Tejphrosia 



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account of its intoxicating qualities. . . . The leaves and branches being well 

 pounded, and thrown into any river, pond, or creek, are observed to infect 

 the waters very soon ; by which all the fish are immediately intoxicated, 

 and rise and float upon the surface, as if they were dead ; from whence 

 they are easily taken. But most of the large ones that are left, recovei' 

 from this trance after a short time, though the greatest part of the small 

 fry perish on those occasions." 



Fig. i.—Tephrosia toxicana Pei'S. 



A, Upper portion of leaf x s. E, Wing x f . 



B, Upper portion of raceme' x |. F, Keel X ■>'. 



C, Flower with corolla removed x 2. O, Pod X '{. 



D, ^Standard flattened x i. (After Fl. Bras.) 



2. T. purpurea Per«. Syn. it. 329 (1807) ; ascending ; leaflets 

 in 6-10 pairs; calyx 3-3*5 mm. 1., teeth as long as the tube, 

 acuminate; blade of standard elliptical-roundish, broader than 

 long, 6 inm. 1., 7-3 mm. br. ; claw cuneate, 2 mm. 1,; pod 

 6-seeded (3-5-), 3-4 cm. 1., glabrous or strigillose. — Bah. in 

 Uooh.f. Fl. Br. Ind. {{. 112; Bohinson in Bot. Gaz. scxviii. 201. 

 T. leptostachya DC. Prodr. it. 251 ; Benth. torn. cit. 48 ; Griseh. 

 loc. cit. T. ascendens Macf. Jam. i. 257 (1837). Cracca pur- 

 purea L. Sp. PI. 752 (1753). Galega purpurea L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 

 1063 (1763). Coronilla zejianica herbacea &c. Burm. Zeyl. 77, 

 t. 32. Cracca leguminibus strictis adscendentibus glabris race- 

 mosis &c. L. Fl. Zeyl. 140. Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb, 

 Mus. Brit. 



Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 831 Houstounl Shakspearl Macfadyenl 

 Clermont, St. David, McNab ! Hope River Mouth ; Liguanea Ridge, 



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