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var. honzontalis vat: nov. Diftert a typo sequentibus : Folioli 7-9, obovati 

 cuneati, minus Jati, profunde emHrgiiiati, mucronulati. ' Stipulaj 

 Bubulataa, loiigiores. Flores generatim 4-tascicuhiti in rhachide 

 gracillima angnlcsa flexnosa terminali vel lateifili usque 10 cm. Jontra. 

 Fasciculus infimus generatim in axilla folii subtendentis P< dictlTus 

 floris usque ad 4 mm , fructus ad o mm attingens. Legumen hori- 

 zontale, 4 cm. attingens, delicatule albo pube^cens, st} lo inteor« 

 glabro munitum. "^ 



Log. : Jodhpur : Jodhpur (No. 6977!). Jaisalmer : Viniorai sandv 

 plain (No. 6976). '' ' ^ 



Distrib. of type : Trop. Africa, Mauritius, India. 



Fl. and fr. in Oct. and Nov. 



NoTK : Tephrnsia incana Grab, has been made a variety of T. villosa 

 Pers. by Baker. Roxburgh's descri|ition of the plant and Wight's 

 ill 'stration make it difficult to understand how those two species 

 should ever have been united. 



Tc'iihrosia multi flora spec. vov. 

 Herba perennis, ramosa a basi ; rami erecti vel ascenr'et.tes, 50 cm 

 attingentes, graciles, dense piloso-j>ubescentes. Folia imparipin- 

 nata, 8 cm. attingentia, generatim, 7-, rarius 5-foli<.lata Stipula.' 

 reflexaj, siibulat;e, a-nervatjB. 6 mm. attingentes. Petiolus 3 cm. 

 lougus ; rhachis sulcata, hirsuta ; petiolulus uscpie ad 1 mm. 

 attingens. dense hirsutus. Folioli elliptici oblonj.i. Urn^ii alis 3 mm 

 longns, 9 mm. latus. laterales minores, apice obtusi. rtti si ^^l minu- 

 tim apiculati. basi rotundati vel cuneati, facie ventrali glabri, doirsali 

 argento-canescentes. 



Flores fasciulati, axillares, 1-6 fcrmantes fascmli m. Pedicelli 

 2 3 mm. longi. Calyx 2imm. longus, dense hirsuti s : lobi setacei 

 tubo plus minusve sequilongi. Corolla exstrta. rulra ; vexilluni 

 hirsutum in dorso, c ter^j rorollse partes glabra^. Cvnrii m hir- 

 sutum ; stylus compressus, giaber. Lei;umen lineare. aliqiiantulum 

 turgidum. 3 cm. longnm, valde curvatum, euspide brevi triangular 

 munitum, dense pilosum, intus continuum. Stmina 6-8. pallida. 



Near Roxburgh's T. pevicqihyHa which Baker in Fcok. f. H. Brit 

 Ind. II. 112. puts under 7". senficcsa Pers. T. pevfoj /j/Z/a Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. Ill, 384, should be retained as a distinct species. 7. s nticom 

 has a glabrous pod according to DC. Prodr. 11, 2/14. Baker says 

 it is persistently thinly canescent, while the rod of 1 ..xburgh's 

 plant is villous. Cooke's T. s<nlic<sa (in Fl. Bomb. Pres. 1, 326) as 

 far as is apparent from his descrij tion, sei ms to be 7' ] !nlJphvha 

 Roxb. ' 



Loc. : Jodhpur : Kotda near Sen (No. 6975 !), Jaisalmer : Shihad (No 

 6974 I ). ^ ■ 



Tephroda petrom spec. m-v. {^T. spinosa Baker in Fl. Brit. Ind. II. 



112 purtitn, non ]^eTS,). 



Suflrutex vel frutex humilis, profuse ramosus a basi et altius, rami 

 terminales gracillimi, argerifo-canescentt s, angulo^i. I olia 4^ cm. 

 longa Stipulse 5-6 mm. longjB. subulatae, cost a mtdia consp'icua 

 argento-canescentes, generatim reEexa^, rigida-, i-ed non nia^ns 

 quani in aliis geueris hujus specielus : rhachis hirsuta . pctioJuli vfx. 

 1 mm. attingentes, hirsuti. Folioli generatim 5. interc un 3 vel 7 

 nunqnam 9, terminalis g< neratim maxinuis, 27 n m 1« igus, 9 mm.' 

 latiis omnes obovati, apice mtuudnti, niucroi ati nitrcne'l mm 

 longo, facie superiore glaberrin)a, facie vero interi<.re, u argine et 

 mucrone dense argento-canescentibus. 



