Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 115 
lines broad, glabrescent, much recurved, 8-10-seeded. Style glabrous, 
slightly penicillate at the apex. 
Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, in sandy ground near the Bero, Dr. 
Welwitsch ! 
27. 'T. Kirkii, Baker. Stems shrubby, slender, flexuose, with a 
few inconspicuous adpressed grey hairs. Stipules linear, }—3 in. Pe- 
tioles 8-4 lines; rachis 23-33 in.; leaflets 15-17, oblanceolate, 9-12 
lines long, 3-4 lines broad, blunt, emarginate, mucronate, rigidly coria- 
ceous, grey and glabrous above, glaucous and thinly clothed with 
adpressed grey hairs below, the fine veins slightly raised. Racemes 
terminal, long-stalked, moderately lax, reaching 6-9 in. long, the axis 
acute-angled and sulcate. Bracts linear-subulate, 14-2 lines. Pedicels 
downy, ascending, 1-3 lines. Calyx 2 lines, finely downy, the upper 
teeth lanceolate-deltoid, the lowest lanceolate, as long as the tube. 
Corolla purplish-violet, 3 in. long ; standard $ in. broad, densely silky 
on the back. Pod linear, 24 in. long, 2 lines broad, slightly recurved, 
glabrescent, 16-—18-seeded. Style subterete, finely pubescent through- 
out. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 
°8. T. secunda, Welw. mss. An erect shrub 3-4 ft. high, with 
strong elabrous flexuose branches. Stipules linear, {- in. Petioles 
6-18 lines; leaflets 13-19, linear, reaching 3~—4 in. long, }—2 in. 
broad, bluntish, distinctly mucronate, upper surface grey glabrescent, 
lower glaucous, faintly ‘grey-silky, the veins fine raised. Racemes 
Copious, terminal and lateral, peduncled, reaching a foot long, very 
4x, subsecund, the axis acute-angled suleate. Bracts linear, 1-1} 
lines. Pedicels 1-3 lines, erecto-patent. Calyx 2 lines, finely silvery, 
the teeth lanceolate, shorter than the tube. Corolla pe in. 
Png, standard 3-9 in. broad, grey-silky on the outside. Pod linear, 
~8$ in, long, 24 lines broad, glabrescent, nearly straight, 16-18- 
seeded. Style faintly pubescent throughout. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
29. 'T. Ansellii, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 297. A robust annual reaching 
3 ft. high, with copious firm flexuose branches densely clothed with 
spreading grey or ferruginous silky pubescence. Stipules linear-subu- 
late, 4-2 in.long. Leaves nearly sessile, rachis 4—5 in. long ; leaflets 
in 6~9 pairs, linear or oblanceolate, {—? in. broad, truncate or emargi- 
hate with a mucro, upper surface glabrous, lower densely clothed with 
Brey silky pubescence, midrib ferruginous. Flowers in lax terminal 
racemes sometimes a foot long, usually sessile, sometimes with flowers 
tom the axils of the leaves. Bracts linear, } in. long. * Pedicel 
equalling the calyx, which is densely ferruginous-silky, 2 lines deep, 
“ampanulate, the lower tooth lanceolate, about equalling the tube, the 
others deltoid, shorter. Corolla reddish, : in. deep, the standard 
lines broad, densely brown-silky on the back. Pod linear-oblong, 
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