174 
FLOBA OF ADEN. 
usually many ; style incurved, often flattened, glabrous or bearded ; 
stigma terminal. 
Pod usually linear, flattened, many-seeded, 2-valved. Seeds some- 
times with a small strophiole. 
Species about 100. 
Distribution : — Tropics of both hemispheres. 
Pod 5, — 12-seeded . . . . . 1 . Tephrosia apollinea. 
Pod l-seeded , ... . . 2, Tephrosia pogonostigma. 
1. Tephrosia apollinea Link. Enum. Hort. Berol. IT, 252; DC. 
Prodr. II, 254; Boiss. El. Or. II, 192; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, 
Suppl. p. 16 ; Oliv. PI. trop. Afr. II, 126. 
Galega apollinea Del. El. d'Eg. p. 144, tab. 53, fig, 5. 
Arabic name : — Obeira. 
Description: — Stems suffruticose, 12 — 18 inches high, diffusely 
branched from the base, branches glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaves 
1£— 2| inches long, petioles inch long ; stipules linear, £— £ inch 
long. Leaflets in 2 — 4 pairs, oblong or oblanceolate, emarginate, mu- 
cronate, glabrous above, more or less silky beneath. 
Elowers in leaf-opposed lax 6 — 12-flowered racemes, pedicels inch 
long ; bracts rigid, subulate. Calyx A i nc h long, silky ; teeth triangular, 
acute, equalling the tube. Corolla purple, twice the calyx. Style 
glabrous ; stigma penicillate. 
Pods 1^- — 3 inches long, 2 — 3 lines broad, curved upwards, mucronate 
appressedly thinly hairy, 5 — 12-seeded. 
Fruits in Aden in November ; flowers and. fruits in Yemen in January 
(Schweinf.). 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley (Defl.) ; plain of Maala (Schweinf.); 
without locality (Hook., Birdw.). 
Near Shaikh Othman (Ellenbeck, Busse) . 
Distribution : — Upper Egypt, Nubia, Libya, Abyssinia, highlands 
of Somaliland, Socotra, S. Arabia. 
3. Tephrosia pogonostigma (Steud.) Boiss. El. Or. II, 193. 
Tephrosia Arabica Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, II, 666. 
Pogonostigma arabicum Boiss. Diag. PI. Or. ser. I, I[, 39 ; Anders* 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 16. 
Psoralea arabica Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Arab. n. 775. 
Catacline sericea Edgew. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 16, p. 1214. 
