PLATE 349. 
Rhynchosia memnonia, DC. (Fl. Cap. Vol. II., p. 253). 
Natural Order, Leguminos^. 
A usually erect but sometimes prostrate plant, canescent-tomentose or silky in 
all parts, and bearing yellow flowers. Stems and branches more or less striate or 
angular, erect (in our specimens), 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves trifoliate, stipulate, 
petiolate, common petiole, j to 1^ inch long; stipules ovate, acuminate, deciduous, 
silky outside, brown within, 2 lines long, 1 line Avide at base. Leaflets obovate, 
sub-rotund, oblong or sub-rhomboid, entiie, veins prominent beneath, petioles of 
lateral leaflets 1 to 2 lines long, stipella capillary, 1 line long ; petiolulo of terminal 
leaflet 3 to 4 lines long, stipella like the lateral ones, but 1 line below base of leaflet ; 
lateral h aflets 8 lines to 1 inch long, 6 to 8 lines wide. Infloresence racemose, 
axillary, floriferous for about half its length or more. Peduncles (in our speci- 
mens) 2 to 5 inches long, laxly many flowered. Calyx gamosepalons, 5-fid, tube 
campanulate, oblique, lowest lobe longest; four upper connate in pairs. Vexillum, 
broadly obovate, auricled at base, auricles a little infllexed ; alae narrow, auricled 
at base, equalling vexillnm ; carina oblong, broader than alae, equalling them in 
length; incurved. Stamens, diadelphous-9-1, curved, free filament geniculate at 
has>\ Ovary, 2-ovuled, silky. Style curved and swollen at the curve. Stigma 
capitate. Legume a little curved, 9 to 10 inches long, 2 to 3 lines wide, densely 
white tomentose. 
Habitat: Natal: Umsundusi, Zululand, 0-1000 feet alt, April, Wood, No. 
3954; N'Tondweni, Zululand, J. Wi/lie (Govt. Herb. No. 3935); N'Tondweni, 
Zululand, December, Wylie {Wood,m. 9197). 
One species only of this genus has been already figured in this work, viz., 
Rhynchosia orfitodaimm, Vol. III., p. 220, and in the note it was stated that it and 
L{. Woodii were the only " species of the genus known to us in Natal having a 
quite erect habit." B. Memnonia, however, though usually erect, is occasionally 
prostrate, and specimens of the prostrate form were gathered amongst the erect 
ones. Whether the plant becomes prostrate in age or not is as yet uncertain. 
The localities given above are so far as known at present the only Natal localities 
for it. 
Fig. 1 , calyx opened ; 2, vexillum; 3, ala; 4, carina; 5, stamens; 6, ovary, 
style, and stigma ; 7, upper half of valve of legume with seed; all enlarged. 
