Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 97 
bristly above, grey and more densely bristly beneath, all distinctly 
stalked, the side ones opposite. Flowers 12-20 in very numerous mo- 
derately dense nearly sessile racemes, the upper exceeding the much- 
reduced leaves. Pedicels very short. Calyx } in. long, densely grey- 
hispid, the setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla 
reddish purple, 4 lines long, grey-hispid externally. Pod oblong, 
tipped with the persistent style, 2 lines long, 1 line thick, usually 3 
casually 1-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
85. I. amorphoides, Jau). et Spach, Illust. Pl. Orient. t. 483. A 
copiously branched shrub several feet high, the branches firm, straight, 
deeply sulcate, thinly silky. Stipules linear, deciduous.  Petioles 
+-2 in. long, firm, erecto-patent. pe 2-3 in. long; leaflets 8-9 
pairs, oblanceolate, 4—3 in. long, apex often emarginate, lateral ones 
close, opposite, distinctly stalked, both sides subglaucous, any silky, 
turning blackish when dried. Racemes 20—80-Howered, sessile, ulti- 
mately 2 in. long. Pedicel equalling the thinly silky obliquely cam- 
panulate calyx, which is } line deep, the lower teeth lanceolate, reach- 
mg about halfway down, the upper deltoid shorter. Corolla yellow, 
three or four times as long as the calyx. Pod oblong-mucronate, 23-3 
lines long by half as broad, glabrous and bright chestnut-brown when 
mature, slightly compressed, 2—3-seeded.—JI. abyssinica, Hochst. in 
Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 2213. J. alta, Schweinf. Fl. Aithiop. 11. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! ee 
General habit of J. arrecta, but the flowers more copious, and pods quite different 
from all the rest of the group. 
86. I. arrecta, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1923. A copiously 
branched shrub several feet high, the branches straight, deeply sulcate, 
thinly silky. Stipules linear, deciduous. Petioles }—4 in. long, firm, 
slender, erecto-patent. Leaves 2-3 in. long, leaflets 6—8 pairs, oblan- 
ceolate, 4-8 in. long, the lateral ones opposite, short-stalked, both sides 
subglaucous and thinly silky, turning blackish when dried. Racemes 
6-12-flowered, sessile’ or nearly so, not more than an inch long. 
Pedicels equalling the thinly silvery calyx, which is not more than half 
a line deep, obliquely campanulate, the upper teeth deltoid, the lower 
anceolate not reaching halfway down. Corolla yellow, four times as 
ong as the calyx. Pods deflexed, straight, linear-mucronate, }— in. 
long, a line thick, terete, polished, chestnut-brown when mature, 6—8- 
Seeded.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 184. 
Nile Land. Sennaar, Cienkowsky. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and 
Petit ! Roth! Native name, Degendeg. 
This and the preceding have more numerous, closer, and smaller leaves than the rest 
of the officinal species. J. arrecta of Harvey, FI. Cap. ii. 183, is a different plant, and 
Will have to take a new name. 
87. I. argentea, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 224. A copiously branched 
shrub several feet high, the branches firm, suleate, silvery. Stipules 
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