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206 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [ Tephrosia. 
branches sparsely hairy or subglabrous. Petioles 3-4 lines long ; leaflets 10-12 lines 
_long, 2-3 lines wh eto about an inch apart. Compared by Sonder with 
T. stricta and T. polystachya ; but it seems to me rather intermediate between 7’. pal- 
lens and 7’. Capensis, var. 8. having the habit and foliage, but not the pubescence or 
inflorescence, of the former; and having the inflorescence and much of the pubes- 
cence of the latter. 
7 .T. amoena (E. Mcy.! Comm. p. 109); suffruticulose, slender, erect, 
branching ; leaves shortly petiolate, close-set, patent, 7-9 jugate ; leaf- 
lets cuneate-linear, obtuse, margined, glabrous above, appressedly pubes- 
cent and closely penninerved beneath ; stipules subulate; peduncles 
axillary and terminal, elongate, laxly racemose ; pedicels much longer 
than the subulate bracts; legumes narrow, thinly downy. 
Ranting of the Omsameaba and on grassy hills near Omtendo, Drege! (Herb. 
Stems “ inches high, erect, subfastigiate, ribstriate, with internodes about 1 inch 
apart or less ; leaves recurved. Leaflets ? inch long, 1 line wide, very blunt or sub- 
truncate or recurvo-mucronulate, Racemes laxly many flowered ; the flowers 3 lines 
long, in pairs, on pedicels } inch long. Allied to 7’. pallens, but much smaller, more 
slender, less hairy, with narrower leaflets, 
8. T. Kraussiana (Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 2, p- 87); shrubby, 
erect, straight, densely leafy ; leaves shortly petiolate, patent, 7-10 ju- 
gate; leaflets narrow-linear, complicate, recurvo-mucronulate, glabrous 
above, silky-canescent beneath ; stipules setaceo-subulate, longer than 
the petiole; peduncles axillary and terminal, elongate, laxly racemose ; 
pedicels much longer than the subulate bracts ; legumes narrow, thinly 
canescent, 6—7 seeded. 
Has. Tafelberg, Port Natal, Krauss, No. 40. Coastland, 1000 f., Dr, Sutherland. 
(Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) : 
A rigid, woody, densely leafy shrub, 2-3 feet high ; the branches virgate or ramu- 
lous, rib-furrowed ; all parts thinly covered with short, appressed whitish pubescence. 
The plant turns dark in drying. Leaves recurved ; leaflets 1 inch or more in length; 
scarcely 1 line wide, acute at each end. Racemes crowded in a spurious panicle 
toward the end of the branches, 4-5 inches long. Flowers 3 lines long ; the vexil- 
lum silky, the other petals glabrous. Legumes 1} inch long, not two lines wide. 
Allied to 7. amoena, but much more robust and woody, with narrower and longer 
leaves, &c, 
9. T. polystachya e Mey.! Comm. Drege, p. 109) ;_ suffruticose, 
erect ; stem and branches straight, rib-striate and angular, pubescent 
or hairy; leaves shortly petiolate, suberect, 5-9 jugate ; leaflets sub- 
cuneate-oblong, pubescent on one or both sides, paler beneath and closely 
penninerved, mucronate ; stipules subulate; peduncles axillary and 
terminal, elongate, laxly racemose; bracts subulate ; legumes narrow, — 
linear, pubescent or hairy, about 8-seeded. 
Var. 8. latifolia ; leaflets oblong, uncial, retuse, mucronate, 4-5 lines wide. 
Var. 7. hirta ; stems, branches, and inflorescence roughly rusty-pubescent ; ra- 
cemes shorter and more densely flowered than usual, and legumes more hairy. 
Has. Flats and grassy valleys between Gekau and Basche, near Omtata, Om- 
samwubo, Omsameaba, and Port Natal, 200-2000 f., Drege! Williamson! B.at Port 
Natal, Gueinzius, No. 616. -y. at Port Natal, Sutherland ! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Stems 2-3 feet high, slender, strongly furrowed, with close or spreading, yellowish 
or foxy pubescence ; branches and leaves suberect. Leaflets $-] inch long, 2-3 lines 
wide (in 8. longer, broader, thinner, and less hairy), flat or subcomplicate, sometimes 
