316 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Tephrosia. 



stipules and bracts subulate, persistent; pod clothed with 

 coarse cottony villi, ashy-brown to grey; seeds lenticular, 

 16 by '125 in., margin bluntly keeled, strophiole dull brown, 



anvil-shaped 4. fusca. 



Pod less than 2'5 in. long, usually 1*5-2 in. ; inflorescence 

 elongate; stipules long filiform; leaflets 1-1'5 in. long 



5. noctiflora. 



Calyx-teeth narrowly deltoid or lanceolate below, cuspidate 

 above, all equalling or exceeding the tube (at aestivation) ; 

 pedicels not manifestly articulate upon the axis : 

 Septa of pod manifest, persistent : 



Flowers very few, axillary ; leaflets narrowly oblong-cuneate, 

 terminal * 5 in. or more long, upper surface pale green, lower 

 cinereo-canescent ; pod 1*5 in. long, '15 in. broad, falcate 

 from above the middle, hairs on the valves closely appressed- 

 canescent, on sutures ascending, fulvous ; seed oblong- 

 elliptic, '16 in. long, clay-coloured flecked with brown 



6. pentaphylla. 

 Septa of pod evanescent or obscure : 



Pod entirely covered with dense villous tomentum, arcuately 

 curving from the very base ; flowers in fascicles on a long 



spicif orm rhachis 7. hirta. 



Pod pilose or glabrescent, but never when mature covered 

 with thick villous tomentum : 



Flowers in racemes (casually reduced to few in the axils 

 or at the ends of branches) : 



Racemes axillary ; style bearded : 



Leaflets obovate-cuneate, terminal '75-1 in. by '125- 



25in.,under-surface not silvery 8. maxima. 



Leaflets obovate, oblong or elliptical, base obtuse or 

 (less frequently) bluntly cuneate, terminal '75-5 in. 

 long, under-surface more or less silvery (casually 

 glabrescent) : 



Stipules broadly ovate-deltoid, '25 by '125 in., con- 

 spicuously carinate-striate, brown-scarious ; bracts 

 and bracteoles similar ; leaflets with a distinct 

 (but not indurated) margin; pod densely clothed 

 with laxly appressed- silky fulvous hairs 



9. pulcherrima. 



Stipules linear-lanceolate, '25 by '04 in., obscurely 

 striate, herbaceous ; bracts and bracteoles subulate 

 or almost setaceous ; leaflets not marginate ; pod 



