124 xlvii. § papilionace^: (baker). [Tcphrosia. 



dard 4 lines broad, densely silky. Pod linear, If -2 in. long-, 2 lines 

 broad, slightly recurved, persistently clothed with short spreading- silky 

 pubescence, 10-12-seeded. Style glabrous. 



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



53. T. drepanocarpa, Welw. mss. A decumbent perennial herb, 

 with trailing stems more than a foot long, branched and ascending 

 towards the end, clothed with short spreading grey pubescence. Sti- 

 pules lanceolate, patent, 1J-2 lines. Petioles 1-3 lines ; rachis 9-18 

 lines ; leaflets 7-13, oblanceolate, 6-9 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, 

 blunt, mucronate, glabrous above, thinly grey-downy below. Racemes 

 copious, terminal and lateral, reaching 3-4 in. long/ moderately dense, 

 the axis densely pubescent. Pedicels 1-1 J lines. Bracts linear as 

 long as the pedicels. Calyx \ in. long, finely grey-downy, teeth linear, 

 as long as the tube. Corolla bright rose-purple, twice the calyx. Pod 

 9-12 lines long, 2J lines broad, much recurved, 4-6-seeded, glabrescent, 

 slightly torulose when mature. Style glabrous, penicillate at the point. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch I 



54. T. Apollinea, DC. Prod. ii. 254, non aliorum. Stems suflru- 

 ticose, 12-18 in. high, diffusely branched from the base, the branches 

 firm, subglabrous. Stipules linear, firm, 2 lines long. Petioles \-\ in. 

 long. Rachis an inch or less long ; leaflets in 2-4 pairs, oblong or 

 oblanceolate, f-l| in. long, \-\ in. broad, apex emarginate and mucro- 

 nate, the upper surface quite and the lower nearly glabrous. Racemes 

 terminal or lateral, laxly 6-12-flowered, stalked or sessile. Bracts 

 linear, rigid like the pedicel equalling the calyx, which is subglabrous, 

 2 lines deep, the teeth linear-subulate, reaching halfway down. Corolla 

 red, twice as long as the calyx, the standard 4 lines broad. Pods linear, 

 slightly upcurvecl, 18-21 lines long, 2 lines broad, glabrous, 6-9- 

 seeded. Style glabrous, pencillate at the point. — Galega Apollinea, 

 Delile Fl. ^Egypt. 144, t. 33. 



Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Schweinfurth ! Binder! Petherickl Bromfield! 



Sometimes cultivated. 



Extends northward into Egypt, and through Arabia into Scinde. , The T. Apollinea, 

 Guill. and Perr. El. Seneg. 196 ; A. Kich. Fl. Abyss, i. 187, is T. anthylloides, and of 

 Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 47, is T. incana. 



55. T. purpurea, Pers. ; DC. Prod. ii. 251. A copiously branched 

 herbaceous perennial, 1-2 ft. high, with firm, slender, subglabrous stems. 

 Stipules linear, 2-4 lines. Petioles 1-3 lines; rachis 2-3 in. ; leaflets 

 13—17, oblanceolate, 9-12 lines long, J-f in. broad, blunt, mucronate, 

 subcoriaceous, both sides grey-green, upper glabrous, lower nearly so. 

 Racemes terminal and lateral, 3-6 in. long, laxly 6-20-flowered, sessile 

 or shortly stalked. Bracts linear, 1-2 lines. Pedicels 1-2 lines, sub- 

 glabrous, erecto-patent. Calyx 2 lines, slightly silky, teeth lanceolate 

 acuminate, exceeding the tube. Corolla ^-f in., red-purple, standard 

 \ in. broad. Pod linear, slightly recurved, glabrous, 1 J-2 in. long, 2 

 lines broad, 6-10-seeded. Style glabrous, penicillate at the point. — 

 T. leptostachya, DC. loc. cit. T. indigoferaj Bert. Misc. xix. 9, t. 5. 



