Tephrosia noctiflora Baker

Cracca noctiflora (Bojer) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 175 1891.
Tephrosia noctiflora Bojer; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Africa 2: 112. 1871.
A shrub; stem diffusely branched, densely silky-pilose with short ascending brown hairs, at least on the younger parts; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; stipules linear-subulate, 7-10 mm. long; petiole less than 1 cm. long, often Very short; rachis brown-pilose; leaflets 13-17, narrowly oblanceolate, 2.5-4 cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide, glabrous above, silky-strigose beneath, rounded and mucronate at the apex; racemes terminal according to the original description, but from the specimens seen opposite the leaves, 2-3 dm. long, lax; bracts lanceolate, short; calyx densely ferruginous-silky, the tube 2 mm. long, the upper 4 teeth deltoid, 1.5 mm. long, the lowest one 2.5 mm. long, lanceolate; corolla 10-12 mm. long, reddish; banner broadly obovate, yellowish-silky on the back; pod 4-5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, slightly curved upwards, densely silky-villous with brown hairs, 8-9-seeded.
Type locality: Island of Zanzibar.
Distribution: Jamaica (naturalized); native of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and Mauritius.