NO. 5 NEW EAST AFRICAN PLANTS — STANDLEY 5 



green on the upper surface and glabrous or very sparsely appressed- 

 pilose, slightly paler beneath, sparsely appressed-pilose along the 

 veins and minutely glandular-puberulent, the veins very prominent 

 beneath, the midvein armed with numerous slender, strongly 

 recurved spines ; panicles terminal, many-flowered, about lo cm. 

 long and 5 cm. wide, narrowly pyramidal, the branches densely 

 tomentulose; bractlets linear, tomentulose; pedicels 5-10 mm. long, 

 armed with slender recurved spines ; sepals lance-oblong, 5-7 mm. 

 long, acuminate, short-apiculate, densely tomentose with yellowish 

 hairs ; petals one and one-half times as long as the sepals, white, 

 obovate, emarginate ; fruit not seen. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 632343, collected on 

 the western slopes of Mount Kenia, British East Africa, in the 

 bamboo zone, altitude about 3,000 meters, September 28 to October 

 7, 1909, by E. A. Meams (no. 2371). 



The writer is unable to find any previous report of a Rubus with 

 palmate leaves from eastern Africa. 



CHAMAECRISTA GRANTII (Oliver) Standley 

 Cassia grantii Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. 2: 279. 1871 



CHAMAECRISTA KIRKII (Oliver) Standley 



Cassia kirkii Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. 2: 281. 1871 



CHAMAECRISTA MIMOSOIDES (L.) Standley 

 Cassia ))iiinosoidcs L. Sp. PI. 379. 1753 



CHAMAECRISTA NIGRICANS (Vahl) Standley 



Cassia )iif.ricaus Vahl, Symb. Bot. i: 30. 1790 



CHAMAECRISTA USAMBARENSIS (Taub.) Standley 



Cassia itsambarciisis Taub. in Engl. Pflanzenvv. Ost-Afrikas C: 201. 1895 



INDIGOFERA MEARNSII Standley, sp. nov. 



Frutex ramosus, ramis pilis fuscis dense puberulentis ; stipulae 

 lineari-subulatae ; folia numerosa, internodiis multo longiora, foliolis 

 9-13, laterahbus oppositis, ovalibus vel ovali-oblongis, basi et apice 

 rotundatis vel obtusissimis, mucronatis, supra strigillosis, subtus 

 pallidis et densius strigillosis ; racemi axillares vel terminales, dense 

 multiflori ; bracteae subulatae, calycem aequantes vel eo breviores ; 

 calyx fusco-puberulentus, lobis tubum aequantibus ; legumina deflexa 

 recta subteretia 7-8-sperma. 



