228 xl vi I. § papilionace2E (baker). [Eriosema. 



point oblique, the faces thinly clothed with long" grey silky hairs. — Harv. 

 Fl. Cap. ii. 261. Rhynchosia cajanoides, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 215. E. 

 polystachyum, E. Meyer, Comm. PL Afr. Austr. 130. E. Jloribundum, 

 macrophyllum and incanum, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 33-4. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet ! Heudelot ! Sierra Leone, 

 Smeathmann! Guinea proper, Barter! Irving! Brass! 



Nile Land. Nubia ; Noer, Binder {fide Kotschy). 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Capt. Burton ! Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Wei- 

 witsch ! 



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

 Metier! Dr. Kirlc! 



Extends southward to Natal. 



13. E. griseum, Baiter. A low copiously branched shrub, with 

 firm woody slender branches, densely clothed with grey pubescence. 

 Stipules \ in. long-, lanceolate, scarious. Petioles J in. long ; leaflets 

 3, the central one oblanceolate, 1^-lJ in. long by about f in. broad, 

 acute or blunt ; the petiolule \ in. long, the lateral ones erecto-patent, 

 slightly unequal-sided, subcoriaceous, upper surface grey-green, finely 

 downy, lower softly grey-downy all over. Flowers in dense rounded 

 heads an inch or more each way on firm short downy peduncles. Bracts 

 lanceolate acuminate, grey-silky, §-| in. long. Pedicels a line long. 

 Calyx half an inch deep, finally membranous, clothed with spreading 

 grey hairs, the teeth linear or lanceolate, densely ciliated, reaching 

 three-quarters of the way down. Corolla yellow. Pod oblong, equal- 

 ling the calyx, the valves finely downy. 



Upper Guinea. Aboh and lofty hills of the Yomba country, Barter ! 

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



14. E. glomeratum, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 313. An erect copiously 

 branched shrub, 5-6 ft. high, with slender woody branches more or 

 less densely clothed with spreading ferruginous pubescence. Stipules 

 lanceolate, scarious, \ in. long. Leaves subsessile ; leaflets 3, the cen- 

 tral one oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, narrowed to both ends ; pe- 

 tiolule J in. long ; lateral ones erecto-patent, slightly unequal- sided, 

 subcoriaceous, upper surface grey-green, finely downy when young, 

 lower finely grey-downy all over, the raised veins ferruginous. Flowers 

 crowded in dense nearly sessile axillary heads an inch or less broad and 

 long. Bracts linear, J in. long. Pedicel a line long. Calyx J in. 

 deep, densely silky, the teeth linear- setaceous, densely ciliated, reaching 

 half down. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx. Pod broad-oblong, 

 \ in. long, \ in. broad, densely clothed with long silky hairs. — Glycine 

 rufa, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 344, non H. B. K. Rhynchosia 

 flloTnerata, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 216. E. rufum, Baill. in Adans. vi. 

 226, non E. Meyer. E. gracile, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 35. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leon e, Afzdius ! Smeathmann! Seflegambia, Heudelot ! 

 Perrottet! Guinea proper, Thonning, Vogel! Barter! Mann! Griffon du Balluy. 

 Brass! Duparquet. 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Capt. Burton! Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Wei- 

 vritsch ! 



