual or biennial, dif- 

 fusely branched, tough, slender, slightly silky. Stipules lanceolate, 

 pale, scarious, striated, about equalling the petioles, which are 2-3 lines 



