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



41. T. linearis, Pers. ; DC. Prod. ii. 254. An erect copiously 

 branched perennial 1-3 ft. high with very slender virgate branches 

 with a few inconspicuous adpressed grey hairs. Stipules linear, very 

 minute. Petioles 1-2 lines ; rachis 6-18 lines ; leaflets 5-17, linear, 

 12-15 lines long-, f-1 line broad, ascending*, glabrous above, persis- 

 tently thinly grey-canescent below. Flowers 4-8 in very lax racemes 

 which are sometimes stalked, sometimes reach down into the axils of 

 the leaves. Pedicels 1-1J- lines, erecto-patent. Calyx 1 line long*, 

 densely silky; teeth linear-subulate, exceeding' the tube. Corolla 

 reddish, \ in. long- ; standard J in. broad. Pod linear, 15-24 lines 

 long-, | in. broad, slightly recurved, finely downy, 12-18-seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet ! Heudelot I Guinea proper, Thonning,Vogel! 

 Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy ! and others. 

 Lower Guinea. Ambriz, Congo, Dr. Welwitsch! 



42. T. pulchella, Hook.f. Fl. Nigr. 299. Stems erect, suffruticose, 

 2-3 ft. high, copiously paniculately branched, the branches ascending, 

 straight, slender, thinly silky. Stipules | in. long, setaceous. Leaves 

 nearly sessile, the rachis an inch or less long, the leaflets in 4-5 pairs, 

 J-f in. long, 1 line broad, rigidly coriaceous, narrowed gradually from 

 the apex to the base, truncate or emarginate with a mucro, upper 

 surface glabrous, lower quite argenteous. Flowers in very lax terminal 

 and lateral racemes of 3-6, each, sometimes but not always on long- 

 peduncles or casually solitary in the axils of the leaves. Bracts subu- 

 late, \ in. long. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which is thinly silky, 

 \ in. deep, the teeth subulate, reaching halfway down. Corolla reddish, 

 twice as long as the calyx, the standard \ in. broad, silky on the back. 

 Pod linear, 1-J- 2 in. long, ^ in. broad, nearly straight, finely grey- 

 silky, 10-12-seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Banks of the Quorra, Dr. Baikiel Vogel! Barter! 



43. T. longipes, Meissn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 87. Stem suflru- 

 ticose, 1-2 ft. high, erect, sparingly branched, terete, the branches 

 slender, angular, thinly adpressed- silky. Stipules setaceous, \ in. long. 

 Leaves sessile; rachis 2 in. long; leaflets in 4-5 pairs, linear, 1^-1 J 

 in. long, 2 lines broad, rigidly coriaceous, often folded, the upper 

 surface glabrous, the lower argenteous. Racemes terminal and lateral, 

 laxly 6-10-flowered, usually on long rigid peduncles but sometimes 

 sessile. Pedicels and linear bracts equalling the calyx, which is 2 lines 

 deep, brown-silky, the teeth lanceolate acuminate, subequal, reaching 

 more than halfway down. Corolla purplish, 4 lines long in our plant, 

 the standard J in. broad, very silky on the back. Pod linear, nearly 

 straight, 1J-2 in. long-, 2 lines broad, densely but finely brown-silky, 

 10-12-seeded.— Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 208. 



Nile Land. Karague, Speke and Grant, 487 ' at 5000 ft. 

 Also a plant of Natal and the north-east of Cape Colony. 



