NOVITATES AFRICAN AE 
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appresse sericeo-pubescentes, superne defoliati sed vix spinescentes; 
folia trifoliolata, longe petiolata; foliola sessilia, lineari-oblanceo- 
lata, subobtusa, 5 — 8 mm. longa, circiter 1-76 mm. lata, coriacea, 
appresse sericeo-pilosa; petioli plerumque circiter 1 cm. longi, sub- 
teretes, appresse pilosi, circiter 0-5 mm. crassi; flores pauci, apices 
ramulorum versus dispositi ; pedicelli circiter 3 mm. longi, minute 
appresse pubescentes. Calyx 6 mm. longus; tubus late obconicus, 
minute appresse pubescens, lobis 5, subaequalibus, lineari-triangularibus, 
fere 2 mm. longis, parce pubescentibus. Corolla 1-2 cm. longa, alis vexillo 
et carina subaequalia brevioribus; ovarium hirtum; fructus non visus. 
South West Africa. H. H. W. Pearson (Percy Sladen Mem. Exped. 
1915-16, No. 9899). 
This species is allied to Lebeckia spinescens, Harv., from which it 
differs in the usually longer and scarcely spinescent branchlets and 
very hairy ovary (and legume?). In the hairy ovary it resembles 
L. microphylla, E. Mey., but it may be at once distinguished from that 
species by its long petioles. 
Dolichos Pearsonii, Hutchinson ( Leguminosae-Phaseoleae ) ; syn. Dolichos 
Lablab, var. rhomboideus, Schinz in Abh. Bot. Ver. Brand, xxx, 168 
(1888), non D. rhomboideus , G. Hoffm. ; affinis D. Lablab, Linn., et 
D. gibboso, Thunb., ab illo foliolis multo minoribus terminale hastato, 
leguminibus minoribus, ab hoc foliolis minoribus et leguminibus 
latioribus facile dist.inguitur. 
Caules graciles laxe foliati, subscandentes ( ? ) pilis brevissimis 
refiexis parce pubescentes. Folia trifoliolata, 3 — 5 cm. longa, usque ad 
5 cm. lata, glabra vel parce puberula ; foliolum terminale basi hasta- 
tum et truncatum vel brevissime et late cuneatum, foliolis lateralibus 
uno latere rotundato-hastatis, nervis utrinque conspicue elevatis ; petioli 
circiter 1 cm. longi, graciles, parce puberuli; stipulae oblongo-ovatae, 
subacutae, circiter 2’5 mm. longae, extra conspicue nervosae, pube- 
rulae ; stipellae oblongo-lineares, acutae, glabrescentes, 2 mm. longae; 
petioluli stipellis paullo breviores, minute setuloso-pubescentes. 
Racemi terminales, laxissime pauciflori; bracteae subdeciduae, stipulis 
plus minusve similes; pedicelli (in fructu) vix 2 mm. longi; bracteolae 
binae, calyci adpressae, late obovatae, 3 mm. longae, dorso trinervatae, 
margine membranaceae, glabrae. Calyx bilabiatus, 6 mm. longus, 
glaber, lobis 2 adaxialibus fere ad apicem connatis, abaxialibus 3 liberis, 
anguste triangularibus, subacutis. Vexillum late orbiculare, 1-5 cm. 
longum, 1-7 cm. latum, basi appendice lato, apice bidentato, instruction ; 
alae oblongo-obovatae, 1-8 cm. longae, 1 cm. latae, ungue 7 mm. longo, 
carina fere 2 cm. longa, acuta. Fructus compressus, ambitu oblique 
oblongo-obianceolatus, stylo uno latere hirsuto, persistente, longi 
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