NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN MADAGASCAR PLANTS. 13 



Near Port Dauphin, 2366 ! 2849 ! 



Very similar to JPhaseolus minimus, Poxb. 



Indioofera compressa, Lam. Open places, Fort Dauphin, 



2525! 



Commerson only, in Herb. Mus. Par. 



Crotalaria xantiioclada, Boj. Dry hills of Imerina, 



Antananarivo, 1811 ! 



My specimens seem to show that C. tenuis, Baker, is only a re- 

 duced form of this species. 



Crotalaria senegalensis, Built. Open meadow-land, Fort 



Dauphin, 2472 ! 



New to Madagascar. 



Crotalaria laevigata, Lam. Open ground near Bevooy, 

 2288 ! 



(Another of Commerson' s hitherto unique species.) 



Tephrosia Commersoni, S. Elliot ; syn. Galega pumila, Lam. 

 Open places, Port Dauphin, 2464 ! 



Previously only found by Commerson. 



Tephrosia leucoclada, sp. n. 



Suffrutex ramosissimus, ramis foliisque omnino dense appresse- 

 que argenteo-hirsutis, stipulis parvis linearibus, foliis 6-9-jugis, 

 foliolis oblongis vel ellipticis obtusis baud mucronulatis, racemis 

 terminalibus 6-x -floris, floribus pedicellatis, calyce usque ad 

 medium fisso, segmentis ovatis acutis, vexillo emarginato basi 

 subcordato, stylo minute puberulo, apice ciliato, legumine recto 

 remote appresseque hirsuto, seminibus 8. 



A small much-branched shrublet ; stem always hairy. Leaves 

 6-8 cm. long ; rhachis furrowed above, densely white-hairy, and 3- 

 4cm. (1| inches) long; petiole about 1*5 cm.; leaflets about 1- 

 1*5 cm. long and 7 mm. broad, with the upper surface eventually 

 becoming thinly hairy though never glabrous. Racemes up to 

 9 cm. long ; pedicels about 3 mm. ; bracts 1 mm. Calyx 4 mm. 

 Vexillum about 7 mm. long and almost as broad ; alae 8 mm. long. 

 Pods about 4 cm. long and about 5 mm. broad. 



Very near T. Apollinea, DC, but distinguished by smaller and 

 more numerous leaflets and the denser pubescence as well as 



other points. 



Sandy dunes near sea, Port Dauphin, 2297 ! 



