208 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [ Tephrosia. 
Stems many from a woody crown, 2-3 feet long, procumbent or trailing. Petiole 
an inch long to the first pair of leaflets. Leaflets very variable in breadth, size, shape, 
and amount of pubescence, but usually glabrous on the upper surface. Peduncles 
8-ro inches long, about half occupied by the interrupted raceme. Flowers purple, 
3 lines long ; the vexillum pubescent. Var. 8. gathered by Drege at the Zuureberg 
and at Glenfilling, and by Dr. Pappe in the district of George, has its short pubes- 
cence quite patent, and has rather larger flowers than the other forms. The legume 
is often nearly glabrous, but is sometimes patently pubescent on specimens which 
have subglabrous leaflets. 
13. T. elongata (E. Mey. Comm. Drege, p. r11) ; suffruticose, ascend- 
ing, flexuous, variably pubescent or glabrescent; branches rib-striate ; 
leaves on longish petioles, 2-1—jugate ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, 2-4 
uncial, margined, obliquely nerve-striate, the terminal longest ; ra- 
cemes opposite the leaves, elongate, interruptedly pluri-flowered ; le- 
gumes narrow-linear, 2-24 uncial, velvetty or subglabrous, many-seeded, 
somewhat turgid. Sond. in Linn. vol, 23, p. 30. 
VaR. a. pubescens; leaves mostly 2-jugate, or the lower unijugate ; leaflets, 
stems, and legumes pubescent. ’. ensifolia, Harv. (olim) in Herb. 
Var. 8. glabra; leaves mostly unijugate ; leaflets and stems glabrous or mi- 
nutely puberulent ; legumes velvetty or glabrate. 7’. coriacea, Benth. in Herb. 
Has. Between the Omsamculo and Omcomas, Drege! Port Natal, Williamson! 
Gueinzius! Sanderson! (28) Vaal River and Magalisberg, Burke and Zeyher! 
(Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
Stem 6-12 inches to 2 feet long, subsimple, the shorter ones nearly erect, the longer 
angularly bent and either ascending or procumbent. Leaflets of the upper leaves 
3-4 inches long, and 3-4 lines wide, acute or acuminate ; of the lower leaves shorter, 
broader, and more obtuse. Pubescence variable. Flowers in pairs, about an inch 
apart, on a long peduncle. Legumes 2 inches or more in length. Var. B. is not 
= glabrous, and in other respects is so like a, that we consider it best to unite 
em. 
14. T. lurida (Sond. Linn. 23, p. 30) ; suffruticose, ascending, flexu- 
ous; branches quadrangular, thinly canescent ; leaves on long petioles, 
2-3—jugate ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, 3-5-uncial, margined, glabrous 
above, appressedly silky and paler beneath, obliquely nerve-striate ; 
stipules setaceo-subulate, shorter than the petiole; peduncles opposite 
the leaves and terminal, elongate, 2-6 flowered in an interrupted ra-_ 
ceme ; legumes narrow-linear, 24 uncial, fulvo-tomentose ; style bearded. 
Zey.! 450. — 
Has. Mooi River, Magalisberg, ile River, ! 
(ied. 84, Bes He’) agalisberg, and Crocodile River, Burke and Zeyher 
Stems many, 12-14 inches high, subsimple, either canescent or thinly and appres- 
sedly pubescent, pale, as is also the foliage. Leaflets 5 inches long, 14 line wide, 
tapering to each end, variably pubescent. Flowers 5 lines long, in distant pairs to- ma 
wards the extremity of the 6-8 uncial peduncles. Legumes 2-3 inches long, 2 lines 
wide, compressed and densely tomentose, fulvescent. Chiefly distinguished from 
T’. longipes by its longer leaflets in fewer pairs. I fear the limits between the two 
are rather indefinite. 
15. T. longipes (Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 87); suffruticose, 
erect, thinly silky-canescent or appresso-pubescent ; branches quadran- 
gular ; leaves on long petioles, 4-8 (10)-jugate; leaflets narrow-linear, 
acute, 2-3-wncial, complicate or open, glabrous above, appressedly silky 
and paler beneath, obliquely nerve-striate ; stipules setaceo-subulate, 
shorter than the petiole ; peduncles terminal and opposite the leaves, 
