Tephrosia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 119 
erecto-patent. Leaves all digitately trifoliolate; leaflets oblanceolate, 
reaching 2-3 in. long, $2 in. broad, blunt, rigidly coriaceous, very 
pale green, glabrous above, permanently clothed with thick adpressed 
grey velvety pubescence beneath, the veins immersed. Flowers 12-30 
in dense terminal heads sometimes extending into the axils of the upper 
leaves. Bracts linear, silky, 1-3 in. Pedicels 1-2 lines, stiff, ascend- 
ing. Calyx 3 in. long, densely silky, the upper teeth at least as long 
as the tube, the lower longer and reaching down deeper. Corolla 
violet-purple, 2-2 in.; standard 3 in. broad, densely silky on the back. 
Pod subligneous, 2 in. long, 2 in. broad, 7—8-seeded, persistently grey- 
velvety, the sutures tawny. Style bearded throughout especially along 
the inner edge. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
a. Te cephalantha, Welw. mss. An erect copiously branched 
undershrub 1-2 ft, high, the flexuose branches densely clothed with 
spreading greyish-brown pubescence. Stipules linear, membranous, 
¢ in, lone, purplish-black, falcate. Petioles 1-14 lines. Leaflets 3, 
rarely 5, casually 1 at the base of the branches, oblanceolate, reaching 
12-18 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, rigidly coriaceous, upper surface 
glabrous, lower persistently argenteo-canescent, side ones smaller, all 
truncate, distinctly mucronate. Flowers 3-12 in dense sessile heads. 
Pedicels very short. Calyx 3-34 lines long, densely clothed with 
spreading silvery hairs; teeth linear, all much longer than the tube. 
Corolla 4-2 in., pale violet, turning yellowish when dried. Standard 
under 4 in, broad, densely silky on the back. Pod 12-18 lines long, 
3-33 lines broad, straight, persistently thinly silky, 8—12-seeded. 
Style flattened upwards, faintly bearded along the inner edge. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Var. B. decumbens, Welw. mss. 
Diffuse, half a foot high; stipules narrower; leaflets 6-9 lines broad; heads 3-4- 
owered; calyx 4 in. long, teeth subulate. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
40. 'T. gracilipes, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 194, t. 49. Stems 
erect, very diffuse, annual, about a foot high, the branches slender, 
ascending, angular, thinly adpressed grey-silky. Stipules } in. long, 
Setaceous from a dilated base. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis 1-14 
in. long, the leaflets in 3-5 pairs, linear, an inch long by 2 lines broad, 
upex rounded mucronate, upper surface glabrous, ‘lower thinly ad- 
Pressed-silky. Flowers in very lax terminal or leaf-opposed racemes 
of 2-4 each’ on filiform peduncles 3-1lin. long. Pedicel equalling the 
calyx, which is finely si ky, a line deep, the teeth lanceolate acuminate, 
reaching more than halfway down. Corolla purplish, twice the calyx, 
the standard Lin. broad. Pod finely downy, 2-1 in. long, } in. broad, 
6-8-seeded.—A, Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 189. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon, Schweinfurth! 
