260 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
This fungus has just recently been recorded for this country by 
Massee and Salmon. They found it growing on rabbit-dung. 
DESCRIPTION OF Puate 454. 
. 1, Ctenomyces serratus, part of the peridium, x 500. 2. Ascus and 
spores of same, x 500. 3. Ampullaria aurea, ie — x 90. 4. Single 
re, X 500. “13; " Trichothecium inequale, conidiophores, x 250. 14 
Spores, x 500. 15. Spore germinating, x 500. 16. Di iy Slo chloro- 
cephalum, conidiophore with head of spores, x 60. 17. Conidiophore, en 
18. Head with spores, x 500. 19. Trichocladium laueae ype WE 
spores, x 500. 
THE INDIGOFERAS OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 
By Epmunp G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p, 245.) 
Group a StENopAYLLaA.— Leaves eens lira with fate 
ear or narrow oblanceolate leaflets. Flow 
cet or elongated neji uberect annuals or biennials.* 
(a) Racemes short, sessile or subsessile. Leaflets 5-9, narrowly 
oblanceolate. 
. L. PARVIFLORA exe = Wall. Cat. 5457; a l.c. p. 83. 
I. linearis Guill. & Perr. Fl. Seneg. p. 184 
(183 
I, deflewa Hochst. in Kosethe Hb. Nub. no, 14 (1689) ; A. Rich. 
Fl. Abyss. i. P. ga 47). 
; a Fenzl, in Klotzsch Pl. Kord. p. 178 (1887-88): 
Tidiectitn dhe Tink & & Spach. Pl. Or. t. 492 (1853-57). 
Hab. U U ‘ 
Nite Lanp. Nubia and Kordofan, Kotschy, no. 14! Cienkowsky. 
Abyssinia, Schimper, no. 1467 ! 
(b) oes oe type) 8-8 cm. long, rather laxly flowered. Leaflets 
rally 5-7, linear, or linear oblong, but in var. brachy- 
oa more numerous, broader, and shorter, and also racemes 
eee 
STENOPHYLLA Guill. & Perr. FI. Seneg. p. 188, t. 48 
(1885) ‘Salen lc. p. 88. 
Hab Oven _ in Uprer Guinea, Nitze Lanp, and Britis 
JENTRAL | 
Var. brachypoda 8 Steud. : herb. Schimp. no. 1711 
sinia, tt no. 17 11! Schimper, 
no. 1468! Gallabat, Sehwcinurt no 1816! 
prer Gurnea. Seals near Albreda. 
* np 1 Heuet Benth a. Elliotii Bak. fil. 
