116 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Tephrosia. 
14-2 in. long, rather over } in. broad, thinly brown-silky, 7—8-seeded. 
Style bearded along the upper side. 
Upper Guinea. Niger country, Ansell! Irving! Vogel! and others. 
30. T. bracteolata, (will. et Perr. Fl. Sencg. 194. An erect robust 
annual or biennial, 2—8 ft. high, the branches ascending, long, straight, 
slender, thinly adpressed-silky. Stipules lanceolate acuminate, 1-2 in. 
long. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis 4-6 in. long; leaflets in 6—10 
pairs, linear or oblanceolate, 2-3 in. long, }—-4 in. broad, apex rounded, 
mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower very slightly adpressed rey 
silky. Flowers in lax terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, usually long- 
stalked, 6-20-flowered, 4-6 in. lone. Bracts linear, rigid, equalling 
the pedicels which are 2-8 lines long. Calyx campanulate, 2 lines 
deep, thinly silky, the lowest tooth lanceolate, equalling the tube, the 
others deltoid and shorter. Corolla reddish, 3—2 in. deep, the 
standard } in. broad, thinly silky on the back. Pod 2-8 in. long, 
2-3 lines broad, nearly straight, finely grey-silky, 14—16-seeded.—A. 
Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 186. 7. Kotschyana, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 
No. 716, 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! 
adres Land. Nubia, Kotschy. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and 
elit: 
Lower Guinea. Cazengo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Also a plant of the Cape Verde islands. 
31. T. andongensis, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub 2-3 feet 
high, with ascending terete firm branches densely clothed with short 
spreading grey down. Stipules setaceous, 1-14 lines. Petioles downy, 
4-1 inch. Leaves simple, oblanceolate-oblong, reaching 3-3} in. long, 
8-12 lines broad, blunt with a small mucro, subcoriaceous, above grey 
and glabrous, below shortly grey-pubescent, the veins raised and tawny. 
Racemes very copious, terminal and lateral, stalked or sessile, reaching 
6—9 in. long, the acute-angled axis densely pubescent. Bracts lanceo- 
late, 1 line. Pedicels 1-14 lines, erecto-patent, densely grey-downy. 
Calyx 4 lines long, densely grey-downy; the teeth all’ exceeding the 
tube, the upper linear, lower lanceolate acuminate. Corolla purplish- 
red, 2 in. long; standard 43-5 lines broad, densely velvety on the 
back. Ovary linear, densely grey-velvety, multiovulate. Style finally 
3 in. long, flattened upwards, penicillate at the apex. Mature pod not 
seen. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
A second species of § Reineria, with simple leaves, was gathered by Forbes at Delago® 
Bay (7. Forbesii, Baker). A perennial, with shortly grey-downy, slender branclies, 
subsessile, linear, rigid leaves, 14-2 inches long; flowers solitary, or in pairs in their 
axils; calyx 2 lines long, with setaceous teeth exceeding the tube; corolla reddish, hal 
as long again as the calyx. 
32. T. dimorphophylla, Welw. mss. An erect herbaceous pere- 
nial 2-8 ft. high, with firm long slender branches densely clothed with 
short spreading grey pubescence. Stipules setaceous, 3-4 lines. Pe 
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