Indigofera.) XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 87 
moderately dense racemes 2-6 in. long. Pedicels very short, the 
lower detlexed. Calyx 2-1 line, the setaceous teeth reaching down 
nearly to the base. Corolla purplish-red, twice the calyx, silky exter- 
nally. Pods deflexed, an inch long, 1 line thick, brown, glabrescent, 
slightly upcurved, 8—10-seeded.— IF. hedysaroides, Lam. Eneyel. itt. 250. 
I. cinerea, areuata and rigida, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1225-8. 
Lahaed Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Golungo Alto, Loanda and Ambaca, Dr. Wel- 
wetseh 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Roth ! : 
A common East India species, extending to North Australia. 
56. I. subulata, Voll; DC. Prod. ii. 232. Annual or biennial, 
2-8 ft. high, copiously branched, the branches firm, slender, thinl 
silky. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles $3 in. long. Leaves wit 
usually two lateral pairs of leaflets and a terminal one, which are 
elliptical, 3-14 in. long, the apex rounded and mucronate, bright green, 
the lateral ones opposite, nearly sessile, both sides subglabrous. 
Flowers in lax racemes of about 20 flowers each on erecto-patent pe- 
duncles 1-2 in. long from the axils of the leaves. Calyx a line deep, 
thinly silky, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. 
Corolla lilac, three times as long as the calyx. Pod linear, mucronate, 
deflexed, subtetragonous, subglabrous, 1—2 in. long, 1 line broad, 8—10- 
seeded.—I. Thonningii, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 366. I. flaccida, 
Keen.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 875. Z. seabra, Roth. Nov. Sp. 359; DC. 
Prod. ii. 229, 
‘A eae Guinea. Guinea Proper, Thonning. Senegambia, Leprieur and Per- 
rottet. 
Also a plant of the East and West Indies and Mexico. 
57. I, benguellensis, Baker. An argenteous trailing perennial 
herb with slender terete stems more than a foot long, with copious 
ascending curved branches. Stipules minute, linear, persistent. Pe- 
tioles 2-3 lines. Leaves 9-12 lines long ; leaflets 3—5, narrow-obovate, 
reaching 6—8 lines long, 3-34 lines broad, blunt, often emarginate, 
thick in texture, both sides persistently argenteo-canescent, the end 
one shortly-stalked, the side ones alternate. Racemes densely 12—20- 
flowered, 9-15 lines long, on short peduncles. Pedicels very short. 
Bracts linear, minute, persistent. Calyx argenteous, } in. long, the 
linear-lanceolate teeth exceediny’ the obliquely campanulate tube. 
Corolla bright violet, half as long again as the calyx, the standard 
thinly silvery on the back. Pod Jinear, 6-8 lines long, } in. broad, 
Straight, canescent, subcompressed, 5—6-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, in sands near the sea, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
58. I. inhambanensis, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb, Bot. 48. A 
woody copiously branched shrub more than a foot high with long, 
firm, ascending terete densely grey-silky branches. Petiole } in. long, 
densely grey-silky. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, terminal leaflet on a 
stalk } in. long, elliptical, 4-3 in. long by about half as broad, lateral 
