110 XLVI. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. 
inch broad, silky on the back. Young pod linear, falcate, densely 
silky, 12—15-seeded. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schweinfurth! 
Var. 8. angolensis, Baker. 
Stems and leaves beneath densely downy. Pods 2-24 in. long, } in. broad, straight, 
finely downy. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
12. T. Vogelii, Hook. 7. Fl. Nigr. 296. A shrub 8-10 ft. high, 
the branches woody, ascending, clothed with dense spreading ferru- 
ginous or yellowish silky tomentum. Stipules linear, }—3 in. long. 
Leaves short-stalked, the rachis 5-6 inches long. Leatlets in 8-12 
pairs, oblanceolate, 14-2} in. long, $-} in. broad, apex rounded mu- 
cronate, upper surface subglabrous, the lower densely clothed with ad- 
pressed grey silky pubescence, the midrib ferruginous. Flowers m 
dense stalked terminal racemes, the main one 20—30-flowered, 4—6 in. 
long. Pedicels +—-$ in. long, very silky. Bracts roundish or ovate- 
acuminate, densely silky, 2 in. broad, quite hiding the buds. Calyx 
3-1 in. deep, densely clothed with light or dark brown silky tomen- 
tum, the teeth reaching halfway down, oblong-lanceolate, the lowest 
longer than the others. Corolla violet-purple, rarely white, nearly an 
inch deep, the standard an inch broad, silky on’ the back. Pods 
straight or slightly upeurved, 4-5 in. long, } in. broad, densely grey 
or brown velvety, 16-18-seeded. Style bearded at the apex and down 
the inner face. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Vogel! and others. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! 
Fernando Po, Vogel! Ansell! Princes island, cultivated, Mann! 
Wile Land. Unyoro, Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Zanzibar, Boivin (fide Baillon). i 
Much the largest and most showy species, and often used, like the allied 7. toazari 
a ae for the purpose of throwing into ponds to stupefy fish. Called Igongo 
Ne Gadoon, 
13. T. dichroocarpa, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 102. A 
woody erect undershrub 4—5 ft. high, with firm ascending angular 
thinly adpressed-grey-silky branches. Stipules linear, 2 in. long. 
Leaves short-stalked, the rachis 2-4 in. long, the leatlets in 5-7 pairs, 
oblanceolate, 1-1} in. long, 3—4 in. broad, apex truncate or emarginate, 
both sides subglabrous when mature. Racemes terminal, the mam 
ones 6—9 in. long, sessile or long- or short-stalked, the flowers in distant 
clusters of 4-6 each. Bracts roundish or ovate, 1 in. broad, densely 
silky. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which is }—3 in. deep, densely 
clothed with ferruginous silky hairs, the lowest teeth lanceolate, reach- 
ing half way down, the others shorter, subdeltoid. Corolla reddish, 
3 in. deep, standard } in. broad, very silky on the back. Pod 2 in. 0 
more long, 4 in. broad, densely and persistently finely silky, g-10- 
seeded.— 7. interrupta, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss: 
No. 344. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit! Roth! 
Also a plant of Madagascar. 
