Tephrosia. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 207 
recurved at point, the older often glabrate above. Peduncles longer than the leaves 
and ending in a distantly many-flowered, 4-6 inch long raceme. Flowers 3 lines 
long, the vexillum densely hairy. Pods 1} inch long, 1-1} line wide, straight or 
slightly curved, acute. 8. appears to be a form from moister and more shady situa- 
tions. In many respects this agrees with 7. stricta, but differs in inflorescence. 
10. T. discolor (E. Mey.! Comm. Drege, p. 111); suffruticose, erect, 
virgate, canescent ; branches angular and rib-striate, straight; leaves 
very shortly petiolate, 4-6 jugate ; leaflets linear, subobtuse, margined, 
green above, silky and silvery beneath ; peduncles terminal and axillary, 
elongate, laxly many flowered, straight ; stipules and bracts shortly 
subulate ; legumes narrow-linear, biuncial, fulvous-pubescent, many- 
seeded. 
Has. Grassy places near Port Natal, Drege! Williamson! Gueinzius! (Herb. 
Bth., Hk., D.) 
2-3 feet high, slender, with the habit and inflorescence of 7. polystachya, but with 
much narrower and more linear leaflets, white hairy on the under surface. Leaflets 
uncial, scarcely a line wide, obtuse or mucronulate, of thickish substance, midribbed 
but not obviously nerved, erect or somewhat patent. Racemes 6-8 inches long, ta- 
pering ; the flowers nearly an inch apart, 4 lines long. Legume 2-23 inches long, 
about a line wide, somewhat tomentose-pubescent and rusty brown. 
11. T. Dregeana (E. Mey.! Linn. 7. p. 169); suffruticose, much 
branched, rigid, flexuoso-erect ; branches 4—angled, thinly appresso- 
puberulous; leaves on long, rigid petioles, 2-4 jugate ; leaflets linear- 
lanceolate, pale, flat, membranous, penninerved, thinly puberulous under- 
neath ; peduncles opposite the leaves, elongate, slender, straight, laxly 
pluri-flowered ; stipules and bracts shortly subulate; legumes pale, 
curved, puberulous or glabrate, 3-4 seeded. £.& Z./ No. 1634. 7’. bra- 
chyloba, E. Mey.! Comm. Drege, p. 110. 
Has. Near Bitterwater, 2400 f., and between Natvoet and the Gariep, 800 f. 
Drege! A. Wyley! (Herb. Sd., Bth., Hk., D.) 
Stems woody at base, remarkably rigid, and angularly bent. Foliage very pale, 
subglabrous. Leaflets 13-1} inch long, 1-1} line wide, flat, tapering to each end or 
with a blunt or emarginate apex. Racemes 6-8 inches long. Flowers small, 2 lines 
long. Legumes somewhat scymetar shaped, }-1 inch long, pale-yellowish green. 
12, T. Capensis (Pers. Ench. 2, p. 330); suffruticose, procumbent, 
flexuous, much thle slender, variably pubescent ; branches angular ; 
leaves on longish petioles, 3-6 jugate ; leaflets elliptical, cuneate-oblong 
or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, glabrescent or hairy, penninerved ; stipules 
subulate ; peduncles opposite the leaves, elongate, slender ; raceme m- 
terrupted, attenuated, distantly pluri-flowered ; legumes linear, narrow, 
minutely puberulous or subglabrate, sometimes pubescent. EF. Mey.! 
Comm. Drege, p. 110. E. & Z.! 1633. 2 mee 
i : leaflets glabrescent or thinly puberulous, oblong, o or su 
side yee De. Prod. 2. p. 252. Gila Cadena, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 62. 
Jacq. E. Rar. t. 574- : 
Van. A. hirsuta; leaflets densely pubescent or hairy underneath ; oblong, obtuse, 
or acute. 7. Capensis, B. acutifolia, BE. Mey.!l.c. — 
Var. y. angustifolia; leaflets linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, flat or com-— 
plicate, very narrow. 2. Mey.! 1. c. se Be 
Has. Common throughout the Colony and in Caffraria. Port Natal, Gueinzwus / 
(Herb. Th., D., Sd., &.) . : ee 
