Clitoria.] xlvii. § papilionace^: (baker). 177 



1. C. Ternatea, L. ; DC. Prod. ii. 223. Wide-climbing with rather 

 shrubby slender slightly pubescent stems. Leaves imparipinnate with 

 5-7 subcoriaceous stipellate oblong leaflets 1-2 in. long. Flowers soli- 

 tary on short pedicels in the axils of the leaves. Bracteoles round, 

 3-6 lines long. Calyx 6-9 lines long, the oblong-lanceolate teeth half 

 the tube. Corolla 15-18 lines long, the standard bright blue or white 

 with an orange throat an inch or more broad. Pod linear, 3-4 in. 

 long, 8-10-seeded. — Bot. Mag. 1. 1542. Ternatea vulgaris, H.B.K. Nov. 

 Gen. vi. 415. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot ! Perrottet ! Sierra Leone, Barter ! Dr. 

 Daniell ! Niger land, Barter ! 



North Central. Mandra, E. Vogel! 



Nile Land. Nubia, Sennaar, and Kordofan, Cierikowski, Von Harnier, &c. Abys- 

 sinia, Salt! Sekimper! 



Lower Guinea. Loanda, in dry sandy ground, climbing over Euphorbias, and Go- 

 1 nngo Alto, Dr. WelwitschI 



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



Everywhere in the tropics, and very common in cultivation. 



53. SHUTERIA, Wight et Arn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 529. 



Calyx-teeth short, the two upper ones connate. Standard obovate, 

 suberect, narrowed into a claw, inappendiculate ; wings narrow, oblique, 

 adherent to the keel ; keel shorter than the wings, nearly straight, 

 obtuse. Upper stamen free, the others connate ; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary subsessile, or shortly stipitate. Style incurved, filiform, beard- 

 less ; stigma capitate, terminal. Pod linear, subobtuse, two-valved, 

 obscurely septate between the seeds. — Twining herbs. 



A small genus, the other species all East Indian. 



1. S. africana, Rook. f. in Journ. Linn. Sac. vii. 190. Stems firm, 

 slender, wide-climbing, 10-12 ft. long, densely clothed with decurved 

 brown silky hairs. Stipules lanceolate, scarious, striated, persistent, 

 3-4 lines long. Petioles densely brown-silky, l|-2 in. long; leaflets 

 three, stipellate, ovate-oblong, the terminal one 1J-2 in. long, 1-1 \ in. 

 broad, the apex rounded and mucronate; petiolule \ in. long; lateral 

 leaflets unequal-sided, papyraceous, upper surface green, thinly silky, 

 lower grey and more silky, the main veins raised and subferruginous. 

 Flowers 6—8 in lax long-stalked racemes equalling the leaves. Bracts 

 lanceolate, scarious, persistent. Pedicel 1 line long, silky. Calyx 

 obconic, 2J- lines deep, thinly silky, the upper tooth deltoid acuminate, 

 the others lanceolate or linear reaching a third down. Corolla pur- 

 plish, twice the calyx. Pod stipitate, an inch long, £ in. broad, nar- 

 rowed at the base, firm, finely silky, 3-4-seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroon mountains, at 7000 feet, Mann ! 

 Nile Land. Abyssinia, Dr. Both! 



We have what is probably a second undescribed species from Dr. Kirk, from Zan- 

 zibar, but it is in pod only. It is quite as wide-climbing as and rather more robust 



