Ashen Hoarypea

Cracca cinerea (L) Morong, Ann. N. Y. Acad Sci. 7: 79. 1892.
Galega cinerea I. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1172. 1759.
Tephrosia cinerea Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 529. 1S07.
Tcphroiia procumbens Macfad. PI. Jam. 1: 256. 1837. Not T. procumbens Buch.-Ham. 1822.
Cracca villosa cinerea Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 173. 1891.
A perennial, suffruticose below, with a woody root; stem prostrate, diffuse or ascending, 3-6 dm. high, strigose, cinereous especially when young, angled; leaves 410 cm. long; stipules 3-8 mm. long, acuminate, persistent; petiole 5-15 mm. long; rachis cineieous-strigose; leaflets 9-17, linearor oblong-oblanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, obtuse or acutish at the apex, acute at the base, sparingly strigose or glabrate above, cinereous-strigose beneath, or in one form almost equally cinereous on both sides; racemes opposite the leaves, lax, including the peduncle 5-10 cm. long; bractlets subulate or setaceous, persistent; calyx cinereousstrigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 3 mm. long or more; corolla purplish, 1015 mm. long; banner suborbicular, strigose without; pod 4-5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, strigose, nearly straight, 6-12 seeded; seeds brown, mottled, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad.
TypB locality: [By inference] Jamaica.
Distribution: West Indies; Yucatan, Chiapas, and Guatemala; also from Venezuela and Colombia to Paraguay; introduced at Mobile, Alabama.