LEGUMINOS.E. CIV. Tephrosia. 



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act. nat cur. berl. 4. 1803. p. 204. spec. 3. p. 1121. Flowers 

 red. Legume 2 inches long, compressed, silky. 



Slender Tephrosia. PI. 1 foot. 



12 T. paucifo'lia (Nutt. gen. amer. 1. c.) plant herbaceous 



517% Tephrosia. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1800, Shrub 2 to 4 ft. and erect, simple, velvety, and pilose ; leaves with 6-9 pairs of 

 7 T. ca'ndida (D. C. prod. 2. p. 249.) leaves with 8-11 pairs remote, cuneate-oval, very obtuse leaflets, which are villous on 



of elliptic-oblong mucronate leaflets, which are glabrous above, 



peduncles 



and pale and covered with silky pubescence beneath ; legume % . F. Native of Georgia and Florida. Flowers purple. The 



linear, much compressed, clothed with adpressed pubescence, 



^ . S. Native of Bengal. Ro- 



apiculated by the long style 



Linia Candida, Roxb. hort. beng. p. 5Q. 



Style curved into an 



leaves are far apart upon the stem. 

 Few-leaved Tephrosia. PL 2 feet. 



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angle, and the keel as if it w^ere truncate. Vexillum silky on pubescent ; leaves with only 1 or 2 pairs of cuneate-obovate, 

 the outside. Flowers pale rose-coloured in a dried state. 



WhiteAea.Yed Tephrosia. Clt. 1816. Shrub 2 to 4 feet. 



Sect. 11. Brisso'nia (in honour of M. Brisson, a Frei 

 thologist). Neck. elem. no. 1348. D. C. prod. 2. p. 

 Erebinthus, Mich. gen. 210. Leaves impari-pinnate 



coriaceous leaflets, which are glabrous above, but clothed with 

 silky villi beneath, the lower ones approximating the stem ; pe- 

 duncles 3-flowered, longer than the leaves ; legume linear, almost 



249. 



straight 



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Native of Georgia. 



Common about Savan- 



_ _ _ Lobes ^^^' ^^ ^^y ^"^ sandy woods. Galega villosa, Michx. fl. bor. 



of Tai^x "broadens t' artlie W, but" enWnJin a^d^^^^^ acu- ^^'' ^' P' ^l' T. chrysophylla, Pursh, fl. amer. sept. 2. p. 489. 

 men. Stamens monadelphous. Style bearded laterally. Le-- -blowers purpje. 



gumes more or less velvety, or hispid. 



Flowers in fas 

 Peduncles axillary. 



erect 



) 



leaves with 18 or 20 pairs of oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 somewhat 



Prostrate Tephrosia. PI. prostrate. 



14 T. Hi'spiDA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 250.) plant herbaceous, 

 erect, dichotomous ; stem and petioles beset with stiflf ferrugi- 

 nous hairs ; leaves with 5 pairs of cuneate-obovate leaflets, which 

 are villous on both surfaces ; peduncles 7-10-flowered, much 



longer than the leaves ; flowers spicate, lower ones distant ; 

 mucronate leaflets, which are pubescent on the legume linear, straight, rather hispid. 1^. F. Native of Ca- 



upper surface, but clothed with silvery-silky pubescence beneath ; rolina. 

 the down adpressed on both surfaces ; legumes linear, rather //" 



terete, clothed with velvety villi, ending each in a short mucrone. 



^2 - S. Native of the West Indies and Cayenne, and said by 



Tussac to have been first imported from Africa. — Plum. icon. t. 

 135. ^ 



Flowers purplish ? 



i Tephrosia. PL 1 to 2 feet. 



Galega toxicaria, Swartz, fl. ind. occid. 1278. Tuss. ant. 



t. 20. Lam. diet. 2. p. 596. 

 10. dec. 10. t. 4. 



250. 



Galega sinapon, Buchoz, nat. hist. ^ ' 



Sect. III. Craccoi des {Cracca and tdea^ similar ; plants hav- 

 y the aspect of Vicia cracca), ^^ ^ ^ _ ' ^ ^ 



Lobes of calyx broadest at the 



D. C. leg. mem. vi. prod. 2. p. 



Leaves impari-pinnate 



T-,i 1 "i rr.1 1- Kyctoi„, endinff in an elongated acumen. Stamens diadelphous. 



Flowers pale-red. The stamens, according Style bearded. Disk in flower not manifest. 



to Swartz, are diadelphous, and the legume stipitate within the 



15 T. ocHROLEu CA(Pers. ench. 



calvv ViMf ;». T>1 • » ' • if f. r^ in i ^^ ^* OCHROLEU CA I rcrs. cncn. 



stampn. ^^"T\^'^^ specimen examined by De Candolle the ^^ ^^d.) plant suffruticose, erect, 



stamens are monadelphous, and the legume sessile ; therefore, t- ^ ^ 



perhaps 2 distinct plants are here confused. The leaves and 



branches of this shrub well pounded, and thrown into a river or ^^^^^ jeanei 



pond, very soon affects the water, and intoxicates the fish, so as lonapr than 

 to make them float on the surface as if dead ; most of the large ^ 



FIG. 37. 



pubescently-villous ; stipulas su- 

 bulate; leaves with 2-3 pairs of 

 ovate leaflets ; peduncles axillary, 



the leaves ; flowers 



ones recover after a short time^but the greater part of the small 

 Iry perish on those occasions. 



racemose ; legume straight, quite 

 smooth, and very narrow, contain- 



It has been introduced to Jamaica - f^.^^ ^4 ^^ ^g seeds. ^2 . S. 



and cultivated there on account of its intoxicating qualities. 

 Poison Tephrosia. Clt. 1 791. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



9 T. Virginia' NA (Pers. ench. 2. p. 329.) plant herbaceous 

 and erect : ' ' ' 



, '^aves with 8-11 pairs of oval-oblong acute leaflets, 



clothed beneath with white villi ; calyxes woolly. 1/ . F. Na- 



virginiana, Lm. spec. 1062. but not of hort. Cliff:— Pluk, t. 23. fe B ^ _ 



Native of the Caribbee islands. 

 Galega ochroleuca, Jacq. icon. rar. 

 t. 150. Galega pubescens, Lam. 

 diet. 2. p. 597. Flowers cream- 

 coloured, changing to reddish be- 



^2. Flo\yers reddish, handsome. Plant covered with hoary vilh. 

 7ir^L^''^ ? considered in America as a powerful vermifuge. ^^ ^ ^^^^^3 ^„, ^, et ivuntn, 



irgiman lephrosia. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1765. PI. 1 to 3 ft. ^^^^ gen. amer. 6. p. 462.) herbaceous, clothed with soft pubes- 



Cream-coloured-Qowered Teph- 

 rosia. Clt. 1799. Shrub 2 to 3 ft. 

 16 T. MOLLIS (H. B. et Kunth, 



Peduncles opposite the leaves. 



10 T. hispi'dula (Pursh, fl. amer. sept. 2. p. 489.) plant her- 

 baceous, trading, slender, and pubescent ; leaves having 6 or 7 

 pairs of oblong-oval, obtuse, mucronate leaflets ; peduncles elon- 

 gated^ 3-5-flowered ; legume oblong, falcate, rather hispid. 1/ . 

 »l' u^Jr^ ^^^^ Virginia to Georgia, in pine woods, and on 

 Slate hills. Galega hispldula, Michx. fl. bor. amer. 2. p. 68. 

 ^- spicata, Walt. Flowers pale red, and yellowish white. 



IIispul Tephrosia. PI. trailing. 



U 1. gracilis (Nutt. gen. amer. 2. p. 119.) plant herba- 

 eous, erect, slender, smoothish, dichotomous ; leaves with 6-7 



cence ; leaves with 4-6 pairs of stipellate elliptic-oblong leaflets, 

 wl)ich are rounded at the apex, and mucronate, clothed with ad- 

 pressed pubescence above, and silky-silvery down beneath ; 



S. Native of New Andalusia. Flowers 



racemes axillary, 

 rose-coloured. 



Soft 



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Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



17 T. ASTRAGAUNA (H. B. et Kunth, 1. c.) stem shrubby, 

 tomentose ; leaves with 8-9 pairs of stipellate, oblong, somewhat 

 mucronate leaflets, which are rounded at both ends, and covered 

 with adpressed pubescence above, but with canescent tomentum 

 beneath, as well as the legumes ; racemes axillary ; flowers scat- 

 Flowers white. 



pairs of oblong-elliptic, acute, mucronated leaflets, the lower pair tered. ^2 . S. Native about Quito. 

 • rproximatins the stem: TipdnnpTp« IpnrrtTi nflpaves. usually S- MUk-Vetch-like Tevhrosia. Shru 



• rproximating the stem; peduncles length of leaves, usually S- 



tiv'^'pr.' '^»'""ie linear, hairy, rather incurved. %. F. Na- 

 Of '-arolina and Georgia. Flowers pale red. 



Shrub 2 feet. 



18 T.? oroboi'dbs (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 

 462. t. 578.) plant erect, shrubby, branched; leaves with 4-G- 



