92 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Indigofera. 
dense racemes of about 20 each, about 2 in. long on erecto-patent 
axillary peduncles which equal them. Bracts linear, about 2 lines 
long. Calyx nearly sessile, a line long, densely clothed with short 
hairs, the mouth oblique, the teeth subdeltoid. Corolla scarcely twice 
the calyx, hairy on the outside, the standard and keel roundish and 
convex, the wings much smaller. Ovary linear-oblong, with 8 ovules. 
Pod not known. 
Wile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Binder. 
70. I. rhynchocarpa, Welw. mss. An undershrub 3-4 ft. high 
with strong terete grey glabrous woody branches. Stipules setaceous, 
13-2 lines. Petioles 12-15 lines long. Leaves 5—6 in. long. Leaflets 
7, rarely 9, subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous, upper dull green, lower 
glaucous, oblong or with a slight obovate tendency, blunt with a faint 
deciduous mucro, reaching 25-3 in. long, 18-21 lines broad, the end 
one distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite, shortly stalked, all stipel- 
late. Racemes dense, comose in bud with deciduous setaceous bracts 
} in. long, 2-4 in. long in flower, casually forked. Pedicels }~1 line 
rlabrous. Calyx 1 line deep, glabrous, coriaceous; teeth very short 
altoid. Corolla 5—6 lines long, whitish tinged with red, the standard 
glabrous and tinged with green on the outside. Pod coriaceous, 24-*i 
in. long, 3 in. ‘broad, terete, black, glabrous, upcurved at the very 
point, where it is curiously tumid and rugose. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft. Dr. Welwitsch! 
71. I. Spachii, Baker. An erect undershrub 1-2 ft. high, the 
branches ascending, slender, thinly silky. Stipules linear-setaceous- 
Petioles erecto-patent, } in. long. Leaflets 5, oblong or obovate; 
3— in. long, apex rounded mucronate, lateral ones opposite, short 
stalked, surfaces thinly silky. Racemes in flower about 2 in. long, the 
upper ones sessile, the lower on erecto-patent peduncles an inch oF 
more long. Calyx } in. deep, the teeth linear, unequal, reaching more 
than half way down. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx, silk 
externally. Pod deflexed, linear, mucronate, very slightly upcurvee, 
1-1} in. long, } in. broad, 8—-10-seeded, thinly silky, subtorulose- 
I. coronilloides, Jaub. et Spach. Ill. Pl. Orient. t. 485-6 non Mart. 
et Gal. 
Wile Land. Mountains of Abyssinia, Schimper! 
72. I. Quartiniana, A. Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 183. Stem woody erect, 
2-3 ft. high, the branches ascending, elongated, firm, slender, sulcate, 
thinly silky. Stipules small, slender. Petioles slender, under 4 1- 
long. Leaves with 2-3 pairs of leaflets, which are oblong, 1} in. long, 
under half as broad, the lateral ones opposite, short-stalked, both sides 
thinly silky. Racemes at first about an inch long on peduncles whic 
nearly or quite equal them. Calyx 2 lines long, thinly silky, the teeth 
linear-subulate, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla pur lish, 
twice as long as the calyx. Pod spreading or slightly deflexed, linea 
