F. N. WILLIAMS. FLORÜLA GAMBICA. 197 



118. Rhynchosia caribsea Cand. — Albreda,in LowerNiiimi dis- 

 trict (Leprieur, Perroltel); F ST. 214. 



119. Rhynchosia minima Cand. — In dry places near Albreda 

 (Leprieur, PerroUet); F ST. 214. 



120. Eriosema cajanoides Hook. f. — Jn sandy places near 

 the village of Gilfre, not far from Albreda (Leprieur, Perrottel). F ST. 215 

 (as « Rhynchosia cajanoides »). 



121. Eriosema glomeratum Hook. f. — In dry woods along 

 roadsides near Albreda (Perroltel). FST. 216(as « Rhynchosia glomerata>^.) 



122. Vigna gracilis Hook. f. — Albreda, in damp sandy places 

 (Perroltel); FST. 219 (as « Dolichos gracilis »). 



123. Dolichos lablab L. — St. Mary's Island (Bowdich). He slates 

 in a noie, — « Il overruns tlie whote island, and is called by the natives 

 Nalvo: they boil the seeds wilh goal's fal lo make an ointment, which 

 Ihey rub on the skin lo eure flatulence. » 



Ser. D. APHANOCYCLIC^ 

 Ord. Ranales 



Farn. 24. RANUNCULÄCEjE 



124. Glematis orientalis L. var. triloba Williams subvar. glab- 

 rescens. — Folia normalia glabrescenlia. Flores paniculati vel racemosi 

 albidi. 



Syn. — Clematis triloba Thunb. Prod. PI. Capens. 94 (pl. 2, 1800); 

 non Heyne ex Roth Nov. PI. Sp. 251 (1821). C/. Thunbergii Steud. Nomencl. 

 Bot. ed. 2, i. 380 (1840). Cl. orientalis var. Thunbergii subvar. glabrescens 

 Kuntze Monogr. Galt. Clematis, in Yerhandl. Bot. Yer. Prov. Brandenburg. 

 XXYl. 125 (1885). 



Hab. R. Gambia (Ingram). Bakkendik in Upper Niumi district (Lester, 

 n. 20 N); Balle, on Suarra Kunda Creek, in Jokadu district (Lester, n. 52 N, 

 — but spécimen not kept); village of Essearr (Essau?) in Ihe Kommbo 

 counlry (Heudelot. n. 94). Ali the Gambian spécimens belong to the one 

 form of this species and are quite alike. There are in Herb. Kew. three 

 sheels of Ingram's spécimens, one sheet of young tendrils, showing well 

 the acute ilower-buds which serve to distinguish the planl from var. 

 brachiala, and two sheets of fruil-specimens similar lo Lesler's examples. 

 I hâve examined and compared ail thèse with a séries of Tropical African 

 and Indian spécimens, and find thaï they ail agrée with Kuntze's des- 

 cription which includes a Tropical African form; though, as Kuntze 

 implies, il cornes very near an Indian form, C. orientalis var. latifolia 

 Hook. f. et Thoms. These Gambian spécimens are clearly distinct from 

 Ihose of the more common Tropical African form of var. triloba, judging 

 from the nialerial in Herb. Kew., which bas hairy leaves, wilh the hairs 

 doser logelher on the under-surface. Dr. Kunlze, misled by Steudel, has 



