'1't'lihrosin L!X;r.MixO I'l 



Var. littoralis />V /<//,. /// FL Bra*, xv. pi. 1, 48 (1^-V 

 pubescence (It-user, and on petioles and branches spreading ; 

 leaflets in 5-6 pairs, larger, '2-4 cm. 1.. ">-li' mm. br.Griseb. !<><. 

 cit. T. littoralis Pry,'. >'////. if. :5i"J (1807). Vicia littoralis J'/.-y. 

 X,7. #/<>/> - 1 /"'/ 206, /.' li'l- (17G3). Galena littoralis L. Su*i. 

 ed. 12, 497 (1767) ; Jocg. ,sW. ,s'//V^. 4roer. ed. ptc*. /. 192(1780?). 

 .racquin's original specimen from which t. 124 and the coloured 

 1. I'.IL' were drawn, is in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



iracfadijen ! Kind's House grounds, COO ft., Harris'. Fl. Jam. 695G. 

 Colombia, Guiana, Brazil. 



[T. Candida DC. Prodr. ii. 249 (1825) ; lealleis in 9-12 pairs, 

 3-5 cm. 1. ; flowers 2-2 '5 cm. 1. ; pods 8-10 cm. 1. B<il:. in 

 HooJt.f. Fl. Brit. I, t <L ii. 111. 



Naturalized, presumably an escape from the Botanic Gardens ; ^[orris ! 

 near Castleton ; near Hope Bay ; Harris \ Golden Spring, 800 ft., Thompson ! 

 Fl. Jam. 6031, 7988, 9040, 11,804. India, Malay Is. 



Shrub 4-10 ft. high, bushy; branches covered with velvety pubescence. 

 Li'dvcs 1-5-2 - 5 dm. 1. ; leaflets narrowly oblong, acute, glabrous on upper- 

 surface, grey and silky beneath. Flowers reddish, yellow or white, solitary 

 or in clusters in terminal and lateral racemes which are long or contracted 

 (to 1'5 dm. 1.1. Calyx densely silky, about 5 mm. 1. ; teeth deltoid, shorter 

 than the tube. Corolla white ; standard densely silky outside, about 2 cm. 

 1. Pod 10-15-seeded, straight or slightly recurved, with adpressed brown 

 silky hairs.] 



This species and others have been used as cover crops and green 

 dressing. 



[T. noetiflora Bojer e;c Bale, in FL Tn,j>. Afr. ii. 112 (1871) : 

 leaflets in 6-9 pairs, narrowly oblanceolate, apex rounded or 

 einarginate, mucronate, 2 5-4 5 cm. 1., 5-8 mm. br. ; stipules 

 filiform, villose, 6-9 mm. 1. ; calyx pubescent with long reddish- 

 yellow hairs ; tube 2 mm. L, the lower tooth lanceolate, equalling 

 the tube, the others shorter and deltoid ; pod 8-9-seeded, 

 ( -"> cm. L, 5-6 mm. br., densely clothed with fine brown silky 

 hairs, slightly curved upwards. 



Naturalized; Brandon Hill, 1000 ft., Thompson ! Asylum grounds, near 

 Kingston, Plaxton \ also Fawcctt ! King's House grounds, GOO ft.. /. 

 Kl. Jam. 6952, 8054. Africa. 



Spreading shrubby plant, 4-G ft. high, densely clothed with short brown 

 pubescence. Leaves 8-13 cm. 1.; petiole pubescent; leailrH glabrous on 

 upper surface, silky and grey beneath with adpressed hairs. 7-7<>//-/r.s white, 

 stuii'l.inl ,t<'d with purple, in small remote clusters in a raceme 



which is op; k leaf, 1*5-8 * 5 dm. 1. Corolla: standard pubescent on 



the outside, ovate-roundish, apex deeply einarginate and retuse, S mm. 1., 

 ,-ibout 1 cm. br., claw ij mm. ].; wings, obovate-oblong, blade s mm. L, 

 claw ~2 mm. 1. ; keel blade S mm. L, claw L' mm. 1., apex dose to ;i]>e\ 

 of wings. 



[T. grandiflora P/rx. ,s'///i. it. 329 i isi)7) : le.-iilcts in :>-7 pairs, 

 1-2 cm. 1. ; flowers '2-'2'~> cm. 1. ; pod glalu-ous (except on the 

 margins), about " em. 1. Hare, in IV. Cap. ii. 209; Griseb. 



