120 XLVI. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. 
41. T, linearis, Pers.; DC. Prod. ii. 254. An erect copiously 
branched perennial 1-8 ft. high with very slender virgate branches 
with a few inconspicuous adpressed grey hairs. Stipules linear, very 
minute. Petioles 1-2 lines; rachis 6-18 lines; leaflets 5-17, linear, 
12-15 lines long, 3-1 line broad, ascending, glabrous above, persis- 
tently thinly grey-canescent below. Flowers 4—8 in very lax racemes 
which are sometimes stalked, sometimes reach down into the axils of 
the leaves. Pedicels 1-14 lines, erecto-patent. Calyx 1 line long, 
densely silky; teeth linear-subulate, exceeding the tube. Corolla 
reddish, 1 in. long; standard } in. broad. Pod linear, 15—24 lines 
long’, 4 in. broad, slightly recurved, finely downy, 12—18-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet! Heudelot! Guinea proper, Thonning, Vogel! 
Nile Land. . Nubia, Kotschy! and others. on 
Lower Guinea. Ambriz, Congo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
42. T. pulchella, Hook. f. Fl. Nigr. 299. Stems erect, suffruticose, 
2-3 ft. high, copiously paniculately branched, the branches ascending, 
straight, slender, thinly silky. Stipules } in. long, setaceous. Leaves 
nearly sessile, the rachis an inch or less long, the leatlets in 4-5 pairs, 
3-2 in. long, 1 line broad, rigidly coriaceous, narrowed gradually from 
the apex to the base, truncate or emarginate with a mucro, upper 
surface glabrous, lower quite argenteous. Flowers in very lax terminal 
and lateral racemes of 3-6 each, sometimes but not always on long 
veduncles or casually solitary in the axils of the leaves. Bracts subu- 
late, } in. long. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which is thinly silky, - 
4 in. ent the teeth subulate, reaching halfway down. Corolla reddish, 
twice as long as the calyx, the standard } in. broad, silky on the back. 
Pod linear, 14-2 in. long, $ in. broad, nearly straight, finely grey- 
silky, 10—12-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Banks of the Quorra, Dr. Baikie! Vogel! Barter! 
43. T. longipes, Mvissn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 87. Stem suffru- 
ticose, 1-2 ft. high, erect, sparingly branched, terete, the branches 
slender, angular, thinly adpressed-silky. Stipules setaceous, } in. long: 
Leaves sessile; rachis 2 in. long; leaflets in 4—5 pairs, linear, 14-1 
in. long, 2 lines broad, rigidly coriaceous, often folded, the uppe 
surface glabrous, the lower argenteous. Racemes terminal and lateral, 
laxly 6-10-flowered, usually on long rigid peduncles but sometimes 
sessile. Pedicels and linear bracts equalling the calyx, which is 2 lines 
deep, brown-silky, the teeth lanceolate acuminate, subequal, reaching 
more than halfway down. Corolla purplish, 4 lines long in our plant, 
the standard } in. broad, very silky on the back. Pod linear, nearly 
straight, 13-2 in. long, 2 lines broad,.densely but finely brown-silky, 
10—12-seeded—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 208. 
Wile Land. Karague, Speke and Grant, 487! at 5000 ft. 
Also a plant of Natal and the north-east of Cape Colony. 
