244 A FLORA OF MANILA 
oblong to elliptic-oblong, apiculate, 1 to 2 cm long, pale and appressed- 
pubescent beneath. Racemes axillary, solitary, 2 to 3 cm long. Flowers 
red, about 5 mm long, corolla long-exserted. Pods numerous, crowded, 
refiexed, strongly curved, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 6- to 8-seeded, slightly appressed- 
pubescent with very short hairs. 
In open waste places, San Pedro Macati, etc., fl. most of the year; 
widely distributed in the Philippines. A native of tropical America, now 
found in many other tropical countries. ; 
8. I. TINCTORIA L. Tayom (Tag.); Indigo. 
An erect, slightly pubescent shrub, 1 to 1.5 m high. Leaves 6 to 10 
em long; leaflets 9 to 13, obovate-oblong, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long. Racemes 
rather lax, sessile, 2 to 6 cm long. Flowers reddish or reddish-yelow, 
small. Pods spreading or reflexed, straight or nearly so, 2 to 3 cm long, 
8- to 12-seeded. (FI. Filip. pl. 163.) 
In thickets and waste places, Pasig, fl. ‘Aug. —Dec. and probably in other 
months; widely distributed in the Philippines but certainly introduced. 
Formerly, like the preceding species, extensively cultivated for indigo. 
Tropics generally. 
27. TEPHROSIA Persoon 
Herbs or undershrubs, erect or spreading, with odd-pinnate leaves, 
the leaflets opposite, usually pubescent. Racemes leaf-opposed. Flowers 
usually small, numerous. Calyx-tube campanulate, the teeth subequal. 
Petals clawed; standard suborbicular; keel incurved. Stamens diadel- 
phous; anthers obtuse. Ovary linear, many-ovuled; style incurved; stigma 
capitate, often penicillate. Pod linear, flat, 2-valved, many-seeded. (Greek 
“ash-colored,” from the gray pubescence of many species.) 
Species about 100 in the tropics of both hemispheres, 4 in the Philip- 
pines. 
1. T. dichotoma Desv. Balabalatungan (Tag.). 
An erect or ascending, branched, shrubby or suffrutescent plant 1 m high 
or less, all parts pubescent. Leaves 5 to 10 cm long, odd-pinnate; leaflets 
5 to 21, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, mucronate, base cuneate, 1 to 2.7 
em long, the lower surface pubescent with appressed pale hairs. Racemes 
short, dense, axillary, many-flowered. Flowers pink-purple, about 7 mm 
long. Pods many, straight or slightly curved, narrowly oblong, pubescent, 
2.5 to 3.5 cm long, about 4 mm wide, containing 7 to-12 seeds. (Fl. Filip. 
pl. 162, T. luzoniensis.) 
In open waste places, occasional, fl. most of the year; wapscnd distributed 
in Luzon. Endemic. 
29. MILLETTIA Wight & Arnott 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves odd-pinnate. Flowers 
showy, in axillary, simple, often fascicled racemes or in terminal panicles. 
Calyx campanulate, truncate or with short teeth. Corolla exserted, the 
petals clawed; standard broad; keel not beaked. Stamens monadelphous 
or diadelphous. Ovary linear, few-ovuled; style incurved; stigma capitate. 
Pod linear to oblong, usually flat, few-seeded, indehiscent or tardily so. 
(In honor of Doctor Millet, an English physician.) 
Species 60 or more in the tropics of the Old World, 6 or more in the ~ 
Philippines. . 
