Vigna.] xlvii. § pai»ilionaceje (baker). 199 



11. V. lobatifolia, Baker. Stems firm-herbaceous, clothed with 

 short ferruginous tomentum. Stipules small, lanceolate, striated. Pe- 

 tioles about an inch long ; leaflets 3, subcoriaceous, the central one 

 hastate, 2-3 in. long", 1-1 J in. broad, the lobes rounded, reaching half- 

 way down to the midrib, apex bluntish with a mucro ; petiolule J in. 

 long ; lateral ones unequal-sided and deeply-lobed, both sides with a 

 little short down and the veinlets raised. Peduncles 2-4 in. long, 

 2-3-flowered. Calyx finely downy, -Jin. deep, the five equal linear- 

 lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla rose-red, 

 half as long again as the calyx ; standard f in. broad, veined, the keel 

 with a long recurved beak. Young pod linear, terete, densely brown- 

 silky. 



South Central. Between Koobie and N. Shaw valley in the interior near the 

 Tropic of Capricorn, Baines ! 



This has flowers like those of V. vexillata, and leaves in shape and texture like the 

 Cape V. decipiens. 



12. V. golungensis, Baker. Stems herbaceous, trailing, clothed 

 copiously with long spreading deflexed brown hairs. Stipules linear, 

 J-| in. Petioles 1-3 in. j leaflets 3,. papyraceous with raised veins 

 below, thinly clothed with adpressed grey bristly hairs on both sides ; 

 end one ovate acute 2-2J in. long ; petiolule 6-9 lines ; lateral ones 

 very unequal-sided. Peduncles 6-9 in., subglabrous, 2-4-flowered. 

 Calyx subsessile, fin., subglabrous; teeth lanceolate as long as tube. 

 Corolla yellow, j in. ; keel rostrate, its point and standard recurved. 

 Pod unknown. 



Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, in woods, Dr. Welwitsch I 

 May be a variety of V. vexillata, near Thonningii. 



13. V. vexillata, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xxiv. 194, t. 50, fig. I. Root- 

 stock large, fusiform. Stems herbaceous, wide-climbing, clothed with 

 spreading silky hairs. Stipules lanceolate, 3-4 lines. Petioles 1-3 in., 

 with copious spreading hairs ; leaflets 3, papyraceous, dark green with 

 adpressed strong silky hairs on both sides, the veinlets below raised ; 

 end one lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate acute, 4-6 in. long ; petiolule 

 J-fin. ; lateral ones very unequal-sided. Peduncles 3-12 in. long, 

 2-4-flowered. Calyx subsessile, J-f in., silky ; teeth linear-lanceolate 

 as long' as tube. Corolla reddish-purple, 1 in. long conspicuously 

 veined ; keel prolonged into an incurved beak. Pod linear, 3-4 in. 

 long, silky, recurved. — Phaseolus vexillatus, Linn. Sp. Plant. 1017. 

 Plectrotropis hirsuta, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 338. Strophostylis 

 capensis, E. Meyer, Comm. 147. Phaseolus quadrifa?'ius, Hochst. in 

 Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1426. Vigna tuberosa, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 

 217, t. 42 (leaflets broader ; calyx teeth linear-setaceous). 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Gold Coast, 

 Barter ! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! and others. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch 1 



IMozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 



A very variable plant, reaching Natal, and widely-dispersed through Tropical 



