Tephrosia nitens Seem.

Cracca nitens (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 175. 1891
Tephrosia nitens Benth.; Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 107. 1853.
Tephrosia nitens lanata M. Micheli, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 30': 286. 1891.
A fruticose perennial, 6-10 dm. high; sterns erect, silky-villous; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, silky without; petiole 1 cm. long or less, as well as the sulcate rachis densely silky; leaflets 9-13, oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, rounded or retuse and recurved-apiculate at the apex, acute at the base, coriaceous, yellowish-green and glabrous above, silvery-silky beneath; racemes terminal and sometimes one from the upper axil, 2-4 dm. long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate; calyx white-silky, the tube 3 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, 4-5 mm. long; corolla rose colored, about 2 cm. long; banner broadly obovate, silky without; wings obliquely oblanceolate, with a rounded basal auricle; pod 5-6 cm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, velutinous, S-10-seeded.
Type locality: Island of Taboga, Bay of Panama.
Distribution: Oaxaca to British Honduras and Panama; also from Colombia and Venezuela