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glabra apice rotundata basi auriculata; carina ungue 3°5 mm. 
longo, lamina forma asciae 1-2 cm _ longa 6 mm. lata. TJ'ubus 
staminalis 1-2 em. longus, glaber. Ovarium 1-2 om. longum, 
pilosum, 8-ovulatum; stylus sub angulo recto inflexus, 6 mm. 
longus, barbatus. Legumen rectum, lineare, 5 cm. longum, 
6 mm. latum, dense fulvo-pilosum. Semina compressa, ad 4 mm. 
longa, 3 mm. lata, brunnea, nigro-variegata. —T'. crassifolia Seem. 
Bot. Hetald: 280 (1856); Hemsl. Biol: i. 257, partim; non Benth. 
Sierra Madre, Seemann 2183 (type in Herb. Kew). 
T. purpurea (L.) Pers——Cracca purpurea L.; Rydb. in N. Am. 
Fl. xxiv. 179. 
Sinaloa (fide Rydberg). 
T. rhodantha Brandegee in Zoe, v. 201 (1905).—Cracca 
rhodantha Rose; CNH. xii. 270; CNH. xxiii. 472. 
Cofradia, Brandegee ; Lodiego, Palmer 1619. 
T. Seemannii (Britten et HE. G. Baker) K. Schum. —Cracca 
ae ea Britten et E. G. Baker in Journ. Bot. 1900, 17; 
CNH. x 473. Tephrosia virginiana Seem. Bot. Herald, 280 
(1856) ; Hank Biol. i. 258; non Pers. 
Sierra Madre, in woods, ee 2191. 
Vernacular name “ Galli 
T. submontana (Rose) am comb. nov.—Cracca submontana 
Rose in CNH. viii. 46 (1903); CNH. xxiii. 473. Tephrosia 
Sea tha Seem. Bot. Herald, 280 (1856); Hemsl. Biol. i. 257, 
partim; non H.B.K. 
Cerro de Pinal, fl. and fr. Dec. 1848, Seemann 1532. 
T. talpa S. igs in PAA, xxii. 405 (1887)—Cracca talpa Rose; 
CNH. xxiii. 473. 
Sinaloa (fide Standley). 
T. toxicaria Pers.; Mart. Fl. Bras. xv. pars 1, 46, t. 8; 
Zoe, v. 201; Faweett and Rendle, Fl. Jam. iv. part 2, 18; Urb. 
Symb. Antill. viii. 283.—Cracca toxicaria Kuntze; CNH. ' 
xxiii. 473 
Cofradia and Cerro Colorado, Brandegee. 
“Surinam Poison.” The plant is said to have been used 
- in the treatment of cutaneous diseases, to have purgative 
properties, and to affect the heart in the same manner as digitalis.° 
It is used as a fish-poison, and is reported to yield a blue dye. 
Gliricidia Lambii Fernald in Bot. Gaz. xx. 533 (1895). 
Rosario: in the valley of Rio Rosario, Lamb 451; also 
observed along the stage road between Rosario and Santiago. 
Vernacular name “ Cacaguan ananchi.”’ 
Standley (CNH. xxiii. 482) evidently considers G. Lambir 
conspecific with G. sepium. I have seen no authenticated 
specimens of G. Lambit, but a careful comparison of Fernald’s 
description with material of G. sepiwm reveals so many points 
