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XIII. Tephrosia? Chinensis. 



T. ? fmticosa, foliis 9-10 jugis oblongis obtusis utrinque pubescentibus, ra- 

 cemis axillaribus horizontalibus compositis multifloris, calycibus £ bibracteolatis, 

 corolla pubescente, stylo glabro, stigmate capitato. 



A small tree with a greyish warted bark. Young branches 

 dark green, obscurely angular. Leaves unequally pinnate, 

 about a foot long, spreading ; petiole channelled above, tumid 

 at the base, and closely clothed with minute appressed hairs. 

 Racemes axillary, or opposite the leaves, about six inches long, 

 horizontal, compound. Flowers fascicled, about three or four 

 together, arising from a fleshy protuberance of the rachis, 

 bright rose-colour, pedicellate, Calyx downy, with two mi- 

 nute, appressed, subulate bracteae at the base, campanulate, 

 tapering into a flattened cone at the base, bilabiate ; the upper 

 lip broad, slightly emarginate, the lower three-lobed, with 

 ovate acute divisions, of which that in the middle is the 

 broadest. Corolla slightly downy. Vexillum erect, roundish, 

 with inflexed margins, concave, with a greenish spot at the 

 base. Alse horizontal, rather shorter than the vexillum, obovate, 

 obtuse, entire, auricled at the base, parallel with the carina, 

 to which they are glued, as it were, at the base. Carina 

 obtuse, falcate, truncate at the base. Stamens diadelphous ; 

 those in front being the longest. Anthers roundish, nearly 

 equal. Ovarium few-seeded, villous. Style incurved, smooth. 

 Stigma capitate, 



The fruit of this plant being unknown, the genus to which 

 it belongs cannot with accuracy be determined. My principal 

 motive for referring it to Tephrosia, is the near affinity it ap- 

 pears to bear to M. De Candolle's first section of that genus, 



