90 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. 
with short spreading white pubescence. Stipules linear, 1—2 lines, 
spreading, persistent. Petioles 83-4 lines. Leaves 12-18 lines; leaf- 
lets 5-9, obovate-oblong, distinctly emarginate, 4—6 lines long, all 
distinctly stalked, side ones alternate. | Racemes densely 20—30- 
flowered, at first conical, 1 in., finally 2-8 in. long, on peduncles that 
frequently exceed the leaves. Pedicels very short. Calyx 2 lines long, 
densely white-pubescent like the rest of the plant, the plumose seta- 
ceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla bright violet, 
half as long again as the calyx, the standard finely pubescent on the 
back. Pod linear, straight, 6-9 lines long, } in. thick, finely grey- 
downy, 8—10-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, frequent on the sands of the seashore, 
Dr. Welwitsch! who very justly compares the vestiture to that of Medicago maria. 
64. I. heterocarpa, Welw. mss. A herbaceous perennial very ¢0- 
piously branched at the crown of the root and upwards with very slender 
branches, thinly coated with adpressed grey bristles. Stipules 1-1} 
lines, setaceous, persistent. Petioles 1-2 lines. Leaves 6—9 lines long; 
leatlets 5-7, oblanceolate, pale green, with a few adpressed grey bristles 
on both sides, 3-4 in. long, subacute, cuspidate, the end ones distinctly 
stalked, the side ones subsessile, opposite. Flowers 6—12 in copious 
lax racemes 12-18 lines long’, on peduncles about as long as the leaves. 
Pedicels $ line. Calyx 1 line, densely grey-hispid, teeth linear-seta- 
ceous down nearly to the base. Corolla purplish-red, under twice the 
calyx, the standard slightly grey-silky on the outside. Pod 3-4 lines, 
3 en thick, terete, finely grey-hispid, straight, 4—5- sometimes 1-2- 
seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, in high pastures 5400 feet above sea-level, 
Dr. Welwitsch! 
65. I. setiflora, Baker. An erect copiously branched herbaceous 
perennial 1-2 ft. high, with slender finely grey-hispid branches. Sti- 
pules setaceous, ciliated, very minute. Petioles 2-8 lines. Leaves 
12-18 lines long ; leaflets 5-7, oblanceolate, 6—8 lines long, bluntish 
with a distinct mucro, grey and thinly hispid above, glaucous and more 
densely so below, the end one distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. 
Flowers in racemes 2—3 in. long, dense upwards, lax after they expand, 
on peduncles an inch long. Pedicels very short. Calyx } in., teet 
setaceous, reaching down to the base, densely plumose with blackish- 
grey bristles. Corolla purple, scarcely exceeding the calyx, the stan- 
dard thinly hispid externally. Ovary oblong, densely erey-hispid, 
pauciovulate. Pod not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Between J. secundiflora and the Natal I. grata, E. Meyer. 
66. I. mimosoides, Baker, A herbaceous perennial, with copiously 
divaricately branched very slender stems, a foot long, thinly clothe 
with short grey bristles. Stipules minute, setaceous, persistent. Pe- 
tioles 2-3 lines. Leaves 9-12 lines long; leaflets 3—7, oblong, 3-4 
