Tephrosia grandiflora (Aiton) Pers.

Cracca grandiflora (l/HeY.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 175. 1891
Galega grandiflora I.'Her.; Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 70. 1789. Tcphrosia grandiflora Pers. Syn. PI. 2: .129. 1807. Apodynomene grandiflora E. Meyer, Coram. PI. Afr. Aust. 111. 1835.
A perennial shrub, 3-6 dm. high; branches more or less strigose; leaves 3-8 em. long; stipules ovate, acuminate, 6-10 mm. long, several-ribbed, brownish or purplish, persistent; leaflets 11-15, usually oblanceolate or oblong, rarely cuneate, 1-2.5 cm. long, cuspidate, strongly veined, strigose on both sides or glabrate above, bracts resembling the stipules, 1-1.5 cm. long, deciduous; flowers mostly 2 at each node; calyx silky-strigose, the tube 4 mm. long, the lubes deltoid-lanceolate, acuminate, subulate-tipped; corolla 15-20 mm. long, rose-red, tinged with orange or yellow without; banner broadly obovate, silky-strigose without; wings obliquely obovate, with a small basal auricle; pod 5-6 cm. long, 8-9 mm. wide, straight, acute at each end, short-pubescent on the sutures, 10-14-seeded.
Typb locality: Cape of Good Hope.
Distribution: Naturalized in Jamaica; native of South Africa.