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TEPHROSIA. F.B.I. 50 XXII. 



Herbs or undershrubs with odd-pinnate leaves, 

 recognizable as a rule by the very close straight nerves 

 which run as an acute angle to the margins of the leaflet. 

 Flowers pinkish or white in terminal or leaf-opposed 

 racemes. Pods straight, many-seeded. 



Species over 100 in the tropics of both worlds. 



Tcphrosia tinctoria Pers.; KB. I. ii III, XXII 4. 

 An undershrub covered with golden-brown pubescence. 

 Leaflets variable in number from 3 to 13, the end one 

 usually the longest, glabrous above, pubescent below. 

 Racemes peduncled. Flowers red. Pod slightly bent, 

 I to 2 inches. Wt. Ic. t. 388. 



Pulneys : on the slope above Shembaganur, etc. Nilgiris. 



Ge^t. Dist, Western Ghats up to 7,000 feet, Mysore, Coimbatore and 

 North Arcot. 



LESPEDBZA. f.b.i. 50 xxx. 



Herbs or undershrubs with pinnately three-foliate 

 leaves and one-seeded indehiscent strongly-veined pods. 

 Species few. 



Lespcdeza scricca Miq.\ F.B.I. ii 142, XXXII I. 

 An erect undershrub with long twiggy branches. 

 Leaflets, linear cuneate, silky. Flowers about J^ inch, 

 in small fascicles in the axils of the leaves all down the 

 branch. Pod Y^ inch, round, flattened, thinly silky. 



Pulneys : 6,000 to 7,000 feet. Bourne 2554. 



SMITHIA. F.B.I. 50 xxxviii. 



Herbs with short, pinnate leaves which end in a 



bristle and have sensitive leaflets, soon closing if plucked. 



Flowers in axillary racemes, calyx two-lipped. Corolla 



blue or yellow ; keel obtuse. Stamens in two bundles ot 



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