XLVIII. LEGUMINOS.i:. 323 



loDg, pinkish-violet ; standard silky outside. Pods 3-4 by jV~s '*"•' 

 flattened, densely velvety with short golden-brown hairs, thickened at 

 the sutures. Seeds 3-8, about ^- in. long, vellowish-brown. F\. B. I. 

 V. 2, p. 110; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 29; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 68 ; Woodr. 

 in. Journ. Bomb. Kit. V. 11 (1897) p. 422; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 v. 5, p. 288. Teplirosia suberosa, DC. Prodr. v. 2, p. 249 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 47; Dalz. & Gibs. p. GO. — Plowers : Aug.-Oct. Vehn. Supti. 



Konkan: Stocks], BuLcll I Deccan : Golak, Cooke \, Woodrow. S. M. Country: 

 roc-ky hills east of Belgauiu, Graham 8( Gihso7i; S. of Padshapur, Ritchie, 11731; 

 Badami, Cookel, Woodrow !, Talbot. — Distrib. Iiidia(W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Tropical 

 Africa, Natal. 



The seeds are said to be used for poisoning fish. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. I.e. 



15. TEPHROSIA, Pers. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves usually imparipinnate, sometimes 

 simple, stipulate ; leaflets opposite, usually numerous (rarely 1-3), 

 parallel- veined, often silky beneath. Flowers in terminal or leaf- 

 opposed racemes which are often leafy at the base, or solitary, or in 

 pairs in the axils of the leaves. Calyx-teeth or -lobes subequal, or the 

 2 upper more deeply connate, or the low er longer. Petals clawed ; 

 standard suborbicular ; wings obliquely obovate or oblong. Stamens 

 diadelphous when the flower is fully open ; anthers obtuse, uniform. 

 Ovary sessile ; ovules many (rarely 2) ; style incurved, often flattened, 

 glabrous or bearded ; stigma terminal, often penicillate. Po.l usually 

 linear, flattened, many-seeded, 2-valved, continuous within or obscurely 

 septate between the seeds. Seeds sometimes with a small strophiole. — 

 Distrib. Tropics of both hemispheres; species about 100. 



Leaves simple. 



Flowers ] -2 in the axils of the leaves 1. T. tenuis. 



Leaves compound (sometimes a few casually simple in 7'. tinctoria 

 and T. coccinea). 

 Plowers in elongated racemes. 

 Pod slightly pilose or silk}'. 

 Style bearded throughout. 



Leaflets 7-13, elliptic-oblong 2. T. tinctoria. 



Leaflets .5, obovate 3. T. coccinea. 



Style not bearded thi'oughout. 



Leaflets 11-21 4. T.j)urpurea. 



Leaflets 5-9 6- T. AppoUinea. 



Pod densely hairy &. T. villosa. 



Flowers 1-2 in the axils of the leaves. 



Pod much recurved 7. T. senticosa. 



Pod nearly straight 8. T. pauciflora. 



1. Tephrosia tenuis. Wall. Cat. (1828) 5970. Annual ; stems 

 slender, terete, densely coespitose, reaching 1 ft. long; branches filiform, 

 and as well as the stems more or less clothed with closely appressed 

 hairs. Leaves simple, 1-H by yz-t^ in., linear, suddenly or gradually 

 narrowed at the apex, long-apiculate, slightly hairy above, silky beneath, 

 narrowed at the base ; midrib prominent on the under surface ; nerves 

 obscure; petioles j^^-j^ in. long; stipules ^^"8 i^- ^^"8' subulate. 

 Flowers solitary or 2 together in the axils of the leaves; pedicels \-\ in. 

 ]ong, filiform. Calyx J^ in. long, silky; teeth lanceolate-subulate. 

 Corolla ^ in. long, at first bluish, afterwards turning yellow {Ritchie); 



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