320 XLTIII. LEGUM1N0S>E. 



5. Tephrosia ApoUinea, Lhil; Enum. Hort. Berol. v. 2 (1822) 

 p. 252. Suffraticose, 12-18 in. hi^h, diffusely branched from the base ; 

 branches glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaves l\-^\ in. long ; petioles 

 l-\ in. long ; stipules g-^ in. long, linear-subulate, deflexed or spreading, 

 rigid, conspicuous. Leaflets 5-9, oblong or oblanceolate, |-1^ by \-\ in., 

 eiuarginate, mucronate, glabrous above, more or less silky beneath. 

 Flowers in leaf-opposed lax 6-]2-flo\vered racemes longer than the 

 leaves : pedicels g in. long ; bracts rigid, subulate. Calyx ^ in. long, 

 silky ; teeth triangular, acute, equalling tlie tube. Corolla violet, about 

 twice as long as the tube. Standard downy on the back. Style glabrous ; 

 stigma penicillate. Pods Ig-l | in. long, curved upwards, mucronate, 

 appressedly thinly hairy. Seeds G-9. Not in Y\. B. I.; Baker, in 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 2, p. 124 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 42 ; Boiss. PI, 

 Orient, v. 2, p. 192. 



A verj' rare plant in the Bombay Presidency. Sind : Stocks ex Aitchison 1. c. and 

 fide Baker, in Fl. Trop. Afr. 1. c. I have seen no specimens. The plant has been 

 included on the authority of Aitchison.— Distkib. Beluchistan, Aden, Nubia, Abys- 

 sinia, Egypt. 



6. Tephrosia villosa, Pers. Syn. PI v. 2 (1807) p. 329. 

 Perennial ; branches numerous, spreading, clothed \\'\i\\ white appressed 

 hairs. Leaves nearly sessile, 2-3 in. long ; stipules linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, sometimes reaching j| in. long, deflexed or spreading (rarely 

 ascending). Leaflets 11-19, grey-green, ^-g by fV~H^' narrowly 

 oblanceolate, usually emarginate and mucronate, nearly glabrous above, 

 silky beneath, base cuneate ; petiolules of lateral leaflets y^ in., those of 

 the terminal g in. long. Flowers large, few, in lax elongate i-acemes 

 6 in. or more in length, the louer flowers in distant fascicles, the 

 lowest often in the axils of the leaves; pedicels very short; bracts 

 linear-subulate, ])lumose. Calyx -^^ in. long, hairy outside ; teeth 

 thrice as long as the tube, linear-subulate, densely hairy. Corolla red ; 

 standai'd equalling the calyx, suborbicular, silky on the back. Style 

 flattened, glabrous ; stigma penicillate. Pods 1-1 5 iu. long by ^-i in. 

 broad, persistently velvety with dense spreading fulvous hairs, very 

 shortly mucronate, falcately ciu'ved upwards. Seeds (5-8. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 2, p. 113; Ti-im. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 33 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb, Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 422; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod, v, 6, part 4, p. 15.— 

 Flowers: July-Sept. 



Gujarat: Godra. Cookv] S. M. Counthy : Badanii, Wot id row \ abimdaut in tlie 

 compound of the Engineer's bungalow, Vookc\ — Distkiu. Througliout tlie phiiiis of 

 India; Mauritius, Trojiiual Africa. 



Var. ivcana, Baker, in Hook. f. Fl. B. T. v. 2, p. 113. Steins 

 clothed with short spreading pubescence. Lcaflels somewhat broader, 

 sometimes reaching h in. broad. Pods more densely velvety and some- 

 what broader than in Ihe tvpe. Tei)hrosla incana, Clrah. in AVall. Cat, 

 5(544 {sp.)-, Wight & Arn. Prodr. p. 212; Grab. Cat. ]). 47. 



S. M. Cduntuy : I'adsliapur jungh's (near Bdgauni), h'i/cliic, 1107 I Oi'Jarat : Latv 

 ex (irahcim. 



7. Tephrosia senticosa, /'n-s. S>/n. PI. v. 2 (1807) p. 330. A 

 low much-branched shrub; brandies divaricate, slender, terete, argenteo- 

 canescent. Jicaves 1-Hin. long; p(;tio]es yV.-.q i'l. long; stipules \ in, 

 long, subulate, hairy. Leaflets \~\ I by J - {"c, in., lighl-green and glabrous 



