Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). a) 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet/ and others. 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy! 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! 
19. I. conjugata, Baker. Suffruticose, ultimate branches firm, 
subtetragonous, thinly coated with white silvery hairs. Stipules linear, 
lines long. Petiole } in. long, tetragonous, silky. Leaves of two 
oblanceolate leaflets, the terminal one on a petiolule } in. long, the 
blade 2-24 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, narrowed from above the centre to 
both ends, the lateral one similar, smaller, sessile, erecto-patent, tex- 
ture firm, the under surface thinly silky when young, both glabrous 
in the mature plant. Flowers in short-stalked lax axillary racemes 
? inches lone, of more than 20 flowers each. Pedicels half as long as 
the campanulate calyx, which is } in. deep, cut down nearly to the base 
into subulate teeth, the two lowest the longest. Corolla yellowish, 
twice as lone as the calyx. Pods deflexed, linear mucronate, 1 in. long, 
I line thick, slightly silky, compressed, many-seeded. 
Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Petherick! 
20. I. capitata, Kotschy, Pl. Binder. 16, t. 6. A shrub with an erect 
stem; branches copious, woody, erecto-patent, not silvery. Stipules 
small, linear, rigid, deciduous. Petioles spreading, firm, } in. long. 
Leaflets 7-9, oblanceolate, 4—3 in. long, 14-2 lines broad, the point 
narrowed or ratlier rounded with a sharp mucro, firm in texture, not at 
all silvery. Flowers in dense rounded terminal heads ?—1 in. broad. 
tacts pinnate witk narrow linear divisions. Calyx 3-4 lines deep, 
clett three-quarters of the way down, ciliated but scarcely at all silky. 
Corolla falling short of the calyx. Pod oblong-mucronate, 2 lines 
long by 1 line broad, 2-seeded, ultimately glabrous, chestnut-brown. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Old Calabar, Mylne! 
Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Binder! Petherick! Open ground at 
Madi, Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Capt. Burton! Dr. Welwitsch! 
21. I. strobilifera, Hochst. in Kotsch. Hb. Nub. No. 256. Stem a 
foot or more high, herbaceous, the branches divaricate, firm, angular, 
clothed with loose pale brown silky pubescence. Stipules ovate-lan- 
ceolate, persistent, 14-2 lines broad. Petioles 2—3 lines long, spread- 
ing. Leatlets 5-7, oblong or oblanceolate, 4-3 in. long, 3-4 lines 
toad, the lateral ones opposite, sessile, pointed, both sides permanently 
clothed with dense pale brown, loose, silky pubescence, like that of the 
Stem. Flowers in dense copious terminal heads, which are 1—2 in. long 
Y more than half-an-inch broad, with large nearly round cordate 
slightly pointed bracts which entirely hide the tlowers. Peduncles 
3-3 in. long. Bracts 4-2 in. broad, densely imbricated, usually deeply 
bifid, in ‘texture and. silkiness resembling the leaves and stipules. 
Flowers 1-2 together, on pedicels } in. long. Calyx } in. deep, very 
silky, the teeth setaceous, reaching nearly down to the base. Corolla 
vot more than equalling the calyx. Pod oblong, mucronate, 2-3 lines 
ong, 1 line thick, subterete, 2-4-seeded. — Hilemanthus strobilifer, 
Hochst. in Flora, 1846, 593, 
