198 BOTANICAL GAZETTE (SEPTEMBER 
+ + Flowers not numerous, borne singly or in pairs at the nodes of the 
racemes, 
== Stem covered at least below with a short dense bronze-colored tomen- 
tum: leaflets thickish, of firm or subcoriaceous texture, glabrous and 
finely reticulated above. 
a. Leaves prostrate, essentially sessile; leaflets seldom more than 7. 
T. cHRysOPHYLLA Pursh. Perennial herb with spreading 
prostrate freely branched somewhat flexuous or geniculate stems, 
subsessile, 2—7-foliate leaves, and obovate leaflets (1.3 to * 
long): few-flowered racemes opposite the leaves; peduncles 
scarcely ancipital, 5 to 8.8 long: petals white, changing to red: 
pubescence on the lower surface of the leaflets dense, sericeou’, 
somewhat canescent but with a slight golden sheen: pods 3.4 
4.2™ long, 8—10-seeded.— Fl. 2: 489; Ell. Sk. 2: 246; Torr. & 
Gray, Fl. 1: 297; Chapm. Fl. 95. TZ. prostrata Nutt. Gen. 24120. 
Cracca chrysophylla Kuntze, |. c. 174; Vail, 1. c. 34.—Dry pie 
woods, Georgia, Boykin, Forbes, to Florida, where apparently 
common, “and westward” acc. to Chapman, but probably in refer- 
ence to 7. Smallit. 
—’ Var. Chapmanni. Plant smaller, leaflets 6 to 13™ long, half 
as broad: pods only 1.9™ long, 5—8-seeded.— Cracca chorysophyl 
var. Chapmanni Vail, 1. c.—St. Josephs, Florida, Dr. Chapman. 
mostly 7 to 1! 
6. Leaves, at least in some cases, ascending, petiolate ; leaflets 
pecies in 
~ T. Smallii, n. comb.—Similar to the preceding $ 
many ways, but stouter, with more numerous and longer (oblong 
or elliptic rather than obovate) leaflets: peduncles cee y 
ancipital above, becoming 5 to 20™ in length.— Crate 
Small, Bull. Torr. Club. 21: 303. C. Smallii and ©. J" 
Vail, 1. c. 33, 35.— Pine barrens in sand, Georgia, Boh 
Florida, Curtiss, Nash, and Louisiana, Dr. Ingalls. 
use of zntermedia in Tephrosia necessitates the adoption 
second specific name. 
of the 
her small, diy 
preadig 
= = Stems very slender, sparingly pubescent : leaflets rat 
tical, thin, 
T. misprpua Pers. 1. c. Stems several, branched, : 
and ascending from a thickish somewhat fusiform 1 
The previous . 
t, finely 
