96 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. 
Corolla violet-purple, twice the calyx. Pod 2-8 lines long, }—1 line 
thick, turgid, distinctly torulose, persistently grey-pubescent, the hairs 
not gland-tipped. Seeds 2-3. 
Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! 
A common Kast India species. 
82. I. endecaphylla, Jacy.; DC. Prod. ii. 228. An annual or 
biennial with copiously branched suberect or prostrate stems 1-3 ft. 
long, thinly grey-hispid upwards. Stipules 3—4 lines, lanceolate, acu- 
minate, membranous, persistent. Leaves 1-2} in. long; leaflets 7-9, 
oblanceolate-oblong, 6-12 lines long, blunt with a mucro, greenish and 
glabrescent above, glaucous and inconspicuously grey-hispid below, all 
distinctly stalked, side ones alternate. Racemes dense, 1—4 in. long 
on peduncles 3-18 lines long. Pedicels very short. Calyx 1—1} lines 
long, the setaceous teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. 
Corolla violet-purple, twice the calyx, glabrous externally. Pods de- 
flexed, linear, 8-10 lines long, 1 line thick, subglabrous, 6-8-seeded.— 
Beauv. Fl. d’Oware t. 84. J. anceps, Vahl, Poir. Enc. Suppl. iii. 147. 
I. Schimperiana, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 366. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Gold Coast, Beauvois, Thonning, and 
others. Island of St. Vhomas, G. Don! Dahomey, Capt. Burton! 
Nile Land. Nubia, Schweinfurth. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! and 
others. Makata, Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, and most of the provinces of Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Meller! 
Extends southward to Natal and the Cape. 
Var. radicans, Welw. Stems and branches quite trailing, rooting downwards. 
Leaves 9-12 lines long; leaflets 3-5. Calyx 2 in. Corolla not more than half as long 
again as the calyx. Pod 5-6 lines long, 4—5-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of the province of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
83. I. phyllanthoides, Baker. An undershrub 2-3 ft. high with 
very numerous ascending finely grey-downy branches. Stipules 1 line, 
setaceous, persistent. Leaves subsessile, 9-18 lines long ; leaflets 9-11, 
obovate, 4-3 in. long, 2-24 lines broad, grey and persistently sca 
brous with minute grey bristles on both sides, all distinctly stalked, the 
side ones opposite. Racemes exceeding the leaves, 12-20-flowered, 
14-2 in. long, shortly peduncled. Bracts like the stipules. Pedicels 
4 line, cernuous, brown-silky. Calyx 2 line, densely coated with mixe 
brown and grey bristles, teeth setaceous, rather exceeding the tube. 
Corolla 4 in., violet, less fugacious than in most of its allies, densely 
brown-silky on the outside. Ovary linear, clothed with adpressed grey 
bristles, multiovulate. Pod not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla province, Benguela, 5400 ft., Dr. Welwitsch! 
84, I. subulifera, Welw. mss. Suffruticose, 14-3 ft. high, erect, 
copiously branched, the erecto-patent rigid slender branches finely 
rey-downy. Stipules minute, linear, persistent. Petioles 1-4 Jines 
a Leaves 1-3 in. long; leaflets 7-13, oblong or oblanceolate, 
reaching 6-9 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, acute, greenish and thinly 
