220 xlvii. § papilionace^e (baker). [Rhynchosia. 



9. R. caribsea, DC. Prod. ii. 385. Stems firm-herbaceous, slender, 

 wide- twining-, finely grey-pubescent. Stipules minute, setaceous. Pe- 

 tioles 1-1J in. long, firm ; leaflets 3, the central one broad-ovate, 

 often subrhomboidal, sometimes a little repand, 1-1 J in. long, the 

 petiolule J in. long, the lateral ones unequal-sided, firm, under surface 

 finely grey-silky. Flowers. in l,ax racemes 2-6 in. long on short pe- 

 duncles. Bracts and bracteoles minute, setaceous, deciduous. Pedicels 

 a line long, cernuous. Calyx \ in. deep, thinly grey-silky, the teeth 

 lanceolate acuminate, reaching more than half down. Corolla yellow, 

 | in. deep, the standard sometimes veined. Pod f in. long, J-f in. 

 broad, thinly grey-silky when young, more turgid than in its allies. — 

 Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 213. Glycine caribtea, J acq. Ic. PI. Ear. t. 

 146. G. sublobata, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 347. Rhynchosia malaco- 

 phylla, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 104. Glycine malacophylla, Spreng. Syst. cur. 

 post. 270. G. mollis, Hook. Exot. Flora, t. 201. Copisma pictum, E. 

 Meyer, Comm. PI. Afr. Austr. 135. R. melanosperma, Klotzsch in 

 Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 30. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottetl 

 Heudelot! Island of St. Thomas, G.Don! Guinea "proper, Hore! Thonning! 



Mozamb. Distr. M'geta, Speke and Grant! Zanzibar, Bojer! Dr. Kirk! 

 Zambesi land, Peters ! Kirk ! Meller ! 



fit. E. gibba, (E. Meyer, 1. c. sub Copismam) leaves less silky, 1^-2 in. each way, 

 the upper calyx-teeth dejtoid, shorter than the lower ones. R. inflata, Bojer, Hort. 

 Maur. I.e. 



Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Petherick I 



Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Speke ! 



A plant also of the Cape and Tropical America. The two tropical plants quite agree 

 with the two Cape forms united by Dr. Harvey. We cannot by the descriptions sepa- 

 rate from this R. intermedia, Kotsch. and Peyr., Plantae Tinneanae, No. 10, and R. 

 pubescens, DC. Prod. ii. 386, recorded doubtfully by De Candolle from Abyssinia and 

 said by Kotschy to have been gathered by Binder in Nubia at 7° N. lat. 



10. R. Memnonia, DC. Prod. ii. 386. Stems firm -herbaceous, , 

 suberect or twining", densely grey-silky. Stipules minute, setaceous. 

 Petioles an inch or less long", firm ; leaflets 3, central one nearly 

 round, J-l in. each way, blunt, the lower half often subcuneate ; pe- 

 tiolule \ in. long-, lateral ones unequal-sided ; texture subcoriaceous, 

 both sides, especially the lower one, densely grey-silky. Flowers in 

 lax 6-20-flowered racemes 2-6 in. long on short firm peduncles. 

 Bracts and bracteoles minute, setaceous, deciduous. Pedicels a line 

 long, silky, cernuous. Calyx 2-2J lines deep, grey-silky, the teeth 

 lanceolate, reaching about half down. Corolla yellow, f in. deep, the 

 standard silky on the outside. Pod f-f in. long, \ in. broad, finely 

 grey-pubescent, narrowed at the base, bluntish. — Harv. FL Cap. ii. 

 253. Glycine Memnonia, Delile, Fl. ^Egypt. 100, t. 38, fig. 3. G. 

 Schimperi, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. -Hb. Arab. 



Nile Land. Nubia, Kordofan, and Sennaar, Kotschy! Dr. Bromfield ! Abyssinia, 

 teste Schweinfurth. 



North Central. Banks of Lake Tschad, Vogel! 

 Lower Guinea, Mossamedes, Dr. Wdwitschl 



