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shorter than the vexillum ; keel larger than the vexillum, obtuse 
Stamens geniculate at the apex, alternately larger and shorter. Style 
long, tortuose-geniculate at the base, filiform ; stigma apical, punctiform. 
Pod 2-articulate, hispid with setaceous hairs. 
Flowers :— January 1856 (Edgeworth), January 1880 (Balfour), April 
1894 (Lunt), November (Schweinf.), November 1884 (Bee vor). 
Fruits : — March and November (Schweinf.). 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley, above the coal-depot of the Messag. 
Marit. (Schweiuf.) ; plain of Maala, Biggari Valley (Defl.) ; on 
gravelly ground of the Shum Shum Range (Ellenbeck) ; Aden poi*t, 
100 feet high (Lunt) ; without locality (Edgew., Balfour, Birdw., 
Beevor) . 
Distribution : — Abyssinia. 
2. Taverniera Schimperi Jaub. et Spach Illustr. PL Or. t. 474 ; 
Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. II, 141. 
Taverniera cyclophylla Hochst. in Schimp. Herb. Abyss. 2329. 
Taverniera floribunda Schweinf. FI. Aethiop. 17. 
Description • — A copiously branched shrub, 2 or 3 feet high, with 
erecto patent terete subglabrous branches. Leaves usually simple, 
casually pinnately trifoliate, the petiole \ inch long, finely silky, 
geniculate and articulated at the apex, blade obovate, | — 1 inch long, 
— f inch broad, the apex rounded, both sides glabrous and glaucous. 
Stipules connate inta a single small bifid brown scarious deltoid sheath 
round the base of the petiole. 
Flowers very deciduous, in 2 — 6-flowered racemes on rigid erecto- 
patent peduncles 1 — 1^- inches long from the axils of the leaves. 
Pedicels glabrous, equalling the campanulate calyx, which is 2 lines 
deep, the teeth linear or lanceolate, reaching halfway down. Corolla 
rose-red, persistent, — f inch deep, the standard \ inch broad, the 
wings not more than 2 lines deep by half as broad. 
Pod J — | inch long, with 2 or 3 articulations, densely muricated 
with long bristles all over the surface. 
Locality : — Aden (Defl.) . 
Distribution : — Abyssinia. 
8, Alhagi To urn, 
Rigid much-branched spiny shrubs with simple leaves. Stipules 
small. Flowers in axillary racemes. Calyx campanulate ; teeth very short. 
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