110 xlvii. § papilionace^: (baker). [Tephrosia. 



1^-2 in. long, rather over \ in. broad, thinly brown-silky, 7-8-seeded. 

 Style bearded along- the upper side. 

 Upper Guinea. Niger country, Ansell ! Irving ! Vogel! and others. 



30. T. bracteolata, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 194. An erect robust 

 annual or biennial, 2-3 ft. high, the branches ascending, long*, straight, 

 slender, thinly adpressed-silky. Stipules lanceolate acuminate, ^-| in. 

 long*. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis 4-6 in. long ; leaflets in 6-10 

 pairs, linear or oblanceolate, 2-3 in. long, \-\ in. broad, apex rounded, 

 mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower very slightly adpressed grey- 

 silky. Flowers in lax terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, usually long- 

 stalked, 6-20-flowered, 4-6 in. long. Bracts linear, rigid, equalling 

 the pedicels which are 2-3 lines long. Calyx campanulate, 2 lines 

 deep, thinly silky, the lowest tooth lanceolate, equalling the tube, the 

 others deltoid and shorter. Corolla reddish, -J-f in. deep, the 

 standard \ in. broad, thinly silky on the back. Pod 2-3 in. long, 

 2-3 lines broad, nearly straight, finely grey-silky, 14-16-seeded.— A. 

 Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 186. T. Kotschyana, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 

 No. 716. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! 



Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin- Dillon and 

 Petit! 



Lower Guinea. Cazengo, Dr. Wtlwitsch! 

 Also a plant of the Cape Verde islands. 



31. T. andongensis, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub 2-3 feet 

 high, with ascending terete firm branches densely clothed with short 

 spreading grey down. Stipules setaceous, 1-1 \ lines. Petioles downy, 

 |-J inch. Leaves simple, oblanceolate-oblong, reaching 3-3J in. long, 

 8-12 lines broad, blunt with a small mucro, subcoriaceous, above grey 

 and glabrous, below shortly grey-pubescent, the veins raised and tawny. 

 Racemes very copious, terminal and lateral, stalked or sessile, reaching 

 6-9 in. long, the acute angled axis densely pubescent. Bracts lanceo- 

 late, 1 line. Pedicels 1-1J lines, erecto-patent, densely grey-downy. 

 Calyx 4 lines long, densely grey-downy ; the teeth ail exceeding the 

 tube, the upper linear, lower lanceolate acuminate. Corolla purplish- 

 red, | in. long ; standard 4^-5 lines broad, densely velvety on the 

 back. Ovary linear, densely grey-velvety, multiovulate. Style finally 

 | in. long, flattened upwards, penicillate at the apex. Mature pod not 

 seen. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welivitsch ! 



A second species of § Beineria, with simple leaves, was gathered by Forbes at Delagoa 

 Bay ( T. Forbesii, Baker). A perennial, with shortly grey-downy, slender brandies, 

 subsessile, linear, rigid leaves, 1^-2 inches long; flowers solitary, or in pairs in their 

 axils; calvx 2 lines long, with setaceous teeth exceeding the tube; corolla reddish, half 

 as long again as the calyx. 



32. T. dimorphophylla, Welw. mss. An erect herbaceous peren- 

 nial 2-3 ft. high, with firm long slender branches densely clothed with 

 short spreading grey pubescence. Stipules setaceous, 3-4 lines. Pe- 



