88 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [Indigofera. 
ones opposite, similar but smaller, texture firm, both sides densely 
erey-silky. Flowers in dense copious erecto-patent bracteate axillary 
racemes under an inch long. Pedicels very short. Calyx % in. long, 
erey-silky, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth linear-subulate, about 
equalling the corolla. Pod linear, 3-4 lines long, under 1 line thick, 
densely grey-silky, 3—4-seeded. 
Mozamb. Distr. Sofala, Inhambane, Dr. Peters! 
Tn general habit and the shape and texture of its leaves resembling I. paucifolia, but 
quite different in calyx and pod. 
59. I. paucifolia, Delile; DC. Prod. ii. 224. A suberect shrub 
4-8 ft. high, with slender, terete, flexuose, argenteous canescent 
branches. Stipules minute, linear-subulate, deciduous. Petioles 3-4 
lines, argenteous. Leaflets 8-5, obovate-oblong, the terminal one 6-9 
lines long, blunt with a mucro, the lateral ones laxly placed, usually 
alternate, both sides grey-green, and especially the under one argen- 
teous. Racemes short-stalked, 20-40-flowered, usually exceeding their 
leaves. Pedicel and calyx 1 line, both argenteous, the lower teeth of 
the latter lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla scarlet, twice the 
calyx, argenteous externally. Pod 6—9 lines long, 1 line broad, linear, 
slightly:upeurved and torulose, glaucous, 6~8-seeded.—Z. erythrantha, 
Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 2178. 
Upper Guinea. Sencgambia, Perrottet! Leprieur! Heudelot ! 
Worth Central. Kouka, near Lake Tschad, L. Vogel! 
Nile Land. Nubia and Abyssinia, frequent, Sieber! Schimper! Speke and 
Grant! &c. 
Lower Guinea. Benguella, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 
Also Egyptian, Arabian, and East Indian. 
60. I. hirsuta, Z. ; DC. Prod. ii. 228. An erect or decumbent mode- 
rately branched annual or biennial, reaching 2-8 ft. high, with stems 
densely clothed with long fine spreading brown pubescence. Stipules 
setaceous, 3-4 lines, plumose. Leaves 1}—-3 in.; leaflets usually 5-?; 
rarely 9, obovate, 9-15 lines long, blunt with a faint mucro, grey a2 
thinly silky above, more densely silky beneath, the midrib brown, al 
distinctly petiolulate, the side ones always opposite. Racemes mode- 
rately dense, 2—5 inches long, on erecto-patent peduncles shorter than 
the leaves. Bracts setaceous, brown-plumose. Pedicels } line long, 
cernuous. Calyx } in. long, densely brown-silky, the setaceous teeth 
reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla scarlet, half as long aga? 
as the calyx. Pod lmear, straight, 6—9 lines long, 1 line broad, densely 
clothed with spreading grey or brown pubescence, 6—8-seeded.—Jacq- 
Te, t. 569. Beauvois Fl. d’Oware, t. 119. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag:; 
t. 24. I. ferruginea, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 370. I. fusca, G. Don, 
Gard. Dict. ii. 211. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Guinea Proper Beauvois, 
Thonning, Vogel! and others. Island of St. Thomas, G. Don! 
Worth Central. Bornu, #. Vogel! 
Wile Land. White Nile, Petherick! Unyoro and Mininga, Speke and Grant! 
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