20 FLOEA OF JAMAICA Tephrosia 



St. Andrew, 1000 ft.; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 9385, 12,205.-— Tropical and 

 subtropical regions. 



Somewhat shrubby, rising to 1 or 2 ft. high, branches glabrous or 

 adpressed pubescent, angular. Leaflets linear-oblong to narrowly oblanceo- 

 late, glabrescent on the upper surface, glaucous, obscurely silky with 

 minute white hairs beneath, 1-2 cm. 1., 2-5 mm. br. ; stipules 4-7 mm. 1., 

 lanceolate-awl-shaped. Flowers pale purplish or white, or crimson, solitary 

 or in clusters of 2 or 3 in racemes, which are opposite to a leaf, lax^flowered, 

 to 1 dm. 1. Calyx with minute adpressed hairs. Corolla : standard silky 

 outside; wings, blade oblong, about 5 mm, 1., claw about 2-5 mm. 1. ; 

 keel about as long as wings. Style glabrous; stigma with very short 

 hairs. This species has been used for green dressing. 



3. T. Walliehii Graham in Wall. Cat. n. 5640 (nomen) ; 

 Fawc. at JRendle in Journ. Bot. Iv. 35 (1917); leaflets in 5-9 pairs; 

 calyx 4*5-5 mm, 1., teeth nearly twice as long as the tube ; blade 

 of standard elKptical-roundish, broader than long, 6 mm. 1., 



8 mm. br,, claw cuneate, 2 mm. 1. ; pod 5-6 seeded, 3-3 • 5 cm, 1,, 

 puberulous or glabrous. Type in Herb. Wallich in Herb, Kew. 



Broxighton ! Palisadoes, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6753. — Dominica, Trinidad, 

 Guiana, India. 



Somewhat shrubby ; branches glabrous or pubescent, at length terete. 

 Leaflets cuneate-oblong, green, glabrescent on the upper surface, glaucous 

 and obscurely silky with minute white hairs beneath, 1*5-2 -5 cm. 1., 

 •5-1-5 cm. br.; stipules 5-7 mm. 1., linear-lanceolate. Floioers crimson or 

 white, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 8 in racemes, which are opposite to 

 a leaf, lax -flowered, to 1 dm. 1. Calyx with minute adpressed hairs; 

 segments setaceous. Coi-olla : standard silky outside ; wings, blade oblong, 

 about 5 mm, 1., claw about 1*5 mm. 1. ; keel, apex close to apex of wings. 

 Style glabrous ; stigma with very short hairs. 



4. T. cinerea Pcrs. Syn. ii. 328 (1807); more or less pro- 

 cumbent; leaflets in 3-5 (6) pairs; calyx 4*5-6 mrn. 1., teeth 

 as long as the tube to half as long again ; blade of standard 

 roundish, rhomboid-roundish, or ovate-roundish, 8*5-9 mm, 1., 



9 mm. br., daw 2*5 mm. 1, ; pod generally 8-10-seeded, 4-5 cm, 

 1,, with minute white adpressed hairs, — Benth. torn, cit. 48 ; 

 Griseh. loc. cit. ; Urb. Symh. Ant. iv. 283, T, procumbens Macf. 

 Jam. i. 256, Galega cinerea L. Syst. ed. 10, 1172 (1759) & 

 Amoen. v. 403; Jacq. Ic. PI. Bar. t. 575. Galega herbacea &c, 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 289, Type in Herb, Linn, 



Wright I Broughton 1 Shakspear ! Macfadyen ! Distin ! St. Andrew, 

 McNab I Constant Spring, 1000 ft. ; Palisadoes ; Harris ! Fl, Jam, 6088, 

 6752. — West Indies, tropical and subtropical America. 



Somewhat "shrubby ; branches 1 ft. or more long, at length terete, white- 

 pubescent with adpressed or spreading hairs. Leaflets oblanceolate-oblong, 

 glabrescent or with minute adpressed hairs on the upper surface, silky- 

 pubescent and ash-coloured beneath, 1-3-8 cm. 1. (or more in var.), 

 3-5 mm. br. (or more in var.) ; stipules white-pubescent, lanceolate, 

 5-6 mm. 1. Flowers showy, rose-coloured, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 



3 in racemes, which are opposite a leaf, and to 1 • 5 dm. 1. Calyx silky 

 with long white hairs. Standard silky outside ; wings, blade 9 mm. 1., 



4 mm. br,, claw 2*2 mm. 1.; keel, claw about 1 cm. 1. Style glabrous; 

 stigma long-ciliate. 



