Tephrosia.] xlvii. § papilionace^e (baker). 119 



erecto-patent. Leaves all digitately trifoliolate ; leaflets oblanceolate, 

 reaching 2-3 in. long, J-| in. broad, blunt, rigidly coriaceous, very 

 pale green, glabrous above, permanently clothed with thick adpressed 

 grey velvety pubescence beneath, the veins immersed. Flowers 12-30 

 in dense terminal heads sometimes extending into the axils of the. upper 

 leaves. Bracts linear, silky, ^-f in. Pedicels 1-2 lines, stiff, ascend- 

 ing. Calyx | in. long, densely silky, the upper teeth at least as long 

 as the tube, the lower longer and reaching down deeper. Corolla 

 violet-purple, |-| in. ; standard j in. broad, densely silky on the back. 

 Pod subligneous, 2 in. long, f in. broad, 7-8-seedea, persistently grey- 

 velvety, the sutures tawny. Style bearded throughout especially along 

 the inner edge. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch I 



39. T. cephalantha, Welw. mss. An erect copiously branched 

 undershrub 1-2 ft. high, the flexuose branches densely clothed with 

 spreading greyish-brown pubescence. Stipules linear, membranous, 

 J in. long, purplish-black, falcate. Petioles 1-1^ lines. Leaflets 3, 

 rarely 5, casually 1 at the base of the branches, oblanceolate, reaching 

 12-18 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, rigidly coriaceous, upper surface 

 glabrous, lower persistently argenteo-canescent, side ones smaller, all 

 truncate, distinctly mucronate. Flowers 3-12 in dense sessile heads. 

 Pedicels very short. Calyx 3-3|- lines long, densely clothed with 

 spreading silvery hairs; teeth linear, all much longer than the tube. 

 Corolla ^— § in., pale violet, turning yellowish when dried. Standard 

 under J in. broad, densely silky on the back. Pod 12-18 lines long, 

 3-3J lines broad, straight, persistently thinly silky, 8-12-seeded. 

 Style flattened upwards, faintly bearded along the inner edge. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch I 

 Var. /3. decumbens, Welw. mss. 



Diffuse, half a foot high ; stipules narrower ; leaflets 6-9 lines broad ; heads 3-4- 

 flowered ; calyx 4 in. long, teeth subulate. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Wdwitsch I 



40. T. gracilipes, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 194, t. 49. Stems 

 erect, very diffuse, annual, about a foot high, the branches slender, 

 ascending, angular, thinly adpressed grey-silky. Stipules \ in. long, 

 setaceous from a dilated base. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis 1-1 i 

 in. long, the leaflets in 3-5 pairs, linear, an inch long by 2 lines broad, 

 apex rounded mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly ad- 

 pressed- silky. Flowers in very lax terminal or leaf-opposed racemes 

 of 2-4 each on filiform peduncles J-l in. long. Pedicel equalling the 

 calyx, which is finely silky, a line deep, the teeth lanceolate acuminate, 

 reaching more than halfway down. Corolla purplish, twice the calyx, 

 the standard \ in. broad. Pod finely downy, j-1 in. long, J in. broad. 

 6-8-seeded.— A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 189. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelotl 

 Wile Land. Abyssinia, Quar tin- Dillon, Schweinfurth I 



