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Group VII. Caritarm. Leavesimparipinnate, 8-5-jugate. Flowers 
in dense terminal heads. Bracts conspicuous, pinnate, or 
subpinnate, with narrow linear divisions. Pod 1-2-seeded. 
. I. caprrata Kotschy in Sitz. Acad. Wien. Math. Nat. li. 
Abth. ii. (1865), 865, t. 64; nag c. p. 75; Hiern, J. c. p. 208; 
non R. Graham in Wall. Cat 5490. 
Hab. Upper Guinea. Sene egambia, Heudelot; Old Calabar, 
Mylne; Sierra Leone, near Digipatu, Scott a no. 4063! Wallia, 
Scott Elliot, no. 4245! ee Lanp. Banks of the White Nile, 
Binder, Petherick. Open ground at Madi, Speke d Grant! Djurland, 
Seriba Ghattas, Seliweinfurt, no. 2431! Lower Guinea. Congo, 
Capt. Burton. Stanley Pool, ari: de i 85! Gaboon, Soyaus,* 
no. 423. Ambriz, Welwitsch, no. 2040 
Group VIII. Orerrrtorem. Leaves imparipinnate. Flowers i 
dense axillary or terminal heads. Bracts lesa pate 
or orbicular, generally concealing the flow 
© Leafiets series! 2-8-jugate, terminal lal ep type) con- 
spicuously larger than the 
55. = Bares oe Hochst. in Kotschy, te Nub. no, 286, ex. 
Baker, l.c. p. 75. 
Nisaaonis strobilifer Hochst. in Flora, 1846, p. 593. 
Hab. Nizz Lanp. Kordofan, Kotschy, no. Peet Cienkowsky, 
Dr, Pfund. Banks of the White Nile, Von Varn East Tropica 
AFR ambique, Forbes. “eg Hildebrandt, no. 937! 
Mombassa, Hildebrandt, no. 9276 
©© Leaflets beg iritokints, 
56. I. nupunina Baker in Kew Bull. 1897, p. 254. 
Hab. Britise Cenrrat Arrica. Between Kondowe and Karonga, 
Whyte, no. 836! 
©O© Leaflets generally 5, obovate or ypipnenclate, terminal leaf- 
lets sli ghtly larger than st. 
. I. nanuernosa — ex Engler in Abhandl. Preuss. Akad. 
Wise 1894, p p. ae (nomen). 
Hab. East Troproan Arrica. Tanga, C. Holst. no. 2066 ! 
Group IX. iceteae Leaves imparipinnate, or sometimes tri- 
— Strong spiny esha with flowers from the spines. 
8. I. spryosa Forsk. Fl, Aegypt.-Arab. p. 187 (1775) ; Jaubert 
& Beach. Tu ap Pl. Or. t. 491 (1853-57 ); Baker, 0. c. p. 77 (1871). 
Hab. anD. Suakin, J. K. Lord. Between Suakin and 
Berber, Schweinfurth, no. 4471 Sa “sega Abyssinia, 
Salt! Schimper, Nubia, Ehrenberg. Somatauann, Miss E. Cole! 
Riva, Robecchi- Brichetti. Harrar, Hidecohi:Prichats 
Var. spinijlora Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Bikes 1896, App. ii. 
I. spinifiora Hochst. & Steud. in Schimper, Unio Itin. 1837, 
no. 945. 
Hab. Nie Lanp. Eritrea, Schweinfurth, 
