Tephrosia.} xlvii. § papilionaces: (baker). 125 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet! and others. 

 North Central. Kouka, E. Vogel! 



Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschyl Petherick! Abyssinia, Schimper! Quart in- 

 Dillon! 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 



Mozamb. Distr. Sofala, Dr. Peters ! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk 1 Dr. Stewart I 



Var. (3.pubescens, Baker. 



Leaves, stem, and young pud slightly downy. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Thonning ! Capt. Burton ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius I 



Lower Guinea. Ambaca and LoancJa, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Meller! 



A cosmopolitan species in the Tropics. 



56. T. nubica, Baker. Stems woody. 12-18 in. long, diffusely 

 branched, the branches terete, densely coated with short white silky 

 pubescence. Stipules lanceolate, J in. long-. Leaves nearly sessile, 

 the rachis woolly like the branches, the leaflets in 3-4 pairs, oblanceo- 

 late, 1-1 J in. long-, J-§ in. broad, apex rounded, mucronate, both sides 

 very pale, and especially the lower one densely white-silky. Racemes 

 terminal or leaf-opposed, 6-12-flowered, 3-4 in. long", on long or short 

 rig-id peduncles. Pedicels and bracts shorter than the calyx, which is 

 J-f in. deep, densely white-silky, the teeth linear, reaching- more than 

 halfway down. Corolla pinkish, slightly exceeding the calyx, the stan- 

 dard J in. broad, very silky on the back. Pod twice as long as the 

 calyx, densely clothed with long half-spreading white silky hairs, 1- 

 seeded. — Pogonostiqma nvbicum, Boiss. Diagn. ii. 40. P. abyssinicum, 

 Jaub. et Spach. Illust. PI. Or. t. 477-8. 



Nile Iiand. Kordofan, Kotschy ! Cienhowshy. Abyssinia, Schimper. 



57. T. sphserosperma, Baker. A copiously branched diffuse un- 

 dershrub, about a foot high, the branches woody, clothed with fine grey 

 pubescence when young. Stipules J in. long, rigid, linear, falcate, per- 

 sistent. Petioles a line long, downy. Leaves simple, obovate, half an 

 inch long, more than half as broad, firm, grey, generally folded, apex 

 mucronate, recurved, veins prominent, both surfaces, especially the 

 under one, finely downy. Flowers axillary, 1-3 together, nearly ses- 

 sile. Calyx tubular, J in. deep, the teeth lanceolate, not reaching half- 

 way down. Corolla pale yellow, not twice as long as the calyx. Pod 

 spathulate mucronate, ^-f in. long, finely downy, 1-seeded. — Requienia 

 sphcerosperma, DC. Prod. ii. 168. Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 230. 



South Central. The interior just north of the Tropic of Capricorn, Chapman and 

 Baines ! 



A Cape species. 



58. T. obcordata, Baker. A woody undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, the 

 branches firm, straight, ascending, terete, clothed with fine grey 

 tomentum. Stipules subulate, a line long, rigid, persistent. Leaves 

 subsessile, simple, obcordate, J— § in. long, three-quarters as broad, 

 apex truncate or retuse with a mucro, texture coriaceous, both sides 

 grey-green, and the veins very prominent, the upper one subglabrous 

 when mature, the lower densely coated with fine short whitish silky 



