Tephrosia.| - LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 209 
interruptedly racemose near the summit; legumes narrow-linear, 2-3 
uncial, fulvo-tomentose, compressed, many-seeded ; style bearded. 
Var. 8. uncinata; leaflets 2 lines wide, obtuse, recurvo-mucronate. Zey.! 455. 
Has. Port Natal, Krauss/ No. 20. Aapjes River and Macallisberg, Burke and 
Zeyher! Delagoa Bay, Forbes! (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
Stems 1-2 feet high, curved at base, then erect, subsimple, pale. Leaves 4-6 
inches long ; leaflets in several pairs, 14-24 inches long, 1-2 lines wide, acute at 
each end, but not tapering, mucronate and sometimes hook-pointed, as in var. B., 
which is a stronger growing plant, with broader leaflets. Flowers in pairs, 1-2 inches 
apart, several on a lengthening raceme. ‘Legumes 3 inches long, 2 lines wide. 
16. T. oblongifolia (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 108) ; “stems procumbent, 
terete, pubescent, flagelliform ; leaves shortly petiolate, 2—5-jugate ; 
leaflets elliptic-oblong, strigoso-pubescent or hairy, netted-veined, pro- 
minently ribbed and veined beneath, mucronulate; stipules setaceo- 
subulate ; peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves ; racemes elongated, 
interrupted, the flowers in subdistant pairs, shortly pedicellate ; calyx 
densely hirsute ; flowers small and hairy ; style bearded ; legumes coria- 
ceous, broadish, fulvous-hairy, 3-seeded.” H. Mey. Zey.! 520. 
Has. Grassy hills at Omsamcaba and near Omtendo, and Port Natal, Drege / 
Macallisberg, Burke and Zeyher! Port Natal, Krauss, No.174. (Hb., Bth., Hk.) 
Stems very long, trailing and subsimple, either appressedly or patently pubescent, 
pale or fulvous. Leaflets 14-2 inches long, + line wide, obtuse or acute, flat, with 
slightly revolute margins, green, appressedly pubescent above, with more copious and 
looser pubescence beneath, green on both sides ; the young leaves densely silky. 
Calyz-lobes of equal length, the four upper ovate-acuminate, the lowest lanceolate. 
Corolla 14 as long as the calyx ; petals hairy. I have not seen legumes. Burke and 
Zeyher’s specimens from Magallisberg are of stronger growth, with more copious pu- 
bescence and shorter peduncles than usual. __ 
2. APODYNOMENE, (Sp. 17-21.) 
17. T. grandiflora (Pers. Ench. 2, p. 329) ; shrubby, erect, variably 
pubescent ; leaves shortly petiolate, 5-7-jugate ; leaflets cuneate-oblong, 
or linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, retuse or mucronulate, variably pubes- 
cent on one or both sides ; peduncles terminal and opposite the leaves, 
angular and canescent, fasciculato-corymbose at the summit ; bracts 
broadly ovate, deciduous ; calya-teeth from a broad base subulate ; legume 
broad, linear, glabrescent, plano-compressed, hispid at the sutures, many 
seeded ; style bearded; vexillum silky. DC. Prod. 2. p.251. B.&Z.! 
No. 1629. Galega grandiflora, Vahl. Symb. 2, p. 84. Thunb.! Fl. Cap, 
p. 602. G. rosea, Lamk. Apodynomene grandiflora, EL, Mey.! Comm. p. 111 
Has. Frequent among shrubs in the districts of Uitenhage and Albany, and in 
Caffraria, EZ. § 2.1 Drege! Pappe, §c. Paarl, Rev. W. Elliott? Coastland, lat. 30° _ 
8., Natal, Dr. Sutherland! (Herb. Thb., Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
A rigid shrubby plant, 1-2 feet high, very variable in the amount of pubescence ; 
Sometimes subglabrous, sometimes with densely hairy stems and leaflets canescent 
beneath. Leaflets also very uncertain in length and breadth ; sometimes shortly 
cuneate and almost obcordate, sometimes long and verging to lanceolate. Peduncles 
shorter or longer than the leaves. Flowers the largest in the genus, 8-10 lines long, 
red, fulvescent on the outside. The young flowers are enwrapped in very broad _ 
ovate bracts, which fall off on the opening of the flower. Ae 
18, T. glomeruliflora (Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 2, p. 86); suf- 
fruticose, erect; stems terete, branching, thinly canescent or glabrate ; 
leaves on short petioles, 6-8 (ro)-jugate ; leaflets on longish petiolules, 
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