Tephrosia conzattii (Rydb.) Standl.

Cracca conzattii Rydberg, sp. nov
A shrubby perennial, apparently 1 m. or more high; stems with yellowish-gray bark; branches velutinous-pubescent with ferruginous hairs; leaves 5-15 cm. long; stipules subulate, 7-10 mm. long; petiole 1-2 cm. long, as well as the rachis velutinous; leaflets 15-25, linear or linear-oblong, 1.5-3 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, strigose on both sides, somewhat canescent beneath, euspidate-mucronate; racemes terminal and axillary, but the latter usually first and best developed, 1.5 dm. long or more; bracts subulate, 7-10 mm. long; calyx silky-strigose, the tube 3 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate-acuminate, 3 mm. long; corolla rose-colored, 15 mm. long; banner obovate, silky-strigose and yellowish without; wings obliquely obovate with a large basal auricle; mature pod unknown, the young pod glabrous, except the hirsute upper suture.
Type collected at Las Sedas, Oaxaca, May 19, 1907, C. Consatli 1786 (U. S. Nat. Herb.no. 4749S0).