Tephrosia florida (F.Dietr.) C.E.Wood

9* Cracca ambigua (M. A. Curtis) Kuntfce. 'M
Galega ambigua Curtis, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i: il
Tephrosia hispidula ¡3. Tori*. & Gray FI. N. Am. i: 2d
Tephrosia ambigua Chapm. FI. 96 (i860).
Cracca ambigua.Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 174 (1891).
Perennial from a woody base, and long, ligneous root, hirsute
with short spreading, somewhat viscid hairs. Stems 3-4 diru or.
more high, trailing or assurgent, often purplish,'dichotomously
branching, straggling, angled; stipules 5-7 mm. long, lanceolate,
persisting; petioles 3—8 cm. long; leaves 7 cm.—1.5 dm. long,
gemote, linear-oblong in outlme; leaflets 7—11, linear-oblong to
cuneate-oblong or obovate^2-Í4 cm. long, 5—15 mm. wide, acutish
or mostly obtuse, apiculate, coriaceous, glabrous and yellowish-
green above, appressed hirsute with whitish hairs and the veins
qften‘turning reddish or purplish beneath; peduncles I—1.5 cm.
long, ancipital; flowers few, 10-12 mm. long; bracts 5 ,mm. long,
persisting; calyx-teeth subulate,, as long as the tube; vexillum
pubescent; legume 4 cm. or more long, 4 mm. wide, straightish;
seeds 8—13, ovoid, brown,'variegated with black.
High pine lands,, dry sandy soil. Trailing, fwitli ascending
and almost erect leaves, leaflets and peduncles, or stems ascending
with a somewhat bi^shy habit.
North Carolina and Florida, westward to Mississippi.
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