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There is a plant approaching the above in Herb. Kew from 
Delagoa Bay, L. Scott, but the leaflets are broader and shorter. 
(i) Racemes lax, longer than the leaves. Leaflets 18-15, oval-oblong. 
fy 3 costaTa Guill. & Perr. Fl. Seneg. p. 187 (1888); Baker, 
le 
Tip. “Ue PPER GUINEA. Senegambia, Perrotet | 
Dr. Taubert places I. trita L. in this group. 
Group — Pinnarm.— Leaves imparipinnate, in tropical Afri- 
species, narrow oblong, or oblanceolate, or lanceolate- 
arr or acicular, the terminal leaflet sessile or subsessile. 
Racemes lax 
. Suffruticose, Leaflet ts oblanceolate, or lanceolate oblong, 3-5 
rarely 7, acute or mucronate. Legume straight, glandular, 
6-seeded, 
101, I. nitarts Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. p. 241 (1836); Harvey in 
Fl. Cap. ii. p. 188 (1861-62). 
Hab. British Cenrrat Arrica. Nyassaland, Buchanan, no. 111 
soa Sours Cenrrat. Mashonaland, Buluwayo, Dr. Rand, 
no. 445! 
** Suffruticose. Leaflets (often 5 pairs) narrow oblong. 
102. I. nepyanrna Eckl. & Zeyh. l.c. p. 248 (1886); Harv. J.¢. 
Hab. Brrrise Cenrrat Arrica. Lower Plateau, N. of Lake 
Nyassa, Mr. Spee a Kingu Hills, E. of Lake Nyassa, Rev. W. 
P. Johnston 
eee Suffentioose. Leaflets 5-7, cuneate meblens, obtuse. Peduncles 
landular 
103. I. nererorricna DC. Prod. ii. p. 227 (1825); Harv. dc. 
Hab. East Tropica, Arrica, Moz zambique District, aes 
course of loser Ninda, affluent of the Zambesi, Serpa Pinto, no. 28! 
Hererotanp. Marloth, no. 1244 
Var. nov esiana affrn tex. Rami subherbacei. ek 
imparipinnata 2-4-jugata cum impari foliolo quam ea typi majore 
oblongo vel anguste obovato 0 apice obtuso utrinque maeip ose: pabe- 
scenti. Stipule persistentes. Racem i axillares quam folia longiores. 
ae ge brevis lobi tannctlaty-inbuins quam tubus longiores 
nt 
Hab. Sours Cenrrat. Rhodesia, Buluwayo, Dr. Rand, no 62! 
Branches with spre ading hairs and glands, 15-20 cm. long. 
Rhachis 2-2-5 cm. Leaflets 8-9 mm. long, 8-4 mm. broad. Calyx 
+ 4mm. long. 
*** Leaves 4—7-jugate. Leaflets acicular, transversely triangular. 
ele O. Kuntze in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 1886, 
es RIA Bee ven, = 
This is placed here ees joachaub River, Dr. Pechwel-Loese 
| ely, as I have not seen specim 
Peduncles 4-6-flowered. Allied to I. heterotricha DC. and I. 
sordida, The stem, leaflets, and ealyces are covered with glands. 
