18 FLORA OF JAMAICA Tephrosia 



upper axils, often leafy at the base. Uppermost stamen more 

 or less free. Pod compressed, beaked with the persistent style. 



Species 120, widely spread through the warmer regions of 

 the world, numerous in South Africa and Australia, a few in 

 North America. 



Leaflets in 12-20 pairs ; pod 4-5-7 cm. 1 1. T. toxicaria. 



[Leaflets in 9-12- pairs ; pod 8-10 cm. 1 T. Candida.] 



Leaflets not more than 10 pairs ; pod not more than 

 5 cm. 1. 

 Pod about 5 cm. 1. 



[Pod glabrous (except on margins) T. grandiflwa.'] 



[Pod villose T. noctiflora.] 



Pod with minute adpressed hairs, 8-10-seeded 4. T.cinerea. 



Pod 3-4 cm. 1., glabrous or puberulous, 5-6-seeded. 



Calyx 3-3'5 mm. 1. ; teeth as long as the tube 2. T. purpurea. 



Calyx 4*5-5 mm. 1. ; teeth nearly twice as long 



as the tube.. 3. T. WalUcliii. 



Flowers less than 2 cm. 1. 



Flowers more than 1 cm. 1 1. T. toxicaria. 



Flowers not more than 1 cm. 1. 



Calyx with minute adpressed hairs. 

 Calyx 3-3*5 mm. 1. ; teeth as long as the tube.... 2. T. purpurea. 

 Calyx 4*5-5 mm. 1. ; teeth nearly twice as long 



as the tube 3. T. Wallichii. 



Caljrx with long white hairs, 4*5-6 mm. 1 4. T.cinerea. 



[Calyx with long reddish-yellow hairs, 3-4 mm. 1.. . . T. noctiflora.] 

 Flowers 2 cm. 1. or more. 



[Leaflets 1-2 cm. 1 T. grandiflora.] 



("Leaflets 3-5 cm. 1 T. Candida.] 



1. T. toxicaria Pers. Syn. ii. 329 (1807) ; leaflets in 12-20 

 pairs, 2 • 5—7 cm. 1. ; racemes terminal and axillary ; flowers 

 more than 1 cm. 1. ; pod 4*5-7 cm. 1. — Tussac Fl. Ant. i. t. 20 ; 

 Benih. in Fl. Bras, xv.pt. 1, 46, t. 8 ; Macf. Jam. i. 255 ; Griseh. 

 Fl. Br. W. Ind. 182. Cracca leguminibus strictis Plum. PL 

 Amer. (Burin.) t. 135. Galega toxicaria, Sw. Prodr. 108 (1788) & 

 Fl. Ind. Occ. 1278. Cytisus? fruticosus erectus et villosus &c. 

 Broivne Hist. Jam. 296. (Fig. 4.) 



Surinam Poison. 



Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 85 ! " Cultivated, rarely wild," Macfadyen ; 

 Brandon Hill, 1000 ft. (fls. white) Thompson I Mavis Bank (colt.). Fl. Jam. 

 8045. — West Indies, tropical continental America. 



Shrubby, 2-5 ft, high; branches velvety. Leaves 1-2 dm. 1., leaflets 

 narrowly oblong, shortly stalked, silky-pubescent, especially • beneath, 

 stipules awl-shaped. Flowers white with a purplish tinge, in clusters of 

 4-6 in many-flowered racemes, 1-3 dm. 1. Calyx silky, about '5 cm. 1. ; 

 segments ovate. Corolla ': standard silky outside, roundish, clawed, 1 * 2 

 cm. 1. (or more) ; wings and keel about as long as standard. Pod silky- 

 pubescent. 



Browne (loc. cit.) states : " This plant has been introduced to Jamaica 

 from the main, and is now cultivated in many parts of the island, oa 



