Tephrosia LEGUMINOS^. 21 



Var. littoralis Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 1, 48 (1859) ; 

 pubescence denser, and on petioles and branches spreading ; 

 leaflets in 5-6 pairs, larger, 2-4 cm. 1., 5-12 mm. br. — Griseh. loc. 

 ('it. T. littoralis Pers. Syn. ii. 329 (1807). Vicia littoralis Jacq. 

 Sel. Stirp. Amer. 206, t. 124 (1763). Galega littoralis L. Syst. 

 ed. 12, 497 (1767) ; Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer. ed. pict. t. 192 (1780'?). 

 Jacquin's original specimen from which t. 1 24 and the coloured 

 t, 192 were drawn, is in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Macfadyen ! King's House grounds, 600 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 695G. — 

 Colombia, Guiana, Brazil. 



[T. Candida D(7. Prodr. ii. 249 (1825); leaflets in 9-12 pairs, 

 3-5 cm, 1.; flowers 2-2-5 cm. 1.; pods 8-10 cm. 1. — Bak. in 

 Hook./. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 111. 



Naturalized, presumably an escape from the Botanic Gardens ; Morris ! 

 near Castleton ; near Hope Bay ; Harris ! Golden Spring, 800 ft., Thompscm ! 

 Fl. Jam. 6031, 7988, 9040, 11,804.— India, Malay Is. 



Shrub 4-10 ft. high, bushy: branches covered with velvety pubescence. 

 Leaves 1-5-2 -5 dm. 1. ; leaflets narrowly oblong, acute, glabrous on upper 

 surface, grey and silky beneath. Flowers reddish, yellow or white, solitary 

 or in clusters in terminal and lateral racemes which are long or contracted 

 (to 1-5 dm. 1.). Calyx densely silky, about 5 mm. 1. ; teeth deltoid, shorter 

 than the tube. Corolla white ; standard densely silky outside, about 2 cm. 

 1. Pod 10-15-seeded, straight or slightly recurved, with adpressed brown 

 silky hairs.] 



This species and others have been used as cover crops and green 

 dressing. 



[T. noetiflora Bojer ex Bah. in Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 112 (1871) ; 

 leaflets in 6-9 pairs, narrowly oblanceolate, apex rounded or 

 emarginate, mucronate, 2 ■ 5-4 • 5 cm. 1., 5-8 mm. br. ; stipules 

 filiform, villose, 6-9 mm. 1. ; calyx pubescent with long reddish- 

 yellow hairs ; tube 2 mm. 1., the lower tooth lanceolate, equalling 

 the tube, the others shorter and deltoid ; pod 8-9-seeded, 

 4-5 cm. 1,, 5-6 mm. br., densely clothed with fine brown silky 

 hairs, slightly curved upwards. 



Naturalized ; Brandon Hill, 1000 ft., Thompson ! Asylum grounds, near 

 Kingston, Plaxton ! also Fawcett ! King's House grounds, 600 ft., Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 6952, 8054.— Africa. 



Spreading shrubby plant, 4-6 ft. high, densely clothed with short brown 

 pubescence. Leaves 8-13 cm. 1. ; petiole pubescent ; leaflets glabrous on 

 upper surface, silky and grey beneath with adpressed hairs. Flowers white, 

 standard variegated with purple, in small remote clusters in a raceme 

 which is opposite a leaf, l"5-3'5 dm. 1. Corolla : standard pubescent on 

 the outside, ovate-roundish, apex deeply emarginate and retuse, 8 mm. 1., 

 about 1 cm. br., claw 2 mm. 1. ; wings, obovate-oblong, blade 8 mm. 1., 

 claw 2 mm. 1. ; keel blade 8 mm. 1., claw 2 mm. 1., apex close to apex 

 of wings. 



[T. grandiflora Pers. Syn. ii. 329 (1807) ; leaflets in 5-7 pairs, 

 1-2 cm. 1. ; flowers 2-2*5 cm. 1. ; pod glabrous (except on the 

 margins), about 5 cm. 1. — Uarv. in Ft. Cap. ii. 209 ; Oriseh. 



