Indigofera.] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 85 
adpressed grey bristles. Stipules linear-setaceous, tin. Petioles }-1 
in. Leaves 24-3 in.; leaflets 5-7, oblanceolate, both sides pale-green 
with a few adpressed grey bristles, reaching 1-2 in. long, the upper 
leaves 3-4, the lowest 5-6 lines broad, blunt with a distinct mucro, 
the end one short-stalked, the side ones lax opposite distinctly stalked. 
Flowers 20-50 in lax racemes ultimately 9-12 in. long on erecto-patent 
peduncles as long as the leaves. Pedicels very short. Bracts minute, 
setaceous, deciduous. Calyx } in., thinly grey-silky, the linear teeth 
much exceeding the tube. Corolla bright violet, 5 lines, the standard 
thinly grey-hispid externally. Pod linear, 1 in. long, 1 line broad, 
get ees thinly coated with adpressed grey bristles, 10-12- 
seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 
50. I. Heudelotii, Benth. in Herb. Kew. Stem erect, herbaceous, 
12-18 in. high, copiously branched, the branches slender, angular, 
thinly pilose. Bouts linear, deciduous. Petioles }—4 in. long, erecto- 
patent. Leaflets 7-18, oblanceolate, $—? in. long, 2 lines broad, con- 
Spicuously mucronate, lateral ones distant and short-stalked, both sides 
stey-green and thinly pilose, not at all silvery. Flowers 6-12 in lax 
racemes on erecto-patent pilose peduncles 3-1 in. long from the axils of 
the leaves. Pedicels 1-14 lines long. Calyx campanulate, not silvery, 
1 line deep, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. 
Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx. Pod 4-8 in. long, 1 line 
broad, chestnut-brown, glabrous, subtetragonous, 5—6-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Sierra Leone, Morson! 
51. I. goniodes, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No, 2242. Stem 
1-3 ft. high, erect, herbaceous, copiously branched, the branches as- 
cending, angular, sulcate, thinly silvery. Stipules linear. _ Petioles 
very short. Leaflets 11-13, oblanceolate, 3-1 in. long, 2-4 lines 
toad, apex rounded, mucronate, both sides pale-green and _ thinly 
silvery. Flowers in lax racemes 2-4 in. long of from 20-80 flowers, 
on erecto-patent peduncles 2-3 in. long from the axils of the leaves. 
‘lowers cernuous, finally deflexed. Calyx nearly 2 lines deep, thinly 
Silvery, the teeth linear, reaching halfway down. Corolla twice as long 
as the calyx, pale lilac. Pod deflaxed, linear, mucronate, 1-1} in. 
ong, § in. jo finely silvery, slightly upcurved, 12—16-seeded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
52. I. crotalarioides, Baker. Stem slightly shrubby, copiously 
and diffusely branched, the young branches slender, angular, thinly- 
Silvery. Stipules a line long, linear, spreading. Leaves subsessile, 
eely trifoliolate, central leaflet oblanceolate, }—3 in. long, 14-2 lines 
toad, apex rounded, mucronate, its petiolule } in. long, the lateral ones 
smaller, upper side green and thinly silky, the lower quite argenteous. 
owers in axillary racemes of 8-12 flowers, at first dense, afterwards 
