184 xlvii. § papilionace^: (baker). [Erythrina. 



the sides rounded, faintly repand ; petiolule 1 J- 2 in. long. Flowers 

 in dense racemes 4—5 in. long, equalling* the woody downy peduncles. 

 Bracts lanceolate deciduous. Pedicels very short, tomentose. Brac- 

 teoles setaceous, 2-3 lines. Calyx 12-15 lines, thinly pubescent, slit 

 more than halfway down on the lower side, the upper lip cut into live 

 linear twisted teeth 3-4 lines long. Standard scarlet, 18-21 lines. 

 Pod 2-3-seeded, densely clothed with close brown velvety tomentum 

 when young, not seen mature. 

 Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



8. E. tomentosa, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 63 (name only). A 

 tree 10-20 ft. high with woody spinose branches densely clothed with 

 tine grey tomentum. Stipules lanceolate, J— | in. long. Petioles 4—6 

 in. long, densely grey-tomentose, spinose ; leaflets roundish or broad- 

 ovate, thickly subcoriaceous ; terminal one 4-6 in. each way, sometimes 

 broader than deep, blunt, the base broadly rounded or cordate ; petio- 

 lule 2-3 in. long; both sides matted with grey tomentum. Flowers in 

 dense racemes 2-4 in. long on woody peduncles 6-8 in. long. Pedicels 

 2—3 lines long, very woolly. Calyx 1— 1| in. long, tomentose on the 

 back, slit down nearly to the base on the underside, cut more than a 

 third down on the upper side, into five whip-like lacinioe. Corolla 

 bright scarlet, the standard as long or rather longer than the calyx, 

 half an inch broad, wings | in. long, keel shorter. Pod 4-5 in. long, 

 subligneous, consisting of about 6 close 1-seeded globes 7-8 lines thick, 

 the base distinctly- stalked, the faces velvety, the upper suture finally 

 splitting. — Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 531 ; A. Rich. 

 Fl. Abyss, i. 213. E. pelligera, Fenzl, in Flora, 1844, 312. E. latissimi, 

 E. Meyer, Comm. 151; Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 238. E. Sandersoni, Harv. Thes. 

 t. 61—2. Chirocalyx mollissima, Meissn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 98. 



Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy ! Petherick ! Binder. Abyssinia, Schimper I Quartin- 

 Dillon and Petit. Karague, JSpeJce and Grant ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk, Dr. Metier! 



Also a plant of Natal. 



The plant figured in fruit by A. Richard, under the name of E. abyssinica, Lam., 

 and in flower in Plantm Tinneance, tab. 3, under the, name of Chirocalyx abyssinicus, 

 does not appear to differ from this in anything except its less tomentose leaves. If 

 Lamarck's name be rightly applied, of course it will have to take precedence. 



57. MUCUNA, Adans. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 533. 



Upper teeth connate, the lowest longest. Standard folded together, 

 shorter than the wings, with inflexed auricles at the base ; wings ob- 

 long ob ovate, incurved, often adhering to the keel ; keel equalling or 

 longer than the wings, incurved at the apex, acute or rostrate. Upper 

 stamen free, the rest connate ; anthers alternately longer and fixed at 

 the base, and shorter, versatile, often bearded. Ovary sessile, villous, 

 pauciovulate ; style filiform, beardless; stigma small, terminal. Pod 

 thick, linear or ovate-oblong, often clothed with stinging hairs, two- 

 valved, septate between the seeds, the valves coriaceous, plane or 



