124 XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Tephrosia. 
dard 4 lines broad, densely silky. Pod linear, 13-2 in. long, 2 lines 
broad, slightly recurved, persistently clothed with short spreading silky 
pubescence, 10—12-seeded. Style glabrous. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
53, 'T. drepanocarpa, Welw. mss. A decumbent perennial herb, 
with trailing stems more than a foot long, branched and ascending 
towards the end, clothed with short spreading grey pubescence. Sti- 
pules lanceolate, patent, 14-2 lines. Petioles 1—3 lines ; rachis 9-18 
lines; leaflets 7-13, oblanceolate, 6-9 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, 
blunt, mucronate, glabrous above, thinly grey-downy below. Racemes 
copious, terminal and lateral, reaching 3—4 in. long, moderately dense, 
the axis densely pubescent. Pedicels 1-14 lines. Bracts linear as 
long as the pedicels. Calyx } in. long, finely grey-downy, teeth linear, 
as long as the tube. Corolla bright rose-purple, twice the calyx. Pod 
9-12 lines long, 24 lines broad, much recurved, 4—6-seeded, elabrescent, 
slightly torulose when mature. Style glabrous, penicillate at the pomt. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
54. 'T. Apollinea, DC. Prod. ii. 254, non aliorum, Stems suffru- 
ticose, 12-18 in. high, diffusely branched from the base, the branches 
firm, subglabrous. Stipules linear, firm, 2 lines long. Petioles $1 in. 
long. Rachis an inch or less long; leaflets in 2—4 pairs, oblong oF 
oblanceolate, 3-1} in. long, 1} in. broad, apex emarginate and mucto- 
nate, the upper surface quite and the lower nearly glabrous. Racemes 
terminal or lateral, laxly 6—-12-flowered, stalked or sessile. Bracts 
linear, rigid like the pedicel equalling the calyx, which is subg laa 
2 lines deep, the teeth linear-subulate, reaching halfway down. Corel a 
red, twice as long as the calyx, the standard 4 lines broad. Pods ne 
slightly upcurved, 18-21 lines long, 2 lines broad, glabrous, 6- : 
seeded. Style glabrous, pencillate at the point.—Galeya Apollinet, 
Delile Fl. Aigypt. 144, t. 33. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Schweinfurth! Binder! Petherick! Bromfield! 
Sometimes cultivated. . 
Extends northward into Egypt, and through Arabia into Scinde. The T. Apollnts 
Guill. and Perr. Fl. Seneg. 196; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 187, is T. anthylloides, and ° 
Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 47, is 7. ineana. 
55. 'T. purpurea, Pers.; DC. Prod. ii. 251. A copiously branched 
herbaceous perennial, 1-2 ft. high, with firm, slender, subglabrous stems. 
Stipules linear, 2-4 lines. Petioles 1-3 lines; rachis 2-3 in. ; leaflets 
13-17, oblanceolate, 9-12 lines long, }—3 in. broad, blunt, mucronate, 
subcoriaceous, both sides grey-green, upper glabrous, lower nearly 80 
Racemes terminal and lateral, 8—6 in. long, laxly 6—20-tlowered, sessile 
or shortly stalked. Bracts linear, 1-2 lines. Pedicels 1-2 lines, su 
glabrous, erecto-patent. Calyx 2 lines, slightly silky, teeth lanceolate 
acuminate, exceeding the tube. Corolla {~3 in., red-purple, standard 
4 in. broad. Pod linear, slightly recurved, glabrous, 14-2 in. long, * 
lines broad, 6—10-seeded. Style glabrous, penicillate at the point. 
1. leptostachya, DC. loc. cit. . indigofera, Bert. Misc. xix. 9, t. » 
