Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER), 107 
matted with nearly black silky hairs; all the teeth lanceolate, equalling 
the tube. Corolla bright red, } in. long; the obeordate standard 
densely silky on the outside. Pod linear, densely silky, 15-18 lines 
long whilst ‘still immature, 8-10-seeded. Style densely penicillate at 
the apex. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
3. T. levigata, Welw. mss. A very diffuse nearly olabrous peren- 
nial, with very slender copiously branched stems 12-18 in. long. 
Bracts lanceolate acuminate, 1-1} lines. Petioles 3-6 lines. Leaflets 
3 (of the uppermost leaves rarely solitary), subsessile but stipellate, 
oblanceolate, 12-18 lines long, 4—5 lines broad, blunt with a mucro, 
sometimes emarginate, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, pale green with a 
very distinct thickened grey horny border and ribs. Racemes copious, 
beth terminal and leaf-opposed, reaching 6-9 in. long, leafy at the 
very base. Bracts lanceolate, very minute. Pedicels 1-3 lines, ascend- 
Ing’, spreading or even deflexed. Calyx } in., obscurely grey-silky ; all 
the teeth lanceolate, equalling the tube. Corolla reddish, twice the 
calyx. Pod linear, an inch long, 2 lines broad, faintly grey-downy, 
»—6-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla province, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
4. T. lupinifolia, DC. Prod. ii. 255. A wide-trailing perennial 
herb with slender branches densely clothed with spreading grey or 
brownish pubescence. Stipules 2—3 lines, lanceolate acuminate. _ Pe- 
tioles 1-5 in., densely pubescent. Leaves digitate but  stipellate, 
casually imparipinnate. Leaflets 5-7, rarely 3, narrow-oblanceolate, 
li ~24 lines long, 3—6 lines broad, bluntish, mucronate and often emar- 
Acai rigidly coriaceous, grey-green, glabrous above, densely downy 
neath. Racemes both terminal and leaf-opposed, very lax, reaching 
a foot long. Bracts minute lanceolate. Pedicels 1-14 lines. Calyx 
s 1., the lanceolate acuminate teeth equalling the tube. Corolla red- 
dish, twice the calyx. Pods linear, downy, 12-15 lines long, 2 lines 
road, 5—6-seeded, sometimes much shortened, oblong, not more than 
1-2-seeded.—Harv. FI. Cap. ii. 204. Rhynchosia Cienkowskir, Schweinf. 
Rel. Kots, ol, t 2495 (the form with the half-aborted pods). 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Nupe and by the Quorra at Jeba, 
Barter! Ss “ 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Cienkowski. ee 
Ower Guinea. Congo, in the sands of the seashore, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Ver. p: 7 digitata, DC. Prod. loc. cit. 
tems more siender, less downy. Leaflets narrower, subglabrescent. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Bacle! Bidjem! Perrottet! 
Ep ower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! 
xtends to the Cape. 
5. T. Sericea, Baker. Stem erect, tall, firm-herbaceous, densely 
clothed with short spreading grey pubescence. Petioles 14-2 in. long, 
ensely silky. Lantots 3, not fully developed in the specimens, nar- 
